by Sara McGinnis posted in Celebrities
Melissa McCarthy has made it clear that on her set no kids will be treated poorly! The mother of two daughters, who is making her directorial debut, has reportedly fired a female extra from the set...
by Sara McGinnis posted in Celebrities
Melissa McCarthy has made it clear that on her set no kids will be treated poorly! The mother of two daughters, who is making her directorial debut, has reportedly fired a female extra from the set of the film Tammy after she "harshly" grabbed her child.
The extra, a woman described as being in her 20s, had brought along her preschool-aged child to the daylong shoot in Wilmington, NC. TMZ reports,"Witnesses say the young mom had been struggling with her kid all morning ... constantly harping on the child to 'stop it' and quiet down ... loudly enough to disrupt the production, which included more than 200 extras."
The final straw reportedly came when the extra harshly jerked the child up in the air by the wrist, which Melissa McCarthy witnessed and immediately reacted. The Bridesmaids star, mom to 6-year-old Vivian and 3-year-old Georgette, is said to have had the woman removed from the shoot, explaining she wouldn't tolerate abuse on her set.
No official comment on the incident has yet been made.
Melissa McCarthy has previously described being a working mom as a "looney" life. Check out her trick for staying red carpet clean in our collection of celebrity mom quotes from 2012:
Without having witnessed the incident myself, it's hard to say if Melissa McCarthy overreacted, or was right in firing the extra.
The notion that any 4 or 5-year-old is ready for a daylong shoot, where silence is regularly expected during filming, is ludicrous. Add to that the fact that extras make only a standard fee of $58 per day -- and you have to wonder what that mom was thinking. I wouldn't trust my own kids to be able to keep quiet for more than 10 minutes!
What's most surprising to me though, is that a child was allowed on set for the day in the first place. From what I know, there are very strict guidelines protecting child actors, but it doesn't seem the same work-time limits were extended to this young child.
Do you think Melissa McCarthy did the right thing in firing the extra?
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