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Hollywood's shiny veneer sometimes cracks decades later! Join us as we look at the shocking backstage revelations actors kept hidden for years. From feuding co-stars to on-set harassment, these bombshells changed how we see our favorite films and shows. What juicy revelations surprised you the most?
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00:00He told me he'd ruin my career. I said, do what you have to do. I don't care. I'm out.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today, we're looking at behind-the-scenes dramas that actors didn't
00:12reveal until years later. I don't think there's many young people that could have survived it.
00:17It was hard. Kim Cattrall's relationship with her co-stars. If the spinoff and Just Like That
00:24proved anything, it's that Carrie Bradshaw just wasn't the same without her sex-positive bestie,
00:29Samantha Jones. But Kim Cattrall's comments in recent years put the lid on any rumors of a real
00:41reunion. Rumors swirled for years that pay discrepancies came between Cattrall and her
00:46co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Davis, and Cynthia Nixon. However, these reports were often
00:52contested by everyone involved. But Cattrall lifted the veil on Sex and the City's on-screen
00:56Friendships for Good in 2017, revealing that she and her co-stars were never friends.
01:02I don't see them. The common ground that we had was the series, and this series is over.
01:08In fact, she's openly rebuffed Parker in interviews and on social media several times since.
01:13If Sarah Jessica Parker watches this, what would your message to her be?
01:16I think that's pretty clear.
01:18Barry Williams' Growing Up Brady memoir. Nearly two decades after the blended family sitcom
01:23ended, the Brady Bunch's squeaky clean reputation got a major modern shake-up.
01:28This is my room, and I'm not budging.
01:32And I say it's my room, and I'm not budging.
01:35Greg Brady actor Barry Williams released a memoir of his time on the show. Published in 1992,
01:41Growing Up Brady was a salacious look at the behind-the-scenes crushes and romantic hijinks
01:46that went into making such a family-friendly show.
01:48How amazing was that kiss?
01:51Rate the kiss on a scale from 1 to 10 with Barry.
01:56And remember, I can hear you.
01:58Williams even copped to asking his on-screen mother, actress Florence Henderson, on a date.
02:03It certainly added a layer of ick over the show's wholesomeness,
02:06and probably set the scene for the irreverent take on the family in the two movie adaptations
02:10released just a few years later.
02:12I gotta go.
02:17Janet Hubert's exit from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
02:20Fans of the Will Smith-led sitcom tuned into its fourth season to find a major change.
02:25Janet Hubert, the actress who originated the role of Aunt Viv, had been replaced.
02:30While the show makes a light-hearted joke out of it,
02:32the real story was not truly known for years.
02:35You know, Ms. Banks, since you had that baby, there's something different about you.
02:42Hubert later came out with the full story.
02:48While she left the show of her own volition,
02:50a huge pay cut and her own personal struggles made the Fresh Prince an untenable situation.
02:55I just wanted to know one thing.
02:57Mm-hmm.
02:58Why?
02:58Why so far?
02:59You guys went so far.
03:02I lost so much.
03:03It didn't help matters that she and Smith clashed repeatedly on set,
03:07over what she termed his, quote,
03:09egomaniacal behavior.
03:10The two have since made up,
03:12and even talked at length about that period of time on the show's 2020 reunion special.
03:16I think, I think we were just short of 27 years that we didn't, uh, speak to one another.
03:25And I'm just, I'm, I'm glad we're talking again.
03:28Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford's affair.
03:31But I became obsessed with Harrison long before it became fashionable.
03:34I was a real trendsetter in that sense.
03:37I started a craze.
03:39In her final book, released in 2016,
03:41the actress and writer behind Princess Leia dropped a bomb that shook the entire galaxy.
03:47The Princess Diarist presents Carrie Fisher's diaries from the time she made the first Star Wars film.
03:52It also reveals, for the first time,
03:54that she and on-screen lover Harrison Ford engaged in a passionate romance
03:59that no one on set seemed to know about.
04:01You like me because I'm a scoundrel.
04:04There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
04:06I have no like nice men.
04:09You're a nice man.
04:10Though brief, the extramarital affair was intense
04:13and came at a time when Fisher was still finding herself.
04:16It's rare that such a bombshell could rock such a popular movie
04:19nearly 40 years after its release.
04:2240 years ago, you have this affair over the months of the movie.
04:26And you say you literally never spoke about it again.
04:30Sally Field and Burt Reynolds.
04:32Although the romance between the Smokey and the Bandit co-stars
04:35was routinely covered in the press,
04:37their feelings about it seemed to differ dramatically.
04:39In his 2015 memoir, Burt Reynolds said Sally Field was the one who got away.
04:44Was she the one that got away?
04:46Is that what you're saying?
04:46Woof.
04:48Yes.
04:49Oh, woof means yes.
04:50Okay.
04:50Woof means everything.
04:52Field, who dated Reynolds for a few years after meeting on the set of their first collaboration,
04:56remembers their relationship with more clarity.
04:58Instantaneous and intense.
05:00And I also said we were a perfect match of flaws.
05:05Right.
05:06We went together very well, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
05:11His jealousy over Field's first Oscar nomination and win for 1979's Norma Ray
05:16saw him refusing to even attend the ceremony with her.
05:19Field is honest in her appraisal.
05:21Reynolds was not good for her, and she denies that she was the love of his life.
05:25I was absent from, I was behaving the way I was taught, and that is to be loved, I had
05:32to disappear.
05:33Linda Blair's experience on The Exorcist.
05:35Her performance as the demonically possessed girl was so terrifying, she became one of the
05:40youngest Oscar nominees ever.
05:42But even years after the making of The Exorcist, there are things that Linda Blair won't talk
05:46about.
05:46Were you assigned bodyguards?
