It might have looked as if Ben Dreyfuss, the son of actor Richard Dreyfuss, distanced himself from his father’s latest controversy by light-heartedly addressing the dust-up the Oscar winner recently had at a recent “Jaws” screening. But when he was talking about “disgusting outrageous behavior” of one of his family members, he was not in fact talking about his 76-year-old father. The elder Dreyfuss — who starred in “Jaws” and “American Graffiti” — caused a stir at the Cabot in Beverly, Mass.
, after allegedly ranting about women, LGBTQ+ individuals and the #MeToo movement, prompting several patrons to walk out of the theater. The incident also resulted in a formal apology from the venue that said it deeply regrets the “distress” it caused. The younger Dreyfuss, who is a journalist and who played a younger version of his father’s character in “Madoff,” made light of the situation in a Monday tweet.
“Re: my father: well, now you know why I refused to give him the password to his own twitter account for a decade lol” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “This will be my only statement on the matter. thank you.
” But it wasn’t. As media picked up the his apparent reaction , Ben Dreyfuss clarified that a prior tweet he sent about the “disgusting outrageous behavior” of one of his relatives was misconstrued. Ben Dreyfuss said he was simply quipping about the fact that his sister now uses an Android phone.
“This @DailyMail article mischaract.