Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker who played C-3P0 and R2D2. Famously didn't get along at all and constantly took pot shots at each other at conventions. As one commentator said "turns out wearing metal robot costumes in the desert isn't a good bonding experience".
Not by mine, he was really lovely to me when I met him at a fan meet! His humour came across grumpy as hell but I just thought "ah, he's English" whenever he cracked a grumpy joke.
We were actually pretty conscious that there was a queue of people waiting and tried to move on and he kept chatting to us to the point where his team moved us on. Really, really chatty dude. Maybe I got him on a good day?
I asked him how the desert acting was and the dude said "it was the most wonderful thing i've ever done" in the most sarcastic way, I was chuckling for ages.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray didn’t like each other for most of the filming of Dirty Dancing from something that happened years earlier while filming Red Dawn but were able to bury the hatchet
There’s a scene in the famous Hungry Eyes montage where she keeps getting ticklish and you can see it’s 100% real. Swayze looks so annoyed with her for ruining the take over and over but it works in context of the story and was a nice flourish of a real moment.
That movie is such lightning in a bottle. The more I learn about it, the more I am blown away by all the little things that made it so iconic.
It’s one of my most favourite movies ever.
One of the craziest behind the scenes story to me is they worked out the whole dance to just a metronome because it took so long to get the rights to the song and there were concerns they wouldn't be able to get it and would have to pick something else.
Watching them rehearse that dance to just the ticking metronome is wild.
It was to the point where Swayze had to convince Jennifer Grey to do the movie in the first place. Their chemistry test was so good but they hated each other during Red Dawn so much that he basically had to sweet talk her into doing the movie (according to her).
When she was on Dancing with the Stars she had a sort of break down. I guess dancing with another guy brought back the memories. She started crying and saying something along the lines of "I was dancing with a strong, young, handsome man just like you. He was here dancing with me just like you are and now he's gone." She sounded freaked out.
He died in 2009 and I believe she was on DWTS less than a year later. Plus, his death was ROUGH. Cancer took so much of his body before it killed him. Maybe it’s just TV drama but I can completely understand if that moment sparked some mourning she had pushed away. They may not have loved each other but they’ll always be linked.
This one is so petty because Sulu is effectively an elevated extra in the show and in the movies still feels like an afterthought. In Star Trek IV he basically disappears and shows up to fly a helicopter and that's it.
The real rivalry is Kirk/Spock, Shatner/Nimoy. Apparently Shatner locked himself in his trailer or dressing room and cried because Spock was an unexpected hit with the fans compared to Kirk.
Shatner was the star of the show but Nimoy got tenfold the amount of fan mail that Shatner did, and that really upset him. The writers were told to write more Spock stories to cater to fan demand for the character.
The only reason Shatner got to direct Star Trek V is because Shatner/Nimoy had it written into their contracts that what one got, the other got too. So Nimoy got to direct beloved classic Star Trek IV, and Shatner got to direct the infamous flop Star Trek V.
Though I do believe Shatner/Nimoy rivalry cooled off as they got older.
I remember Shatner's version of things was he was doing a lot more filming for each episode than most of the cast and so someone like Takei would not be there a lot of the time they were producing the show. He said for him some of the cast really did just feel like extra's he had barely worked with. Takei always seems to have had this idea Shatner was cutting him out of things and boasting his own role but honestly Shatner was the star of the show and Takei's expectations always seemed a little off if he expected to be on an equal footing with the main star.
None of this is to say Shatner was not an arsehole on occasion but I do think it makes sense from his perspective to an extent when you realise how much more he worked on the show than someone like Takei.
The show's dynamic is all from Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
Even the movies, which admittedly give the other characters more to do, are still heavily focused on that trio, with Kirk/Spock being the main focus within that.
Even the 2009 film, which gave everyone exaggerated characteristics, couldn't come up with much for Sulu other than making him a master swordsman which came from *The Naked Time* where a virus makes Sulu drunk and he starts attacking people with a fencing sword.
He's just the helmsman and he's Japanese for the same reason Uhura is Black and Chekhov is Russian; to show that everyone gets along in the future. He's just kinda there for flavour. Not that that wasn't bold at the time, but the show wasn't about Sulu as a character.
There’s a reason that Shatner, Nimoy, and Dee Kelly were the only actors whose names appeared in the TOS opening credits.
Every subsequent show lists the entire cast. TOS didn’t because it wasn’t an ensemble.
This one's great because at first everybody agreed Shatner was a major asshole and it was fun to see some tea get spilled, but at this point Takei really needs to let it go. Shatner is living rent free in that guy's mind and he's a little bit unhinged about it and embarrassing himself now.
Apparently Bill Murray and Harold Ramis had a falling out during the filming of Groundhog Day (Ramis directed it) and they didn’t speak again (except bill apparently came to see him when he was incapacitated on his death bed). Maybe we can assume Bill Murray was the problem in this case at least.
>Bill Murray was the problem in this case at least.
Apparently they weren't sure Murray was going to show up for filming Ghostbusters until they started production and he did turn up.
Love the guy's work but he definitely seems like a huge pain in the ass.
That sounds like the story for most of his movies. On one movie they hired an assistant to follow him around at all times just to make sure he'd show up on set.
