Culture News This 'Dune 2' Actress Refuses To Work With This Actor Again After Bursting Into Tears: She Assures It's Not Tom Cruise
Published on February 29, 2024 at 10:20 p.m
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During the promotional period for Dune 2, one of the film's actresses revealed that she had worked with a particularly toxic actor. Since then, she has refused to work with him again. Put down your pitchforks, this isn't about Tom Cruise.
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This Dune 2 actress doesn't hesitate to call out a colleague's behavior
Eagerly awaited by all science fiction fans, the second work in the saga dune finally came out in theaters yesterday. After much patience and a few weeks after the first screenings for the press, it is finally time for viewers to discover the continuation of the adventures of Paul Atréides. As with any film made with such a large budget, The release of Dune 2 will obviously be accompanied by a whole advertising campaign The actors and actresses tour the sets to talk about the film or their careers. Among them is the actress Rebecca Ferguson which has been in the news for several days. Although she has acted with a variety of famous actors throughout her career, The woman who plays Dame Jessica in Denis Villeneuve's film recently revealed on the Reign With Josh Smith podcast that she remembers a particularly horrific experience with a particular actor.
Around the third part of the interview (more precisely at timecode 7:20) Rebecca Ferguson admits to having worked with “an absolutely stupid actor” in her career who yelled at her because he couldn't act properly. Then, in front of the entire film crew, he said things to her like “You call yourself an actress, I should act like that.” Still in her opinion, This actor was particularly influential at the time of the filming in question, which prevented it from being defended by the rest of the studio. Result : The actress burst into tears as she ended her daysuntil she finds the courage to face him anddemand that he leave the film set. She then preferred to play “in front of a tennis ball” rather than in front of him and didn’t want to see him anymore.
Of course, the producers then intervened and told Rebecca Ferguson that she couldn't say that to an actor like that and that it was important that he continued filming the film they were making anyway. However, the actress kept a cool head and asked him to turn his back to her during every dialogue so that she wouldn't see him during filming (which was possible in every shot/reverse shot of the film). Although it was traumatic for the actress, Ferguson remembers the experience as one of the first moments in which she was able to make her voice heard in the face of a completely unfair situation.
A few less names on the suspect list
Obviously, even if Rebecca Ferguson did not want to reveal the name of the actor in question, it wasn't long before many people put on their FBI hats to lead the investigation. It must be said that throughout her career she has worked with many famous actors, some of whose names are still very influential today and could certainly correspond to the description of the events. Below we note, for example Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Fassbender, Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Grant, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Oscar Isaac or even Ryan Reynolds.
Because yes, even if we used the masculine in this article, The actress is careful not to reveal the gender of the person in question The term “human” is always used to describe this. Of all the names we just mentioned, Rebecca Ferguson herself wanted to remove two of themShe assures in the same interview that it is neither Tom Cruise nor Hugh Jackman. At your side, Dwayne Johnson And Emily Blunt Both quickly commented after this interview was published to reiterate their support and friendship with the actress, the first via a reply directly on Twitter and the second via the Chron. In short, it is of course impossible to know for sure who Rebecca Ferguson was talking about in her interview, but there is no doubt that everyone will have their own theory.
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