Mariah Carey caused a 's--t storm' on the latest Will Ferrell movie, and refused to sing her own song
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Ferrell didn't even deflect the drama when doing press for the movie.
While on "Watch What Happens Live," host Andy Cohen got to the bottom of it. Cohen asked Ferrell if Carey was four hours late to the set of the movie, which is what was rumored, and Ferrell confirmed that was true. Ferrell also confirmed that Carey refused to sing a song that was agreed upon and cleared before shooting that she would sing. Ferrell couldn't recall what the song was, but it was a Carey song.
Looking back on it, Ferrell called the whole experience a "s--t storm" and only learned that the cameo wouldn't be shot when, "At 11 p.m. there was a knock on my trailer door and they said, 'You can go home,'" Ferrell told Cohen.
That sparked Ferrell's co-star on the movie, Cedric Yarbrough ("Reno 911!") to jump on his Facebook page and give some more horrors from set (the post has since been deleted but you can read his comments on TooFab).
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carey also requested that her character be able to deflect bullets like Wonder Woman.
"The House" director Andrew Jay Cohen has taken the high road on the matter. "I love Mariah Carey," he told THR. Though with a little shade: "I liked her early stuff but then she got bad with the third album."
But a Mariah Carey cameo probably wouldn't have saved "The House." The movie has a 19% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and to date has grossed $24.6 million worldwide. This includes an $8.7 million opening weekend, the worst for a wide release Will Ferrell movie.
Carey's representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Watch Ferrell talk about the Carey cameo on "Watch What Happens Live" below:
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