Lily Tomlin on Internet infamy: "I'm not the least bit upset about it"

Lily Tomlin is causing a scandal! This brilliant talent, now 67, is handling the surfacing of guerrilla video shot on the set of the 2004 film "I Heart Huckabees" that show her cussing out director David O. Russell and vice-versa. Tomlin was interviewed by New Times in Miami about the video in which F-bombs fly after it showed up on YouTube.
“After poor Britney Spears, with her poor little legs open … I’m not the least bit upset about it,” Tomlin said. “That’s part of the upside and the downside of the Internet.”
What. A. Hoot.
The video had never before surfaced publicly but was the subject of a New York Times article in 2004, when it was rumored to be making the rounds of West Coast talent agencies. Tomlin is sitting next to Dustin Hoffman and another actress in a car when she goes into a profanity-laced fit.
“Oh my God, the one in the car is on there too?” Tomlin asked, referring to one of the two videos, which were shot during two different scenes. In “the one in the car,” Tomlin tells Russell: “Leave me the fuck alone! Do you know what the fuck is going on, period? Fuck you! Fuck you motherfucker!”
Tomlin, laughing, said to New Times: “I can’t believe the damn car is in there. I’ve never seen it. Is that when I’m sitting in the seat and really going nuts? Oh my God, I’m gonna die when I see that.”
In the second video, shot on the set of the office of Tomlin’s detective character, Russell is seen screaming at Tomlin: “Fuck you! I’m just trying to help you, you understand me? I’m not here to be fucking yelled at!” He then sweeps his arm across the desk at which Tomlin is sitting and its contents go flying.. “I’ve been working on this thing for three fucking years, not to be yelled at by some fucking c**t! So just fuck yourself!”
Tomlin, who had previously worked with Russell on "Flirting With Disaster" does not have hard feelings.
“I love David,” she said. “There was a lot of pressure in making the movie — even the way it came out you could see it was a very free-associative, crazy movie, and David was under a tremendous amount of pressure. And he’s a very free-form kind of guy anyway.”
“Adults have fights and go through stuff,” she added. “I know some people are more dignified in the world, that if you transgress against that kind of professionalism, that it’s some kind of great sin, but I don’t see it that way.”
It is so refreshing to read Tomlin's take on it all. She is so immensely talented with such a brilliant body of work on film, television and stage. And she's also an out lesbian (partnered with her frequent professional collaborator Jane Wagner) so that makes her all the more cool in my book.
Tomlin told New Times that the episode is “in a way liberating… now it’s all over, and so what, and I don’t have to keep up some great pretention I’m the most dignified, eloquent, elegant, perfect, smart-thinking, kind, generous person. I’m just a plain old human with a whole bunch of flaws.”
Aren't we all?