Tommy Lee’s joke about his daughter goes viral after her tragic death at 34

American actor Tommy Lee Jones and his daughter Victoria at a screening of the new film ‘Stuart Little 2’ at Planet Hollywood in London. (Photo by William Conran – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

“I fired my daughter,” he joked in a 2006 interview with The New Yorker. “She had to get up at 5 a.m. for her part. One morning, she wouldn’t get out of bed. I said, ‘Honey, this is work.’ But she wouldn’t budge. So I fired her. Then, without telling me, the production staff went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set just in time.”

He added praise for Victoria’s talents:

“She’s a good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish. When she was a baby, I told Leticia, her nurse, to speak to her in Spanish.”Continue reading…

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