I don't get why Katharine Ross was kicked off of the set.
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slokes — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 10:47 PM)
Ross described the moment after as a kind of a joke, her helping out a short-handed crew with Conrad Hall's willing concurance, not thinking it might rub some of the professional technicians on set in the wrong manner. George Roy Hill's reaction was strong and immediate, and he didn't let it go thereafter. Even a year later, when he was describing the film in a VO for a documentary that was shown at Yale, his alma mater, he talks about his pleasure working with the cast "except for Katharine Ross, whom I never developed a rapport with". Or words to that effect.
This is all from the great DVD, which also seems to suggest that Ross's footage made it into the finished film. -
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b_brandon49 — 17 years ago(December 10, 2008 05:30 PM)
If I was a director I would get awfully bull-bleep- if one of the actors/actresses in my movie had terrible moxy enough to shoot a scene! I wouldn't have to be macho either to get mad. The actors and actresses are just hired to act not direct as well! Case closed!
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adsdarts — 16 years ago(February 24, 2010 12:26 AM)
Ive read in a few books/interviews that Katharine Ross was a bit of a drama queen , and could be VERY difficult to work with
. in a lot of films
A Hollywood Actress a bit of a D!!ck ???? Never ! lol
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Balthazar Bee — 15 years ago(April 29, 2010 11:13 AM)
According to J.P. Donleavy's "A History of The Ginger Man", George Roy Hill was good friends with the author, as well as their mutual comrade Gainor Crist, who frequently sought financial and moral support (and got it) from the director.
Crist and Donleavy are the stuff of legend as far as I'm concerned, so that's a golden character reference in my book.