Lily Tomlin Speaks on "I Heart F**kabees" Meltdown

Posted Mar 22nd 2007 3:37PM by TMZ Staff

Click to return to TMZ.comLily Tomlin is now joking about her now infamous four-letter-word-filled exchange with director David O. Russell on the set of "I Heart Huckabees." Video of the supercharged meltdown has been making the viral rounds on YouTube. At least it isn't a sex tape!

Tomlin told the Miami New Times, "I've never seen it. Is that when I'm sitting in the seat and really going nuts? Oh my God, I'm gonna die when I see that."

Tomlin is referring to a 2004 video in which she, Dustin Hoffman and a few other cast members are waiting in a car for a scene. Between takes, Tomlin goes ballistic on Russell. "Leave me the f**k alone!" she screams at one point. "Do you know what the f**k is going on, period? F**k you! F**k you motherf**ker!" Not very ladylike.

In another scene, Russell fires back, launching into a furious tirade directed at Tomlin, in which he kicks and even knocks over several props.

"I love David," Tomlin says. "There was a lot of pressure in making the movie -- even the way it came out, you could see it was a very free-associative, crazy movie, and David was under a tremendous amount of pressure. And he's a very free-form kind of guy anyway."

To check out the party to whom she was speaking, click here and here (very NSFW).

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1. I think Lily is hilarious! Didn't like the movie though and after seeing the video of David O. Russell going off, I can see why.

Posted at 5:12PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by Kelsey

2. someone needs to smoke a bowl, and chill. damn.

Posted at 5:19PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by The Weed Man

3. Fortunately, the arguing was not detrimental to what turned out to be a fantastic, hilarious film

Posted at 5:25PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by steve

4. Lily is GREAT.

Posted at 5:29PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by justin

5. I can't remember ever using the F-word that many times in a sentence. She'ld make a trucker blush!!!!

Posted at 5:30PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by Judy

6. Tomlin looks like a creepy old bag lady who is revels in her own self-importance. The only thing Tomlin ever did(that anyone can remember) of note was play "that" switchboard operator that wasn't as funny as everyone thinks. Also, I'm still horriefied remembering the pics of her hairy armpits. As I see it, Tomlin doesn't deserve to have a hissy fit and play the primadonna.

Posted at 5:33PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by TBA

7. The F-bomb is so overused that one gets completely sick of it. The world would be a better place if people just forgot that word and learned to cuss without it...

I am betting that when Lily sees that clip and listens to herself in a meltdown she will be very embarrassed.

Posted at 5:40PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by DW

8. I am not condoning the use of the F word, but I do appreciate the raw and honest emotion expressed. I can only hope my own F-meltdowns are all behind me!

Posted at 6:07PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by Sean Bresnahan

9. I haven't seen I Heart Huckabees, so when I first watched this on another video site I thought it was just a scene from the movie - now that I know it isn't it makes it that much more hilarious!! They're both totally whacked out!!

Posted at 6:52PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by michele

10. TBA. Lily Tomlin is an Oscar-nominated, Tony Award winning actress. She has also been honored many times for her brilliance as an actress and a comedienne and has been in the biz for many many years. She was one of the first to break stereotypes when it came to her work with Richard Pryor and she is nothing less than genius. Hissy-fit and primadonna worthy for sure.

Posted at 7:23PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by Jimmy

11. David O. Russell has a reputation of being a complete a**hole. George Clooney had some runs in with him on Three Kings. Russell was going off on an extra, and Clooney stopped the verbal assault. Reportedly, Russell also had a camera crew taping every moment of him on the set and off during the shooting, supposedly to enhance his ego. Clooney, who is a very good actor, has said he would never work with Russell again. I haven't seen Huckabees, but I did see Three Kings, and I was very underwhelmed...

Posted at 7:48PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by Janeane The Acerbic Goblin

12. Lily is one-ringie-dingie that I like. LOL Lily has been known for speaking her mind, which is one of the things I like about her. I don't know much about Russell, but from the clip of him, if I were in her shoes trying to work with him, I'd probably go off on him too. Either that or I'd simply walk off the set and tell him to "eat my contract".

Posted at 10:06PM on Mar 22nd 2007 by SinCity

13. damn, what a miserable bunch of people. I always liked Lily Tomlin, She sure blew my great opinion of her when she acted like a complete ass in that video. Cant blame david for finally losing it.

Posted at 12:15AM on Mar 23rd 2007 by mike

14. That clip is almost payback for the price to that stinker of a movie.

Posted at 1:40AM on Mar 23rd 2007 by The Slasher

15. I am wirting a book about working with Lily in 1992-1993.I am surprised more videos like the one from Huckabees haven't come out. Lily may publicly laugh it off.. but her anger and mean fits are not limited to the movie sets...checkout my website for chapter previews evielitwok.com and checkout my youtube site under the name dogentertainment for lily videos...

Posted at 8:36AM on Mar 23rd 2007 by evie litwok

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