05:49I won't talk about it.
05:51No?
05:51No.
05:51There's stuff that I don't talk about.
05:53Um, so, what's another one?
05:57Warner Brothers actually had to hire bodyguards to protect her from death threats.
06:01People seemed to believe she was genuinely possessed.
06:04However, she's been open in the years since about an on-set injury.
06:07If you look at someone like Linda Blair, the studio had to get bodyguards for her.
06:11Because people actually thought that she might be evil.
06:15The stunt where she is tossed around above a bed severely injured her back, leading to
06:19complications well into adulthood.
06:21Blair returned to the franchise for 2023's Exorcist, Believer, to advise and advocate for
06:27the two young stars of that film.
06:29You know, pregnant women shouldn't go.
06:31People are throwing up.
06:32They parked the ambulances outside the theaters.
06:35A lot of this was PR.
06:37Shannon Doherty's firing.
06:38The supernatural WB show, Charmed, saw a major cast shakeup midway through its run.
06:44Star Shannon Doherty left the show ahead of its fourth season.
06:47And it's also great because we're a really small cast here.
06:50So, um, we're usually all here together, which makes it fun.
06:55Rose McGowan joined the cast in her place.
06:57Because of Doherty's past history being fired from Beverly Hills 90210 for unprofessional
07:02behavior, the prevailing rumor was that the same had happened again.
07:06But Doherty clarified the reasoning years later.
07:08It was just pissy because this time she didn't get to play Wonder Woman.
07:13I'm not in the mood to soothe your ego.
07:15Relations became so bad between her and co-star Alyssa Milano that Milano gave producers of
07:21Charmed an ultimatum.
07:22If they didn't fire Doherty, Milano would sue.
07:25Producers chose Milano.
07:26And Doherty was written out.
07:28This version of events was co-signed by Doherty and Milano's co-star Holly Marie Combs on a
07:332023 episode of Doherty's podcast, Let's Be Clear.
07:36Alyssa and her mom, like they were blocking people from seeing you.
07:42And at the time you didn't know.
07:44The reason Brendan Fraser left Hollywood.
07:47Despite starring in a successful franchise and being a major star of the 90s, Brendan Fraser
07:52all but disappeared from show business in the 2000s.
07:55For years, speculation was rampant.
07:58Fraser, the star of Encino Man, Mummies, and George of the Jungle was one of the hottest
08:03actors of the late 90s and early 2000s.
08:06But his career came crashing to a stop.
08:09It wasn't until his 2018 interview with GQ that he disclosed a traumatic and deeply personal
08:14event that saw him turning his back on his stardom.
08:17An incident of unwanted physical contact by former Hollywood Foreign Press Association
08:22president Philip Burke in 2003 began a chain reaction for Fraser.
08:27Fraser says Burke grabbed him inappropriately in 2003 at a lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
08:34Fraser saying he was overcome with panic and fear.
08:37The traumatic moment only added to various health and professional setbacks that led to a career
08:42slowdown who stood together, spoke their truth, and inspired me to do the same.
08:53His comeback story culminated with an Oscar win for The Whale in 2023.
08:58Tippi Hedren's Experience with Alfred Hitchcock
09:00The master of suspense was one of the most famous directors in Hollywood when he spotted Tippi
09:05Hedren in a TV commercial.
09:07Hedren had never even played a lead role before Alfred Hitchcock decided that she was his next star.
09:12He signed her to an exclusive contract, seeming to believe he could control her life as well as
09:17her career.
09:17He's seen your film and he's seen your photographs, you know, of all the different commercials that
09:22I had done, and he wants to sign you to a contract if you will agree with the financial
09:27statements in the contract.
09:29The harassment she endured only worsened on the set of their second and final film together.
09:33When she refused his advances, he promised to ruin her career.
09:37He kept that promise.
09:38The legendary director who made her a star and then ruined her career because she refused
09:44to sleep with him.
09:45It is the worst thing to be the object of someone's obsession if you're not interested.
09:50Hedren kept things cordial with Hitchcock while he was alive.
09:53She even saluted him at public tributes.
09:55But as times changed, she was able to tell the world her story.
09:58The harder I fought him, the more aggressive he became.
10:02How serious was it?
10:03Did Alfred Hitchcock try to have sex with you?
10:05Well, uh, he never got that far.
10:08I stopped it immediately.
10:25Nickelodeon actors reveal their mistreatment.
10:28My name is Drake Bell, and I came here today to tell my story.
10:33Have you ever told your story publicly before?
10:38I have never told my story publicly.
10:40Millennials everywhere were scandalized by the investigation discovery docuseries,
10:45Quiet On Set, The Dark Side of Kids TV.
10:48Detailing various inappropriate situations, it was a devastating and damning expose of Nickelodeon.
10:54Actors who had spent many of their formative years at the network gave interviews to attest
10:58to the often disturbing work environment there.
11:00Performers like Drake Bell, All That stars Kyle Sullivan, and Brian Hearn were among the
11:05former child stars who shared their stories.
11:08He flipped the thing around, and on the back, it said,
11:12To Brian, I hope you enjoy the painting.
11:15Best wishes, your friend, John Wayne Gacy.
11:19The five-part series was a shocker.
11:21It gave credence to long-standing rumors about executive producer Dan Schneider's abhorrent behavior.
11:26However, it also made us realize that things were even worse than the wildest internet rumors
11:31could imagine.
11:31You know, when I call my mom and be like,
11:33Hey, this just happened.
11:34Can you come pick me up?
11:35I'll just sit here and wait.
11:38I had no car.
11:40I didn't drive.
11:43I was 15 at this time.
11:45What behind-the-scenes secrets changed the way you thought about a movie or TV show?
11:49Let us know in the comments.
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12:01And we'll see you next time.
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