I’m a personality who has been hired to do this movie. Bemused, she told him: “I’m not an actress, I’m Dolly Parton. Parton has also claimed that Ross would repeatedly tell her on the set that she needed acting lessons. In response, Roberts called Ross “mean and out of line”, adding: “If he thinks he can talk about me in such a condescending way and not have me say something about it, then he’s nuts”.

This was pretty much her first big film.” In 1993, Ross said that Roberts “looked bad and gave a very bad performance” in the film. “My deepest memories of the film were how we bonded together after he told one of us or all of us we couldn’t act,” Field said in 2013. The cast of ‘Steel Magnolias’ and Herbert Rossĭespite being a beloved classic, the 1989 weepie Steel Magnolias had a tortured production, with most of the cast – Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Dolly Parton – clashing with director Herbert Ross. But again, those issues are in the past.” with regards specifically to nudity and my nudity agreement.

“I’m glad that the version of the movie being released is supposedly respectful. “It’s very important for a female actress or any woman to be able to exercise her own control over her own body and her image,” Heard told the Associated Press upon the film’s release. The off-camera drama, meanwhile, appeared to be over, with all parties reaching a settlement and no money changing hands.

Hanley, meanwhile, denied Heard’s claims, and sued her, claiming that she had violated her contract, didn’t adequately promote the film, and had actively sabotaged the film’s release.īy 2018, three years after the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival was pulled at the last minute, London Fields was finally released to low box office and dismal reviews. Heard had previously sued producer Christopher Hanley and his wife Roberta over “sexploitation”, claiming that nude scenes with a body double had been shot behind her back and inserted into the film. Lawyers for star Amber Heard dubbed the film an “artistic fiasco” and argued that “no respectable actor would promote piece of garbage”. Amber Heard and the filmmakers behind ‘London Fields’Ī once-promising Martin Amis adaptation about a clairvoyant femme fatale, London Fields rapidly became embroiled in legal drama stemming from what all parties have admitted was a contentious set.

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