Working on the film “wasn’t easy money,” explained yet another source, as “people were worked really hard” on the production. And the person most commonly cited for causing those hard conditions is director Brett Ratner.

One Melania crew member told Rolling Stone that Ratner was “slimy.” Melania Trump, while “boring,” they said, was “totally nice.”....

“Brett Ratner was the worst part of working on this project,” another crew member said. While others were put off by Ratner’s reported lack of cleanliness (he left a constant trail of “discarded orange peels and gum wrappers” everywhere he went, according to the crew), others said the director was less than charming.

The Daily Beast has reached out Ratner’s company for comment.

The report includes an anecdote about Ratner eating “in the grubbiest way possible” while crew members were not allowed a meal break. One said Ratner was “either being a d---” or had “no awareness whatsoever.” Another said he dropped his chewed gum into a cup of coffee on her cart and “didn’t acknowledge my existence.”

Melania director Brett Ratner was confronted about reports that some crew members on his controversial film asked not to be credited for their work at the film’s premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday evening.

One person familiar with the film’s production said that two-thirds of the film’s New York crew—it filmed in New York, D.C., and Florida—asked not to be formally credited on the film, according to a Rolling Stone report published on Monday.

Asked about the report at the film’s premiere, Ratner said the movie “picked up a lot of crew” in various states, whom he labelled “day players” and who weren’t his “main crew.”

He could also be seen snapping at a person off camera, saying, “Hold on, I want to answer.”

“I understand if a liberal is working on the movie and they don’t want to be credited, but they want to feed their family. I don’t blame anybody for that.”

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....Soon after those women came forward, Elliot Page, who starred in Ratner’s 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, shared a horrifying anecdote from set about an incident in which Ratner outed him.

“I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: ‘You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.’ I was a young adult who had not yet come out to myself. I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I felt violated when this happened,” Page wrote. His story was corroborated by his co-star, Anna Paquin.

Ratner was also one of the many famous faces spotted in photographs released as part of the Epstein files last month. In the photo, he can be seen hugging Jean-Luc Brunel, the French model scout who was accused of supplying girls to Jeffrey Epstein.