Costume designer Jean-Pierre Dorléac isn’t afraid to name some of the nightmarish celebrities he’s worked with throughout his career.
During a chat with the Daily Mail, Dorléac labeled stars such as Kirstie Alley, Shannen Doherty and Patrick Macnee as bad apples.
“Kirsty was very rough, very brash and rough, irresponsible, never on time, a mess, always disorganized,” Dorléac said of her time working with the late Cheers star.
“We had to clean her uniform. She was supposed to be a travel agent in a series called The Masquerade, starring Rod Taylor, and she was sweating profusely from drinking.”
The designer went on to explain how she had a $350 pearl pink angora sweater dress made for Alley, but it was ruined after she went to the snack table.
“That was amazing for a scene where she has to make a critical line delivery. About three minutes before that scene started, she went to the craft table service and picked up this nice big chocolate donut and probably accidentally dropped it down the front of her dress,” he said.
“There was a huge streak of chocolate left from her breasts to her belly button,” he said, adding that the dress eventually had to be thrown away.
But it turns out the incident wasn’t a one-off for Ally, who had struggled with her weight for years. She passed away in 2022 at the age of 71.
“She did this over and over again, kept gaining weight and was always being rude,” he added.
The late Shannen Doherty, with whom the designer collaborated on the 1994 TV movie “The Passion”, also received negative reviews.
“I put her in this blue suit. I always go on set before shooting to decide on the costume and make sure everything is right. I said, ‘Oh, Shanann, it turned out so great,'” Dorléac said.
“It makes your eyes look really blue. And she goes, ‘You’re right.'”
The next day, he dressed her in a tan outfit paired with a cream hat, but this time the “Charmed” star’s eyes appeared brown.
“And then the next day she’s doing something different, and it’s a brighter green, and her eyes are almost a cat green, not a hazel green like mine or hers,” he added.
When Mr. Dorléac asked the star how he was able to change his eye color so many times, he said he received an immediate tongue-lashing from the star.
“She responded, ‘Just keep your mouth shut. I’m doing this.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?'” the designer explained.
“She said, ‘I hate this damn movie and I don’t want to play this Margaret Mitchell. Yes! Who would want to play a crippled old man like Margaret Mitchell?’
Ms. Dorléac claimed that Ms. Doherty had a conflict with the film’s producer, Renee Valente, and planned to change her eye color in order to “throw away the film.”
Of Doherty, who died of cancer in 2024 at the age of 53, he added: “She was a very unhappy girl. She smoked constantly and hardly ate anything. She was very small and thin.”
“She swore like a workman. I mean, I’ve never seen anyone with a fouler mouth than her,” he noted.
One of the stars, Patrick Macnee, of Dorléac, was labeled a “longshot” over sexual assault allegations that occurred in 1978.
The designer was in charge of costumes for McNee, who played a guest role in Battlestar Galactica, and McNee allegedly tried to woo him.
“He started to undress and said, ‘I don’t know how to thank you for making this for me…'” Dorléac claimed.
“He took off his shorts and underwear and I was alone with this guy. Then he came up to me, pulled down my pants, pulled out an old swan and started swinging it around.”
Dorléac claimed the actor continued to touch her inappropriately and asked her to participate, but the designer refused. The incident quickly came to an end, as a few minutes later a seamstress arrived to fix the costume.
“He struggled to pull up his pants, put on his suit, and he was furious,” Dorléac continued.
“He just pouted the whole time trying it on,” Dorléac said, before revealing that Macnee’s costume was chopped up with scissors by a mysterious vandal shortly afterward, and that the studio paid $6,000 for a new emergency suit and a tailor.
“He was just an asshole and never spoke to me after that, and I never hired him to work at Universal again.”
Representatives for Dougherty and Alley’s estate did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment. Representatives for McNee’s estate could not be reached.
