Former “SNL” star Leslie Jones revealed she clashed with a “narcissistic d–khead” director of one in all her skits when she stated she wanted to go residence throughout an extended day on set.
Jones was filming a pre-taped section alongside co-star Kyle Mooney for a November 2017 episode, the place each actors have been collaborating in a fictional marriage, when she and visitor host Tiffany Haddish “almost f–ked him up one night.”
“The guy who would direct those was a f–king a–hole,” Jones stated on the “Toure Show” podcast. “And I don’t give a f–k if you see this. You still are, probably, a f–king d–head. A f–king narcissistic d–khead.”
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“He [was] just one of the white boys who thought he’s doing Shakespeare,” Jones added. “No this is a f–king sketch and you’re not funny and you’re not creating nothing beautiful. You’re just being an a–hole with this tedious f–king s–t.”
Jones claimed the director made the solid and crew work into the early morning hours to movie the sketch, though they needed to be again hours later to movie the dwell present.
To make issues worse, Jones sustained an damage from her wedding ceremony costume costume, prompting her to name it an evening.
“I was like ‘yo, I’m going home, ya’ll have had me here since 4 o’clock,” Jones stated. “This mother f–ker was like ‘What makes you so f–king special?’ And I was like ‘Who the f–k you talking to?’”
“What makes me special is that the f–king sketch is about me and Kyle, not you,” Jones advised the director earlier than telling him to “step off because I’m about to f–k you up.”
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The director allegedly continued to get in her face to escalate the argument when Haddish got here out of her dressing room and joined in.
“What’s up cuz? Who the f–k talking shit? Who talking shit?” Haddish allegedly yelled.
When she came upon it was the director, Jones claimed Haddish stated, “We about to f–k him up.”
Whereas the combat by no means escalated to a bodily one, they have been nonetheless pressured to place their variations apart to complete filming.
Jones, who stands 6-foot-tall, identified that additionally they had main artistic variations, and added that she didn’t like filming the sketches about her faux romance with Mooney.
“I hated every one of those,” Jones stated. “He brought that idea to me and I hated it from the beginning because I never would date nobody like Kyle but they thought that s–t was so funny. And they thought it was funny because I was this big ass b–ch with this little white boy and it always was that running joke.”
Jones stated the identical playbook was utilized in Weekend Replace segments when she’d fake to hit on anchor Colin Jost.
Jones was a solid member on “Saturday Night Live!” from 2014 to 2019 and scored three Primetime Emmy award nominations for her work on the late-night present.
The comic has gone on to behave in “Ghostbusters,” “The Angry Birds Movie 2” and “Coming 2 America.”
