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This actress on a sabbatical is still nursing a grudge against a prominent female star - Guess Who?
On the last day on 2016, here's a juicy bit of blind item from an entertainment website. Put on your thinking caps and figure out who is being discussed here!
It seems a little unfair that this talented actress, currently on a sabbatical from the movies, is nursing a grudge against a prominent female star because she lost out on a plum role to the younger actress. According to well-placed sources in the film trade, a first-time director who was very keen that she takes the job in a sports biopic had approached the powerhouse actress. The actress liked the script immediately but wanted to be sure he could pull off a project of that size and scale, given that he’d never made a movie before. She reportedly asked him to shoot a few scenes of test footage so that she could feel confident about taking on the project. But the director-to-be felt offended by the ‘condition’ she’d laid down, and decided to find a new leading lady.
His search ended at a bankable star who could bring more money to the table, and, who, crucially, wasn’t asking him to prove himself. She, instead, went by the faith of the film’s producer, a top filmmaker himself, who’d come on board to back the project.
As things turned out, the job proved more than he could handle for the director, who, pretty early on in the shoot, had lost the confidence of his unit. His actress reached out to the producer, and together they decided she needed to step up and take charge. Eyewitnesses on the set insist that the leading lady more or less make all the important decisions from about midway through the shoot, and became the ‘ghost director’, while the ‘real’ director was left calling Action and Cut, and not much more.
The film fared decently at the box-office, but the producer fell out with the director, and the female star made no efforts to hide or deny the fact that she had seen the film to the finish line.
Also, some time has passed since the incident, the other actress is still believed to be upset with the director for dropping her like a hot potato, and equally miffed at the star for taking a role that she believes was always intended for her.
Any guesses?
