Bronson Pinchot Talks Smack About A Listers

This is one of those articles that I thought I would get around to reading at some point today, but didn't have it as a priority. Then DNfromMN sent me a link and said I had to read it. I'm glad I did. If you love gossip and dirt and the juiciest juice, this is the article for you. It is from A.V Club and it is the best gossip of the month. I'm giving you excerpts but there is so much more to read and lots more he said about Tom Cruise. I think Tom Cruise might be Bronson's least favorite person in the world. No, actually Denzel Washington probably is. Read the article here.

Bronson Pinchot on Tom Cruise - Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange.

Bronson Pinchot on Eddie Murphy - I remember somebody calling and saying, “You’ll never guess who was just caught with a transvestite!” [Laughs.] And I remember thinking that seemed fitting, because there are certain people in showbiz who make it an agenda, every third sentence has to have something knocking that life choice, and you think, “What are you doing?”

Bronson Pinchot on Tom Hanks - He’s always been a delightful person, so it’s not really true that big stars need to be driven and repulsive, because he’s anything but.

Bronson Pinchot on Denzel Washington - That was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused. The script supervisor on that movie said it’s like watching somebody kick a puppy. He was so vile. And after that, I just would never endure it again.

Bronson Pinchot on Bette Midler - (talking about First Wives Club and how she treated the director) Yes, because Bette Midler was such a bitch to him. While he was directing, she would be rolling her eyes, pantomiming with her favorite actors, and she made it very difficult. And he was at his wit’s end.

Then to top things off, Bronson actually made me feel very sorry for Mischa Barton. Bronson was talking about how his character had to make Mischa cry. Mischa was playing a model and so she told Bronson to talk about her hips and ass and that would make her cry. She said, “If you talk about my ass, it’ll make me cry.” So I did, and I wasn’t loving it—I don’t love that stuff—but she felt that it was important for me, so we did like 20 takes where I made comments about her ass, and then she cried, and then we all went home. It wasn’t my favorite day in filmmaking. I felt a little dirty, but that’s what was asked of me. She was a very sweet kid, actually. Rather brave in a way, because I asked her what she wanted me to do, and she said, “Talk about my hips and my ass, that’ll make me cry.” And it’s like, “Yikes. Well, at least I have it from the horse’s mouth.”