How come Meryl and Charles Dance didn't get along when making "Plenty"?

Good question..

Charles Dance is working class, and Meryl Streep is from a very well-to-do family. He's also not very good with women.

He wouldn't sleep with her?

His role was secondary to hers?

I love Charles Dance but I can easily imagine not loving him if I were a female who had to act with him. He's a bit of a pig about women in general and powerful women? Forget it.

A great actor, his Tywin Lannister put the rest of those boys to shame. Only Sean Bean could have matched him and Ned Stark was dead before Tywin made the scene. Come to think of it, Bean is another pig about women.

Weird story not long ago about one woman having Dance's baby in hospital while he was publicly running around with someone else. He stopped in to see the baby for a minute, or refused to, I don't remember. Tawdry stuff and he didn't come off well, I recall that much.

He was a DIsney fan?

If Tracy didn't get along with him, either, then he was probably a douche

My guess is Dance expected M to sleep with him. She found his personality repellent and declined. His ego took a huge dive and they spent the remainder of the film loathing each other.

Loved him in WHITE MISCHIEF...seemed rather attractive, alas, he is a ginger, so he didn't age well.

His quote:

Let's just say I found her a little distant. I hardly got to know her. We had dinner a couple of times, but she only spoke about work. I didn't find her easy to work with, but it's not her job to make it easy for me.

I worked with Mr. Charles Dance on the London stage, and he was delightful!

Plenty was a dreadful, boring movie.

did she hate him more than Dustin Hoffman??

Juicy

Likely she wanted to sleep with him, he found her too blue-stocking to be sexy and it was nothing but coolness never since.

Remember in the 80s Meryl would book movies to fuck her leading men. See Nicholson, De Niro.

Fetid M?

Tracey couldn’t stand him either. That’s all you need to know. He’s a dick. She’s incredibly easy to get along with.

I saw Plenty and it was plenty boring and stupid. One of the worst.

Dance directed Maggie Smith and Judi Dench in "Ladies in Lavender", and is set to direct his second movie, starring Joanna Lumley.

^^ a mere 15 years later

I saw Kate Nelligan in “Plenty,” on Broadway in 1983. She was mesmerizing. Real coup de theatre finale visually and emotionally. Edward Herrmann played her sincere, but milquetoast husband.

An effective theater piece, the play did not translate well to the screen. Better to see glimpses of reality on stage, than realistic outdoor settings on film. Nelligan was a powerhouse, steamrolling over everyone and everything in what is almost a stylized play about disillusionment, after the high of winning WWII.

The movie was necessarily more underplayed. Dance was better looking, but working against type as the milquetoast. Streep might have been brilliant in the role onstage, but seemed overwhelmed by the movie’s more realistic approach.

Ultimately, the movie seemed very much at cross purposes with itself, and lost the real fire it had onstage.

I love the nickname Myrtle Sheep!

We should use that here!

Kate Nelligan in the stage production of PLENTY

[quote] He's also not very good with women.

Hopefully Diana Rigg slapped him around a bit.

WHET Kate Nelligan? I just checked her imdb page and she hasn't acted in film or TV in a decade.

"Remember in the 80s Meryl would book movies to fuck her leading men. See Nicholson, De Niro."

She booked movies with them because they are great actors. She wouldn't need to co-star with them to sleep with them, it's not like actors don't socialize outside of work

He was so hot circa Jewel in the Crown/White Mischief.

[quote]Real coup de theatre finale visually and emotionally.

Could you describe that r22

As a teen I used to get a thrill watching Charles Dance in White Mischief, they used to play it a lot late at night on HBO

Is that the movie r30 where he emerges from the ocean all tan and buff? If so that was a teen favorite of mine too.

[quote]r26 WHET Kate Nelligan? I just checked her imdb page and she hasn't acted in film or TV in a decade.

I know around 1988 she was considered to be very difficult to work with, at least in one particular play.

I don't know if that was a regiular part of her personality or not...