Claire Foy Reveals Her First Director ‘Shouted at Me’ to ‘Start Acting, Darling!’: ‘Not Very Nice Directors Need Someone to Bully on Set’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Claire Foy recently appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast while on the press tour for “All of Us Strangers” and was asked to reveal the worst acting note she ever got on set from a director.
She didn’t hesitate to answer: “Start acting, darling!” “First job I ever did on TV, which was ‘Being Human.’ The pilot, with Russell Tovey and Andrea Riseborough.
I didn’t know what I was doing and he shouted it at me,” Foy remembered. “It’s taken me a long time to accept that it was actually a very unkind thing to do to a 23-year-old on their first job ever.” Foy said that “instead of taking [a newcomer actor] under your wing and helping them,” as perhaps a kinder filmmaker would do, her director was “just shouting at them in front of everyone.” “Sometimes not very nice directors need someone to bully on set, and I was like that person,” Foy added.
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