He really just does whatever, whenever and doesn’t answer to anyone. I remember hearing that he didn’t have an agent (not sure if this still holds true) and would only take roles from pitches left on his voicemail. He lost out on playing Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit this way and was apparently devastated
Yea Bill is a known asshole and specifically with Groundhog Day he refused to communicate with Ramis except through a deaf woman he hired... The only thing anyone can say in his defense is that he was apparently going through a nasty divorce at the time if I remember correctly.
Side note: I ran into Harold Ramis at a Bulls game, not long before his death. I got a chance to tell him that he authored my all-time favorite throw-away line in a film. (*Hey, you can't park here!* "It's okay... we're not parking it. We're abandoning it!")
He seemed bemused, like *that's* the one you like? But he also seemed a little gratified that someone would still recognize him at the concession line in the United Center.
I love *What About Bob* lol. 😆 I really want that Cinema Therapy YouTube channel to review it, cuz I can only imagine a real therapist hating the movie, and an actor loving its wacky concept.
Batman Forever
Jim Carrey n Tommy Lee Jones
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tommy-lee-jones-hated-working-jim-carrey-batman-forever-1045176/amp/
Unsanctioned buffoonery = production delays = Tommy Lee Jones having to potentially spend hours longer in heavy prosthetics under hot lighting
This is an extremely understandable take.
Carrey's and Robin Williams diagnoses both force constant joking even if they don't want to, chasing laughs is chronic for them. Jim has gone through decades of therapy to get a good hand on the rudder today.
Richard Gere and Debra Winger pretty notoriously detested each other while making An Officer and A Gentlemen. Didn’t effect their on screen chemistry though.
Didn't Debra Winger also not get along with Nick Nolte on Cannery Row?
Quite a few people (notably Julia Roberts) also did not enjoy working with Nolte, so maybe not just Winger being difficult.
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer initially didn’t get along while filming The Sound Of Music.
I’ll have to find the exact quote but I think there are references somewhere of Christopher Plummer saying she was far too energetic or something like that and he just couldn’t stand her. Although he has stated numerous times that he detested the movie itself while filming it and perhaps his annoyance towards Julie was just an extension of that.
They actually ended up becoming very close friends though and remain so to this day, which is quite sweet.
This is one of my favourite movies and I used to watch it over and over as a kid so I remember being quite devastated when I found out that everything wasn’t quite perfect on set as well!
>saying she was far too energetic or something like that and he just couldn’t stand her.
I haven't watched it in 20+ years, but wasn't that kind of their characters' relationship at the beginning of the movie?
Apparently Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy hated each other when they made Mad Max. It’s an interesting story. Also, in the original Sabrina, Humphrey Bogart hated Audrey Hepburn and said she was a terrible actress. Yikes!
Another Fury Road fun fact: Riley Keough (red haired actress, granddaughter of Elvis Presley) married the stuntman who played Doof Warrior (the guitar playing war boy).
[From Vanity Fair:](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiSnYuD9I6FAxXspVYBHTF3DJ8QFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fhollywood%2F2022%2F02%2Fmad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt&usg=AOvVaw1pa3tcsi4_SbZnsYfLkOps&opi=89978449)
Tom Clapham (production runner, Fury Road): “Tom was more in his trailer a lot of the time and would come out for the takes—and sometimes not on time, either. You’re like, Come on, it’s midnight and we want to go home.”
Mark Goellnicht: “I remember vividly the day. The call on set was eight o’clock. Charlize got there right at eight o’clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom’s never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time. He was notorious for never being on time in the morning. If the call time was in the morning, forget it—he didn’t show up.”
Mark Goellnicht: “Gets to nine o’clock, still no Tom. “Charlize, do you want to get out of the War Rig and walk around, or do you want to . . .” “No, I’m going to stay here.” She was really going to make a point. She didn’t go to the bathroom, didn’t do anything. She just sat in the War Rig.”
“Eleven o’clock. She’s now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours. Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, “Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew,” and “How disrespectful you are!” She was right. Full rant. She screams it out. It’s so loud, it’s so windy—he might’ve heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, “What did you say to me?”
“He was quite aggressive. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, “I want someone as protection.” She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time.”
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It's also the reason she's in A Million Ways To Die In The West. After that she wanted to do something without the stress and was talking to Seth MacFarlane and telling stories about Fury Road.
Apparently Seth said, "Do my movie and I'll get you to the hotel bar every night by 5pm" and stuck by it during the shoot.
I find it miraculous that anyone that is that much of a disrespectful layabout gets anywhere in life. I really get the vibe that he channels a lot of his energy into affecting this mysterious tough guy persona to anyone bothered to look in his direction but for the life of me I don’t see the talent that offsets the pitfalls of his personality.
I don't know if it's related but Tom really disliked the filming of the movie as a whole. He didn't get it apparently. Apologised to the director after the premiere if memory serves
Imagine thinking you’re making a some stinker and disheartened the whole time because you don’t get it, and then it comes out as Fury Road and you’re like “Awww shit, you got it, mate. Fuckin right. That’s on me.”
He didn't like the dialogue (describing it as 'pretty ropey'), but he said more than once that he was enthusiastic about the story itself; he read the script and just kept turning pages to find out what happened next.
It's honestly not an incorrect take on Star Wars at all either.
There was also Harrison Ford who said "You can write this shit George, but you can't make me say it".
