During a current episode of her Unqualified podcast, Anna Faris opened up about her “hardest film experience” whereas being subjected to alleged abuse by late director Ivan Reitman on set.
“I mean the idea of attempting to make a comedy under this reign of terror…he was a yeller,” Anna informed her visitor, Lena Dunham, in the course of the interview.
“He would bring down somebody every day…and my first day, it was me.”
Anna was referring to her first day on set of the 2006 rom-com My Super Ex-Girlfriend, which Ivan directed. While Anna was in hair and make-up, preparing for a battle scene, Anna’s hairstylist unintentionally knocked over a big jar of hair glue, and it acquired throughout Anna’s costume.
The incident made Anna late to set, and that is when the yelling started. “Ivan is just taking me down. He was like, ‘Annie, you can’t play like that around here!’”
Anna admitted she needed to speak herself out of crying in that second. After calming herself down, she was capable of blurt out a response.
“I felt angry, and hurt, and humiliated, and defensive,” Anna mentioned. “Eventually I said, ‘Did no one tell you what happened?’ At that point he shut up and went behind the camera.”
“Later, he slapped my ass too. That was a bizarre second.”
To this present day, Anna nonetheless would not fairly know how you can really feel in regards to the scenario. On one hand, she mentioned, “It wasn’t anything. Whatever, my ass is fine,” however alternatively she felt like there have been “30 people around me, I think, expecting me to do something, and I didn’t.”
Lena informed Anna that wasn’t the primary time she’s heard of an accusation like that in opposition to Ivan. Anna went on to inform Lena that nobody on set spoke up in regards to the incident both…insinuating that it was a unique time again then.
To be taught extra about Anna and her expertise, make sure to hearken to the total Unqualified episode beneath.
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