Overview
- Tori Spelling told Stephen Baldwin’s One Bad Movie podcast that working on the 2003 comedy Evil Alien Conquerors left her shaken because the director repeatedly criticized her in front of the cast.
- Spelling said the director kept asking her to redo lines and told her to do "a little bit less," which she says led her to deliver lines in a monotone and to physically "shudder" on set.
- She said her manager later requested that she be left uncredited on the film and Spelling’s name does not appear in the movie’s credits.
- Director Chris Matheson told People he was "sorry she felt that way," said he likes her personally, and suggested they simply have different ideas about comedy.
- Reporting so far rests on Spelling’s podcast account and Matheson’s short statement with no independent corroboration, and the exchange highlights broader questions about how crediting decisions and director behavior can affect an actor’s career.