There are some people who are allowed to be demanding on set. If Mariah Carey scored a ten-second walk-on cameo on Lost, she could demand that the entire set be relocated to New York–complete with the revelation that the island is actually in the middle of Central Park–and she could get away with it. But Brittany Murphy? We're surprised that producers would even give in to her demands for a flushable toilet or sick days. But Page Six dishes on her ornery ways:
BRITTANY Murphy is driving the crew on her new movie crazy. Her behavior on the LA set of Across the Hall has gotten increasingly bizarre, according to spies. Murphy has been making outrageous demands while acting "like a diva," said one insider. "She's extremely difficult. When she gets to the set, it comes to a grinding halt. She's so hot and cold, you never know." According to our sources, Murphy insists on having diagonally cut peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts removed. "She needs one every hour. It's painstaking ó her assistant takes about a half an hour making each one," said one crew member. Another issue is Murphy's ever-present oddball husband, Simon Monjack, who lurks around the set and intervenes so much that producers had to call a meeting to discuss how to deal with him. Murphy's rep could not be reached for comment.
Maybe we just have low standards, but we think that Brittany Murphy's assistant has the best job ever. If our main chore each hour was to slather peanut butter and jelly on some Wonder Bread, painstakingly spreading to ensure maximum coverage, and trim off the edges just so, we think we could handle it. It would surely be better than being Prince's personal assistant. He'd probably wake you up in the middle of the night and ask you to build a diorama of the original civilization of Constantinople by daybreak using only monkey feces and used tissues that were discarded by Queen Elizabeth. A couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches look pretty damn reasonable in comparison.
