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!
We need a "Mueller Wellness Check" on the doddering old fossil.
First, you smell for a full adult diaper under the robes...
Dunaway actually hated playing Joan Crawford. She feared of being typecasted. But she totally nailed it. That movies gave me the creeps growing up in the 80s.
She was great in “Network”.
I’m getting old, and I have to work with young people. Many of them are like I was when I was young, but there are vast herds of them that are absolutely impossible to work with. They are incompetent, arrogant, self righteous, groupthinking ignoramuses. I’m not surprised she is have trouble around them.
My only pleasure is “going Galt” on them and watching them fail.
Yeah :)
They can think about how much they learned her as they cash their unemployment checks.
RZ as Judy Garland? I’m not seeing it, though the camera does love that girl! (She was terrific in ‘Chicago,’ I will admit.)
I will wait for the flick. ;)
May her and Mueller should date.
Look up the trailer on YouTube. It was impressive.
Yep, Zellweger is getting major Oscar buzz for playing Judy Garland. I enjoyed her in “Cold Mountain.” She’s underrated as an actress.
I love the scenes where she talks turkey with the members of the black power group and its crazed leader.
A woman like that could make me write bad checks.
Funny how that movie is actually more relevant today than it was then. Chayefsky was a prophet.
HAHA. Just watched Mommie Dearest recently. My favorite lines were actually when she’s screaming at Christina
“Why won’t you give me the respect I deserve.”
And when she’s at the Pepsi Board meeting and says
“Don’t F*ck with me, fellas.” That killed me.
Bravura performance by Miss Dunaway.
Mommy Dearests are not entirely unknown. Many drama queens have children. I know from personal experience.
But the lovely Dunaway losing her marbles is sad and tragic. She really ought to live in a “home” with 24-hour adult supervision.
Also was in Tom Petty’s “Into the Great Wide Open” video with Johnny Depp.
I did, before the movie was made and it's even scarier; but also supposedly contains lots of lies.
Self loathing cracker that hates white. Racist!
The reviews were NOT "good" at all.
I did read the book and it is really quite the hatchet job!
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