Cher recalled the complicated experience of working with director Peter Bogdanovic: "He was a pig"

Cher has had a long career in film and music, thanks to which she has met all kinds of people and has been able to live all kinds of experiences. Among them, she recalled a very unpleasant one she had in the 1980s, when she filmed the movie 'Mask', directed by the late director Peter Bogdanovich, who was famous for his difficult character.

The 78-year-old singer recalled that Bogdanovich was a deeply arrogant person, who in turn referred to Cher as "the most difficult actress to work with", while promoting her memoir: "Cher, The Memoir".

Cher recalled that Bogdanovich asked her for suggestions on where they should shoot a particular scene.

"I said, 'Well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don't we do it again?'" Cher recalled.

The next morning he arrived on set eating an egg sandwich and started yelling that: "he wasn't going to let me direct this movie; that I was nobody and that he could kick me out at any time. Oh yeah, he was a pig"."He was a jerk," she added. "He wasn't kind to the girls in the movie and he was very arrogant. I really didn't like him."

The antipathy between Cher and Peter Bogdanovich

According to Bodgdanovich, the antipathy could be mutual. In subsequent interviews he revealed in 2019 that: "Cher was the most difficult actress to work with" and that "she didn't trust anyone, especially men".

"She couldn't do what Tatum [O'Neal] did in 'Paper Moon,'" he added in an interview with Vulture. "She'd start in the right direction, but then she'd quickly veer off somehow. So I did a lot of close-ups of her because she's very good at close-ups."

But that wasn't the only unpleasant experience for Cher in the movies. She also criticized director Frank Oz, who worked briefly in 1990, during the filming of 'Mermaids', and was accused of promoting his dismissal from the film.

"I actually got the guy from 'The Muppets' fired," Cher said. "I told him: either you go or I go, which is a shame because he's a really good director, but he had something with me. He said, 'At least my wife loves me!'".

The first part of 'Cher: The Memoir' is now available for purchase at any bookstore. The second part will be available in 2025.