The Baywatch movie really did not do well at the box office. It managed to make about $120 million overall, domestic and international. Which doesn’t sound bad until you realize that the studio easily spent $70 million making it and probably tens of millions promoting it. It was an R-rated comedy and it was savaged by critics. Still, Dwayne Johnson hasn’t had to wear that failure. Possibly because he’s a dude. But people are still looking to blame someone, and they’ve found just the girl: Kelly Rohrbach. When Kelly was cast in Baywatch, she was a Sports Illustrated model and Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend. Baywatch was her first film and it was supposed to be her big launching pad to bigger and better things. That hasn’t happened. So what went wrong? Page Six says she acted like a diva. Hm.
Kelly Rohrbach — the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model and ex-girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio — has been trying to launch an acting career, but she hit some major bumps in her big feature-film debut. A studio source tells us that Rohrbach’s diva attitude on the recent film “Baywatch” — which co-starred Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Zac Efron and Priyanka Chopra — was to blame.
“She thought she was better than everyone,” says the insider. “There was no love lost between her and the rest of the cast.” While promoting the film last month, “No one wanted to share a junket room with her. She was flipped around to many different pairings.”
Rohrbach was cast to play C. J. Parker, the role made famous by Pamela Anderson in the cult ’90s TV series. But, “Kelly didn’t hang out with everyone. She didn’t make any friends,” said the source. “She thinks she’s a major star, and she’s just a model who dated Leo.”
Rohrbach and DiCaprio were a couple for about six months. News of their split came on the same day as the announcement that she was cast in “Baywatch” last year. When she landed the role, she was with Untitled Entertainment, but then switched to Management 360, which reps stars like Anne Hathaway and Channing Tatum. But insiders say that Rohrbach has already parted ways with Management 360 after only six months and she’s ruffled feathers around town.
“She’s a handful, and it’s a little early in her career for that,” said another source close to “Baywatch.” “Hollywood’s full of difficult stars. But she’s just not at that level in her career where people have to put up with that.”
I have no idea what to think of this. Like, I haven’t read any stories previously that made reference to her diva ways, although the lack of gossip about those diva tendencies could be related to the fact that she has an amazing publicist. It wouldn’t surprise me, I guess, that Kelly would have an attitude. But still – how much of this is just because she’s a woman? I imagine she wasn’t the only one with a diva ‘tude on the set of Baywatch, but because it was her first film and because she’s a woman, she’s given less leeway. Or, hey, maybe she really is kind of terrible? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Maybe a diva? But definitely not a stunning beauty. Not even close.
Yeah. She is a million times more attractive than I am, but, as a world class model….
Yeah, she’s pretty, but girls like her are a dime a dozen.
Great body, trailer park face.
Exactly correct Bros.
I just can’t believe she’s 25. She looks much older, at least facially, to me.
She’s 25?! Good lord.
Whaaa 25??? I had to scroll Up again… Are we sure of this??… Lord, she looks… not. that at all in the face….. I though she was in my age group ( late 30s) and aging… like a Real Housewife of______
She’s 27 but still….
Clea, you’re right, she’s 27. And yes, she still looks hard for that age.
Woo, hard living I guess? Or the eyebrows are too dark?
Man-face. I see prettier girls wandering the local mall in Canada. Leo aged this lady by 20 years. Puzzling+overrated.
She’s no diva material. Self-entitled or maybe spoiled, but no diva.
So she is a diva and not beautiful just f___king thin. When is it okay for women to be a holes also..
Waiting for the world to change but also aware I may not live that long +++50 years.
If they’re going to blame any cast members for its failure, that blame should fall to The Rock and Zac Efron. They were the big names and the ones featured in the advertisements.
But wouldn’t it be nice if the studio came out and said it didn’t do well because we released a bad movie?
Yeah.
It looks to me like they’re looking fro someone to blame.
And it’s the lest known cast member, (in the acting world anyway), whose most expendable.
*for* not fro
*least* not lest (damn phone)!
The article blames her “failure to launch a career” on her bad attitude. I don’t think they’re blaming her for the failure of the movie itself.
That’s how I interpreted it as well, Ladyt. Her attitude is affecting her career opportunities, not the reason the movie bombed. I guess since the “source” is supposedly from the studio that’s why that connection is being made?
It’s a bad movie, at least based on the trailer (I just watched it). Insanely bad. I wish they stopped giving movie parts to models, unless said models have some talent and take serious acting classes.
