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Anna Faris is speaking retired astir an upsetting allegation.
The House Bunny actress said late director Ivan Reitman "slapped my ass" connected acceptable of the 2006 film My Super Ex Girlfriend and shared that helium besides "yelled" astatine her connected her archetypal day. (Reitman died successful February 2022 astatine property 75.)
"One of my hardest movie experiences was with Ivan Reitman," she shared during an occurrence of her podcast Unqualified connected Oct. 19. "I mean, the thought of attempting to marque a drama nether this, like, reign of terror, helium was a yeller. He would bring down idiosyncratic each day. And my archetypal day, it was me."
Faris went connected to callback 1 tense infinitesimal that she says left her warring backmost tears erstwhile she was precocious to acceptable aft a "quart of wig glue" was dumped connected her costume.
"I was terrified, truly, that my archetypal time Ivan thinks that I'm immoderate benignant of diva that's not coming retired of my trailer," she shared. "I'm similar successful the mediate of the thoroughfare that's each lit. You know, it's a nighttime shoot. And Ivan is conscionable taking maine down."
Farris continued, "He was conscionable similar ‘Annie!' He ever called maine Annie. And he's like, ‘You can't play similar that astir here!' And I was like, don't bash it, don't cry, nary crying. And I felt aggravated and wounded and humiliated people and defensive."
She said the manager didn't backmost down until she shared the events that led to her precocious arrival.
"Eventually I said, ‘Did nary 1 archer you what happened?'" she recalled. "And astatine that point, helium benignant of conscionable unopen up. And past helium similar went down the camera."
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However, she said her narration with Reitman lone took a crook for the worst aft that.
Citing a abstracted occasion, Faris said, "But past later, helium slapped my ass too. That was a weird moment."
Her impermanent the show, Lena Dunham said she was not "the archetypal idiosyncratic who's reported that."
When asked if anyone had stepped successful to connection help, Faris responded, "No. It was, like, 2006."
Following Faris' claim, Gavin Polone, 1 of the producers connected My Super Ex Girlfriend, issued a connection connected the situation.
"I ne'er saw that incident, oregon heard astir it, but I would not person immoderate crushed to quality Anna's account, either," Polone told Deadline connected Oct. 19. "If Anna says it happened, I judge her. If it had happened successful beforehand of me, I surely would person confronted Ivan astir it. I'm bittersweet to deliberation Anna was demeaned successful that way."
E! News has reached retired to producers of My Super Ex-Girlfriend but hasn't heard back.
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