Cher Slams ‘Mask’ Director Peter Bogdanovich, Calls Him ‘a Pig’

Cher is trying again on the 2 administrators she didn’t like working with.

In an interview with the U.Okay.’s Instances printed Friday timed to the discharge of the primary of her two-part memoir, the singer mentioned her performing profession and the issue of working with two filmmakers specifically.

“There are solely two administrators I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich and the man from The Muppets,” she mentioned as she mirrored on clashing with Bogdanovich on 1985’s Masks and with Frank Oz on 1990’s Mermaids. “I really received the man from The Muppets fired. I mentioned, ‘both you’re going or I’m going,’ which is a disgrace as a result of he’s a extremely good director, however he had a factor about me. He would go, ‘At the very least my spouse loves me!’”

On the late Bogdanovich, who died in 2022, Cher continued, “He was an asshole. He was not good to the women within the movie and he was so fucking smug. I actually, actually disliked him.”

It appeared the sensation was mutual as hinted in Bogdanovich’s interview with Vulture in 2019. On the time the director mentioned of Cher, “She didn’t belief anyone, particularly males. That’s why she dropped her father’s identify, Sarkisian.”

Whereas filming Masks, Cher recounted, “He is available in and says, ‘Cher, the place do you suppose we must always movie this scene?’ And I say, properly, the kitchen is working fairly properly, why don’t we do this once more? The subsequent morning he arrives on set, consuming an egg sandwich, and begins screaming that he’s not going to let me direct this movie; I’m a no one; he can reduce me out at any second. Oh yeah, he was a pig.”

She continued, “Ask all people: I’m very easy to work with. I’m not arbitrary within the issues I say, as a result of it’s proper to do what the director desires till you’ll want to converse up. Meryl [Streep] says that if the director desires you to do one thing you don’t like, you say: sure, sure, sure, I’ll do it that means. You then do it your means and so they don’t even discover. I’ve labored with Bob Altman, Mike Nichols, Norman Jewison … Actually nice administrators whom I respect. I do know when to hear.”

Earlier this 12 months it was introduced that Dey Avenue Books, an imprint of the William Morrow Group at HarperCollins Publishers, would publish the primary of a two-part memoir this November.

“After greater than 70 years of combating to stay her life on her personal phrases, Cher lastly reveals her true story in intimate element, in a two-part memoir,” the writer teased. “Together with her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond within the tough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to turn into the trailblazing celebrity the world has been unable to disregard for greater than half a century.”

The upcoming memoir is about to chronicle the singer’s childhood as much as assembly and marrying Sonny Bono, whereas detailing “the extremely difficult relationship that made them world-famous, however ultimately drove them aside.”

The memoir has been extremely anticipated after she first teased she was writing it in 2017. When giving a standing replace to The Hollywood Reporter final 12 months, Cher quipped, “Nicely, we’re nearly completed as a result of [HarperCollins] goes, ‘Cher, how lengthy are you going to work on this?’ That’s tough too, however we’re so shut.”

Cher: The Memoir Half 1 is accessible now. Cher: The Memoir, Half Two will comply with in 2025.