raining on everyone’s parade.Barbra Streisand revealed that she most likely won’t make another film due to the fact that she finds the process, well, tiring.“It gets exhausting, trying to come up with the structure of the movie and then have it not happen,” Streisand, 81, told People magazine.“I had many movies that I wanted to make, and then I get lazy,” she continued. “I go, ‘Oh yeah, to do this one, I have to have all these fittings for period clothes.
This one, I’d have to live in Arkansas to do this one.’ I don’t know. It’s complicated, but I am complicated, I guess . . . I get lazy.”The EGOT winner told the outlet that she never would have gotten around to writing her memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” which was released last month, if she did more films. “If I could have made my movies, I never would’ve written a book,” the “Hello, Dolly!” star said. “I had such good movies to make, meaning they were about things I cared about, very interesting subjects.”Streisand fought for several projects that never saw the light of day in the past, including “The Normal Heart,” a sequel to her film “The Way We Were,” and a film adaptation of the musical “Gypsy,” which tells the story of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee.
The actress once admitted on “The Howard Stern Show” that Stephen Sondheim, who composed the musical, refused to give Streisand the rights due to the fact she wanted to star in and direct the film.
Sondheim said the role was “too difficult” for Streisand to pull double duty. (He died at the age of 91 in 2021.)With the release of her memoir, which became a near-instant New York Times best seller, Streisand hoped she would be able to relax and spend time with her husband, James Brolin — but boy was she wrong..
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