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I knew they sort of made up. Maybe it's just for the photographers, you never know. I don't think she is the one to hold grudges for that long (except for Mommie Dearest).

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Roman wrote in his autobiography that after the shooting of "Chinatown" their relationship was perfectly fine. I remember when he was promoting his last film "Venus in Fur", a reporter asked him about Faye and Roman said he wished he had kept his mouth shut about their on set relationship. He also said that she was formidable.

Here is an extract from a 2009 interview of him :

CB: You’re glad you picked Faye Dunaway, even though she was so notoriously difficult on set?

RP: Well, I mean, who cares? To the audience it doesn’t really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It’s the result that counts. In this book by David O. Selznick [Memo from David O. Selznick, 2000], he wrote that “the only thing that counts is the final result.”

CB: It doesn’t matter how hard it was to get there.

RP: That’s right.

FV: It doesn’t matter how many hairs you had to pull out of her head.

RP: [laughs] It doesn’t matter what the reaction was.

CB: I love that after you plucked one of Faye’s hairs out because it was catching light, her response was to scream, “I don’t believe it. That *beep* pulled my hair out!” And she stormed off set. [Polanski laughs] Did you ever talk to Faye Dunaway after Chinatown?

RP: Oh, yeah. Of course. Last time I saw her was in Cannes last year. She was also giving a prize. We met in the bathroom. I was washing my hands, and some woman was washing her hands, and she said, “Hi, Roman.” I look up in the mirror, and it was Faye.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/roman-polanski-/#page4

I unfortunately cannot find the full 2008 Cannes closing ceremony, because both Faye and Roman were presenters and, at the end of the ceremony, they came back together for a photo and she was holding his arm.

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