Good Lifestyle

For four seasons, Ellen Barkin Played on TNT's criminal drama Animal Kingdom . But if it was her, she would have left the series much earlier. In a new interview with Huffpost, the actor said the Animal Kingdom The whole was "not a pleasant place to work" and that she asked to be written in the TNT show for years. Barkin also said that she worked "shouted".

The new interview focuses on the experience of the 68 -year -old star as a woman in Hollywood and the sexism that she was confronted on the sets and in the press. She contrasted what she has treated in the past with her latest role in The Peacock series Poker face , which she praised as a "very safe environment". Read the rest to see what Barkin had to say else.

Read this then: Charlize Theron says that a producer called her at 3 am to say that she was "big and ugly".

Barkin played on Animal Kingdom As Janine "Smurf" Cody from 2016 and left the show in 2019. Executive producer John Wells told TVline of its release , "You know, we always do everything based on history. And as we were talking about what to do and where we had arrived with the history of the Smurf, it seemed to be a good narration."

Meanwhile, TV Line reported that Barkin "liked" a number of tweets in which fans expressed their anger about its release. She tweeted , "The next episode of Smurf is open. She left her boys a successful television program. Carry on Codys ... well, maybe not all codys."

Animal Kingdom ended in 2022 after six seasons in the waves.

In his new interview with Huffpost, Barkin said that She wanted to leave Animal Kingdom From the start. She said she was not allowed to be struck off, but this co-star Scott Speedman was hosted when he asked for it. (Speedman left the cast after three seasons in the series.)

"I wanted to go out," said Barkin. "They didn't kill me. I had been asking to leave for four years."

However, she said about the show: "It was one of the best work I have ever done."

For more information on celebrities delivered directly in your reception box, Register for our daily newsletter .

Barkin told HuffPost that Animal Kingdom "was not a pleasant place to work", and said that men shouted on the set without naming any name.

"My head just whipped," she said. "I said to myself:" What is [the explanive] happen here? "Men came to my trailer and shouted on me. How is that? This is what for me to go to work." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

She added: "I said to myself:" Wow, I hate these men. "Most of them were like little boys."

The best life has contacted Warners Bros. television. To comment but has not yet received an answer.

Before Barkin left the show, a younger version of his character appeared in flashbacks. It continued after leaving the series, which meant that his character continued without her. After his departure, Smurf was played by the actor Leila George , which is almost 40 years younger than Barkin.

"Do you want to talk about treating disrespectful women? In my show, there is a young self," Barkin told HuffPost. "Oh, what is it?"

In contrast to his time on Animal Kingdom , Barkin spoke very positively about his work on Poker face , the new mystery series with Natasha Lyonne and created by Rian Johnson . His episode was created in early February and presents Barkin as a heated television star trying to go back to a small theater in the small town. THE Magnificent dead drop Star was particularly satisfied with the number of women working on the set.

"It's a very safe environment," she said. "I have never been taken care of like that." Never. "

She continued the show, "[it was not only that I had a good time and it was fun, but I was so relaxed and safe. I haven't felt that since Ocean's Thirteen] with my friend George Clooney , because I knew that nothing was going to happen to me. You just go to the safest environment. ""