In the novel, Streisand remembers appointing actor Mandy Patinkin to play Avigdor, her character, and saying that the actor was the only one who “disturbed my equilibrium” while the film was being made.
She remembers Patinkin, who is now 70, saying, “I thought we were going to have a more personal relationship,” during a heated meeting with the actor in Streisand’s dressing room shortly after production started. Streisand writes that Patinkin was behaving irrationally and agitated on set, so she asked to talk to him.
“What?” “I didn’t know what he was talking about,” writes Streisand. ” “I thought we were going to have an affair,” says Patinkin.
PEOPLE’s request for comment was not immediately answered by Patinkin’s representatives.