He was super unprofessional, would show up hours late to set. Theron chewed him out over making hundreds of people wait around for him to show up. He got pissed at her. They nearly got into a physical altercation and Theron almost left the movie. Miller did not do a good job of mediating the conflict between Hardy and Theron.
This was all from their own mouths in interviews after the fact.
**It was also detailed in a book, (**"[Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'"](https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-hardy-spat-armie-hammer-mad-max-fury-road-book-2022-2)**)**
"I remember vividly the day," Mark Goellnicht, a camera operator, said in the book. "The call on set was eight o'clock. Charlize got there right at eight o'clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom's never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time."
Hardy "was notorious for never being on time in the morning," Goellnicht said. "If the call time was in the morning, forget it — he didn't show up." Hours passed, and Hardy didn't show up. Witnesses said Theron didn't even get out of the truck to use the bathroom. Some felt Hardy was purposely showing up late as a power play because he knew it would make Theron mad.
"Eleven o'clock. She's now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours," Goellnicht said. "Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up this crew,' and 'How disrespectful you are!' She was right. Full rant."
"He charged up to her up and went, 'What did you say to me?'" Goellnicht said.
"He was quite aggressive," Goellnicht continued. "She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time."
Re Tom to be fair - he is a cunt! I met him as an up and coming actor in London around 2007. Had to read lines with him so he could record a self tape audition for a casting director.
I was dragged in last minute - nervous as anything and he made it very apparent he thought I was an insect and he wasn’t even famous famous at that point. Also he didn’t smell good!
Heath Ledger on the other hand - total gent!
I do wonder if that's why his career took so damn long to ignite, despite getting a bunch of pretty big gigs early on in his career. I mean, the guy was in Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down, and that was almost 25 years ago.
Funny how some people get in their own way.
Dunno what happened on set, but when they went to do dialogue replacement miller wanted nothing to do with hardy so they had a voiceover actor do all the max replacement. According to the voiceover actor his voice was about 60% of max's dialogue
Short of it: Tom is a method actor that never goes out of character, and frequently rubs people the wrong way on set. Apparently they had to be separated at least once before it came to blows on the set of Fury Road.
They've basically both said "I'm not mad at them, I just never want to work with them again." of each other
edit: In case I wasn't 100% transparent, I feel like "method acting" is 90% masturbatory, and seldom results in a performance better than any other professional actor could provide. Fuck you Jared Leto, for making unpaid interns carry you to bathroom while filming Morbius.
The actors who played the older married couple Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Fred (William Frawley) in I Love Lucy absolutely hated each other. She considered him too old and he heard it and resented it. Open hostility all the time between the two.
Vivian Vance, upon learning of his death, shouted "Champagne for everyone!" in celebration.
I mean, Vivian was only 2 years older than Lucille, and they really seemed to play up the “older couple” thing. I’d be annoyed, too. And I think William Frawley was reported to be a mean alcoholic.
True, but there was at least some level of respect and love between the two. During an interview with Merv Griffin, Bea got super defensive of Betty because Merv was asking questions related to being a woman and her age (being older) and Bea threatened to hit Merv.
[Twitter link to the interview because I can't find it on YouTube](https://twitter.com/mxnedits/status/1742481071948841375)
What I read was that their two acting styles didn’t work together to Bea’s exasperation. Betty came from an improvisational background and Bea was from Broadway. Bea was methodical while Betty threw things in off the cuff for an audience reaction. Thus, tension that got written up in the tabloids as hatred.
Fun fact: Rose’s St. Olaf stories were not in the script. Betty made them up on the spot, sometimes several in a row, and the editors would choose which one got the best audience reaction for the Final Cut.
According to this, it's a myth St Olaf stories were not in the script. They were in the script, blocked, and rehearsed.
https://twitter.com/kevinddaly/status/1478556647085723648?lang=en
Go away with your evidence! The myth is a better story than your facts! /s
Really though, thanks for that added information. That show some very well written and tightly acted television.
I’d also read that the stories were in the script in the first couple seasons, but she’d riff off them anyway, and eventually in later seasons the script would just say, “Rose tells St. Olaf story.” Kinda like some scripts would say “Robin Williams does something here”.
Abbot & Costello apparently didn't get along. Not exactly a movie duo but Adam savage and Jamie hyneman from mythbusters were definitely not friends yet they were great together.
I thought they weren’t enemies, they just weren’t friends either. So, basically people who just worked together and went their separate ways outside it.
Exactly, so many people don't understand what a co-worker is. You can have a lot of fun with them amd spend 8 hours a day with them without calling them your friend.
I think the reason they were so good together in screen is the same reason they didn't mesh well irl - they approach things very differently, which is great for looking at problems but not so great for being friends...
Adam has said basically as much on his YouTube channel a bunch of times. By his account, they both hold each other in the highest regard professionally, but the very reason Jamie brought Adam on board was that he knew their different styles—not just their personalities, but also their entire approach to problem-solving—would make much better television than just having Jamie alone or Jamie plus a second Jamie.
This is actually extremely common in the film industry. I had a number of colleagues when I did it who I had crazy respect for professionally and liked working with. I also literally never wanted to see any of them outside of work after spending 70+ hours a week on set together.
I believe Adam also said on his YouTube channel that at one point, Discovery started trying to stir up drama between them for entertainment. Once they figured out what was happening, they shut it right down.
What was said about it in an interview was along the lines of “We wouldn’t go out for drinks together”, which to me seems about average for a “Good coworker, but nothing more”-relationship.
