*Tiffany Haddish kept it all the way real while speaking at The Hollywood Reporter Comedy Actress Roundtable, admitting to secretly taping casting directors to learn what was said about her at auditions after she left.
To accomplish this, Haddish said she would “accidentally” leave her purse behind with her cell phone recording everything inside.
The “Girls Trip” star revealed some of the racist things that were said about her, including being “too ghetto” and that she’s “not as urban as you’d think” as well as comments about her breast size and some casting directors suggested that a white actress would be better for the role.
“You know what I’d do? I’d put my phone on voice memo and put it in my bag, I’d do the audition, walk out and leave my bag. Then I’d come back and be like, ‘Oh, I forgot my purse’,” Haddish said.
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Her fellow actresses at the roundtable, Jane Fonda, Alex Borstein, Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph and Phoebe Waller-Bridge — were impressed with her methods and what she heard on the recordings.
“‘She is not as urban as I thought she’d be.’ Or, ‘She is so ghetto, I just can’t.’ ‘Her boobs aren’t big enough.’ ‘I really think we should just go with a white girl, this role should be changed to white’,” Haddish recounted.
When Rudolph asked how many casting rooms she secretly recorded, Haddish replied, “A lot,” she replied. “It was like my M.O.”
Fonda, meanwhile, noted that she was the opposite in terms of receiving feedback.
“I’m the opposite. Have you ever gone to your own movie in a theater and then you go to the restroom and people are talking about the movie? Well, I’ve always been so scared of what they’d say. And I want to let them know, ‘I am in here. Don’t say anything bad’,” she admitted. “Because I wouldn’t want to hear.”
But Haddish said she used the negative feedback to help perfect her craft.
“I want to hear so that I can grow. And also that I can write jokes about it. I can use it to my advantage. Like all this, ‘She can’t read. Jeez, she just couldn’t read. It just wouldn’t work, she said every word wrong.’ And I’m like, ‘They’re right.’ So, I start reading out loud more and practicing and it helps me in the long run.”
“I mean, some days they hurt my feelings, sometimes I’m like, ‘Damn, what a bitch. I’m never going back in there,’… but I did.”
“And you left your bag,” Rudolph added.
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— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 29, 2019
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