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Guest Starring on ‘Friends’ Was ‘Harrowing’ and ‘Alarming’ for Olivia Williams, Who Says ‘A Producer Just Yelled’ at an Actor on Set: ‘You’re Not Funny!’


"Friends" guest star says her filming experience was "alarming" and "harrowing."

Well, just as an example, I was taken to the studio in a shared car with a wonderful actress whose character, I think, was called ‘Old Woman’,” Williams said, noting this actor was “distinguished” and “very good” but “at one point, a producer – who shall remain nameless – just yelled at her: ‘You’re not funny!’ And she didn’t come back the next day. Who once said she got along swimmingly with Arnold Schwarzenegger – her co-star in a serial killer thriller called ‘Sabotage’ – owing to her ‘advantage, or disadvantage, of not having large breasts.’ She later begged an interviewer not to watch it.” Set in the world of “Dune” 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, the series follows the Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.

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