“Why are you shaking your head?

It’s very disrespectful.”

I’m here to decide if he’s qualified, or disqualified."

James Tupper

A judge denied actor James Tupper’s petition to be named his son’s guardian ad litem during a tense courthouse hearing in Los Angeles on Tuesday.Jesse Grant/Getty Images

Bogdanoff did not take too kindly to Tupper’s mannerisms.

“Why are you shaking your head?

It’s very disrespectful,” he said to Tupper.

Anne Heche and James Tupper

Anne Heche and James Tupper.Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images

“Don’t shake your head at me ever if you’re going to appear again.

c’mon take your hands out of your pockets, sir.

You wanna say something?”

A startled Tupper replied, “Sure.

I don’t feel that his older brother is going to look out for him.”

“We’ve waited two months to get into the apartment,” Tupper said.

Attorneys for Tupper and Laffoon didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

Heche died in August from injuriessustained in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles.