# An actor/actress on Sisters who is “ difficult to work with” **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140 "2025-03-05T01:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/1 "2025-03-05T01:58:02Z")
I was listening to a podcast where the guest was the director of a few episodes of Sisters. The guest said she and the show mutually parted ways because she couldn’t get along with a particular actor/actress (she was deliberately ambiguous about the performer’s gender because she didn’t want to give too much away). She stated that this particular performer was notoriously “difficult to work with,” using an industry platitude, and stated that this particular one was not only difficult, but demanded the most ridiculous things. The main cast of Sisters, best as I can tell, consisted of Swoozie Kurtz, Patricia Keebler, Sela Ward, Elizabeth Hoffman, and others. Were any of those known for being difficult? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/2 "2025-03-05T02:57:20Z")
Deductive reasoning suggests an actor who directors find difficult to work with would have trouble getting steady work. The four mentioned in the OP have had long and steady careers. Looking through the cast listings on IMDB, there are a couple for whom Sisters was their only long-term gig, and whose other roles seemed to be one-shot appearances on TV series or small parts in movies. I don’t know their reputations in the industry, so I won’t name names. but it’s one of them. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/3 "2025-03-05T03:25:36Z")
Good points. But the person is “notoriously hard to work with”, so they must have enough of a career to gain notoriety. Swoozie is the longest lived (of the main characters) and some might think longevity breeds arrogance. But Swoozie seems nice, so I have no idea. Juicy(ish) gossip, this. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/4 "2025-03-13T05:26:19Z")
It’s Patricia Kalember, not Keebler. (Was somebody hungry for a snack?) And the only reason I know about her at all is that she spent at least some portion of her younger years living in my hometown, and my hometown paper once gave her the cover of its weekly TV section. Although now that I think about it, I vaguely recall her being in medical attire, so it might have been for a different show. In any case, I have no idea if she is the allegedly difficult one. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/5 "2025-03-13T13:22:49Z")
I just wish the unnamed director in the OP would either not be so coy, or just not say anything at all. It’s been a long time!. Sisters had a huge ensemble cast, ran 127 episodes and ended nearly 30 years ago. I had to check the thread to be sure it wasn’t talking about some other show because I didn’t think anyone even remembered that show anymore! Anyone that quit after only “a few episodes” might actually be the one with the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/6 "2025-03-13T13:58:15Z")
I only remember Sisters because Sela Ward’s name regularly appears in crossword puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/7 "2025-03-13T14:32:28Z")
And Swoozie was named after her father’s WWII bomber, which had strange aerodynamics ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140/8 "2025-03-13T16:45:25Z")
I was just going to mention that, although there’s a little more to the story. The plane was an early model B-17, in the Philippines when war broke out in the Pacific. As the war carried on, newer planes became available, and that one was converted to be used as a transport. Other planes were cannibalized for parts to keep it flying, so the plane was nicknamed The Swoose, from a song about a bird that was half-swan/half-goose. I saw it once in storage at the Smithsonian, although I think it has been traded to the Air Force Museum to be restored. It’s the oldest surviving B-17.