Betty White’s ‘Golden Girls’ castmates called her ‘the C-word’: new podcast
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But while the on-camera chemistry between Rose Nylund (Betty White), Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) and Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) still charms viewers, the mood was decidedly different behind the scenes.The latest episode of “The Originals,” a podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Andrew Goldman and produced in partnership with Los Angeles Magazine [LINK TK], includes an April 2021 interview with the sitcom’s casting director Joel Thurm, who recounts how the leading ladies, especially Arthur, really felt about White — who died this past New Year’s Eve, weeks before her 100th birthday.“Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, ‘Oh, she’s a f – – king c – – t,’ using that word,” Thurm says on the podcast.
He also shares these details in his forthcoming book, “Sex, Drugs, & Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director,” out this spring.“Bea Arthur called Betty White a C-word?” Goldman asks in the interview.“Yeah, she called her the C-word.
I mean, I heard that with my own ears,” Thurm replies. “And by the way, so did Rue McClanahan. Rue McClanahan said it to me in Joe Allen’s [restaurant]; Bea Arthur [when she was] on the set of ‘Beggars and Choosers.’ ”On the podcast, listeners can hear Goldman’s nervous laughter.“It was a huge surprise to me,” Goldman, 49, told The Post.
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