Mia Farrow Says She’s ‘Never Had a Negative Moment’ with Patti LuPone

Mia Farrow says working with longtime friend Patti LuPone didn’t harm their bond.

Farrow earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance alongside LuPone in the Broadway play The Roommate. In an interview with Deadline published Tuesday, June 3, the actress, 80, said working together did not put a strain on her friendship with LuPone, 76.

“Patti and I never had a negative moment, by the way. Working together didn’t change our friendship. I think our friendship is deeper now,” said Farrow.

The Rosemary’s Baby actress admitted it “never crossed my mind” that she’d one day work with LuPone because “she is the goddess of Broadway.”

“We live near each other. Always have. Two of our kids were in the same class at school, at the same school, her son and my son, and I met her on New Year’s Eve, actually,” Farrow recalled. “She and her husband gave a New Year’s Eve party, and Steve Sondheim, who was one of my oldest friends, 50 years, he invited me to come to the party at Patti’s 30 years ago, and that’s how I met Patti.”

Farrow’s comments come after LuPone apologized for her harsh comments made in an interview with The New Yorker that was published May 26. (Farrow mentions the New Yorker interview in the Deadline conversation but did not address the controversy.)

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“For as long as I have worked in the theatre, I have spoken my mind and never apologized. That is changing today,” LuPone wrote in a statement shared May 31 after over 500 members of the Broadway community signed an open letter reprimanding the star for the “bullying” remarks. She added, “I am deeply sorry for the words I used during The New Yorker interview, particularly about Kecia Lewis, which were demeaning and disrespectful.”

LuPone continued, “I regret my flippant and emotional responses during this interview, which were inappropriate, and I am devastated that my behavior has offended others and has run counter to what we hold dear in this community.”

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Elsewhere in the Deadline interview, Farrow shared that she and LuPone had a “little ritual” they’d do together every night before going onstage.

“Patti loves to look at the audience before going on, seeing who’s out there and all that. Not I — I don’t want to know. Don’t tell me. She knew not to tell me,” said Farrow. “Then we would do a little prayer, and we would do a hug, and then we would say, ‘Let’s have fun,’ and then we would go out on stage.”

She continued, “It was Patti’s idea, because Patti’s the old Broadway pro, to walk out on stage before the play started to get the initial applause, to just come out and receive the applause so that it doesn’t happen during our first scene entrance when we enter the kitchen to begin the play, when applause kind of interrupts the moment you hoped for.”