I watched Wonder Woman – FINALLY – I cringed at Doutzen Kroes’ acting. CRINGED !!!!!!!!!
Hm not sure but now we know who all the blinds are about.
I’m sure there’s a lot to blame but being new to the business you would think you would attempt to go above and beyond. Meh I don’t even know who she is anyways
*Shrugs* To me it looks like the studio was looking for someone to pin the blame on for the movie’s failure and God forbid we lay the blame at the feet of The Rock or Zac Efron.
Yes, it could definitely be this too. Those two seem to escape the blame for every garbage movie they make. Whoever is picking the films for Zac especially needs to be canned.
These quotes sound like they’re coming from some big cheese on set (in front or behind the cameras) who’s pissed she wouldn’t sleep or even flirt with him.
You know, that’s a pretty solid point and, sadly, also believable.
She’s another famous person that I wouldn’t notice or recognize even if we were standing next to each other.
Agreed!
Me too, would not garner a second glance from me. Very average.
Yep. When I saw the headline I thought, “should I know who she is?” I really thought she was a Real Housewife. She looks like it.
Page 6 can be legit, but they’re also the one of many go-tos for agenda driven pieces.
Rohrbach is definitely not the first model and actress – who incidentally works(ed) with IMG – that a Pg 6 hatchet story has been printed about, post-project.
And practically the same adjectives & lines were used.
Yes. I get the feeling that we could change names with another blonde model who tried acting.
If she is a diva who thinks she’s better than anyone it would probably be because unlike most actors she went to a competitive college and is from a very wealthy family and not that she thinks she’s such a successful actress.
However, this whole hit piece seems a little suspiciously timed. And where are the receipts? She’s mean because no one would share a junket room with her? That’s it?
Who?
During filming and promotion the cast was all over each others social media and they seem to like each other. No one in that cast is award winning caliber actors so I am going to give Kelly the benefit of the doubt and say this is a hit piece.
Also, if The Rock has no problem voicing diva behavior about Vin Diseal, I do not think he would have had no problem telling Kelly to knock it off on set.
“I don’t know her.”
LOL! You beat me to it.
I do like the silver dress, it looks good on her. She needs a better bra, though, the girls are hanging low.
She looks like she needs some rest. Those bags under her eyes….
The way you guys rip into a woman’s looks. 👀 Just so petty and nasty, and the rest of the commentators ignore it. maybe people need to realize that judging people’s faces and bodies is stupidity itself
Who is she?? I’m serious.
She is from a wealthy family and grew up in Greenwich Connecticut.
She is a C list model through family connections.
She ended up in SI but SI isn’t what it used to be when the 80s and 90s Glamazons were top models, It is where VS is headed now.
Her looks are unremarkable so you can bet there is some money being forked out to a team to launch her “career”. SI, Leo and then Baywatch. I would bet anything there is a backstory to how she ended up with that role. She certainly wasn’t the first choice or 10th.
She is being thrown under the bus by an agent most likely to protect the bigger stars from being associated too much with this bomb. It makes it harder to negotiate for the future so under the bus Miss Rohrback goes.
In her defense Pamela Anderson’s CJ was iconic and there is no way on earth she could have risen to that level or near it. It would have taken a charismatic beauty and that she is not.
Doomed to fail from the beginning. It isn’t totally fair because Effron is box office poison but she didn’t make important friends or impress anyone so Buh Bye KR. Next.
This report is so vague.
Okayyyy, so they’re telling us this, why? Are they claiming her shittiness caused the movie to fail? I think they’re all pulling the Trump maneuver. Distract, distract, distract.
And btw, I think the Rock is a bit of a diva or at the very least, an Egomaniac. He thinks he’s going to be POTUS!? Pfft! That whole bit of shenanigans he pulled turned me off big time.
Attention celebrities!! None of your dumb, inexperienced asses need to run for POTUS. Ever. Got it? Good.
Back to Kelly. She’s a non-entity. Snooze
I can believe it’s a hatchet job but she must have been ok with all those gross press releases about how she’s the coolest girl that ever girled when she was with Leo so…. I can believe she’s an ahole too.
Saw the movie and actually had a good laugh. I mean its Baywatch right? I loved Rohrbach in it, she was pretty good, so i dont get the hate. Zac Efron was the one who killed the movie, he was just plain horrible. And Hasselhoff was a disaster. Pamela Anderson was incredibly insecure in front of the camera, so bringing in the old stars wasnt a good idea neither.
Who the f*ck is this chick?????