Michael Feeney Callan is penning a biography about Robert Redford (creatively titled Robert Redford: The Biography) and it promises to spare no details! 
In the book, due out in November from Knopf Publishing, Callan details Redford’s work on set, including the unsavory experience of directing Scarlett Johansson in Redford’s 1998 film, The Horse Whisperer.
While Redford acknowledges that Scarlett is a talented actress, apparently the then-13-year-old was difficult to work with and not willing to take Redford’s direction.├é┬á According to Callan, Scarlett’s unconventional approach to mastering scenes and back-talk were a constant source of tension on set.├é┬áFurther, Scarlett’s manager/stage mother was a nightmare to work with, undermining Redford’s directing with her own take on the way scenes should be approached.
Yikes! 
Hopefully ScarJo has mended her bratty ways – she was thirteen at the time, after all.├é┬á Doesn’t make it okay to talk back to a respected director, especially as such a young girl with little experience at that point, but we bet that over the years and with maturity, she’s less of a pain to work with.├é┬á
Right????

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