Cher blasts ‘arrogant’ director after he said she was most difficult actor to work with: ‘He was a pig’

Cher has hit back at a famed director after he once labelled her the most difficult actor to work with in Hollywood.

HOLLYWOOD: Cher wasn’t very fond of late director Peter Bogdanovich, whom she worked with on the 1985 film Mask.

The singer, 78, called out “arrogant” Bogdanovich — who once labelled her as the most difficult actor to work with — during her interview with The Times while promoting her eponymous memoir.

The singer recalled Bogdanovich asking her for suggestions on where they should film a particular scene.

Cher revealed in her new memoir that she was not a fond of director Peter Bogdanovich on her 1985 movie Mask. Picture: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

“And I say, ‘Well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don’t we do that again?’” Cher remembered.

“The next morning he arrives on set eating an egg sandwich and starts screaming that he’s not going to let me direct this film; I’m a nobody; he can cut me out at any moment. Oh yeah, he was a pig.”

Cher said director Bogdanovich, who passed away in 2022, was really “arrogant” to work with. Picture: Araya Diaz/Getty Images

“He was an a**hole,” Cher said of the director. “He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f***ing arrogant. I really, really disliked him.”

It seemed the feeling was mutual for Bogdanovich, who — in 2019 — claimed Cher was the most difficult actor to work with, saying she “didn’t trust anybody, especially men.”

“She couldn’t do what Tatum [O’Neal] did in Paper Moon,” he told Vulture.

“She’d start off in the right direction, but she’d go off wrong somehow, very quickly. So I shot a lot of close-ups of her because she’s very good in close-ups.”

Mask also starred Eric Stoltz (pictured), Laura Dern and Sam Elliott. Picture: Universal Pictures

She also took aim at director Frank Oz, who briefly worked with her on the 1990 film Mermaids, taking credit for his firing from the movie.

“I actually got the guy from The Muppets fired,” Cher told the outlet.

“I said, either you’re going or I’m going, which is a shame because he’s a really good director, but he had a thing about me. He would go, ‘At least my wife loves me!’”

Cher: The Memoir Part One is currently available for purchase wherever books are sold. Part two will become available in 2025.

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