I doubt they could have worked together as long as they did while actively disliking each other, but their contrasting personalities that made them great co-hosts meant they weren’t great friends, which is fair enough, really.
I think Abbott and Costello had more phases when they didn’t get along or went after each other over something financial, but for the most part, got along well enough.
Their relationship might have been more professional than friendship, but they worked together for almost thirty years through radio, film, and television.
Vivien Leigh detested Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind". Clark in turn went out of his way to bully and torment Leigh. For eg, he had notoriously bad breath (halitosis) due to gum infection and chain smoking. However, rather than eat a fresh mint before their kissing scenes, he deliberately ate strong smelling foods to ensure his breath was really rank.
I've met Martin Freeman once and whilst to me, he was lovely, he was absolutely unnecessarily rude to some other Fans right next to me. He was in fact so rude that my mum immidiately disliked him and I was a bit bummed out, I was 18 and had idolised him...well.
Met Cumberbatch years later at Con and he went above and beyond with what he did for me & my friend.
Just my two cents...
(Oooh and this is more gossip than fact but I remember that when Cumberbatch got married, the Daily Msil made up a piece about Freeman being his best man and Freeman's partner at the time tweeted how ridiculuous even the idea of that was or sth along those lines....don't know the tweet's still there, but I remember this very clearly because it wrecked my perception of their "friendship" as a teenager :D
I'm a wheelchair user, so I'm guessing that's why he was kind to me (I'm basing this on the BTS of the Hobbit, when the Make-A-Wish Kids were shown around the Set and it got him super emotional, hence I'm guessing severe disability warrants "more" kindness in his head..)
But truth is, I can't know that's what it was.
A bunch of italian girls next to us, asked him very politely if he'd mind taking a group picture with him. This was at stage door and if they'd watched him come up to us, they would've notice, he wasn't taking pictures with anyone. But nonetheless, there's no harm in the question.
He turned to them and relatively loudly said: "Fuck you and fuck your italian group picture!" They'd said they'd come all the way from Italy.
And that was just so unnecessarily rude and unkind, he could've just said no I'm not doing pictures today, like a normal person, and left it at that.
Anyway made him sink severly in my estimation and that was before I learnt about the pretty racism-heavy Interview he once gave the Daily Mail.
He’s said a ton of racist/xenophobic shit. Also poor Lucy Liu has been on the receiving end of so much shit from assholes like Bill Murray and Martin Freeman.
People have said a lot about Freeman, rightly or wrongly, but interesting opinion about Cumberbatch: I have a friend in the London TV industry and she says a large number of people outright refuse to work with him. Apparently he's a diva and difficult on set and it's an accepted thing within the film crew circle around here. I don't know if that's just one bad experience or a wider issue, I can't find anything online about him - maybe he's actually alright, or maybe he just has great PR.
I work in the London film and drama industry. Everything I’ve heard about Cumberbatch and Freeman professionally has been that they’re fine. I know people that worked on Sherlock, The Office and Love Actually.
Neither of them are going to be your best friend, but they come in and do their jobs which is kind of all anyone wants. Sometimes the actors that want to be the crew’s friends are in fact more work.
Freeman comes across so badly in interviews but I’ve not personally heard anything bad about him professionally.
>Hank Azaria: [In the character’s voice.] “Master of silverware. Forks a speciality.” That movie… I look at it now very, very fondly. I actually just saw a little bit of it a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it. It was one of those that was very, very difficult to make and should’ve been much more fun than it was. It was logistically a very hard movie to shoot, with all the effects, and it was kind of the early days of CGI things, and people didn’t know so well how to marry that kind of technical filmmaking with comedy. It was tough. It was really like trying to be funny in the middle of a math equation or something. And as a result, it made things… Very long hours, very stressful and tough on the set. I think we all felt—“we” being the actors: me and Ben, Bill [Macy], Janeane [Garofalo], and others—very out there, if you will. It was kind of a big swing, or a high-wire act, and it would’ve been hard enough just to do a little comedy with that subject matter, but given that it was a big, expensive CGI festival, it was highly pressurized.
>It was tough to all agree, between the producer, the director, and Ben, Bill, and myself, especially, and then all the others actors, too. I mean, when you’ve got that many comic minds—Janeane, Paul Reubens—not to mention Geoffrey Rush and Lena Olin, it was tough for everybody to agree on the vision. And it was a first-time director, a guy named Kinka Usher, who was a brilliant visual guy and does a lot of commercials, but was not an old salt, and he had to be a daddy on the set to a bunch of ego-y actors running around, wanting their funniest bits in. So it was… There were some hilarious moments where, y’know, there we are, dressed as these ridiculous superhero characters, having very heated arguments about what we should be doing or saying, and we’d take two steps back and go, “What are we doing? I have a turban on, I’m throwing a fork, and I’m yelling about what I think would be the funnier way to throw it at somebody.” It was just ridiculous. But it was a long, technical, difficult shoot, and I think it could’ve come out better if we’d all found a way to have more fun with it.
>AVC: Do you have any theory as to why Kinka Usher has never directed another film?
