The way they weren’t:Barbra Streisandsays she threatened to replaceYentlcostarMandy Patinkinafter he proposed an affair.
“I think he had two or three lines, but he wouldn’t look me in the eye.
He just stared at my forehead.”
Mandy Patinkin and Barbra Streisand in ‘Yentl’.Hulton Archive/Getty
I had no idea what he was talking about," Streisand continues.
“[He said,] ‘I thought we were going to have an affair.’
I looked at him as if he were crazy .
Barbra Streisand.Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic
But I couldn’t tell him he was not exactly fascinating to me.
Tears rolled down his cheeks.”
“I said, ‘Mandy, this kind of behavior can’t continue.
I’m prepared to replace you.
We’re only two weeks in.
I can reshoot all your scenes if you might’t be more professional.
Streisand adds that the difficulties with Patinkin led her to scrap a sex scene between their characters.
I’m not that good an actress,” she writes.
“So I changed it.
I rewrote the scene.
Maybe I should have let Yentl .
have that moment.”
“I said, ‘Mandy, you put me through hell.
I can’t write those notes for you.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t do it.
Why did you give me such a hard time?'”
“[He said,] ‘Well, I was scared.’
I guess people have different ways of reacting to fear.
I was scared, too, but it made me quieter.”
Reps for Patinkin didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
