Blind Item #5
This A+ list mostly movie actor has been in this space for being difficult. He is a great comic actor but his people skills suck. Even if he is standing right next to someone he will not speak to them directly unless he feels they are his equal. The only people he considers his equals are fellow actors who make as much as him or the director of his movie. There are times where he does not even speak to his wife directly but makes his assistant speak to her. He is in the top 5 most difficult actors to work with.
Ben stiller?
ReplyDeleteIs Jim Carrey married? Not sure if he is (don't care enough to look it up) but he's an ass.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna guess Ben. I hope not, though, I love his wife
ReplyDeleteBen Stiller is my guess, too. What a nasy, self-important little bastard.
ReplyDeleteWill Ferrell, is he mostly movie at this point?
ReplyDeleteHow about the dirty talk during sexy toymz? Does the assistant have to do it for him too?
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, I always picture Ben Stiller to be just like his character in Happy Gilmore
ReplyDeleteRuby - have you seen Ben Stiller in Extras? Fucking hilarious!
DeleteRuby : "you will go to sleep, or I will put you to sleep!"
DeleteEddie Murphy
ReplyDeleteI don't think Ben Stiller rates this high and his wife was too beautiful to put up with that crap. I think its Eddie Murphy.
ReplyDeleteEddie Murphy isn't married.
ReplyDeleteGotta be Ben, those Napolean complexes are a motherfucker.
ReplyDeleteBen Stiller, He seems like a cuntykarl dude. Attitude and agressive.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder why Ben Stiller is purportedly such a jerk with parents as cool as Anne Meara & Jerry Stiller.
ReplyDeleteBecause he's a short, short man. Life is hard when your legs swing from the chairs at the grown up table!
DeleteBecause he was born into money and grew up entitled in NYC.
ReplyDeleteJa'ime King: Life long sense of entitlement, like Goop.
ReplyDeleteI hope the next dozen posts got some meat to em, cause this is a pretty boring day so far. Enty better have a juicy reveal in the chamber.
agreed. Today has been boring as hell
DeleteI think that "There are times where he does not even speak to his wife directly but makes his assistant speak to her" is an exaggerated form of "Ben's assistant answers Christine's questions because Ben doesn't keep track of his own schedule" or "Ben's assistant answers his phone for him even if it's his wife calling."
ReplyDeleteI sincerely doubt that she asks something and he tells his assistant "tell her that I said...." Besides--why would he even talk to his assistant if he won't talk to people he considers his subordinates?
I have no doubt that he's a difficult person, but this seems a little OTT.
Ben Stiller is a total douchebag. I know people who have worked with him.
ReplyDeleteA+ comic actors to me implies a comic actor who can open a movie on his own. That list would include:
ReplyDeleteAdam Sandler
Ben Stiller
Robin Williams
Kevin James
Will Ferrell
Steve Carrell
Who else these days? Jim Carrey isn't married and has not had a successful movie in some time.
I have no clue on this one.
Ben Stiller. My husband works in the theater, and has met him. Wife was lovely, Ben wouldn't look or speak to anyone.
ReplyDeleteTotally Ben Stiller's m.o.
ReplyDeleteAlso, he may make the assistant talk to his wife when they're doing a film together. Like maybe he's a method-douche who can't break character...haha.
My brother did work as a movie extra in the past and a bunch of other extras told him the meanest actor they'd ever worked with was Stiller.
ReplyDeleteIt's Ben Stiller. I know his assistant pretty well & this is exactly how Ben operates.
ReplyDeleteI (Tony) wonder if his sister is as bitchy as he seems to be? I would hope nurture would override nature in his case, because if he sucks this bad with good (albeit rich & connected) parents, there's not much hope for all the celeb spawns made famous via the celebrity baby obsession of the past couple decades.
ReplyDeleteI've also heard Christine Taylor is super-nice.
Ben Stiller was my first guess too!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is so disappointing to learn people you used to like are awful people. Good to know though.
ReplyDeleteMike Myers
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere (Here?) that Ben hires female assistants and expects oral servicing as part of their job. ~shudder~
ReplyDeleteVera: oral servicing? Like a book report?
DeleteSteve Martin. He'll even snub other celebs sitting next to him on the "Tonight Show" couch. He is a snob and, for a comedian, has very little humor.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Steve Martin too, Jennifer. He's manic depressive, isn't he? I think he's also very shy and private when he isn't 'in character'.
