Anna Faris has just made a big revelation about her on-set experiences.
The 45-year-old actress revealed that the late director Ivan Reitman exhibited abusive and inappropriate behavior on the set of their 2006 rom com My Super Ex-Girlfriend. She said that “one of my hardest experiences was with Ivan Reitman.”
Speaking with her “Unqualified” guest Lena Dunham, Anna stated:
“I mean, the idea of attempting to make a comedy under this, like, reign of terror, he was a yeller. He would bring down somebody every day… and my first day, it was me.”
Anna said that Ivan yelled at her in front of the crew on the first day on set. She also revealed that he slapped her butt.
Recalling that on that first day, a hair and makeup person accidentally knocked “a big jar of wig glue” all over her costume, Anna said:
“I was, like, 20 to 25 minutes late on my very first [day]. I was terrified, truly, that my first day, Ivan thinks that I’m some kind of diva that’s not coming out of my trailer.
I’m in the middle of the street that’s all lit. Ivan is just taking me down. He was like, ‘Annie, you can’t play like that around here!’ I was like, ‘Don’t do it. Don’t cry. No crying.’ I felt angry and hurt and humiliated and defensive. 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 weird moment.”
When Lena asked:
“Did no one step in and say, ‘No’?”
Anna had this to say:
“No. It was, like, 2006.”
