Frank Langella FIRED for misconduct!

They better replace him with a trans woman of color!

Dear God, ‘making inappropriate comments to a female co-star’ could nowadays mean he said “Good morning, what a lovely dress”.

I saw him in Dracula on Broadway in 1978. Center orchestra seats. He can touch me inappropriately any damn time.

When he was young and beautiful I just knew he was gay. Big surprise once I found out he was a pussy hound.

Isn't he one of the white guys who laid with Whoopie for a while? I would love to know the story behind all those guys and her. I mean, she's not the most attractive broad on the planet.

He once performed at the STAGE benefit in LA- I believe it is the oldest one. At some point, many Broadway stars have participated.

Everyone donated their time and money obviously, but Frank was a ride pig and was never asked back.

From the article linked within OP's:

[quote]As for what exactly happened, a source close to production tells us the 84-year-old actor allegedly made an inappropriate joke that was sexual in nature. Our sources also say in the context of his performance, possibly during rehearsal, he touched the leg of a female costar, and further drew attention to the action when he jokingly said something like "Did you like that?"

He sounds like a dirty old man

Yes, he and Whoopi Goldberg were together for 5 years. I'm sure Whoopi will chime in with her incisive commentary.

Wasn't he nasty to everyone in his book? He's always sounded like an asshole, although a good actor.

"It wasn't misconduct misconduct."

Everything he does seems like a scheme that he's not gay. That book about all his sexual conquests (all dead now) was creepy. And dating Whoopi?? Either he paid her or they were bearding for each other.

I swear to god, I thought he was dead.

I thought he was dead and loving it.

He raped me.

I thought he was dead.

He molested me first, R13.

I worked with him a couple of times, first time way back in 1980 and then again about 12 years later. Both times he was a disgusting letch to both young men and women. Horrible man! Glad it's finally caught up with him.

[quote]I would love to know the story behind all those guys and her. I mean, she’s not the most attractive broad on the planet.

Whoopi had the best weed and she put out, if the guys wanted it R4.

Further proof that Whoopi is a lesbian. Ted Danson was the head-scratcher, though.

His book is pretty dishy but he comes off like a narcissistic pig.

Langella cruised on the street a couple of times on the UWS around that time he was doing Nixon on Broadway. Always confused him with Gore Vidal. Always assumed he was gay. He was terrific in Nixon and another play Match costarring Ray Liotta.

Also thought he was dead

84 and he's still letching. Sad last days. I was not molested.

Who complained? I hope not T’Nia Miller or Carla Gugino.

First the 62 year old shooter and now the 84 year old sexual harasser. Sad days for the elderly.

I always get him confused that another queen, F. Murray Abraham.

I'm still alive, bitches: it's my career that's dead.

Langella was phenomenal in the Sorkin thing about Chicago 7

Jeez, that's unfortunate. I'd been looking forward to this adaptation mostly because of him. I knew he was a real pill but I didn't know he was always creeping on all his co-stars. Disappointing.

[quote] Isn't he one of the white guys who laid with Whoopie for a while? I would love to know the story behind all those guys and her. I mean, she's not the most attractive broad on the planet.

First of all, I love the term “laid with”, and will be stealing it instead of the vulgar “fucking”.

Secondly, I think Whoopi is probably good at manipulating and making men feel a certain thing that they don’t want to stop feeling. She’s not physically attractive in any way, but men will LAY WITH anything and relationships are all up here *taps head* anyway. Hell, maybe she didn’t care if they laid with other people.

Unfortunate... but I thought he was gay and dead, he also laid with Barabara Walters at some point after Whoopi, and he is also uncut/intact, he discussed his insecurities about it... Men need to behave themselves...

I think Nick Nolte would make a great Roderick Usher.

Ted Danson said fucking Whoopi was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

Frank didn't get the memo that it's no longer 1979 and he's no longer even remotely hot.

Nobody wants to be hit on by a bald, liver-spotted 84-year-old.

Who will they hire as replacement, Charles Dance?

[quote] Actors have long had to deal with amorous co-stars chancing their arm on stage in the name of art, but imaginative tales of vigilante justice rarely come this delicious. One theatre star who had to share a scripted kiss in a play with Charles Dance became very tired of his persistent habit of slipping her the tongue, so she hit upon a rather creative solution. One night she gave her boyfriend a blowjob backstage before the curtain went up, and deliberately didn’t rinse her mouth out before stepping on stage...

See Langella in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970). He plays the gay sometimes straight lover of Carrie Snodgress. The role is pure Langella - bitchy demanding queen.

[quote] One theatre star who had to share a scripted kiss in a play with Charles Dance became very tired of his persistent habit of slipping her the tongue, so she hit upon a rather creative solution. One night she gave her boyfriend a blowjob backstage before the curtain went up, and deliberately didn’t rinse her mouth out before stepping on stage...

