Hollywood film legend Faye Dunaway arrived at amfAR’s star-studded gala in Cannes, France, with the most unusual accessory — a scale to weigh her food and calculate her calories.
Famously feisty Dunaway appeared at a table at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc with film producer Tova Laiter, and a bulging paper bag. Then, a spy said, “She sat at her dinner table and pulled out the scale from a paper bag.”
The stick-thin screen siren then proceeded to weigh all her food — including her leafy salad. The “Chinatown” actress, 75, “asked for a very bland meal,” a spy at the event said, “which she then proceeded to weigh. She weighed all of her food, including her salad and fish, before eating. We’ve seen a lot of stars make strange requests, but this was a sight.”
Also at the gala were Leo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, the Village People, Uma Thurman, Karlie Kloss and emcee Kevin Spacey. The night raised more than $30 million.
Dunaway has earned a reputation for quirky behavior. She’s been rumored to shop at high-end boutiques and yell at staff as they follow her around. In the ’90s, she reportedly blew up at a flight crew for not upgrading a coach ticket from JFK to London’s Heathrow, screaming, “Don’t you know who I am?” The crew then got revenge as she slept by grabbing a bunch of wire hangers, an homage to her “No wire hangers” scene in “Mommie Dearest,” and putting them on the seat next to her.
Page Six reported that the actress also had a spectacular meltdown at the Sunset Tower Hotel in 2013, when she was shown suites including one outfitted for the disabled, and screamed at staff, “Do I look handicapped to you?”
In 2011, she agreed to leave an Upper East Side rent-stabilized apartment after her landlord sued to evict her. She was paying $1,048.72 a month for the one-bedroom walk-up, which her landlord said was not her primary residence. While Dunaway’s rep didn’t get back to us, she tweeted in 2014, while memorializing Robin Williams: “Always be yourself, even if you are a little mad.”