‘The Crown’ Star Claire Foy Calls Out ‘Being Human’ Director Who “Shouted” At Her During Her “First Job Ever”: “Not Very Nice Directors Need Someone To Bully”

The Crown star Claire Foy recently shared the “worst note” she ever received from a director while acting.

During a new interview with her All of Us Strangers co-star Andrew Scott, Foy called out a director who was “very unkind” to her.

Though she did not identify him by name, Foy claimed that the director of the Being Human pilot, Declan O’Dwyer, told her to “start acting, darling” as she was filming.

“I didn’t know what I was doing and he shouted it at me,” she recalled.

“It’s taken me a long time to accept that it was actually a very unkind thing to do to a 23-year-old on their first job ever,” she continued. “Instead of taking them under your wing and helping them, just shouting at them in front of everyone … Sometimes not very nice directors need someone to bully on set and I was like that person.”

Scott sympathized, commenting, “Oh, that’s horrible.”

Foy went on to say that O’Dwyer “doesn’t really work anymore,” to which Scott replied, “But you f***ing do.”

The Being Human pilot was Foy’s first-ever acting role which she landed in 2008 before becoming an Emmy Award-winning actress for The Crown. But she did not stay on for the remainder of the show.

As Deadline noted in their report of Foy’s claims, O’Dwyer praised the entire cast of the Being Human pilot, including Foy, in a 2019 interview.

“I loved doing the pilot of Being Human. Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Russell Tovey, Guy Flanagan and Adrian Lester, lovely lovely cast and a great script,” he said.