How eminent directors were bullied and forced to do

During the filming of The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to see fear on the face of actress Tippi Hedren. Therefore, he asked assistants to throw live pigeons, crows and blackbirds at her. As a result, during the episode, the actress was really afraid, and did not play. In general, his methods are still being discussed: somehow he handcuffed the actors from “39 steps” Robert Donat and Madeline Carroll to each other for the sake of the scene, and they sat like that for more than 18 hours before the shooting ended.

Actors who have worked with David Fincher have admitted that the director is obsessed with a lot of takes. If 10 is enough for someone, then David reshoots 30 times. And during the filming of the film “Zodiac” Fincher forbade Robert Downey Jr. to go to the toilet so that he would not be interrupted from work. In protest, the actor began to place jugs with his own urine around the site.

Many actors refuse to work with Michael Bay because the director screams all the time. When they argue with him, he asks to shut up. In a rough way. During the filming of Armageddon, he had Ben Affleck get his teeth redone because they didn’t look heroic to him. As a result, Ben returned to the set after the dentist.

Another director who is not kind to actors is Lars von Trier. During the filming of “Doggville” he brought Nicole Kidman to a nervous breakdown. She was warned by other actresses that she should abandon the role before filming began. The director constantly threatened that he would tie and flog Nicole. After that, she vowed to work with him.

Roman Polanski, in order to get the actors to get used to the roles while working on the picture “Macbeth”, made them eat bananas for breakfast and constantly called them monkeys. He once grabbed actress Faye Dunaway by the hair with such force that he pulled out a tuft.

Anne Hathaway spoke about one feature of director Christopher Nolan. According to the actress, there are no chairs on the set. That is, the actors do not have the opportunity to sit down. Nolan allegedly suggests that if there are chairs, then people are sitting and not working, therefore he does not tempt anyone to rest.

In order to see the result that was needed, Stanley Kubrick, during the filming of The Shining, persuaded assistants and other actors not to sympathize with actress Shelley Duvall. The director needed her to be constantly stressed. He was also unhappy with her all the time. On purpose. After that, she had to turn to a psychotherapist for help.

Another director who does not have good manners towards actors is David Owen Russell. During the filming of American Hustle, he was always rude to Amy Adams. She admitted that she cried at the end of every day. Even a journalist who was present on the set wrote an open letter to Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Linton, where he talked about the director’s abuse.

Quentin Tarantino got so carried away while filming the strangulation scene for Inglourious Basterds that he nearly strangled Diane Kruger. He needed everything to be realistic. Then he asked the actress if he could choke her until she passed out. The actress reluctantly took this step.

While filming Titanic, Kate Winslet nearly drowned. Director James Cameron wanted to see real fear in the eyes of the actress, so he did not pull her out of the water until he got the desired result. Although it would be worth calling the hospital already, because the actress could choke.