Costume designer Jean-Pierre Dorléac isn’t shying away from naming a few nightmare celebrities he’s worked with throughout his career.
During a chat with the Daily Mail, Dorléac labeled stars like Kirstie Alley, Shannen Doherty and Patrick Macnee as bad apples.
“Kirstie was very crude and very brassy and coarse, irresponsible, never on time, a mess, a constant mess,” Dorléac said of his time working with the late “Cheers” star.
“We had to clean her her uniform. She was supposed to be a travel agent in the series called ‘Masquerade’ with Rod Taylor, and she sweated so badly because she drank.”
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The designer went on to share how he had a $350 pearl pink angora sweater dress made for Alley, but it was ruined after a trip to the snacks table.
“It was a stunning thing for a scene where she had a major line delivery to do, and about three minutes before she did the scene, she went to the craft table service and picked up this great big chocolate donut and accidentally, supposedly, dropped it down the front of her dress,” he said.
“There was nothing but this big streak of chocolate through her breast all the way down to her belly button,” he said, adding that they ultimately had to throw the dress away.
But, the incident turned out not to be a one-off for Alley, who publicly struggled with her weight for years. She died at age 71 in 2022.
“She did that over and over again, plus she was constantly gaining weight, and she was always rude,” he added.
The late Shannen Doherty, whom the designer worked with on her 1994 TV movie, “A Burning Passion,” also received a negative review.
“I did her this blue suit,’ Dorléac said. “I always go to the set to establish the costume before it’s shot and make certain everything was right, I said, ‘Oh, Shannen it just turned out to be so wonderful.’”
“It makes your eyes so blue. And she goes, ‘yeah, they are, aren’t they?’”
The following day, he dressed her in a tan outfit which he paired with a cream-colored hat, but this time, the “Charmed” star’s eyes appeared brown.
“Then the next day, she’s doing something else, and it’s more of a vivid green, and her eyes are almost cat green, not hazel-y green, like mine or hers were originally,” he added.
Dorléac asked the star how she was able to change her eye color so many times, which earned him a swift tongue-lashing from the star, he said.
“She answered: ‘Just I’ll keep your f–king mouth shut. I’m doing this.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?’” the designer explained.
“She says, ‘I hate this goddamn movie, and I don’t want to play this Margaret Mitchell. Jesus! Who wants to play an old cripple like Margaret Mitchell?’”
Dorléac claimed Doherty was at odds with the movie’s producer Renée Valente and hatched a plan to change her eye color to “throw the film off.”
“She was a very unhappy girl,” he added of Doherty, who died of cancer at age 53 in 2024. “She smoked constantly, she ate hardly anything. She was so tiny and thin.”
“She swore like a workman. I mean, I’ve never seen anybody who had a filthier mouth than she did,” he noted.
One star, Patrick Macnee, Dorléac labeled as a “major a–hole” over an alleged sexual assault that took place in 1978.
The designer was tasked with dressing Macnee for his guest role in “Battlestar Galactica” when the actor allegedly attempted to make a pass at him.
“He started taking off his clothes, and he said, ‘I just don’t know how to thank you for making this for me…’ Dorléac claimed.
“He got down to his shorts, his underwear, and I’m in alone with this guy, and he sort of comes close to me, and he pulls them down, and he pulls out his old swan and started shaking it around.”
Dorlèac claimed the actor proceeded to touch himself inappropriately, asking him to join in. However, the designer refused. The incident was cut short minutes later when a tailor arrived to trim the costume.
