Gene Generation Director on Faye Dunaway
I recently read this blog from a Myspace page--a friend fowarded me. I think the guy who wrote this is horribly wrong or misinformed. I don't know Mr. Pearry Teo, but I think it would benefit him, if he didn't blog such awful things about a great actor. I've worked with Ms. Dunaway before and found her to be an eccentric, yet remarkable person.
Writing garbage like this only proves what an extraordinary amateur Mr. Teo is.
He would be lucky if he ever worked again in Hollywood, as I've seen many come and go over the years.
You would never hear Ron Howard bad mouth Tom Hanks would you? Not that I'm even comparing Teo to Howard, as Howard is a Hollywood director, but he should follow the example of Hollywood directors if he wants to be one.
Johnny
Pearry Teo's Myspace
"Working with Faye Dunaway...
don't envy me. If anything, pity me.
Faye originally played Josephine Hayden in the flashback sequences. In the movie, she's mutated to a monster and we were prepared to have another actress wheeze through her lines. Surprisingly, she decided that she wanted to play the whole role and was willing to do the whole Voice Over. I guess her decision was not only because she owed the producer, Keith Collea, but The Gene Generation has been (according to external sources) asked about recently and she saw some potential in it. Well, at least I now have an academy award winning actress that has top billing in my film.
But here's where the good part ends. Literally, that girl is a bitch. She's totally reminds me of Blanche in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when she turns insane. She chased everybody out of the room because they were in her 'line of sight' and it's distracting for her. Apparently, she can't act if people are around. HAHAHAHA
Another thing that just made my day easier was my producer telling me the night before "Oh, I don't know how you are going to do it. But Faye doesn't know how she REALLLY looks like in the film. Don't tell her. She'll flip." Well, after a second with that girl, the fact she will pop a blood vessel if she has seen what I have done with her helped get me through the day. Yeah, I had to lie a little. But it was a funny way. I mean 'you're in a room I would totally enjoy living in luxuriously' had a ring of truth to it....in the world of The Gene Generation of course.
Second, she wouldn't do more than one take. She decided what was good and what was bad. Now, it's hard to argue with someone who is doing this as a favor so I'm in no position to yell back at her. But I had my ways to get her to do what I wanted. Nevertheless, it's an ordeal I would probably have to go through again.
Bear in mind she lived in no Mansion. Just a house in West Hollywood squeezed between some apartment blocks. Smaller than the one me and my sound designer is working on right now. An old mitsubishi TV with VHS tape collection. Basically, I couldn't live in a place like this myself. Guess this is the lifestyle of the ex-rich and famous. Probably all the money spent on her plastic surgery and cocaine has taken a toll on her. Was I impressed? Nope. I think I like my lifestyle living in a church better...hahaha
Now I'm actually this close to saying she was the worst actor I have worked with. But honestly, I've worked with much worst. The ones that show signs of being a 'diva' but at least Faye Dunaway had the resume to pull it off. And, she was at least natural when acted. But definitely out of my cast for The Gene Generation, she was the WORST to work with. Not the one I hate most, but the worst to work with..."