Emmy winner Ellen Barkin said she’s “fresh out of all my f–ks” to present relating to calling out bad behavior in Hollywood.
For instance, the 68-year-old actress recalled shooting a “very difficult” scene completely nude, aside from a pubic wig, for the 1989 thriller “Sea of Love” starring Al Pacino and John Goodman.
“What was I going to do when [director] Harold Becker on ‘Sea of Love’ walks over and literally rips my merkin off, taking some pubic hair with him and saying: ‘What do you would like this for? No person’s you,’” Barkin told HuffPost in a recent interview that touched on misogynistic sets.
Barkin said her scene partner was “terrified.” “That is what [the industry’s] like,” Barkin added. “And I had a simple time with it, consider me.”
The Post reached out representatives for Barkin and Becker, 94, for comment.
Barkin’s remarks got here as she praised the set of Peacock’s “Poker Face” as “a really secure environment,” claiming she “was never taken care of like this. Never.”
The Latest York native has starred in dozens of flicks, including 1991’s “Switch,” 1996’s “The Fan” and 2011’s “One other Glad Day.” She also appeared in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Ocean’s Thirteen” and “Breaking News in Yuba County.”
“I used to be typecast first because the ugly girlfriend,” she reflected to HuffPost about her profession trajectory. “After which I went right into the voracious sex symbol, after which I went to mean old lady. So it makes perfect sense — man’s view of me.”
Her longest TV stint was TNT’s “Animal Kingdom,” where she played menacing crime family matriarch Janine “Smurf” Cody from 2016 to 2019.
She said men used to return into her trailer and “just scream at me.” She didn’t disclose their names, but compared them to “little boys.”
“I wanted out,” Barkin explained. “They didn’t kill [my character]. I had been asking to depart for 4 years.”
Nevertheless, she noted: “That was a few of the perfect work I’ve ever done.”
The Post reached out to TNT for comment.
Barkin’s as a result of appear within the Netflix crime comedy “The Out-Laws” with Adam DeVine, Pierce Brosnan and Nina Dobrev.
She recently sold her Greenwich Village townhouse for $11 million.
