What Richard Dreyfuss said about trans children, LGBTQ community, #MeToo and Barbra Streisand while wearing a dress during 'sexist and homophobic' rant at $300-ticket Jaws screening

An attendee astatine Richard Dreyfuss's disastrous question and reply session successful Massachusetts implicit Memorial Day play told MailOnline the Oscar-winner 'kept going' with homophobic and racist comments during his appearance. 

Dreyfuss, 76, was appearing astatine the $300-a-head screening of Jaws, the blockbuster that launched his storied vocation successful 1975 astatine The Cabot, a theatre successful Beverley, Massachusetts. 

The renowned histrion took his accidental to obstruction against the MeToo movement, transgender children, the legendary Barbra Streisand aft taking to the signifier wearing a dress. 

One subordinate of the crowd, Kerry, told MailOnline that she was astatine The Cabot with her sister arsenic the tickets were a day present. 

'He started the nighttime coming retired with a formal connected dancing to Taylor Swift saying that this was LGBTQ moment. I assumed helium was horsing around, aboriginal a unit subordinate told maine helium was walking astir municipality for a mates of hours picking 1 out,' she said.

Kerry said that the amusement past got backmost connected the rails with Dreyfuss discussing his relation successful different Steven Spielberg classic, 1978's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

From there, however, Kerry said Dreyfuss went off, targeting his Nuts co-star Barbra Streisand. 'He began to accidental a batch of sexist things astir her, astir each women. Their stupid, they shouldn't person immoderate powerfulness etc,' she continued.

Other accounts accidental that Dreyfuss accused women of being 'passive' which is wherefore the 1987 movie Nuts 'sucked.' 

'Then helium conscionable kept going with homophobic and racist comments... He insulted the Me Too question etc.' 

Another subordinate of the assemblage said Dreyfuss said that society, 'Shouldn't beryllium listening to immoderate 10-year-old who says they privation to beryllium a lad alternatively of a girl.'  

Kerry said that the ambiance successful the theatre rapidly soured with galore booing the prima and immoderate walking out. 'Now, now, don't crook into an aggravated mob,' Dreyfuss told the crowd, according to Kerry.  

Kerry alleged that an worker of The Cabot told her that unit had been told to hole for Dreyfuss's bizarre behaviour arsenic the nighttime earlier a akin incidental occurred astatine a akin lawsuit successful Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

 An attendee of that amusement was quoted by Deadline as saying: 'I walked retired contiguous due to the fact that of [Dreyfuss's] tiny minded bigoted presumption of women and choice.' 

At 1 constituent during his Cabot show, Dreyfuss said: 'We’re truthful fragile that we can’t person our feelings hurt. We don’t cognize however to basal up and bop the bully successful the face.' 

'There is simply a clip and spot for that stuff, astir apt a Republican rally, but not astatine a Jaws event.'

'He's rich, entitled, helium didn't attraction astir anyone but himself past night... it was ne'er a discussion, it was him being ignorant and inappropriate. I expected better.' 

'Someone should inquire Steven Spielberg what helium thinks astir Dreyfuss saying these things astatine a showing of his movie,' Kerry added. 

The attendee went connected to accidental that she felt arsenic though Dreyfuss was doing thing for a book. 'I felt helium was conducting a warped societal experimentation to beryllium immoderate points successful his book. That we can’t disagree connected things civilly etc. that’s my opinion,' Kerry said. 

In 2022, Dreyfuss published his book One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know which dealt with the taxable of the teaching civics successful American schools .

The histrion is passionate astir the origin of civics education.  

In 2008, helium founded The Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit that promotes teaching astir American ideology successful classrooms nationwide. The initiative, among different things, provides teachers with videos and acquisition tools.

 In a 2014 interrogation with The Associated Press, Dreyfuss called for a 'civil strike' successful enactment of the U.S. Constitution to promote civic participation.

Dreyfuss took an accidental to plug his publication astatine the decision of his Cabot appearance. 

'Fifty years agone without telling anybody they took civics retired of the program astatine nationalist schools successful America. We person nary cognition of who the hellhole we are and if we don’t get it backmost soon we’re each gonna die,' helium said. 

'We person to marque definite that your kids are not the past procreation of Americans, and you cognize precisely what I’m talking about.'

Meanwhile Dreyfuss's son, Ben Dreyfuss, a left-wing activistic tweeted a gag successful effect to his father's antics. 

'Re: My father, well, present you cognize wherefore I refused to springiness him the password to his ain Twitter relationship for a decennary lol.'

'This volition beryllium my lone connection connected the matter.'

In an earlier tweet, Ben referred to the 'disgusting outrageous behaviour of 1 of [his] relatives.' 

It was earlier reported that Dreyfuss came connected signifier successful a floral people dress, shaking his hips and swinging his cane similar a shot bat.

 After the event, the theatre issued an apology to each those who had bought tickets. 

'We profoundly regret that Mr. Dreyfuss's comments during the lawsuit were not successful enactment with the values of inclusivity we uphold astatine The Cabot,' the property merchandise began. 

We recognize that his remarks were distressing and violative to galore of our assemblage members, and for that, we sincerely apologize.' 

'At The Cabot, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive situation for each members of our community. The views expressed by Mr. Dreyfuss bash not bespeak our beliefs, and we bash not endorse them successful immoderate way.'

'We instrumentality afloat work for the oversight successful not anticipating the absorption of the speech and for immoderate discomfort caused.'  

In effect to the controversy, 1 attendee, Rogue Mama, tweeted: 'Came present to spot if Richard Dreyfuss had been cancelled contiguous aft appearing astatine #TheCabot successful Beverly.' 

Another idiosyncratic tweeted an alternate rubric for the evening: 'An Evening of Misogyny and Homophobia With Richard Dreyfuss. Disappointing doesn't adjacent statesman to screen it.' 

Ironically, connected May 28, 3 days aft Dreyfuss's appearance, the theatre is hosting an lawsuit titled How Discrimination Shows Up successful Our Community and What We Can Do About It.  

Just 12 months ago, Dreyfuss was widely criticized for his remarks connected the  new diversity and inclusion requirements astatine the Academy Awards and said 'they marque maine vomit.'

Dreyfuss made those remarks during an occurrence of PBS' Firing Line, which aired connected Friday, and claimed the Academy was treating radical similar children by implementing the caller criteria.

The histrion besides defended Laurence Olivier's show successful the 1965 movie Othello successful which helium played the pb quality successful blackface.  

Host Margaret Hoover asked Dreyfuss what helium thought astir the incoming inclusivity rules and helium replied: 'They marque maine vomit.

'No 1 should beryllium telling maine arsenic an creator that I person to springiness successful to the latest, astir existent thought of what morality is. What are we risking? Are we truly risking hurting people's feelings?

'You can't legislate that. You person to fto beingness beryllium beingness and I'm sorry, I don't deliberation determination is simply a number oregon bulk successful the state that has to beryllium catered to similar that... This is an creation form. It's besides a signifier of commerce, and it makes money, but it's an art.

'And nary 1 should beryllium telling maine arsenic an creator that I person to springiness successful to the latest, astir existent thought of what morality is.'