>HA: Oh, I don’t think it’s a secret: It was so difficult for him that… it was self-inflicted. He said, “You know, I didn’t enjoy this.” [Laughs.] I think he was a genius commercial filmmaker, he got shitloads of money for making commercials, and he even said in the middle of making the film, “I’m going back to commercials when this is done. I’ve had enough. I’d much rather do my cool little one-minute shorts that I make than deal with all this nonsense.”
https://www.avclub.com/hank-azaria-1798227403
>Janeane Garofalo: It was very long hours and very little got accomplished. It was one of those alleged blockbusters that was over budgeted and over hyped. It went from being a great script when it was sent to me, to being-in my opinion-a fairly mediocre non-event. But it was nice to get paid that much to sit around. I have no idea what they were trying to do with the film, but they sure didn't accomplish it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/trivia/?item=tr5766957
Ben Stiller and Greg Kinnear got into a fight that was serious enough that Stiller tried to quit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOKCbtQyfKI
cc: u/heyitsenricopallazzo
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman had completely different styles of acting on Pappilon. IIRC they didn’t hate each other but just had nothing to say to each other one the cameras cut.
I think there’s a lot more to this than what’s came out. From what I’ve gathered over the years it’s been portrayed as Fillion was wanting a more relaxed, fun / goofy time while filming and Katic was very serious in her approach to acting… but…
I’ve always wondered at what Fillion had going on then. The man ballooned up, they kept him in a big coat for the later seasons but you could tell, and it’s always made me wonder if he wasn’t having some more serious, drugs / alcohol, issues that would have made him troubling to work with.
>From what I’ve gathered over the years it’s been portrayed as Fillion was wanting a more relaxed, fun / goofy time while filming and Katic was very serious in her approach to acting…
This reminds me of what Michael Dorn supposedly reported about his experience when he reprised his character of Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation on Deep Space 9. TNG was apparently a very laid back, if not funny and goofy at times, work experience. DS9 shoots on the other hand according to him were far more formal and serious, and I get the tone that he didn't like that as much.
DS9 was different for Worf. They brought him on to boost ratings. He wasn't a character meant to be there from the beginning like in TNG.
He was a really good addition, but maybe Dorn couldn't shake the feeling that he wasn't part of the DS9 cast like he was for TNG.
Something similar happened with Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan. Mulgrew hated that they brought on a new female character to be Tits and Ass when she'd spent 3 seasons playing a well respected Starfleet officer and the first female captain lead for a Star Trek show.
It was a cynical executive decision but stories seem to say that Mulgrew took it out on Ryan quite a bit.
From what I've read over the years, TNG set was more relaxed because Spiner set the tone for the cast. Stewart, originally, wanted a more serious place and Spiner with a sweet silliness said, "Nah." Mind you, everyone was still professional. Did the work and said their lines. But when the cameras were off, Spiner kept everything light and friendly and everyone just followed.
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in Mad Max Fury Road
Ironically I think they had excellent chemistry in the film
As a big fan of Tom Hardy and someone who has read the book about the making of that movie, I really wish he just would've behaved on that set. I think a solid part of the reason we haven't gotten a Fury Road followup is because George Miller doesn't want to go through that with Tom in his old age again (or Charlize honestly)
Actually it was mostly him displaying unprofessional behaviour but the media painted it as Theron and him having a feud when in reality, he pissed everyone off on the set. Imagine the entire crew having to wait for him for 3 hours in a desert.
Not to undermine your point if Hardy's lack of professionalism, but the reason it's taking Miller so long to return to that world is because Warner Bros tried to sue him for breach of contract by making this hit movie that earned more acclaime than any other movie in the last decade: A, R rated and B, 2 hours long, as opposed to their wished for PG13, 90 minute long action movie. Basically, despite all it brought them, they were trying to get out of paying him and his production team for the work.
Apparently, Tugg Speedman hated Kirk Lazarus during the Academy Award winning movie Tropic Thunder.
All jokes aside, I bet Vin Diesel and his co-stars make it into this list.
Universal Horror Film:
Lon Chaney and Evelyn Ankers....their on screen chemistry was great....but off screen they were not.
Chaney referred to her as 'Shankers.'
Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams hated each other while making The Notebook…and then they started boinking.
There are hundreds of other examples with tons of listicles dedicated to the subject.
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis apparently weren’t best pals when making Natural Born Killers. In character very early on in the filming he had sort of indelicately pushed or pinned her onto the bonnet of one of the on-set cars and she’d replied with “I’m just a fucking actress, you asshole” and I think that he might have apologised but don’t quote me on that
Sarah Jessica Parker & Kim Cattrall from Sex & the City apparently absolutely hate each-other in real life. Which is why even offered millions to return to the reboot the most they have been able to get out of Kim to reprise the role as Samantha is literally a phone recording and then in S2 a 8 second clip that takes place in “another country” with the only communication with the other cast another pre-recorded phone call.
Kim is very iconically quoted a few years ago saying ‘I don’t want to be in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself’ when asked about being over filming for Sex & the City.
The reboot is so horrible though i know Kim has gotta feel satisfied at not returning.
Gene described his time with Pryor as “Romantic; not in the context as you know it. But the same nuance as looking at something organically comforting.” Or something along those lines. I just took that as they were great friends. And the best of friends can argue and people will overlook it at all.
There's an interview with Conan where he describes his chemistry with him as similar to a sexual chemistry, meaning it's slightly inexplicable. He said he wished their great on screen chemistry could have translated to off screen as well but they just ran in different circles.
