Cher wasn’t very fond of late director Peter Bogdanovich, whom she worked with on the 1985 film “Mask.”
The singer, 78, called out “arrogant” Bogdanovich — who once labeled her as the most difficult actor to work with — during her interview with The Times while promoting her eponymous memoir.
The singer recalled Bogdanovich asking her for suggestions on where they should film a particular scene.
“And I say, ‘Well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don’t we do that again?’” Cher remembered.
“The next morning he arrives on set eating an egg sandwich and starts screaming that he’s not going to let me direct this film; I’m a nobody; he can cut me out at any moment. Oh yeah, he was a pig.”
“He was an asshole,” Cher said of the director. “He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f–king arrogant. I really, really disliked him.”
It seemed the feeling was mutual for Bogdanovich, who — in 2019 — claimed Cher was the most difficult actor to work with, saying she “didn’t trust anybody, especially men.”
“She couldn’t do what Tatum [O’Neal] did in ‘Paper Moon,’” he told Vulture.
“She’d start off in the right direction, but she’d go off wrong somehow, very quickly. So I shot a lot of close-ups of her because she’s very good in close-ups.”
She also took aim at director Frank Oz, who briefly worked with her on the 1990 film “Mermaids,” taking credit for his firing from the movie.
“I actually got the guy from ‘The Muppets’ fired,” Cher told the outlet.
“I said, either you’re going or I’m going, which is a shame because he’s a really good director, but he had a thing about me. He would go, ‘At least my wife loves me!’”
“Cher: The Memoir” Part One is currently available for purchase wherever books are sold. Part two will become available in 2025.