That Dame Judi Dench is very naughty!

They should replace him with Kevin Spacey

Anyone who fucked Barbaric Walters is trash.

[quote]I saw him in Dracula on Broadway in 1978. Center orchestra seats. He can touch me inappropriately any damn time.

You realize that was 42 years ago? Sad last days - for you both.

R38 = Whoopi

I actually worked on a project in the past and he was re-cast during filming too. We never knew why but he was definitely very difficult to work with. It was after he did Frost/Nixon so maybe he was feeling his puss. Just an angry old diva. He always pinged to me, especially when he was on Theatre Talk with his tell all book about barely meeting all these famous Golden Age actresses while he was like, an usher. He seemed like a DataLounger.

As for Whoopi, she was definitely attractive when she was younger. It's not like he was some Brad Pitt. I've also heard she was good in bed, and probably super funny and charming (and obviously in those days was a lot more laid back than she is now as an obese curmudgeon on The View). She even pulled Shaggy during his peak hotness, he was on The View a few years back and still flirting with her. She and Langella met on Broadway and then he had a supporting role in her movie Eddie where she plays the coach of the Knicks (it's as bad as you can imagine). He was in awe of her talent on stage.

Frank played opposite Miss Joan Collins in Moon Over Buffalo in the West End and he quit after the horrid reviews came out.

I think he's a very fine actor.

Replaced with Flanagan regular Bruce Greenwood

[quote]his tell all book about barely meeting all these famous Golden Age actresses while he was like, an usher. He seemed like a DataLounger.

I love you!

I'm kind of oddly fascinated by this story if for no other reason, he's 84 years old & he's still apparently very frisky rather than just hanging out & watching CNN like other old people. Sure he was a jerk in the past, but some of the incidents referenced on this thread are 20+ years old. He must've been pretty bad for some them to finally decide they'd had enough of his Creepy Grandpa schtick

Strange man- he wrote a sort of bio of famous people he has known spilling beans a bit on them . Came off as gossip (which was fun) but ultimately to no end or purpose and of course a bit mean spirited because the subjects have no say- his “side”. Also very self important. It was kind of like Arthur Laurent’s bio which was more of a real bio and interesting historically. But I came away from both not liking either man.

Langella tells his side.

On March 25 of this year, I was performing a love scene with the actress playing my young wife. Both of us were fully clothed. I was sitting on a couch, she was standing in front of me. The director called “cut.” “He touched my leg,” said the actress. “That was not in the blocking.” She then turned and walked off the set, followed by the director and the intimacy coordinator. I attempted to follow but was asked to “give her some space.” I waited for approximately one hour, and was then told she was not returning to set and we were wrapped.

Not long after, an investigation began. Approximately one week later, Human Resources asked to speak to me by phone. “Before the love scene began on March 25,” said the questioner, “our intimacy coordinator suggested where you both should put your hands. It has been brought to our attention that you said, ‘This is absurd!’” “Yes,” I said, “I did. And I still think so.” It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity...

He's got a point.

Also he's clearly a bi.

Who is the actress?

Who is the "intimacy coordinator"?

The intimacy coordinator didn't properly coordinate Frank's hands.

R8, Especially to Anne Bancroft.

I worked on a tv show recently and the wardrobe coordinator kept pulling on my shirt and tucking it into the back of my pants between takes and each time she said to me ‘I’m going to have to touch you to straighten out your shirt, ok?’ Three years ago she wouldn’t have asked. It’s a whole new world, Frank.

R35, First time I heard the word "cunt" in a mainstream film.

[quote] he's 84 years old & he's still apparently very frisky rather than just hanging out & watching CNN like other old people

When my mom was 88, she had a boyfriend who was 83. He treated her very well and was quite frisky. One day she asked me what a blow job was. She said she heard something about it on Oprah but missed what had been said. I knew then that he had asked for one and she needed some guidance without outing herself.

What Langella neglects to mention in his official reply at r48 is what went on before he touched the actress' leg. No doubt he'd been harassing her for days and was probably letching at other actors and crew. I'd bet that touching her leg was the last straw.

Yeah, I am not buying his story. He touched her leg and that was not part of the discussion between himself, the actress, and the intimacy coordinator.

Come on, no one should be fired from a job for touching a leg. Are straight women really this fragile? I weep for third (?) wave feminism, good lord.

If I were an actor in the Bill Murray, Frank Langella age rage...... I think I'd say fuck it, time to hang it up.

R59, Amen.

