https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-incredible-story-behind-tiptoes-the-movie-in-121940150.html This shit is pretty ridiculous

When funding came from the unlikeliest of places, Bright jumped on it. “My stepfather – a guy my mother was married to for like a year – had this neighbour, John Langley, who did this show ‘Cops’,” he says. “He said, ‘I’d be interested’ and they got the script and said, ‘hey, we want to make this movie’, him and his wife.”

Blame Kate Beckinsale’s lucky hat. When the British actress signed on for 2003’s ‘Tiptoes’, written and directed by cult filmmaker Matthew Bright, she agreed to do it for SAG minimum wage – with one condition. She wanted her character to wear the star’s own lucky hat.

“I said, ‘sure, I promise you can wear it,’” Bright tells Yahoo Movies now. At the time, he didn’t know that the hat would get him fired from the film.

“The first day I shoot, [Beckinsale] wears her lucky hat and this guy Langley’s wife comes in…she says to me, ‘I don’t like that hat’,” he recalls. “I said it can’t come off, Kate Beckinsale offered to do the movie and instead of charging millions of dollars, she’s doing SAG minimum and the only thing she asked was, ‘can I wear my lucky hat.’”

Bright says his refusal to rectify his producer’s objections led to them pulling support from him and his crew during production.

“I put [my cast and crew] through hell,’ says the director. “I told them it was going to be this wonderful production and instead there were these [people] running around screaming at people and making young assistants weep. It was just horrible.”

Yahoo reached out to the Langleys for this story, but they declined to comment.

His behaviour at the movie’s Sundance premiere probably didn’t help. Having been invited on-stage to talk up the film, he instead launched into a scathing attack on the Langleys for their interference and slammed the finished product.

Certainly he believes it damaged his standing in the industry – he hasn’t directed a movie since.