Actually, rumors about Elizabeth White getting close to the director have been circulating in the crew for a while now. There's even speculation that a paparazzo took photos of Elizabeth leaving the director's room late at night and used those photos to extort a significant amount of money from him...
Alexis Bailey doesn't really care who is involved with whom, but Elizabeth's audacity to bully others is just too much. Although she's only a third-tier star, her special relationship with the director allows her to suppress others daily.
What infuriates Alexis the most is a particular scene where her character steals Elizabeth's boyfriend and is slapped in return. Due to Elizabeth, the scene had to be reshot several times; she would either pretend it was a mistake or say it wasn't realistic, demanding the director to redo it. As a result, Alexis got slapped five times by Elizabeth in that scene.
After wrap-up, Alexis's face was still burning with pain.
