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Rebecca Ferguson
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Rebecca Ferguson is reflecting on a time when a former co-star screamed at her.
In an interview on the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, the Dune: Part Two actress recalled a co-star rising upset on set which resulted in them screaming at her. Ferguson didn’t identify the movie set this occurred on nor the co-star although she confirmed it was not Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise.
“I did a movie with an absolute fool of a co-star — doesn’t matter who it’s. I’m going to strive to not give this away, however I bear in mind there was a second, and this human being was being so insecure and indignant as a result of this particular person couldn’t get the scenes out. And I feel I used to be so susceptible and uncomfortable that I received screamed at,” she mentioned.
She defined that “as a result of this particular person was primary on the decision sheet, there was no security internet” for her. “So nobody had my again. And I’d cry strolling off set,” Ferguson mentioned. “This particular person would actually take a look at me in entrance of the entire crew and say, ‘You name your self an actor? That is what I’ve to work with? What is that this?’ And I stood there simply breaking.”
Ferguson mentioned she felt “scared” after the ordeal and confronted her co-star, noting it was the primary time she spoke up for herself as an actor. “I checked out this particular person, and I mentioned, ‘You get off my set. You possibly can F off. I’m gonna work in direction of a tennis ball. I by no means wish to see you once more.’”
After the producers knowledgeable her she couldn’t try this to the “primary” and the particular person must stay on set, Ferguson mentioned, “The particular person can flip round, and I can act to the again of the pinnacle.” And that’s what she did. “I bear in mind pondering that point I used to be so scared. I really feel it now after I’m saying it,” she continued. “However I assumed, ‘It shouldn’t must be that manner.’”
When she later confronted the director about what was occurring, she recalled the director telling her, “You’re proper. I’m not caring for everybody else. I’m attempting to fluff this particular person as a result of it’s so unstable.”
“It was nice from that second, but it surely took so lengthy for me to get to that,” she mentioned. “From that second, I’ve by no means let myself get to some extent after I’ve received house and gone, ‘Why did that occur?’”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who labored with Ferguson on the 2014 movie Hercules, weighed in on the actress’s feedback writing on X, previously Twitter, “Hate seeing this however love seeing her stand as much as bullshit. Rebecca was my guardian angel despatched from heaven on our set. I like that lady. I’d like to seek out out who did this.”
