Cher Lambasts ‘Mask’ Director Peter Bogdanovich As Misogynistic, A “Pig”: “So F—ing Arrogant”

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Cher has some choice words to describe a director with whom she previously worked. In a sprawling interview with The Times of London, timed to the first-half release of her two-part memoir, she opened up about her childhood and career, including an acrimonious experience filming 1985’s biographical drama Mask with helmer Peter Bogdanovich. “There are only two directors I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich and the guy from The Muppets [Frank Oz, with whom she worked on 1990’s Mermaids].

I actually got the guy from The Muppets fired. 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!’” Detailing her experience with the former filmmaker, the legendary multi-hyphenate said Bogdanovich was misogynistic and pompous. “He was an asshole.

He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f—ing arrogant. I really, really disliked him.” On one occasion, the Believe singer said a conversation about blocking turned into an explosive argument: “He comes in and says, ‘Cher, where do you think we should film this scene?’ And I say, ‘Well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don’t we do that again?’ 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.