Jaimie Alexander thinks her Blindspot fake tattoos are toxic & making her sick
On Friday, Page Six had an interesting item about Jaimie Alexander, the star of NBC’s Blindspot. You may also known Jaimie from the Thor movies, or maybe you know her from her engagement to Peter Facinelli. Anyway, Page Six said last Friday that Jaimie is being a major pill on the set of Blindspot, that she’s getting people fired right and left and she’s trying to get her co-lead, Sullivan Stapleton, fired. She’s also pretty cranky because it apparently takes SEVEN HOURS to apply her character’s tattoos (which cover almost all of her body). Well, here’s another interesting story about Jaimie, again from Page Six. Their sources claim that Jaimie is convinced that her fake body tattoos are making her sick. Huh.
Jaimie Alexander — star of NBC’s hit “Blindspot” — allegedly believes the fake tattoos covering her body all day are poisonous and making her sick. Production on the show was halted last week with the firing of four makeup artists who were spending seven hours each day applying Alexander’s temporary ink. A hairdresser was also let go.
The series’ story began with Alexander’s character waking up naked in Times Square covered in mysterious tattoos. “[Alexander has] become convinced the ink is toxic and making her sick,” one source told me. Suffering a pulmonary infection, the actress brought her doctor onto the Brooklyn set where Warner Bros. is midway through shooting the first season. NBC has already renewed the drama for Season 2.
Tat’s not all. Alexander is said to hate her co-star Sullivan Stapleton, who plays FBI agent Kurt Weller.
“She tried to have him fired and replaced, which is pretty amazing considering their characters are supposed to develop a romantic interest,” said my source.
As tension has mounted on the set, the producers have been using doubles more and more to allow Alexander to leave early.
“She has a stunt double, a photo double for on-screen shots and, increasingly, they use a body double,” my source said.
Alexander’s publicist Craig Schneider called my story “entirely unfounded and inaccurate,” and said, “That’s what happens when a disgruntled former employee provides you with intel.”
I complained about Jaimie’s publicist last Friday too, because his statements are ridiculous. He got all pearl-clutchy about the very IDEA that an actor would EVER order certain people off the set or pull rank to get certain people fired, like Craig Schneider has NEVER heard of that happening. So now he’s saying that these stories are total crap… AND that they’re coming from a disgruntled ex-employee (who was likely fired at Jaimie’s behest). As for the alleged toxicity of the fake tattoos… I don’t know. What do you think? I would be really interested in learning what kind of ink or henna or whatever they were using on her.
Photos courtesy of NBC, WENN.
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