To this day I’m not even sure if she gave me a concussion because I was light headed and dizzy for a while." I kept swiveling the chair to move away from her and she kicked me as hard as she could in the back of the head. He said during a later scene, while she was sitting behind him, she "kept rubbing her dirty feet on my neck. I stopped talking to her for the rest of filming." "She then grabbed my nipple and twisted it hard through my shirt and laughed and walked away. It was meant to be a insult," Franzese wrote. You actually remind me of someone.' She said Carnie Wilson who is in her sisters band Wilson Phillips at the time was well know for her weight issues in the media. "Later she pulled me aside and said 'I'm sorry if I offended you. It's based on real-life events and adapted from the book Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge by Jim Schutze.)įranzese added that he had a scene that required him to take his shirt off, "an extremely vulnerable moment for me," he said, calling himself "the chubby kid who wore his shirt in the pool." He claimed that when he took his shirt off, Phillips broke character, pointed at him and "at the top of her lungs yelled 'EHe wrote that she did ultimately apologize, but he felt like it wasn't sincere. (Bullycenters on a group of teenagers who conspire to murder one of their friends following years of emotional, physical and xesual abuse.
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Reps for Phillips have not returned a request for comment.Ĭalling the movie shoot "one of the most stressful experiences of my life on or off a set," Franzese went on to add that he was worried about losing his job, which marked his first film role, given that the character he was playing was straight. She cackled and said 'HA! He’s bi!' And then when I showed up to work the next day in front of the crew she was screaming 'Oh look! The Bi guy is here!'" "Which at the time was how I was choosing to identify as 'Q' wasn't known to be an option yet and to be honest I don’t know that I had many gay experiences at the time my life. " he continued to say 'Are You Gay?!' Like 10 times making sure to be loud enough for everyone to hear I reluctantly told her i was bi," he wrote. As we were shooting she kept loudly saying 'Are you gay?!' and laughing while the producers and photographer did nothing to stop her."įranzese wrote that some of his co-stars, including Michael Pitt and the late Brad Renfro, defended him and "kept telling her to shut up," but he alleged that she didn't stop. It started with a lot of eye rolling whenever we spoke but escalated when we did a cast shoot for the poster.
"I was scared and closeted and feared for my job. "She body shamed me and ridiculed me about my sexuality and physically assaulted me," Franzese, who might be best recognized for his role as Cady's (Lindsay Lohan) close friend Damian in Mean Girls.
Inspired by Ellen Page, who recently accused Brett Ratner of homophobic harassment on the set of the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, Franzese alleged in a lengthy post on Facebook that Phillips "harassed the entire shoot" of their 2001 film. Bijou Phillips, left, and Daniel Franzeseĭaniel Franzese, an actor whose credits include Mean Girls and HBO's Looking, has accused actress-singer Bijou Phillips of body-shaming him, mocking his sexuality and physically assaulting him on the set of their movie Bully.
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