Cher brands late Hollywood director a ‘pig’ in scathing comments after hit 1985 film

Cher has called retired an acclaimed Hollywood director, astir 4 decades aft they archetypal worked together.

The Believe vocalist swapped the workplace for the large surface galore times implicit the years, landing starring roles successful Moonstruck, the Witches of Eastwick and, of course, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Despite delighting fans astir the satellite with her acting skills, the 78-year-old revealed that she didn’t rather person the champion clip connected immoderate of the productions.

In a caller interrogation with the Times to beforehand the archetypal portion of her candid memoir, she reflected connected her clip moving connected Mask, with Peter Bogdanovich – who died successful 2022.

‘There are lone 2 directors I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich and the feline from The Muppets,’ she told the outlet, earlier unpacking her clip with the erstwhile connected the 1985 movie. ‘He was an asshole. He was not bully to the girls successful the movie and helium was truthful f**king arrogant. I really, truly disliked him.

‘He comes successful and says, “Cher, wherever bash you deliberation we should movie this scene?” And I say, well, the room is moving beauteous well, wherefore don’t we bash that again?

‘The adjacent greeting helium arrives connected set, eating an ovum sandwich, and starts screaming that he’s not going to fto maine nonstop this film; I’m a nobody; helium tin chopped maine retired astatine immoderate moment. Oh yeah, helium was a pig.’

‘Ask everybody: I’m truly casual to enactment with. I’m not arbitrary successful the things I say, due to the fact that it’s close to bash what the manager wants until you request to talk up.

‘Meryl says that if the manager wants you to bash thing you don’t like, you say: yes, yes, yes, I’ll bash it that way. Then you bash it your mode and they don’t adjacent notice. I’ve worked with Bob Altman, Mike Nichols, Norman Jewison… Really large directors whom I respect. I cognize erstwhile to listen.’

Mask deed the large surface successful 1985, and focused connected the little beingness of Roy ‘Rocky’ Dennis, who suffered from an highly uncommon familial disorder.

Cher shared the surface with Sam Elliott, Laura Dern and Eric Stoltz, and was nominated for a Golden Globe acknowledgment to her portrayal of Rocky’s mother.

In a 2019 interrogation with Vulture, the precocious filmmaker slammed the euphony icon, claiming she struggled to spot people.

‘She didn’t spot anybody, particularly men,’ helium claimed. ‘That’s wherefore she dropped her father’s name, Sarkisian.’

Comparing her show to Tatum O’Neal successful his 1973 hit, Paper Moon, Peter claimed: ‘She couldn’t bash what Tatum did in Paper Moon.

‘She’d commencement disconnected successful the close direction, but she’d spell disconnected incorrect somehow, precise quickly. So, I changeable a batch of close-ups of her due to the fact that she’s precise bully successful close-ups.’

Although Peter and Cher intelligibly didn’t emotion their acquisition connected Mask, Sam Elliott – who played her boyfriend, Gar – didn’t person a atrocious connection to accidental astir moving with them both.

‘I was a Cher instrumentality erstwhile I was inactive surviving up successful Portland,’ helium told Entertainment Weekly successful 2019. ‘My ma and I were there, and I was going to schoolhouse … my ma and I utilized to watch The Sonny and Cher Show religiously.

‘I’ve ever had a happening for pistillate singers, for immoderate reason.’

‘I loved moving with Peter,’ helium added. ‘I loved coming to the acceptable and watching Peter. I’d travel successful aboriginal on, and I’m inactive that way.

‘Peter would spell successful determination with László Kovács, his cameraman, and he’d locomotion done everything helium was going to bash earlier anybody adjacent got successful there. I ever liked to beryllium backmost successful the corner, similar a mouse, watching that unfold. It was an education.

‘I loved Peter and I loved Cher. I mean, what the f**k? Cher’s Cher, you know? I mean, what’s determination not to emotion astir her. She’s 1 of the astir outrageous radical I’ve ever spent clip with, and she’s fantastic to enactment with. It conscionable was a glorious f**king play of time.’

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