just-another-nineties-bitch:“The first words Katharine Hepburn said to me were; ‘I don’t like you.’
just-another-nineties-bitch:“The first words Katharine Hepburn said to me were; ‘I don’t like you.’ and the last thing she said to me, when I called her the day after she won her Oscar to congratulate her was; ‘You’ll never catch me now.’ In other words, she was prickly. She didn’t like me and she was extremely competitive. You have to understand, she was old and I was in my 40s, so I was a bigger box office star than her, and I was producing the movie for my father, and she actually thought I was going to try to get billing above her and all kinds of things, which never occurred to me.However, there were times when I ran into trouble because of my father; like, there was a scene where we were having an intense, angry exchange about parcheesi and beating people, and they shot my close-up first and there was so much light in my eyes that I couldn’t see his eyes, and so I had the cameraman put some light on his face so that I could see him. When the camera turned around and it was now on him, before we shot, I said, ‘Is it okay, dad? Can you see my eyes?’ He said, ‘I don’t need to see your eyes. I’m not that kind of actor.’ and the way actors are, half of me was demolished. I just felt so hurt and awful. The other half of me was saying, ‘Yes! This is so great, this is just like the character.’ But the bad part took over and, at the end of the day when everybody was leaving, I was just immobile on the couch, I was so wiped. Suddenly, Katharine came up and just put her arms around me; nobody knew it but she just did. She said, ‘He doesn’t even know that he hurt you. You don’t take it personally. Spencer used to do that all the time to me. He’d say, I don’t need you to be here for the love scene. Go. I’m not that kind of actor. They don’t know that they’ve hurt you.’ and it meant the world to me. That kind of thing, she would do.” - Jane Fonda -- source link