Anna Faris claims that late Hollywood director Ivan Reitman designed a “reign of terror” on the set of the 2006 comedy “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and “slapped” her on the behind.
Faris, 45, opened up about Reitman’s alleged misconduct when speaking with writer, actor and director Lena Dunham on the Oct. 19 episode of the “Anna Faris is Unqualified” podcast.
Right now has reached out to associates for Reitman and his son, actor and director Jason Reitman, for remark.
Faris described Reitman, who died in February at age 75, as a volatile director vulnerable to violent outbursts.
“I imply, the concept of trying to make a comedy below this, like, reign of terror — he was a yeller,” claimed Faris. “He would deliver down somebody each individual day, and my to start with working day, it was me.”
In accordance to Faris, Reitman grew indignant when Faris grew to become delayed in her trailer immediately after a jar of “wig glue” spilled on her just in advance of filming a combat scene with co-star Uma Thurman. “I was terrified, certainly, that my to start with day, Ivan thinks that I’m some kind of diva which is not coming out of my trailer,” recalled the actor.
Faris mentioned she arrived “20 to 25 minutes” late to the set, where Reitman screamed at her.
“I’m, like, in the center of the street that’s all lit, you know, it is a night shoot, and Ivan is just taking me down,” she reported.
Anna Faris experienced a hard time opening up to her friends about the problems she and Chris Pratt faced when they ended up married. On the most current episode of her hit podcast “Unqualified,” the 44-year-previous actress, who was married to the actor for eight many years, uncovered why she held their marital woes to herself. Sharing, “I didn’t have a close group of girlfriends I think it stunted me in a good deal of techniques. One of them remaining that I in no way talked about any concerns. To the individuals, even who I was closest to, I’m absolutely sure things were extra transparent with my marriage with Ben [Indra, her first husband], but with Chris, I believe that we both protected that imagery even in our shut circles.”
“He was just like, ‘Annie!’ — he generally known as me Annie — he’s like, ‘You simply cannot engage in like that close to listed here!’ … And I was like, ‘Don’t do it, really don’t cry, no crying,’ and I felt offended and harm and humiliated and defensive,” she recalled. “Eventually, I said, ‘Did no one particular convey to you what took place?’ And at that position, he type of just shut up and then he, like, went guiding the digicam.”
She added: “But then later on, he slapped my a–, much too that was a bizarre instant.”
“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” producer Gavin Polone responded to Faris’ allegations in a statement to Deadline: “I hardly ever saw that incident, or listened to about it, but I would not have any reason to dispute Anna’s account, possibly. If Anna claims it happened, I believe her. If it experienced took place in entrance of me, I undoubtedly would have confronted Ivan about it. I’m unfortunate to believe Anna was demeaned in that way.”
The “Scary Movie” star claimed she was scared to make waves at the time and opted to offer with Reitman’s alleged misconduct by focusing on her work. “It was, like, I’m heading to lay reduced and perform it protected,” she recalled imagining. “I am taking zero dangers in this motion picture.”
Faris earlier spoke up about getting touched inappropriately on a film set with out naming the movie’s director during an Oct 2017 episode of her podcast.
“I was accomplishing a scene the place I was on a ladder and I was supposed to be having, like, textbooks off a shelf and he slapped my a– in front of the crew so difficult,” she mentioned at the time. “And all I could do was giggle.”
Faris recalled staying stunned that no crew users termed out the director’s conduct. In the end, the crew’s inaction persuaded her to dismiss the incident, she reported.
“I was like, ‘Well, this isn’t a point. Like, it is not that large of a deal. Arrive on, Faris. Like, buck up. It really is not that big of a deal. Like, just giggle.’ But it manufactured me feel small,” she reported. “And, you know, he would not have completed that to the direct male.”
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