The Twisted History of Hollywood Directors

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Woody Allen                       

Married His Stepdaughter. Numerous Sexual Abuse Allegations                       

In 1991, 56-year-old Woody Allen began a relationship with 20-year-old Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Allen's previous partner, Mia Farrow (they were never married).

Allen married Previn. Although he was never actually her stepfather, some said he did have a stepfather-like relationship with her. She was adopted at 10 years old. Bridget is 10! He’s a twisted creepy fuck.

He was accused of molesting his and Farrow's adopted daughter Dylan. A judge found that the results were inconclusive (while they were later deemed “unfounded"). Dylan continues to insist that the abuse took place.                 

Allen retorted the criticism by declaring, "the heart wants what it wants", and claims that he barely knew Soon-Yi as a child and adolescent.                 

Michael Bay

Michael Bay gave Megan Fox a rather... twisted audition for what would become her breakthrough role in 2007's Transformers. He had the then-19-year-old actress wash his Ferrari.           

Bay even filmed it, and when asked by an interviewer where the tape resides to day, he rather unconvincingly replied, "Er, I don't know where it is."

Not casting couch creepy, but twisted considering that Bay was more than double Fox's age at the time and he filmed it.

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski Had Unlawful Sex With A 13-Year-Old Girl

Following a photo-shoot in 1977, 43-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested and charged with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, and performing lewd and lascivious acts on 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, as well as furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.          

Polanski eventually accepted a guilty plea which saw the charge reduced to "only" engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse.

After learning that he was likely to be imprisoned and deported, he fled the United States to France, where he has largely remained ever since, avoiding countries likely to extradite him to the U.S.

Polanski accepted a guilty plea but refused to take the punishment for his actions. And, oh good, he has expressed remorse for what happened and kept his nose clean since. Thank God!                       

Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo Got Chloe Sevigny To Perform Oral Sex On Him For The Brown Bunny. 

In Gallo’s movie The Brown Bunny, there's a climactic scene in which “Bud” gets a blow job by “Daisy”. (Played by Chloe Sevigny).                       

Not only did Gallo insist that the oral sex be performed for real, but he cast himself in the Bud role. Twisted and perverted fuck.       

The final results don't shy away or pull any punches. You pretty much see it all, or at least as much as you'd ever want to see.
     

Dustin Hoffman                                        

On the second day of filming Kramer Vs. Kramer, Hoffman decided he would motivate Meryl Streep’s performance at the elevators by slapping her just before the camera rolled.

The move stunned not just Streep, but astounded the producers. Streep was 29 and unknown, but she certainly didn’t need to be struck to give a good performance.

Equally vile was the fact that Streep had recently lost her fiancé, actor John Cazale, (fucking Fredo, from The Godfather) to lung cancer. Hoffman taunted Streep about his death.                       

Producer Richard Fischoff recalled to Vanity Fair: “He was goading her and provoking her. Using stuff that he knew about her personal life and about John to get the response that he thought she should be giving in the performance.” Fischoff said Streep went “absolutely white” after shooting the scene and left the set in a rage.

Stanley Kubrick

Psychologically Abused Shelley Duvall While Filming The Shining 

Stanley Kubrick is well-known for his meticulous attention-to-detail and this made him come to blows with his leading lady Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining.      

Duvall would constantly nitpick about her line delivery, causing her so much stress she became physically ill for months, collapsing from exhaustion with her hair even starting to fall out.

Kubrick made her perform the swinging the baseball bat at Jack Nicholson scene, a twisted 127 times! Everyone accepted Kubrick torturing Duvall in order to evoke a more believably terrified performance out of her. The proof is certainly in the movie, but it’s definitely twisted & psychopathic behavior.            

Alfred Hitchock                       

Hitchcock Was Obsessed With Leading Lady Tippi Hedren

Mother to Melanie Griffith. Grandmother to Dakota Johnson & Stella Banderas. Ex-Mother in Law to “Avi”, aka Steven Bauer. Owner of many lions.

It’s known that Alfred Hitchcock's movies represent his own sexual repression, but the most twisted story is his obsession with Hedren. Star of The Birds & Marnie.

A classic “Hitchcockian Blonde”, Hedren claimed Hitch "too possessive and too demanding", that he made "an overt sexual proposition" on set of The Birds.                    

David O. Russell                 

David O. Russell Groped His 19-Year-Old Transgender Niece

2011- the America Hustle director was working out at a Florida gym with his 19- year-old transgender niece, Nicholas Peloquin (who now goes by the name Nicole).

According to Peloquin, Russell felt up her breasts while "helping" her with ab exercises. Russell was interviewed by police. He claimed she was "acting very provocative towards him" and admitted feeling up her chest region, but asserted that it was completely consensual. Ultimately, the incident didn't result in any criminal charges.

Russell admits that the incident happened. Consensual or not, feeling up your niece is fucking twisted!

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