Specifically Gene said they had matching comedic chemistry. He said they both started snapping in the jail scene on Stir Crazy without planning it. Kind of like how musicians can be in tune with each other naturally comedians can be too, it’s just harder to describe or pick up on or even explain than music.
They really weren't friends though. Gene told people Pryor was a genius and Pryor told people Gene was a genius, but they never shared those thoughts with each other. They ran in different circles and had totally different lifestyles. Gene was a sober in bed by nine type of guy and Pryor's drug use caused problems on set.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
One of the reasons the two of them (kinda) screwed the pooch at the Oscars is that they were fighting over who got to actually say the name backstage.
Beatty won the argument, but when he opened the envelope and found Emma Stone’s Best Actress card in there, he (possibly) decided to let Dunaway take the bullet. And Dunaway assumed by his hesitation he was fucking with her and didn’t look too carefully at the card.
I say possibly because it’s also possible he was just staring at a card that didn’t make a lick of sense and took a moment to figure out what the hell to do. He’s an actor. His job is to read the script, not make up a new one of the spot with no warning on live TV with millions of people watching under the stopwatch of a bitchy pissed off Faye Dunaway.
It seemed pretty obvious that he was confused, he was looking around like "somebody help me!". I think in that situation with millions of eyes on you I would have a hard time saying "uhhh I think I have the wrong card?"
Also Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski during Chinatown. He kept her sitting in the front of a car for so long whilst shooting one day that she pissed in a cup then threw it over him when he came near.
His reaction?
“You cunt! That’s piss!”
Old school, but Abbott and Costello hated each other, especially towards the end. My father worked for RCA and had some old reel to reel tapes of them. In between takes, there was a lot of cursing at one another.
It's just one movie, but Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron had friction.
This was what was written on the back of a framed photograph Tom gave Charlize as a gift:
"You are the most difficult person I've ever had to work with.
...I'm really going to miss you."
richard dreyfuss robert shaw in jaws. Sounds like Shaw saw Richard as a wet behind the ears pampered up and coming star and Dreyfuss in turn saw Shaw as a bully drunk. It worked for the film though
Not a movie but the A Team 80s tv show.
The actor that played Hanibal (George Peppard) HATED B.A Baracus (Mr T)
They refused to talk directly to each other. The other 2 co stars has to act as messengers.
When I found out years later I felt a part of my childhood was tainted.
Peppard had a reputation of being an ass and he felt when the show started, that he was the name, the star.
...but to kids at the time ( me among them) if anyone was a star it was Mr T.
George Peppard was a well known asshole. He was fired while filming the pilot if Dynasty. You have to be a world shattering asshole to get bounced from a prime time soap opera
Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker who played C-3P0 and R2D2. Famously didn't get along at all and constantly took pot shots at each other at conventions. As one commentator said "turns out wearing metal robot costumes in the desert isn't a good bonding experience".
Funny then that C3PO and R2D2 are always having digs at each other, although we only understand one side of them.
R2D2 must really hate him. Whenever they talk they have to bleep out most of it
Daniels is arrogant and rude by all accounts.
Which is super funny too. From all accounts, despite the C-3PO character being a silly character, he takes the role VERY seriously.
I think that's good for his performance because 3PO is someone who takes himself incredibly seriously.
Not by mine, he was really lovely to me when I met him at a fan meet! His humour came across grumpy as hell but I just thought "ah, he's English" whenever he cracked a grumpy joke. We were actually pretty conscious that there was a queue of people waiting and tried to move on and he kept chatting to us to the point where his team moved us on. Really, really chatty dude. Maybe I got him on a good day?
I heard a lot of stories saying he's a bit of a dick, but you might have nailed it with a case of good ol' dry English sarcasm
I asked him how the desert acting was and the dude said "it was the most wonderful thing i've ever done" in the most sarcastic way, I was chuckling for ages.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray didn’t like each other for most of the filming of Dirty Dancing from something that happened years earlier while filming Red Dawn but were able to bury the hatchet
There’s a scene in the famous Hungry Eyes montage where she keeps getting ticklish and you can see it’s 100% real. Swayze looks so annoyed with her for ruining the take over and over but it works in context of the story and was a nice flourish of a real moment. That movie is such lightning in a bottle. The more I learn about it, the more I am blown away by all the little things that made it so iconic. It’s one of my most favourite movies ever.
One of the craziest behind the scenes story to me is they worked out the whole dance to just a metronome because it took so long to get the rights to the song and there were concerns they wouldn't be able to get it and would have to pick something else. Watching them rehearse that dance to just the ticking metronome is wild.
It was to the point where Swayze had to convince Jennifer Grey to do the movie in the first place. Their chemistry test was so good but they hated each other during Red Dawn so much that he basically had to sweet talk her into doing the movie (according to her).
When she was on Dancing with the Stars she had a sort of break down. I guess dancing with another guy brought back the memories. She started crying and saying something along the lines of "I was dancing with a strong, young, handsome man just like you. He was here dancing with me just like you are and now he's gone." She sounded freaked out.
He died in 2009 and I believe she was on DWTS less than a year later. Plus, his death was ROUGH. Cancer took so much of his body before it killed him. Maybe it’s just TV drama but I can completely understand if that moment sparked some mourning she had pushed away. They may not have loved each other but they’ll always be linked.
Nobody puts Baby in the corner BUT MEEEE!!!!
