Anna Faris Says ‘Ghostbusters’ Director Ivan Reitman ‘Slapped My A**’ On Movie Set
etcanada.comAnna Faris is speaking out about her experience working with director Ivan Reitman. The actress starred in the Canadian filmmaker’s 2006 comedy “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”, and on her latest “Unqualified” podcast with guest Lena Dunham, she shared how difficult he was. READ MORE: Anna Faris Talks About Being ‘Self-Conscious’ Of Her Body: ‘I Didn’t Want Anybody To See It’ “One of my hardest film experiences was with Ivan Reitman,” she said. “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.” Faris recalled one incident in particular, on her first day of shooting, when an accident occurred in the makeup trailer in which glue was knocked over onto her costume, making her a little bit late arriving on set. “I was terrified on my first day that Ivan thinks I’m some kind of diva that doesn’t come out of her trailer,” she said. “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.
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