Faye Dunaway "The Extraordinary Seaman", a comedy adventure directed by John Frankenheimer and also starring David Niven that she shot right after "Bonnie and Clyde", was released to poor reviews and proved to be a commercial failure. Despite protests from her agent, Dunaway turned down a lot of high-profile projects in order to spend time with Mastroianni. In 1970, Dunaway took a supporting role as a favor to Arthur Penn in his western, "Little Big Man". In a rare comic role, Dunaway played the sexually frustrated wife of a minister who helps raise and seduce a boy raised by Native Americans, played
Faye Dunaway from all of my heart, and without you, I would not be the same Faye Dunaway." Also in 2014, Dunaway had to pull out of a French drama called "Macadam Stories", in which she was going to play the lead, due to health issues, and was replaced by Isabelle Huppert. In 2016, Dunaway made two rare public appearances at the TCM Classic Film Festival. She hosted a screening of "Network" and also joined in conversation with Ben Mankiewicz for a Q&A session in which she discussed her decades-spanning career. The hour-long interview later aired on TCM as "Faye Dunaway: Live