“And that’s an awful hard thing to beat,” she said, perhaps referring to Crawford’s diva reputation, which shadowed Dunaway even while making the film. “I think it turned my career in a direction where people would irretrievably have the wrong impression of me,” Dunaway explained to People of the performance, which reached screens five years after she won her Oscar for Network. In a new interview, the iconic actress reveals her regrets over channeling Joan Crawford in the infamous project, which was based on the damning memoir written by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina. Faye Dunaway’s chilling performance in Mommie Dearest may be one of the most memorable of her Oscar-winning career-and the actress isn’t quite happy about that.
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