DeleteYeah, Stiller - a well-known asshole (I think he even parodied himself on Gervais's Extras, although self-parody obviously didn't make him change his ways).
ReplyDeleteIt's that Napoleon-complex thing - he's a wee, tiny little man (I mean, shorter than Cruise, even) and obviously feels he has to overcompensate big time for it.
But Steve Martin is a good guess, too, although I don't know how "difficult" he is. He's definitely cold, humorless and stand-offish in RL, though. His on-screen persona of geniality and niceness is just that - a persona.
ReplyDeleteActually, Will Arnett fits Martin's description with a little bit of Stiller's assholishness, but he's not A list.
@jennifer, I heard he's a snob, but still love him, so many funny movies.
ReplyDeleteI think this is Ben.
my abusive ex is extremely short, I absolutely believe in the Napoloeon complex thing, it's hard for a man to be always looking up at everyone, makes them very feisty, insecure, and controlling. Like a toddler, in my experience. Kind of like dogs, little dogs are yappy and snappy,big dogs are laid back and happy, friendly.
ReplyDeleteDenzel Washington
ReplyDeleteBen? Russell if he wasnt getting a divorce
ReplyDeleteOT, Napoleon was reported to be 5'7. That height was considered normal for the time period. A British writer came up with the idea that was was abnormally short in order to make him appear clownish. I am not a Napoleon defender or expert, I just happened to read trivia on this exact thing over the weekend!
ReplyDeleteBen Stiller is known for treating Christine Taylor like garbage, always yelling at and belittling her in front of others.
@Anna: Did he start out as abusive, or just "standing up to you, keeping you inline" like you talked about desiring yesterday, and then it progressed into something bad?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I'm not the only one curious after yesterday's comment, so I figured I'd ask.
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ReplyDelete@Miss Mess: Shhhh. It was a legit question. I'm not trying to troll the broad.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I draw the line at hearing bad things about Steve Martin! *lalalalaICantHearYou*
ReplyDeleteThe BI may be Ben Stiller and it might be true but there's definitely some exaggeration in this.
ReplyDeleteStiller definitely works with people that are below his pay rate. He has lately done two TV shows, Arrested Development and Eagleheart, most likely as a favor to Chris Elliott, while he could have passed on these projects. So, I'm sure he's difficult to work with, but I challenge the claim that he talks to people only on a money scale. The guy also knows what talent is.
ReplyDeleteSpent a fun evening with Ben once in Nantucket, laughing, nice, totally normal. My kids have met him also, in more of a fan mode, and he was completely gracious. Just want to balance out the negativity a bit.
I have a friend who worked with Steve Martin on his recent bluegrass record who says he was very nice to her and her co-workers. He is kind of reserved, it is not like he is going to break out and be all "I'm a wild and crazy guy", but was polite and gracious to those working with him.
ReplyDeleteThis is Bill Murray. I'm super surprised no one here called it yet.
ReplyDelete@Shinobi, except he's not married and isn't an ass.
DeleteNot that anyone would even suspect it but Steve Carrell is authentically kind and down to earth. Saw him on the back lot of Chelsea Lately and he was chatting with the security guard.
ReplyDeleteNot that anyone would even suspect it but Steve Carrell is authentically kind and down to earth. Saw him on the back lot of Chelsea Lately and he was chatting with the security guard.
ReplyDeleteI could believe steve martin but murray is really an asshole so cld be him. He and stiller have a very nasty edge to their so called humor.
ReplyDeleteWord re Murray. My mom knows his ex-wife really well. Wld NEVER wish to be in Murray's presence. He & Rosie O'D are on a par. Totally vicious adders.
Delete@SophiaB, but but but my beloved Bowie is BFFs with Rosie! He couldn't be BFFs with a nasty bitch! He even made her a cover China Girl and called it Rosie Girl for Christmas some years back. Just you hush your mouth ( keyboard-typing fingers).
Delete@auntliddy, and you know this from personal experience. I actually DO know Bill and you are incorrect.
DeleteGonna guess Robin Williams just cause I have been witness to his manic behaviour.
ReplyDeleteWe call it Little Man Syndrome. Quite a few of my relatives are great big jackasses, in itty bitty packages.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Chevy The Asshole Chase?
Ben Stiller or Bill Murray
ReplyDeleteMy husband is not permitted to speak to me directly. He speaks to my chesticles and no direct eye contact, unless it's my brown eye.
ReplyDeleteNice! Does he do laundry too?
DeleteDefinitely Ben.
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