Posted on 07/26/2019 7:36:34 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Here’s some scalding tea for you: Faye Dunaway was fired from what would have been a Broadway production of Tea at Five, thanks to some utterly unhinged behavior on-set.
According to the New York Post, the 78-year-old Dunaway lost her role playing Katharine Hepburn after production members accused her of creating a “hostile” and “dangerous” work environment. To the pull quotes!
The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig, sources say. Enraged at the cancellation, Dunaway began “verbally abusing” the crew. They were “fearful for their safety,” said one source.
Was this a one-off tantrum? An aberration for an otherwise kind and composed professional? Seems not.
But her behavior was unsettling at an early photo shoot. Someone gave her a salad for lunch and she threw it on the floor. She was watching her weight and said the salad would be better on the floor than in her hand.
The Post also reports Dunaway was often up to two hours late for rehearsals, and never bothered to learn her lines—difficult to pull off, it being a one-woman show. Despite having the script in hand for six months, she got through previous performances of the play by being fed lines through an earpiece.
While in rehearsal she left what one production source called “troubling, rambling, angry” voicemails to the creative team during the middle of the night. She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me,” she said. When she was rehearsing on stage at the Huntington no one was allowed to move in the theater because that also distracted her.
Apparently Dunaway “hates white,” which must make every day living around things like paper towels and Maltese dogs and clouds very difficult. It’s hard being Faye Dunaway!
She’s 78.
Her bet roles weren’t yet to come
I hate wire hangers, too.
Sunset Boulevard redux.
I never did see that movie until a number of years ago on DVD. She was scary as hell! Her poor kids. ‘Mommy Dearest’ indeed! :(
Sounds senile.
In her day, though.
She often is listed on publicated worst personalities to work for/with. Very difficult. But she’s not the only one.
Dementia?
Will these apply during performances as well? It should be fun telling the crowd to never move, or what not to wear. That's sure to go well in reflexively contrarian New York.
But people in the know say it was terrible character assassination of Joan based on a book by someone with an axe to grind. Robert Osborne of TCM was particularly critical of it based on his personal knowledge of Crawford. I don’t know enough to know, but I do know I don’t trust Hollywood.
Is “Bonnie” going through her second childhood?
Finally, a broad with a personality in Hollywood- well done, Miss Dunaway
I read about this the other day. She is displaying signs of dementia.
Clearly, no one has been paying attention to our elderly lately.
Yes, she’s a psycho, but she’ll still totally right about the hangers!
Sounds like age shaming and discrimination by a pack of feral snowflakes.
“I don’t know enough to know, but I do know I don’t trust Hollywood.”
Well, that’s a given, LOL!
I thought the movie was based upon the book Joan Crawford’s adopted daughter, Christina, wrote?
LOTS of back and forth here as to who to believe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest
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