Patti LuPone is the reigning queen of the women who punch.
When she’s not scolding audiences for disruptive habits, the 71-year-old Broadway legend — at the moment starring in Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” on Netflix — is serving shade to different stars in her orbit.
Whether or not sizing up composer and oft-nemesis Andrew Lloyd Webber as “a jerk” and “a tragic sack” final fall, suggesting Uma Thurman’s 2017 Broadway debut helped “decrease the usual” for theater or declaring Madonna a “film killer” who “can't act her manner out of a paper bag,” she’s all the time able to spill some tea.
The diva of dish doesn’t maintain again — and we’ll drink to that.
In her newest pokes at her friends, the irrepressible LuPone humorously savaged Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski for his or her booze-swilling, bathrobe-wearing rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s “The Women Who Lunch” through the digital 90th birthday tribute to the musical theater legend. It’s a tune close to and pricey to LuPone, who was performing the tune in a revival of Sondheim’s “Firm” this spring till the coronavirus pandemic shut down Broadway.
In an interview with LGBTQ publication Between the Traces final week, LuPone stated — with a cackle — that their rendition ruined the tune for her, proclaiming that she’ll by no means have the ability to carry out it once more as a result of “they trashed the quantity!”
“I say that with nice humor, however I’m not going to have the ability to sing it with out pondering of them doing it,” she stated, with fun.
And when requested how she would change the film business for the higher, she went on to decrease the flurry of standard superhero motion pictures which have taken over Hollywood.
“I'd greenlight movies and tv reveals that I assumed have been going to be helpful for schooling and for folks, versus, ‘Nicely, that was a giant hit; let’s make 9,000 extra of these Marvel comics,’ ” she stated.
‘I hate ABBA. I've all the time hated ABBA.’
LuPone additionally wouldn't approve of a 3rd “Mamma Mia!” movie, throwing specific venom on the singing group behind the tune that spawned the film franchise and Broadway present.
“I hate ABBA. I've all the time hated ABBA,” she stated. “I cannot go see “Mamma Mia!” as a result of I hate ABBA. And I’ve hated ABBA since I used to be a child.”
LuPone additionally threw shade on different targets in an look on “Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen” final week.
LuPone, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Greatest Actress in a Musical in “Gypsy,” advised Barbra Streisand, 78, could be “too previous” to star in a film adaptation of that present, whereas conceding that she thinks that Streisand “possibly 50 years in the past she would have been a superb Madame Rose.” And when requested whether or not Joanna Gleason deserved to win the 1988 Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical for “Into the Woods’ over LuPone’s competing flip in “Something Goes,” she dropped an emphatic “No,” then including, “I assumed I used to be fairly rattling humorous, and I had lots to do.”
She additionally let the fur fly in regards to the field workplace bomb “Cats,” saying she’ll “by no means” see the movie adaptation of Webber’s musical. She stated she already hated it as a stage present and even walked out of the latest London revival after the primary act. Her closing evaluation of “Cats”: LuPone rated it a “zero” on a scale of 1 to 10.
Meow!
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