This post contains mention of sexual assault. On set, a director is essentially an actor's boss. However, unlike most other jobs, actors often have to tap into their emotions in a big way.
They should be able to trust their director to help guide them, but unfortunately, directors don't always treat their actors with the care they should. Here are 14 times actors called out their worst experiences with directors: 3. In 2024, Sally Field told Vulture that Steel Magnolias director Herbert Ross "was very, very, very hard on Julia [Roberts].
" She said, "If you ever talk to Julia, she’ll tell you. We would all rally around Julia, because she was the baby. She was sort of the newcomer.
And she was wonderful , and he just picked on her. It was awful." 4.
In a since-deleted 2017 Facebook post , Elliot Page alleged that, when he was 18, X-Men: The Last Stand Brett Ratner outed him and made a sexual comment about him to someone else during a cast and crew "meet and greet." 5. In 2020, Ray Fisher tweeted , "Joss [Whedon]'s on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.
He was enabled, in many ways, by [producers] Geoff Johns and Jon Berg. Accountability>Entertainment." 8.
In 2015, Burt Reynolds told GQ that he likely wouldn't work with Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson again because "personality-wise, [they] didn't fit." 10. On a 2024 episode of Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist , Hannah Waddingham reca.