Will Ferrell recalls the worst note he ever got from a director: 'That was a doozy'

Will Ferrell is dishing on the worst notes he ever got from a director.

The actor recently recalled two separate instances in which he received some particularly rough reactions on set — and he wasn't afraid to drop names, either.

"I once had a director come in and go, 'Ha ha, that's never going in the movie. Okay! Reset!' I had that once,” Ferrell said in a recent Happy Sad Confused interview. "What else? Oh! Woody Allen."

The moment occurred while he was shooting Allen's 2004 comedy, Melinda and Melinda. "Woody Allen came up and was like, 'I don't know how to say this, but you're coming off nasty,'" Ferrell said. "I was like, 'Okay.'"

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To make matters worse, Ferrell said Allen even reminded him that the film was a comedy, leading him to reply, "I'm not trying to come off nasty."

"That was a doozy," he recalled in the new interview.

Written and directed by Allen, Melinda and Melinda tells the story of its titular protagonist (played by Radha Mitchell) in two very different storylines: one in which her life is a tragedy, and another in which it is a comedy. Ferrell starred in the comedic version of the tale as Melinda's earnest and unabashedly dorky love interest, Hobie.

In his review, former Entertainment Weekly film critic Owen Gleiberman called Melinda and Melinda a "synthetic patchwork of the world of old Woody Allen films."

"In alternating scenes, Allen creates two versions of the same story — one comic, the other tragic — and what's odd is that the difference doesn't mean anything," he wrote. "In each version, everyone speaks in the same coyly overemphatic Allen-ese."

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Ferrell wasn't the only actor looking back at some of the truly terrible notes they'd gotten throughout their acting career. His You’re Cordially Invited costar Reese Witherspoon also shared a frustrating one she got from an unnamed director during the HSC interview.

"I was once told to sparkle, and I wanted to punch him in the face," she said.

Ferrell replied, "Oh, that is so good."

Witherspoon couldn't quite remember how she responded to the direction at the time but said she likely "didn't say anything."

Watch Ferrell and Witherspoon dish on their worst directing notes in the clip above.

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