After Hilary Duff was finished with the “Lizzie McGuire” series in 2004, she focused more on her recording career, although she managed to get movie roles in rather lightweight fare like “A Cinderella Story” and “Cheaper By the Dozen.” Her chance to land a meatier opportunity arrived in 2009 by way of a lead role playing mobster Bonnie Parker in “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” an adaptation of the classic 1967 drama “Bonnie and Clyde,” which won two Oscars.
But news of the casting wasn’t exactly endearing to actor Faye Dunaway, who played Parker in the original outing, landing an Oscar nomination for her efforts. “Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?” she reportedly lamented, per Entertainment Weekly. Duff was hardly diplomatic in her retaliatory remarks to Dunaway, playing the has-been, ageist card for all its worth. “I think that my fans that are going to go see the movie don’t even know who she is,” Duff hit back to E! Daily 10 (per OK!). “I think it was a little unnecessary, but I might be mad if I looked like that now, too.”
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Dunaway didn’t respond to Duff’s comments, but eventually had the last laugh. Several months later, after Duff married NHL player Mike Comrie and while expecting their first child, she was cut from the Parker role. Per TMZ, producers denied her pregnancy had anything to do with the decision and paid her $100,000 for her dismissal.
