Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Zoe Kravitz are mean girling Riley Keough on set

Riley Keough

This story seems pretty believable because actors and actresses are known to be both competitive and petty, so it naturally follows that a pair of rather untalented actresses (in this case, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Zoe Kravitz) would zero in a competitor (in this case, Riley Keough, daughter of Lisa Marie Presley) who’s been racking up steady work since she arrived on the film scene a few years ago.

I’ve watched Riley in both The Runaways and Magic Mike, and she performed well in her limited roles. As for Rosie, she’s merely the lips of the latest Transformers movie even though she’d have us believe that she’s the next Angelina Jolie. Of course, Rosie also wanted everyone to know that, post Michael Bay Ferrari washing, she had tons of “offers on the table” but was waiting “for the right script,” which turned out to be this ill-fated new Mad Max movie where she and Zoe Kravitz are allegedly mean girling Riley. Now, I’ve only seen Zoe in X-Men: First Class and “Californication,” and she was dreadful in both capacities. I guess I’m feeling sympathetic towards Riley and am inclined to believe that, given the lack of talent on both Rosie and Zoe’s part, they might indeed forge together to make Riley feel like crap. Here’s the story from the Enquirer:

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough has been reduced to tears on the set of the new Mad Max movie — because her co-stars are treating her like an outcast, say sources.

She’s heartsick over being “frozen out” by actresses Zoe Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley while filming Mad Max: Fury Road in Namibia, Africa, charges a pal.

The situation has gotten so nasty that Lisa Marie Presley’s distraught 23-year-old daughter “would walk out” if she wasn’t such a dedicated pro, according to her friend.

“Riely’s havng a rotten time. She’s not fittig in and is incredily lonely and homesick. Zoe and Rosie have only made things worse. Riley took a two-week break from the set, but she was absolutely dreading the thought of going back to Africa to resume filming.”

An insider on the set of the $100 million movie says tension is at a fever-pitch because Zoe, Rosie and Riley are in virtually every scene together.

“They all started out as friends when the movie got underway, but now Zoe and Rosie have become close to the exclusion of Riley,” explained the insider. “She’s got another two months to go, and no one knows how she’s going to make it. She talks about going home every day.”

“It’s sad because Riley’s really such a sweet person,” said her pal. “She’s crying herself to sleep most nights. It’s really a shame.”

[From Enquirer, print edition, October 22, 2012]

I tend to believe this story. Zoe is quickly developing a habit of collecting a new BFF on each film set (it was Jennifer Lawrence while filming First Class), and she sort of seems like the type to engage in high school-esque dramatics where exclusivity of friendship is concerned. As for Rosie, her place in films is pretty limited to “the hot chick,” so she probably feels insecure enough to go along with mean girl behavior too.

Whatever the case, I really hope that Zoe hasn’t made any remarks regarding Riley’s presence in Hollywood being possibly due to nepotism because, you know, Hahaha.

Zoe Kravitz

Riley Keough

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  1. Shitler says:

    Riley needs to borrow her mother’s Medusa’s bitchface of doom. Zoe & Rosie would be running for the hills

    • Amelia says:

      Almost dropped my tea!
      I hope Riley realises that she has absolutely nothing worth getting upset over. Zoe can’t act for toffee and neither can Rosie. On top of that, Rosie is quite possibly one of the most moronic people on the planet. I watched her Jonathan Ross interview and she had absolutely zero charisma. Then she started blabbering on about wearing the proper bra size like it was one of the most important issues facing today’s modern woman. Absolute moron.
      Well, that’s my bitch satiated for today.

      • Christina says:

        One of the reasons I like Kate Moss is that she adheres to the maxim that models should be seen and not heard. Seriously, other than being lucky enough to have a marketable appearance, there’s nothing interesting about models. They’re paid to look photogenic and… that’s it really.

      • bluhare says:

        Amelia, thanks for “can’t act for toffee”. Cracked me up. I’ve lived in the US for so long that the Britishisms have gone (except for tea!).

        Every once in a while one crops up out of nowhere. I was talking to my mom the other day and said something was tidgy. I haven’t said tidgy since I was a kid!

    • Eleonor says:

      LOL!!! You’re so right!! Lisa Marie has the best bitchface in the buisiness. I think her daughter with a bit of excercise can have it too.

  2. marie says:

    I can believe the story but Riley doesn’t seem like a crier, maybe I’m wrong. Whatever though, Riley can go hang with Charlize and Tom Hardy, they’re cooler anyway..

    • NerdMomma says:

      Yeah I agree with this…I hardly think the daughter of Lisa Marie aka Queen of Bitchface is going to cry. I’ll bet she’s tough as nails.

    • bluhare says:

      Wait. She’s in a movie with Charlize and Tom and she’s worried about these two?

  3. Sara says:

    That movie has been filming since June geez

  4. Micki says:

    I’ve read somewhere that insecure, emotionally immature and socially unexperienced people tend to manipulate through “exclusive” friendships. It gives them sense of power over the others.

