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Ellen Barkin has claimed that the director of the 1989 hit Sea of Love ripped off her pubic wig and forced her to film completely nude because “nobody’s looking at you”.
The Emmy Award-winning actress, 68, has opened up about her misogynistic experiences in Hollywood throughout her four-decade career because she’s “fresh out of all my f**ks” to give.
While on the set of the 1989 film Sea of Love, with Al Pacino, Barkin claimed that Harold Becker, now 94, “came up and literally ripped my merkin off, taking some pubic hair with him.”
The director, who has made 21 films, said: ‘What do you need this for? No one is watching you,” he told the huffpost.
Actress Ellen Barkin (pictured in film) claimed that the director of Sea of Love ripped off her pubic wig and forced her to film completely nude because “nobody’s looking at you”.
While on the set of the 1989 film Sea of Love, with Al Pacino (pictured together), Barkin claimed that Harold Becker, now 94, “came up and literally ripped my merkin off, taking a little of pubic hair.” The actress said her scene partner was “terrified” of filming the raunchy and “very difficult” scene, but Barkin brushed it off, saying: “This is what [the industry is] as.’
The Emmy Award-winning actress, 68, has opened up about her misogynistic experiences in Hollywood throughout her four-decade career because she’s ‘fresh out of all my f**ks’ to give
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The Poker Face actress said her scene partner Pacino was “terrified” to film the raunchy scene and “very difficult”, but Barkin brushed it off, saying: “This is what [the industry is] as.’
“You don’t do anything,” she said. And I had a great time, believe me.
The actress also spoke about her time on the TNT set of Animal Kingdom, which she said was “not a pleasant place to work.”
She claimed that “men used to come to my trailer and just yell at me” and her character became severely underdeveloped as the seasons progressed, despite her desperate plea to leave the show.
‘My head just spun. I was like, “What the hell is going on here?” he told HuffPost. “Men used to come in my trailer and just yell at me. How is that? With me pushing them out the door saying, “Get out of my trailer.” That was what it was like for me to go to work.
‘I was like: ‘Wow, I hate these guys.’ Most of them were like little children.
Harold Becker reportedly said: ‘What do you need this for? Nobody looks at you after ripping off the merkin
Becker and Sea of Love star in Al Pacino at an unknown time. Pacino continued to work with Becker after Sea of Love came out in 1996.
Also, despite her pleas to ‘want out’, the actress said ‘they didn’t kill me’.
“I had been asking out for four years,” she said. ‘You want to talk about treating women disrespectfully? On my show, there is a young me. What’s that?
In recent years, the actress, who has starred in many movies including Switch, The Fan and Ocean’s Thirteen, has spoken out against toxicity in Hollywood and isn’t afraid to call out bad behavior by “bad faith actors.” . ‘
“The truth is that I am 68 years old,” he told HuffPost. ‘I don’t give a shit. I’m fresh off all my f**ks.’
Despite all the bad sets she’s worked on, she said that working on an episode of Poker Face made her feel safe.
At the time of the incident, Barkin called off the incident, saying, “This is what [the industry is] like’ (pictured: In Sea of Love)
“It’s a very safe environment,” he recalled. ‘They never took care of me like that. Never.’
Barkin was sick in bed when she got the call asking her to join the show, which is produced by Orange is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne.
“She has a lot of women in these episodes,” Barkin said of her co-star. And that is what matters to me.
The actress, who appeared on an episode of Modern Family, also opened up about how she was typecast throughout her career, going from ugly girlfriend to sex symbol.
First they typecast me as the ugly girlfriend. And then I went straight to the ravenous sex symbol, and then I went to the mean old lady. So it makes a lot of sense: the man’s view of me,” she said.