The Golden Girls casting director alleges Betty White was hated by her co-stars - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 02-10-2022, 08:43 PM

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/betty-...rls-hated-her/

The latest episode of Los Angeles Magazine's The Originals podcast features an April 2021 interview with The Golden Girls casting director Joel Thurm. In it, Thurm, speaking months before White's death, alleges that Arthur and Rue McClanahan both called White the C-word. “Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, ‘Oh, she’s a f***ing c***,’ using that word,” says Thurm, who is writing a book about his experiences as a casting director. He added: “Yeah, she called her the C-word. I mean, I heard that with my own ears. And by the way, so did Rue McClanahan. Rue McClanahan said it to me in Joe Allen’s (restaurant); Bea Arthur (when she was) on the set of Beggars and Choosers."

bandonurse · 02-11-2022, 03:32 PM

I'm going to file this squarely under the "Fake News" category.

Rue herself revealed that Bea called Betty that, in her autobiography. She also spoke very lovingly of Betty. Why on earth would we believe that anybody besides Bea would "hate" Betty White? Bea had obvious reasons to be jealous of her. Betty had the sweet, feminine face and voice Bea would have loved to have. She was universally loved. She won an Emmy for Golden Girls before Bea did....which Bea reportedly resented.

Besides Bea, no one who worked with Betty during her 70-year career, voiced any dislike for her. (At least, not publicly).

Why would I believe this guy? And why would he be offering up such stuff at this point in Betty's life?

TMC · 02-19-2022, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by bandonurse

I'm going to file this squarely under the "Fake News" category.

Rue herself revealed that Bea called Betty that, in her autobiography. She also spoke very lovingly of Betty. Why on earth would we believe that anybody besides Bea would "hate" Betty White? Bea had obvious reasons to be jealous of her. Betty had the sweet, feminine face and voice Bea would have loved to have. She was universally loved. She won an Emmy for Golden Girls before Bea did....which Bea reportedly resented.

Besides Bea, no one who worked with Betty during her 70-year career, voiced any dislike for her. (At least, not publicly).

Why would I believe this guy? And why would he be offering up such stuff at this point in Betty's life?

Bea simply put, appeared to treat things like a 9 to 5 job. What that meant is that she just wanted to show up to work, do her job, and then go home. Unlike Betty, Bea wasn't much into fraternizing while at work.

Betty himself, loved to interact with her co-stars and even the studio audience. This annoyed Bea because it would hold production up and she just wanted to get the work done for the day, so that she could go home.

In her memoir, Rue McClanahan did mention how sometimes Bea and Betty would have lunch together, so it wasn't always acrimonious.

RetroGuy2000 · 02-19-2022, 01:25 AM

I do believe Bea might have said it; I doubt Rue said it.

PracTz · 02-19-2022, 03:06 AM

If either Miss Arthur or Miss McClanahan called Miss White that term , it would have shown how utterly vile and devoid of class & taste they would have been and NOT in any way a reflection of what kind of person Miss White herself was! Inasmuch as I'd heard Miss Arthur use that and other base terms in interviews, I can't so easily give her the benefit of the doubt that she'd have not termed Miss White that way. However, since I had not heard Miss McClanahan use that term, maybe I could give her the benefit of the doubt.

BTW, why nothing about how Miss Getty viewed Miss White or the others?

02-10-2022, 08:43 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,096	The Golden Girls casting director alleges Betty White was hated by her co-stars https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/betty-...rls-hated-her/ The latest episode of Los Angeles Magazine's The Originals podcast features an April 2021 interview with The Golden Girls casting director Joel Thurm. In it, Thurm, speaking months before White's death, alleges that Arthur and Rue McClanahan both called White the C-word. “Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, ‘Oh, she’s a f*ing c*,’ using that word,” says Thurm, who is writing a book about his experiences as a casting director. He added: “Yeah, she called her the C-word. I mean, I heard that with my own ears. And by the way, so did Rue McClanahan. Rue McClanahan said it to me in Joe Allen’s (restaurant); Bea Arthur (when she was) on the set of Beggars and Choosers."

02-19-2022, 01:25 AM	#4
RetroGuy2000 Julie,Julie Anne,&Felice 4Ever Forum Star Join Date: Dec 27, 2013 Posts: 16,914	I do believe Bea might have said it; I doubt Rue said it.
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02-11-2022, 03:32 PM	#2
bandonurse Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 17, 2015 Location: Mentor, Ohio Posts: 1,082	I'm going to file this squarely under the "Fake News" category. Rue herself revealed that Bea called Betty that, in her autobiography. She also spoke very lovingly of Betty. Why on earth would we believe that anybody besides Bea would "hate" Betty White? Bea had obvious reasons to be jealous of her. Betty had the sweet, feminine face and voice Bea would have loved to have. She was universally loved. She won an Emmy for Golden Girls before Bea did....which Bea reportedly resented. Besides Bea, no one who worked with Betty during her 70-year career, voiced any dislike for her. (At least, not publicly). Why would I believe this guy? And why would he be offering up such stuff at this point in Betty's life?

02-19-2022, 03:06 AM	#5
PracTz Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2002 Location: United States of America [Happily Living in the 20th Century] Posts: 2,711	If either Miss Arthur or Miss McClanahan called Miss White that term , it would have shown how utterly vile and devoid of class & taste they would have been and NOT in any way a reflection of what kind of person Miss White herself was! Inasmuch as I'd heard Miss Arthur use that and other base terms in interviews, I can't so easily give her the benefit of the doubt that she'd have not termed Miss White that way. However, since I had not heard Miss McClanahan use that term, maybe I could give her the benefit of the doubt. BTW, why nothing about how Miss Getty viewed Miss White or the others?