    • Feebee says:

      Yeah, I’m seeing this in my daughters’ school scene. They’re 8 and 11.

      Maybe the poptarts in this story could try growing up.

  5. menlisa says:

    Aww poor Riley!
    Rosie and Zoe are terrible actresses!
    I will never understand how they get movie roles!
    LOL @ She should borrow her mom’s bitchface! She totally should!

  6. T.C. says:

    Riley has talent she doesn’t need to worry about two talentless biatches trying to mean-girl her. You are prettier than them too. Go to your trailer during breaks girlfriend and make friends with crew members.

  7. BigHair&Pearls says:

    Cannot stand Zoe Kravitz. She gives off an air that she thinks she’s cool by right because of her parents. She strikes me as a bit of an idiot.

  8. TXCinderella says:

    All Riley needs to say is “My grandfather is Elvis, so suck on that!”. Young women can be very mean to each other.

    • Gracie says:

      That would weaken her argument, to me at least, because I dislike Elvis and his music very much. “My grandfather is Elvis” and? Most people aren’t concerned about her dead grandfather, what commendable things has she done herself?

      • RdyfrmycloseupmrDvlle says:

        You may not like Elvis but that doesnt dimish the fact that he is a legendary American Icon. Its like being American Royalty. Say what you want about his music the man was an amazing legend.

      • Shoe_lover says:

        Gracie- I think you’ll find that millions upon millions of people are concerned about Elvis. just because you don’t like him or his music doesn’t mean the world shares your opinion.
        I’m 26 and I flat out love Elvis and his music. And I’ll take the music of Elvis over many modern acts including Lenny Kravitz. and the majority of my friends feel the same way. He isn’t called the King of Rock and Roll for nothing

    • bluhare says:

      True, but Zoe’s dad is Lenny (be still, my heart) Kravitz. That would carry more weight with people her age.

      Although her granddad’s estate could buy and sell these two several times over.

      • holly hobby says:

        Her grandma was Helen Willis of the Jeffersons. Lenny’s mother played Helen Willis. I forgot her name. Roxie somebody? His father was some important exec in the music industry. Yes so Zoe can pretty much claim that too.

        On the other hand Rosie Witless (Sorry her name is sooo pretentious) looks like an emptyheaded doll with ginormous lips. I don’t get her appeal. I think Megan Fox is better than her and that’s saying a lot!

      • RdyfrmycloseupmrDvlle says:

        Elvis trumps Lenny 😉

  9. Talie says:

    Zoe and Rosie do have a lot of confidence (for their lack of talent) and you can tell, just by photos, that Riley does not.

  10. Kimlee says:

    Rosie never said she was going to be the next Angelina Jolie you must confused her with Megan Fox who in fact told evey media outlet she was going to be. What she said is that she would love to have Jolie career which is two completely different things.

    This story is BS

    1. It came from the Enquirer

    2. Rosie has been done filming her part for a while now, so how can she be mean girling and one if she not there?

    I know sure we’re Zoe is.

  11. lower-case deb says:

    Enquirer should sack their Fanfiction Department writer for being so boring and repetitive and unimaginative.

    Unless they make it a rule to have “Not-walking-out-cuz-I’m-a-Pro of the Season” every other month.

    last time it was Natalie Portman on Bale.
    http://www.celebitchy.com/240892/does_natalie_portman_think_christian_bale_is_tedious_arrogant_dismissive/

    it’s almost formulaic i have a bad case of de javu.

  12. Gracie says:

    Boohoo. So sad.

    Jeez, I couldn’t feign sympathy if I tried. Not for superich starlets stuck in highschool mentality. People are mean, I’m 17, I learned that long ago. I’m confident enough within myself to not value my self worth off of some catty beeyotches. She’s obviously not too distraught if she’s accepting the paycheck, so I don’t feel bad.

  13. stellalovejoydiver says:

    Buhu, a pretty and rich girl gets left out by other pretty and rich girls.
    All three of them are in their position because of nepotism, Riley and Zoe because of their (grand)parents and Rosie because of Jason Statham, even if Riley is talented.
    It´s messed up if they are meangirling her, but she should just grow a pair, not everyone will have your best interest at heart. She´s 20 something, if she´s freaking out because of some girlshit, I wonder what she would do, if she had to face some of the problems us nonprivileged people go through.

  14. Katie Too says:

    Huh, looks like there are some PR folks already doing damage control for two catty biaches no one really cares about. How odd.

  15. bea says:

    Zoe’s hair looks like crap.

  16. lila says:

    The national Enquirer!?! LMAO gullible much…

  17. Jo 'Mama' Besser says:

    Of course these kinds of conflicts do happen frequently and when they do it’s a shameful thing, but these publications are playing us, we know it, and we don’t care because they know how to garner a print version of a money shot to get women onside and it’s effectively this: Other girls, huh? You know what I’m talking about. They know full well that if they can appeal to a woman’s sense of righteous indignation or manipulate us in the manner that gets women campaigning for own hagiographical status and getting us to wallow in past woes, they can get us to forget the story and fixate on their narrative.

