Steve Martin is accused of being a little shop of horrors on set.
According Miriam Margolyes, the 78-year-old “Only Murders within the Constructing” actor was “horrid” and a “c—t” to her once they starred opposite each other on the set of Frank Oz’s “Little Shop of Horrors” in 1986.
Within the movie musical, that’s currently playing off-Broadway, Martin played the role psycho dentist Orin Scrivello, who had a penchant for blood and pain, while Margoyles appeared in all-white as his nurse and assistant.
In her latest memoir, “Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life,” the 82-year-old actress recalled her scenes with Martin as being reasonably physically painful. She suspected the comedian perhaps got a bit too into his character.
“During my only musical number (‘Dentist!’) I used to be hit all day by doors opening in my face; repeatedly punched, slapped, and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin,” Margolyes writes. “Perhaps he was method acting – and [I] got here home grumpy with a splitting headache.”
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The Post has reached out to Martin’s representative for comment.
Margolyes, best known lately for enjoying Professor Sprout within the “Harry Potter” film franchise, noted that Martin was great at his craft and a “perfectionist,” but that didn’t make her time working with him any higher.
“He was incredibly unfriendly because he was a perfectionist,” she continued. “He was an artist and all he was all for was getting the comic moment right, and he was correct to do this, but he must have included me,” she told news.com.au in a recent interview. “I didn’t enjoy it and I had a splitting headache at the tip of the day.”
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In her memoir, Margolyes concluded, “Let it not be said that I even have never suffered within the name of art. Steve was undeniably sensible, but horrid to me. He was a c–t, that’s all I can inform you.”
This isn’t the primary time Margolyes has had an issue with a high-profile actor in Hollywood.
During an interview on the “I’ve Got News For You” podcast in July 2022, Margolyes made a giant stink about her time filming the 1999 horror movie “End of Days.”
She claimed the film’s star Arnold Schwarzenegger, 76, “was actually quite rude” through the film’s shoot and deliberately farted in her face.
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“[I] didn’t take care of him; he’s a bit too stuffed with himself,” Margolyes said concerning the former California governor. “He’s a Republican, which I don’t like. He farted in my face. Now, I fart, in fact I do – but I don’t fart in people’s faces. He did it deliberately, right in my face.”
Describing the biblical motion flick, she recalled: “I used to be playing Devil’s sister, and he was killing me, so he had me ready where I couldn’t escape and lying on the ground. And he just farted.”
Schwarzenegger never commented on the allegation.
Despite some terrible experiences working on set, Margolyes did have comfortable memories remembering her time with Steve Buscemi on 1993’s “Ed And His Dead Mother.”
“Steve Buscemi is an excellent actor and we had a pleasant rapport,” Margolyes said, in keeping with Variety. “For anyone who’s being terrorized by me in the shape of a murderous living corpse, he was unerringly sweet – knocked spots off Steve Martin.”