MacLaine recalls her memorable encounter with the ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ star in her new book ‘The Wall of Life’
has shared the screen with top-tier talent, including , , , and Peter Sellers. And she’s dated both movie stars (Danny Kaye, Robert Mitchum) and politicians (Australia’s late two-time Liberal Party leader Andrew Peacock).
But there was one famous A-lister who wasn’t necessarily bowled over by her charms: Oscar winner . In her new book , MacLaine, 90, writes about a memorable encounter with Freeman, 87, saying, “I propositioned him and he turned me down.”
When asked to elaborate in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, MacLaine says, “Oh, I really liked him right away. I thought his acting was brilliant. I barely said anything, and he just shook his head. Isn’t that interesting?”
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Despite being well-matched with Jack Lemmon — “a darling guy” who she says “was like a sister to me” — and Jack Nicholson onscreen, she didn’t have romantic designs on either of them. Of Nicholson, her costar in 1983’s Terms of Endearment, she says, “He just made me laugh all the time. He was one of my favorite people.”
As for whether they shared any romantic chemistry in real life, MacLaine admits, “I don’t think he would’ve been my type to have an affair with anyway. I would laugh too much.”
She calls Peter Sellers, her costar in 1979’s Being There, “adorable,” but she had a tough time connecting with him. “Peter Sellers was [always] in his character, so you never really got to meet him.”
MacLaine also remembers connecting with while they were both contract players at Paramount.
His dressing room was two doors down, and he didn’t know how to behave as he needed to on the set,” MacLaine recalls. “I just told him to be nice to people and kind, because he was a huge star then. But we didn’t hang out, I didn’t know him that well.”
In her book, MacLaine also talks about some of her great female friendships, including the ones she had with , her costar in the 1961 film The Children’s Hour, and . In fact, she introduced Taylor to her third husband, Mike Todd, the producer of the 1956 movie Around the World in 80 Days, in which MacLaine starred.
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“I suspected they would get along,” she tells PEOPLE. “I asked one of them to come to where I was so they could meet … and there was attraction right away.”
will be released on Oct. 22 by Crown Publishing and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.
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