Dune: Part Two star Rebecca Ferguson recently revealed that she was screamed at on the set of a film early in her career by a huge star. The actress mentioned that she later told the star to “F off” after the altercation and refused to work with them, which drew flack from the producers as the other actor was ‘Call Sheet No.1’.
While Ferguson did not reveal who the screamer was, the Internet has gone with speculations. The actress assured that it was neither Tom Cruise nor Hugh Jackman while Dwayne Johnson, her Hercules co-star seemingly cleared his name. A recent clip with Star Wars star Ewan McGregor showed Ferguson being extremely comfortable with the actor, clearing his name too.
Rebecca Ferguson Got Screamed At On Set By An A-Lister
Swedish star Rebecca Ferguson has starred in many blockbusters in her career. Moving to Hollywood after finding success in the Swedish soap opera Nya Tider and the British drama The White Queen, Ferguson starred in films such as the Mission Impossible franchise, and The Greatest Showman. She recently headlined Denis Villeneuve’s Dune franchise.
The actress revealed in the Reign with Josh Smith podcast while promoting Dune: Part Two that she had been screamed at by a prominent actor in one of her early films. Rebecca Ferguson responded with this anecdote when host Josh Smith asked her when she felt proud of using her ‘voice’ to stand up for herself. She said,
“I did a film with an absolute idiot of a co-star…I remember there was a moment and this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out…This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say ‘You call yourself an actor? This is what I have to work with?'”
Rebecca Ferguson then revealed that nobody on set had her back because the actor was number one on the call sheet and that she would cry walking out of the set. She then said that she told the actor to “F off” and said that she never wanted to see them again.
Ferguson revealed that though she got flack for this by her producers and director, she did her scenes to the back of the actor’s head. Ferguson got a wave of support from the film industry and fans for this incident, with her Hercules co-star Dwayne Johnson commenting in support on X (formerly Twitter) and saying that he wanted to find out who did it.
Rebecca Ferguson’s Screamer Is Not Ewan McGregor
Speculations regarding who the mystery A-lister who screamed at Rebecca Ferguson was have been rife on social media. Many believed that it was actor Hugh Grant, who starred with Ferguson in the film Florence Foster Jenkins, in which there was also Meryl Streep. The Mission Impossible star also cleared the names of Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman.
While fans also speculated that the actor in question was either Michael Fassbender or Jake Gyllenhaal, one star that fans were sure was not the screamer was her Doctor Sleep co-star Ewan McGregor. The Scottish actor has been the Internet’s darling due to his friendly persona off-screen and his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel Star Wars trilogy.
The video that proved that he was not the screamer was a clip from the talk show A Little Late with Lilly Singh. Rebecca Ferguson and Ewan McGregor went on the talk show to promote Doctor Sleep and seemed to be extremely comfortable with each other. The clip saw the co-stars exchanging footwear and sitting cross-legged on the sofa.
The host Lilly Singh also mentioned that the two looked really comfortable with each other when Ferguson smelled McGregor’s shoe while exchanging them. Fans on X (formerly Twitter) stated that they were sure of McGregor not being the A-list star in question purely because of the two’s adorable conversation and camaraderie.
