Just days after his film “Green Book” won three Golden Globes, including the award for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), Rhode Island native and onetime…
Just days after his film “Green Book” won three Golden Globes, including the award for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), Rhode Island native and onetime Massachusetts resident Peter Farrelly is on the defensive.
The Cut dug up a pair of 1998 articles that concerned Farrelly’s propensity to expose his genitals as a joke, including to actress Cameron Diaz the first time he ever met her.
A 1998 Newsweek feature on Farrelly and his brother, Bobby, with whom he has directed the majority of his films, discusses Peter whipping out his genitals in front of numerous people, including Diaz, who starred in the brothers’ smash hit “There’s Something About Mary.”
“The Farrelly Brothers have something they want to show you—and it isn’t their new movie,” the piece begins. “In fact, it’s something you’d probably rather not see at all. Something of Peter’s. Something anatomical in nature.”
The article goes on to describe how Bobby would play the straight man in their genital exposure gag, concocting a reason for someone to look at Peter’s crotch area, be it a new watchband or “a mysterious blotch on Peter’s torso.” Diaz is also quoted in the piece as saying, “When a director shows you his penis the first time you meet him, you’ve got to recognize the creative genius.