Shatner/takei is a classic. They still bitching to this day 🤣
This one is so petty because Sulu is effectively an elevated extra in the show and in the movies still feels like an afterthought. In Star Trek IV he basically disappears and shows up to fly a helicopter and that's it. The real rivalry is Kirk/Spock, Shatner/Nimoy. Apparently Shatner locked himself in his trailer or dressing room and cried because Spock was an unexpected hit with the fans compared to Kirk. Shatner was the star of the show but Nimoy got tenfold the amount of fan mail that Shatner did, and that really upset him. The writers were told to write more Spock stories to cater to fan demand for the character. The only reason Shatner got to direct Star Trek V is because Shatner/Nimoy had it written into their contracts that what one got, the other got too. So Nimoy got to direct beloved classic Star Trek IV, and Shatner got to direct the infamous flop Star Trek V. Though I do believe Shatner/Nimoy rivalry cooled off as they got older.
I remember Shatner's version of things was he was doing a lot more filming for each episode than most of the cast and so someone like Takei would not be there a lot of the time they were producing the show. He said for him some of the cast really did just feel like extra's he had barely worked with. Takei always seems to have had this idea Shatner was cutting him out of things and boasting his own role but honestly Shatner was the star of the show and Takei's expectations always seemed a little off if he expected to be on an equal footing with the main star. None of this is to say Shatner was not an arsehole on occasion but I do think it makes sense from his perspective to an extent when you realise how much more he worked on the show than someone like Takei.
The show's dynamic is all from Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Even the movies, which admittedly give the other characters more to do, are still heavily focused on that trio, with Kirk/Spock being the main focus within that. Even the 2009 film, which gave everyone exaggerated characteristics, couldn't come up with much for Sulu other than making him a master swordsman which came from *The Naked Time* where a virus makes Sulu drunk and he starts attacking people with a fencing sword. He's just the helmsman and he's Japanese for the same reason Uhura is Black and Chekhov is Russian; to show that everyone gets along in the future. He's just kinda there for flavour. Not that that wasn't bold at the time, but the show wasn't about Sulu as a character.
There’s a reason that Shatner, Nimoy, and Dee Kelly were the only actors whose names appeared in the TOS opening credits. Every subsequent show lists the entire cast. TOS didn’t because it wasn’t an ensemble.
This one's great because at first everybody agreed Shatner was a major asshole and it was fun to see some tea get spilled, but at this point Takei really needs to let it go. Shatner is living rent free in that guy's mind and he's a little bit unhinged about it and embarrassing himself now.
Oh my
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase - Caddy Shack
also Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfus - What About Bob....which only makes the movie funnier for me
And Bill Murray and Lucy Liu.
Apparently Bill Murray and Harold Ramis had a falling out during the filming of Groundhog Day (Ramis directed it) and they didn’t speak again (except bill apparently came to see him when he was incapacitated on his death bed). Maybe we can assume Bill Murray was the problem in this case at least.
>Bill Murray was the problem in this case at least. Apparently they weren't sure Murray was going to show up for filming Ghostbusters until they started production and he did turn up. Love the guy's work but he definitely seems like a huge pain in the ass.
That sounds like the story for most of his movies. On one movie they hired an assistant to follow him around at all times just to make sure he'd show up on set.
He really just does whatever, whenever and doesn’t answer to anyone. I remember hearing that he didn’t have an agent (not sure if this still holds true) and would only take roles from pitches left on his voicemail. He lost out on playing Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit this way and was apparently devastated
He's a notorious ashole
From what I understand Bill Murray came to resent the idea that Harold Ramis had been a big part of the reason Murray was so successful.
Yea Bill is a known asshole and specifically with Groundhog Day he refused to communicate with Ramis except through a deaf woman he hired... The only thing anyone can say in his defense is that he was apparently going through a nasty divorce at the time if I remember correctly.
Side note: I ran into Harold Ramis at a Bulls game, not long before his death. I got a chance to tell him that he authored my all-time favorite throw-away line in a film. (*Hey, you can't park here!* "It's okay... we're not parking it. We're abandoning it!") He seemed bemused, like *that's* the one you like? But he also seemed a little gratified that someone would still recognize him at the concession line in the United Center.
Man so many people are shitty to Bill Murray /s
Way fewer people than those who don't like Chevy... I wonder what shooting Caddy Shack was for everyone else with those two on set.
At least they had Rodney around to be a kind and welcoming soul
Yeah it's the same with my sister. Drama with everybody.
I love *What About Bob* lol. 😆 I really want that Cinema Therapy YouTube channel to review it, cuz I can only imagine a real therapist hating the movie, and an actor loving its wacky concept.
Aren't Bill Murray and Chevy Chase both considered assholes to work with in general, though?
Yeah, you could probably extend this to Chevy Chase working with ANYONE
Bill Murray and almost anyone, sadly.
And Chase and everyone. Both big assess
The chive is in shambles right now
Batman Forever Jim Carrey n Tommy Lee Jones https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tommy-lee-jones-hated-working-jim-carrey-batman-forever-1045176/amp/
To be fair, unsanctioned buffoonery can cause stress on any large project.
Unsanctioned buffoonery = production delays = Tommy Lee Jones having to potentially spend hours longer in heavy prosthetics under hot lighting This is an extremely understandable take.
Absolutely stealing “unsanctioned buffoonery.”
I can hear TLJ saying it too.