    Tabloids don’t even have to try anymore because they know they’re masters at manipulating us, stealing our focus and getting all of us good, upstanding women who hate, loathe and detest bullying and ‘mean-girling’ and getting us to mean girl each other without a shred of evidence of a knicker-twisting event’s very existence. All they have to do is toss out the same line about the possible presence of ‘mean-girling’ and there will always be an audience with a laundry list detailing how women are fundamentally evil and all of the most ‘open-minded’ and ‘non-judgemental’ missionaries for the support of other women and feminism will gobble it up because it’s always the other women who have bad attitudes, always every other woman ruining the world and they never, ever, ever miss an opportunity to remind themselves that they’re so much more loving than all of the other bitches.

    They’re strumming us like banjos getting to believe our own hype to the point where we come *this close* to believing that it has been scientifically proven that other women are pond scum, making it completely appropriate to always assume the worst and toss around the same epithets that they highlight as being so harmful. The joke with us, congratulating us with the the implicit message that it must be nice being the one woman who is better than women. That we take any of what they give us as sincere just re-confirms that the joke’s on us. There are no specific events, everything is hyper-significant because it’s a war, ladies. Whether this dynamic between the three performers actually exists is immaterial because there’s little time for fact-checking in the midst of a battle, but it probably happened because–chicks, amirite, guys?

    Why is it that gossip rags suddenly turn into The New England Journal Of Medicine whenever some contingent of the loving arms of the sisterhood need a name to bash?

    And who knows, if they aren’t getting along, maybe it’s Keogh who is terrible company with better spin.

  18. Mar says:

    I don’t like Zoe’s looks. I think Riley is so freaking gorgeous

  19. claire says:

    Did I miss the part about them being mean to her? All I see is a complaint that the two girls have bonded more with each other than her. Big deal. Is that a crime? Do you have to be besties with every person you work with on a movie set?

    • jj says:

      exactly. i don’t like everyone i work with and i have been working at the same place 15 years. she only has to deal with these co-workers for something like 6 months?

    • samira25 says:

      @Claire, I was going to say the same thing. I don’t know why this is a story or why everybody is so upset. How is not being friends with somebody mean-girling? The fact that there’s no details should prove that nothing happened.

  20. Jennika says:

    Gah! Rosie’s uneven eyes freak me out!

    • Learned One says:

      Yes…and her duck lips. Look at old VS catalog pics and over time her lips inflate to the size of the Hindenburg.

  21. DakotaF says:

    Original story comes from the National Enquirer – wake up and smell the roses people! Another made up story ……. Rosie is in the US at the moment not Namibia AND Riley often posts on Rosie’s twitter account saying all good things so this who story is ridiculous! Love Rosie and she is always so genuine and funny – I have met her and she is even more georgous in real life and totally down to earth. Friendly too.

  22. TeamRosieH says:

    This is bullsh-t!! First of all everyone that are already making badcomments about Rosie and Zoe don’t believe everything you read!!! Rosie and Riley became great friends during this movie! You can look at Riley’s twitter she’s always tweeting Rosie and vice versa!
    Stop those rumors!

    • Me Too says:

      Don’t doubt what you say but, OMG, people, go read Rosie’s twitter for a good laugh! It made me even more determined to never watch a movie this glorified barbie is in! Sadly 15 year old boys will continue to pay to see her…at least for a few more years. But then, like all “entertainers” whose careers are based solely on looks, lip and boob size and nothing else…RHW will one day disappear from our screens…thanks be to God! (-:

  23. Me Too says:

    Have no idea about the mean girl stuff. Don’t care frankly. What I do care about is paying good money to see a movie that’s half way decent and based on Rosie’s part in Transformers, I’ll never pay a dime to see a movie she’s in. Same for Zoe and same for Riley.

    Rosie is only in movies because of her looks. True for the other two as well as far as their movies to date. What ticks me off as a woman is that women are being used in movies as sexy sidekicks or for sex scenes. Period. I’m not usually a comedy girl but Bridesmaids was a relief if only because it centered around women and not everyone in the movie was a “super” model.

    I don’t care how nice or mean these three women are…they can’t act and any movie with them in it isn’t worth my time or my money!

  24. Issa says:

    Don’t believe it. There has been very little info on Mad Max:Fury Road. Few pictures here and there and thats about it. George Miller has it pretty much on lock down. Why would this one story leak?

  25. Jordan says:

    LOL!….Exactly where is there evidence of “mean girling”?. There is evidence of some kind of agenda, though.

  26. dooliloo says:

    Zoe is in HW because of her parents!
    Riley is in HW because of her mother!
    Rosie is in HW because of her daddy..my bad I mean sugar daddy!

    Now where’s the fuss again?