Barbra Streisand claims Mandy Patinkin wanted to have an affair: He made my life ‘miserable’

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No Wonder” she threatened to replace him. Barbra Streisand revealed in her memoir “My Name Is Barbra” that she once threatened to replace Mandy Patinkin in the 1983 film “Yentl” after he said he wanted to have an affair with her while he was already married. “There was a moment, a week or so into the shoot, when Mandy and I were doing a scene in the yeshiva,” Streisand, 81, wrote. “I think he had two or three lines, but he wouldn’t look me in the eye.

He just stared at my forehead.” The “Funny Girl” actress said she then confronted Patinkin, 70, about his behavior and was startled to find that “The Princess Bride” star thought they were going to have a more intimate dynamic. “His face crumpled and he said, ‘I thought we were going to have a more personal relationship,’ ” Streisand wrote. ” ‘What?’ I had no idea what he was talking about,” Streisand continued. “[He said,] ‘I thought we were going to have an affair.’ I looked at him as if he were crazy . . .

1) I would never have an affair with an actor I was directing, 2) he was married, and 3) I wasn’t at all attracted to him.” Patinkin’s been married to actress Kathryn Grody since 1980.According to the Broadway legend, she “didn’t want to hurt his feelings” so she “simply said, ‘I don’t operate that way.’ ” “I said, ‘Mandy, this kind of behavior can’t continue.

I’m prepared to replace you. We’re only two weeks in. I can reshoot all your scenes if you can’t be more professional. I’ve waited 15 years to realize my dream and I will not let you destroy it,’ ” the EGOT winner wrote, adding that her dynamic with Patinkin led to them scrapping the sex scene between the two main characters.