If Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone have beef, McDonald wasn’t conscious.
The actress-singer has responded to Patti LuPone‘s current New Yorker interview, the place she seemingly dissed McDonald and claimed the 2 have been now not associates after a falling out.
When McDonald was requested by Gayle King on CBS Mornings Thursday if she was “shocked” by LuPone’s remarks, she responded, “I imply, if there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it’s. That’s one thing you’d must ask Patti about.”
“I haven’t seen her in about 11 years as a result of I’ve been busy with life and stuff,” McDonald added. “So, I don’t know what rift she’s speaking about. You’d must ask her.”
Earlier this week, when McDonald’s title was talked about throughout LuPone’s interview with The New Yorker‘s Michael Schulman, she stated, “She’s not a good friend.” LuPone didn’t elaborate however famous that that they had a rift years in the past.
McDonald was simply nominated for a Tony for taking part in Rose in Gypsy, a job that LuPone beforehand gained a Tony for. When the latter was additionally requested about McDonald’s present manufacturing of Gypsy, Schulman wrote that LuPone stared at him for 15 seconds in silence, earlier than turning to look out the window and sighing, “What a phenomenal day.”
The 2 stars have beforehand labored collectively, together with the 2007 Los Angeles Opera manufacturing of Rise and Fall of the Metropolis of Mahagonny, in addition to co-starring within the 2000 New York Philharmonic’s live performance model of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Avenue.
McDonald wasn’t the one individual LuPone referred to as out throughout her interview. She additionally recalled an incident that occurred final fall when she was starring within the Broadway manufacturing, The Roommate, involving fellow Tony winner Kecia Lewis. After LuPone filed a noise grievance from the musical subsequent door, Hell’s Kitchen, Lewis took to Instagram to name out LuPone, saying her actions have been “bullying,” “racially microaggressive” and “rooted in privilege,” as a result of she had labeled “a Black present loud.” McDonald reportedly preferred the video.
“Right here’s the issue. She calls herself a veteran? Let’s learn the way many Broadway exhibits Kecia Lewis has finished, as a result of she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s speaking about,” LuPone informed The New Yorker in response. “Don’t name your self a vet, bitch.”