As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

