Rebecca Ferguson recalls moment she told ‘idiot’ A-list co-star to ‘f**k off’

Dune 2 actress Rebecca Ferguson has revealed a horrifying encounter with one of her former famous co-stars.

Rebecca Ferguson has revealed that she once told her male co-star to “f**k off” in the middle of a scene and refused to work with him any longer.

The Swedish actress, best known for her roles in Mission Impossible and Dune, recalled the horror encounter during a recent podcast interview.

Rebecca Ferguson has revealed she once had a horror encounter with an A-list actor on-set. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP.

“I did a film with an absolute idiot of a co-star and it doesn’t matter who it was. I’m going to try and not give this away,” she explained on the Reign with Josh Smith podcast.

“I remember there was a moment and this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she said. “And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at.”

“But because this person was number one on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me. So no one had my back. And I would cry walking off set.”

“This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say, ‘You call yourself an actor?’, ‘This is what I have to work with?’, and ‘What the f**k is this?,’ in front of the whole crew. I stood there just breaking,” she continued.

Ferguson went on to share that she hoped at the time that producers would have stepped in to help her, but sadly the star confessed she had “no one”.

Ferguson has refused to reveal the star’s name, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from making a guess. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP.

However, she refused to back down.

Upon returning to the set the following day, she decided to speak up and told the A-list star: “You get off my set. I’m gonna work [with] a tennis ball. I never wanna see you again”.

Actors sometimes use tennis balls on a stick as stand-ins for co-stars when acting in particularly long scenes.

“I remember being so scared,” she said. “I looked at this person and I said, ‘You can F off.’”

She went on to claim that despite his heinous behaviour, producers couldn’t ask the actor to leave the set because they were “number one” on the call sheet.

Ferguson then pretended to reveal who the A-list actor was, by saying: “And the person is …” before stopping herself and laughing.

The actress also suggested the encounter happened at some point in the last decade, and internet sleuths have now dropped names of potential co-stars into the hats that include the likes Michael Fassbender, who she starred with in Snowman, and British actor Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins.

However, Ferguson has so far refused to reveal the actor’s identity.

Originally published as Rebecca Ferguson recalls moment she told ‘idiot’ A-list co-star to ‘f**k off’