and returned to her room. Both were ordered never to leave her side. 'She was always fed up,' one crew member noted, 'sighing, huffing and rolling her eyes at things. It was heavy-going working with her.' Another noticed that she would be 'super-sweet' with Felix and Marco and then within seconds turn to the crew and be 'super-disagreeable.' The own-brand Reitmans' clothes she was expected to wear, said Meghan, were unsatisfactory. Definitely inferior to Chanel.
Meghan's complaints sparked members of the team to make mock faces behind her back. 'She's here for her ego, not the art,' said another unimpressed team member....The only consolation was Meghan's actual performance. In front of the lens she transformed herself into a warm, glamorous icon. The camera loved her and she loved the camera...[the story then goes into a change in location and Meghan causing them to have issues getting enough shots for the commercial]...To satisfy another of her demands, the wardrobe staff had bought a pair of expensive Aquazzura beige suede shoes chosen by Meghan.
From her dressing room, Meghan was heard complaining about the production, the clothes, the style and the script. In particular she implied that Jeannie Vondijis-Miller, the Reitmans marketing executive, lacked fashion sense. In retaliation, members of the team began to speak in French. 'Meghan was offended,' recalled one person. 'She took it personally.'
During filming, Meghan was asked: 'What Canadian woman inspires you?' She laughed and asked for examples. 'None of them inspires me,' she replied. [The story goes on to say that Meghan complained a lot, her demands for different camera angles were rejected, the writer was forced to make changes under duress, and both were not getting along at the end of the shoot]...Meghan departed. To the surprise of the wardrobe staff she forgot to leave behind the Aquazzura shoes. Mistakenly, she walked out of the apartment wearing them. [These were the same beige shoes she was seen wearing when she and Harry were announcing their engagement to the press and posing for pictures, indicating that she stole them]. 'That's the last time we'll work together,' Grammatico muttered, accurately.
'It's nice to suffer with you,' grumbled one account executive to a cameraman. 'She is definitely the meanest person I've ever met. Just saying,' Jean Malek, the third director, posted on Facebook. Another female member of the team would be more specific. A long-time fan of Suits and Meghan, that person had looked forward to working with the actress: 'Instead, I thought she was a bit of a bully filled with a narcissist entitlement complex that had everyone walk on eggshells, as well as the agency and production teams work around the clock under tremendous stress with no demonstration of appreciation at all. More often than not, sarcastic, condescending, demeaning criticism.' [It says that on the third day of filming, the production crew all but quit and a new team had to be brought in. Many were reluctant to tell their stories, they were so upset by Meghan's behavior and treatment of them].
TL:DR --> pretty much, Meghan thought Reitmans was a clothing brand beneath her, but she was under contract, and made everyone on the production team suffer for it. She kept wanting to change the script, wanted a larger budget, made demands like a big-time Hollywood diva (when in reality most people didn't even know who she was or had not actually watched her show or seen her blog), was rude and demanding to everyone she thought was beneath her, and made life hell for everyone trying to shoot a commercial for Reitmans. It was done, but Reitmans regretted the experience and everyone on the production team were reporting the same behavior: demanding brat, horrible diva, narcissist who thought she was a princess (and all before she ever met Harry!) You can read it all in Tom Bower's book "Revenge," in Chapter 9: Watershed, and Chapter 11: Reitmans - Take Two.
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