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‘He wasn’t pleasant’: actress disses acting legend

The late Peter O'Toole in 2011. Photo: Getty

The late Peter O'Toole in 2011. Photo: Getty

Hollywood actress Diane Kruger has revealed the most difficult person she’s ever worked with – and the culprit might surprise you.

In an interview for Buzzfeed, Kruger told fellow actor Norman Reedus she did not enjoy her time with movie legend Peter O’Toole on the set of 2004 epic Troy.

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The late Peter O'Toole in 2011. Photo: Getty

The late Peter O’Toole in 2011. Photo: Getty

Asked to name “the meanest actor she’s ever worked with”, Kruger responded: “Um, you know who wasn’t very pleasant, was Peter O’Toole.”

“Oh, come on! It’s Peter O’Toole,” Reedus responded in mock outrage over Kruger naming and shaming the celebrated British actor, who passed away in 2013.

“I know! It kind of sucked,” Kruger said. “He’s dead, so I can say that. But he wasn’t the most pleasant person.”

The 39-year-old German actress went on to elaborate as to why she found O’Toole so intolerable, citing his age, ego and penchant for alcohol as the main problems.

“He was just a drunk, and Peter O’Toole. You know, he had a two-day part, and I played Helen of Troy and he was Peter O’Toole, and he just wanted to make sure that everybody knew that he was Peter O’Toole,” Kruger said.

“And he could barely make it up the stairs. We were on a set that was — you know, you have to climb, like, I don’t know, 100 steps to go up.

“But to work with, he was just — first of all, everybody thought he was gonna die right there and then. Because it was, you know, 120 degrees, and he had to walk up 100 stairs. And he was very old, and very drunk.”

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