Melanie Griffith Had To Pay $80,000 For A “Working Girl” Production Shut Down Because She Was Drunk On Set

There’s a very good reason Melanie Griffith’s character Tess McGill in Working Girl seems like a fun and boozy good-time girl. According to Melanie, she was half in the bag for much of the production. And once, she was so far in the bag, production had to stop and the film’s director Mike Nichols handed her an invoice for $80,000 which all but had a note in the memo reading: “Girl, get your shit together.” Tess may have had a bod for sin, but Melanie had the nods from gin (obviously I don’t respect myself or my craft, but I refuse to apologize).

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