Jesus Harold Cheezits
‘FOR ART’ IS NO EXCUSE TO TREAT PEOPLE LIKE THIS
Alfred Hitchcock also told Joan Fontaine that everyone on the set of Rebecca hated her in order to make her feel paranoid and uneasy.
All of this is so counter to what I was taught about directing, and the actor-director relationship. These tactics are lazy as hell in addition to being abusive, I don’t care how great these directors are. It’s so fucked up.
Enforced Method Acting (contains many, many more of these, including plenty I never knew about.)