This week Melissa George pissed me off.
A fact which is irritating because I’m a big Melissa George fan. Last year, her performance as Rosie in The Slap was nothing short of mesmerising. It was the latest in a long line of roles that once again proved that Melissa George is one of our country’s most talented actresses.
That aside, in the past 24 hours I think she’s sort of behaved like…..well, I’ll invoke dinner party rules and bite my tongue. Let’s just say my disappointment is epic.
It all started when Melissa allegedly had a meltdown during an appearance on The Morning Show on Channel 7 last week. The Seven Network claim George spat the dummy because a 20-year-old clip of the actress playing Angel Parrish on Home and Away was aired before her interview.
To get you up to speed, Melissa George threw a hissy fit on Friday’s The Morning Show because the segment referenced her days at Summer Bay.
According to The Daily Telegraph:
“She kept saying she’s had so many bigger roles since Home And Away that it was offensive to talk about it – she even said she’d send Seven an invoice because she inadvertently promotes it through the media,” an insider said.
And here’s what Melissa said in an interview on why she threatened to walk out:
“I don’t need credibility from my country any more, I just need them all to be quiet,” she said. “If they have nothing intelligent to say, please don’t speak to me any more. I’d rather be having a croissant and an espresso in Paris or walking my French bulldog in New York City.
“I’ve never spoken out about it because I have to be the loyal good Aussie, who goes away and comes home.
“But I’m a really hard-working woman and people have to respect me for what I’ve done … my next call will be to Home And Away to ask them to pay me because nobody does more promotion for that f … ing show than me.”
And now, just yesterday, Melissa hung up on a phone interview when the journalist – cheekily – started asking her about Alf Stewart. Flamin’ heck.
Soooooo.
I get the fact that Melissa finds it boring or belittling that every single time she does an interview in Australia, her start on Home and Away is referenced. But you know what? Suck. It. Up.
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I am sure in the darkness and quietness of her room, she is probably going...."okay, maybe I overreacted". Either that, or she has lost any last connection to a sense of reality and what' the important issues are in life. I don't think it's even that she had a bit of a hissy fit, it's how she has responded which has got people even more angry with her pompous answers. There are actors who have been outright tossers and rude to people in the past, and my reaction has been not to go to any of their films again or watch their TV shows.