‘I Should Have Been Nasty’: Huge Faye Dunaway Makes Major Discovery In Must-See Streaming Drama

In late July 2019, actress Faye Dunaway was fired from the Broadway play. Tea at five, for inappropriate behavior. The Hollywood actor had been hitting and throwing objects at his team members a few days earlier. After the index, the star remained discreet until appearing at the Cannes Film Festival last May to present the documentary Faye.

Directed by Frenchman Laurent Bouzereau – at the helm of several documentaries, including one on Roman Polanski and another on Natalie Wood – this film chronicles his journey, but also outlines his complex personality, preceded by a difficult reputation. A very strong actress with a controlled and glamorous image, she reveals today that she suffers from bipolar disorder.

When discussing his many mood swings and supposed nastiness, he says: “I must have given the impression of being rude or cruel. It was unintentional. It is not in my nature. It was not intentional. I surrendered to the extreme forces of nature..”

Who is Faye Dunaway?

And in front of the documentary cameras, the star, now 83, is stern. But this personality is also the result of extreme demand. Faye Dunaway is one of the main figures of New Hollywood – a period in American cinema that begins in the late 1960s.

Among his most famous films we think Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Network, Three Days of Condor, The Thomas Crown Affair and the lesser known The Eyes of Laura Mars. This Hollywood dominance – which reached its peak in 1977 with an Oscar for Network – followed a fall with bitter failures.

For the first time, someone who did not allow imperfection to pass, explains the mistakes, bad choices in his career. Among them, Mom Dearest – in which she plays Joan Crawford a little too intensely – and Supergirl, Turpa. eighty In which he plays… a villain, obviously.

In the documentary we see some familiar faces like Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke come to testify. The actor’s son, Liam Dunaway O’Neill, also speaks on camera. It’s also the whole piece about motherhood and adopting that coveted child that allows the actress to finally show some real sensitivity.

Do you really have to know Faye Danave to be interested in this documentary? Absolutely not. However, if you have a taste for cinema, this is the perfect film to understand how a woman manages to create a character that exists in Hollywood.

5 movies you should see with Faye Dunaway:

• Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn
• Portrait of a Fallen Child by Jerry Schatzberg
• Chinatown by Roman Polanski
• Network: TV Control by Sidney Lumet
• Barfly by Barbet Schroeder

Faye is available on the Max platform.