If the actress was upset about Frank touching her leg and immediately complained to the director and intimacy coordinator then I doubt she would have been shy about blowing the whistle if he was making her feel uncomfortable prior to that incident. It’s a real possibility that she overreacted.

He must have said to a female co worker. You are looking pretty this morning.

It's also a real possibility that the actress endured his harassment for weeks and finally had enough.

It's hard to say - there is so much overreaction to everything these days, it's hard to say where the truth lies. But bringing in new people & re-shooting scenes (or just re-doing work in general) is a cost that no one wants (particularly given Netflix's current predicaments). Someone must have made the decision that the shit storm surrounding Langella wasn't worth it & they'd eat the cost. No company does that lightly and without a lot of consideration

R64 ^^ I thought the same about the Bill Murray shut down......very expensive.

His memoir was interesting - definitely get the sense he feels he never made it super big despite being very ambitious and ALMOST getting there after Dracula. Will always remember his story of being invited to Bunny Mellons house in the Caribbean with Jackie O - he came up a behind and surprised Jackie with a “boo” or something and she totally freaked, left and Bunny then diplomatically asked him to leave. Generally comes across as an arrogant jerk.

“Before the love scene began on March 25,” said the questioner, “our intimacy coordinator suggested where you both should put your hands. It has been brought to our attention that you said, ‘This is absurd!’” “Yes,” I said, “I did. And I still think so.” It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity.

That's what got him fired. Pushing back on the intimacy coordinator's guidance was stupid. They don't care about an actors spontaneity, they are there to make their actors feel protected. If he showed this refusal to listen to directions it's understandable they didn't give him another chance.

[quote]It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity.

= "my extinct told me to put my hands on your tits!

Sigh, there is truly no fool like an old fool!

[quote] Come on, no one should be fired from a job for touching a leg. Are straight women really this fragile? I weep for third (?) wave feminism, good lord.

That’s 4th wave, post 2012, which concerns trans rights, intersectionality, #MeToo. It is both pro-porn and more prudish, much like Gen Z.

3rd wave feminism is post-1992. It’s pro-sex, being strong and sexy and female, outspoken on reproductive rights, red lipstick feminism. Think Madonna, Queen Latifah, Naomi Wolf, Ashley Judd, riot grrls, etc.

And Camille Paglia r69

R51, and anyone wondering who was the woman

I'll bet it was the director's wife, Kate Seigel. She's Mike Flanagan's (the director's) wife. That is the only thing that can explain the severity of the reaction, requiring re-filming every single episode that Langella was in.

She's not "young" but she is in comparison to Langella.

Much over nothing if it were anyone else.

I think it was probably Willa Fitzgerald.

Or was it for conducting young misses?

I like the 1960 version with Vincent Price, directed by Roger Corman. It also stars a young, hot Mark Damon.

How is his ass, r74?

R69 Thank you for clarifying. I miss third wave feminism if that's the case. Women seemed happier.

I cannot reconcile that Gen Z retards are all about moronic shit "sex work is work" and OnlyFans but can't deal with sexual behavior that doesn't fit their rigid moral standards.

I think it’s because Gen Z were raised with mobile devices and hardcore porn being the first examples of sex they came across. I’m a 1990s kid, a millennial and you had to go to considerable lengths to locate and hide nudie mags and VHS rental porn and Anais Nin novels. It’s a world away from an elementary school kid from picking up any device, googling ‘porn’ and watching videos of Sasha Grey drinking her own piss before being strangled in a dungeon and thinking “huh, so this is sex, then”.

It’s raised a generation who of children who if they’re not outgoing and extroverted simply don’t bother to form and fail at crushes and sexual awakening among their peers because they can get off on fantasy. In the 80s and 90s shy, introverted kids were forced to wade into the dating waters because out of boredom and hormones as much as anything because they didn’t have a fake sexual buffet at their fingertips.

I don't put anything past Frank Langella because he's such an insufferable asshole. I'd bet there's much more to it than simply touching someone's leg.

r71 As much as I hate to say this, I think it’s Carla. She has worked intimately with Bruce Greenwood before, so it makes sense. She would want a known quantity recast to reshoot with. As much as I would like to think it’s Seigel, I think Langella would have been more careful with her.

The only time I've seen Langella interviewed he came across as charming and somewhat subdued. I didn't get an obnoxious vibe. Is his memoir the basis for the 'insufferable asshole' verdict or is it something else? The incident for which he was fired seems relatively minor.

i'd forgotten he'd won four tony awards.......that ain't hay.

He has won four Tony Awards: two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon[2] and as André in Florian Zeller's The Father, and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His reprisal of the Nixon role in the film production of Frost/Nixon earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.[3]

He probably wishes he got to reprise his role in The Father, too. Could have been another Oscar nom.

Liberals ruin everything.