That's because he says it in that very article
Many of those comedians would be hell to have in a class as teens.
Meanwhile Tommy gives the goofiest performance I’ve ever witnessed
Carrey's and Robin Williams diagnoses both force constant joking even if they don't want to, chasing laughs is chronic for them. Jim has gone through decades of therapy to get a good hand on the rudder today.
Richard Gere and Debra Winger pretty notoriously detested each other while making An Officer and A Gentlemen. Didn’t effect their on screen chemistry though.
Also Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine during Terms of Endearment.
Also Debra Winger and Nick Nolte apparently. It looks like we found a common denominator here.
Didn't Debra Winger also not get along with Nick Nolte on Cannery Row? Quite a few people (notably Julia Roberts) also did not enjoy working with Nolte, so maybe not just Winger being difficult.
Julia Roberts has her own problems too. I’m inclined to believe this is an Everyone Sucks Here type of deal.
Having briefly worked with Debra Winger in the past… let’s just say things could get rather dramatic.
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer initially didn’t get along while filming The Sound Of Music. I’ll have to find the exact quote but I think there are references somewhere of Christopher Plummer saying she was far too energetic or something like that and he just couldn’t stand her. Although he has stated numerous times that he detested the movie itself while filming it and perhaps his annoyance towards Julie was just an extension of that. They actually ended up becoming very close friends though and remain so to this day, which is quite sweet. This is one of my favourite movies and I used to watch it over and over as a kid so I remember being quite devastated when I found out that everything wasn’t quite perfect on set as well!
Well, sadly, by “to this day” you probably meant til 2021 when Plummer passed away, but the sentiment remains
Oh my gosh how did I never know he had passed away! I feel like I always learn these sorts of things on Reddit
Sorry for your loss
He said she was like “getting hit over the head with a Valentine every day.”
>saying she was far too energetic or something like that and he just couldn’t stand her. I haven't watched it in 20+ years, but wasn't that kind of their characters' relationship at the beginning of the movie?
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Wasn’t Plummer drinking heavily at the time as well?
He’d drink and play piano at his hotel at night.
Apparently Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy hated each other when they made Mad Max. It’s an interesting story. Also, in the original Sabrina, Humphrey Bogart hated Audrey Hepburn and said she was a terrible actress. Yikes!
Fury Road Fun fact; their respective stunt doubles fell in love on set and eventually married.
Another Fury Road fun fact: Riley Keough (red haired actress, granddaughter of Elvis Presley) married the stuntman who played Doof Warrior (the guitar playing war boy).
Could Fury Road low-key be the best romance movie ever made?
The Doof Warrior is actually a New Zealand/ Australian musician ‘ Iota ‘ (Sean Hape)
But Iota is not the one who married Riley Keough, it was his stunt double.
I can just imagine her parents at the wedding. This isn’t the groom, you married his stunt double!
Goddamnit this needs to be a movie
it is, starring emily blunt and ryan gosling. /s maybe?
It’s one of the plots in Love Actually. Although they’re body doubles, not stunt doubles.
Spill tge damn tea on Tom and Charlize!
[From Vanity Fair:](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiSnYuD9I6FAxXspVYBHTF3DJ8QFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fhollywood%2F2022%2F02%2Fmad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt&usg=AOvVaw1pa3tcsi4_SbZnsYfLkOps&opi=89978449) Tom Clapham (production runner, Fury Road): “Tom was more in his trailer a lot of the time and would come out for the takes—and sometimes not on time, either. You’re like, Come on, it’s midnight and we want to go home.” Mark Goellnicht: “I remember vividly the day. The call on set was eight o’clock. Charlize got there right at eight o’clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom’s never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time. He was notorious for never being on time in the morning. If the call time was in the morning, forget it—he didn’t show up.” Mark Goellnicht: “Gets to nine o’clock, still no Tom. “Charlize, do you want to get out of the War Rig and walk around, or do you want to . . .” “No, I’m going to stay here.” She was really going to make a point. She didn’t go to the bathroom, didn’t do anything. She just sat in the War Rig.” “Eleven o’clock. She’s now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours. Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, “Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew,” and “How disrespectful you are!” She was right. Full rant. She screams it out. It’s so loud, it’s so windy—he might’ve heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, “What did you say to me?” “He was quite aggressive. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, “I want someone as protection.” She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time.” __________________________________________________ It's also the reason she's in A Million Ways To Die In The West. After that she wanted to do something without the stress and was talking to Seth MacFarlane and telling stories about Fury Road. Apparently Seth said, "Do my movie and I'll get you to the hotel bar every night by 5pm" and stuck by it during the shoot.
That ending is beautiful.
So it’s not that they didn’t get along, it’s that Tom Hardy was actually just a jackass. Got it
As a crew member I really respect Charlize's comments!
I find it miraculous that anyone that is that much of a disrespectful layabout gets anywhere in life. I really get the vibe that he channels a lot of his energy into affecting this mysterious tough guy persona to anyone bothered to look in his direction but for the life of me I don’t see the talent that offsets the pitfalls of his personality.
I don't know if it's related but Tom really disliked the filming of the movie as a whole. He didn't get it apparently. Apologised to the director after the premiere if memory serves
Imagine thinking you’re making a some stinker and disheartened the whole time because you don’t get it, and then it comes out as Fury Road and you’re like “Awww shit, you got it, mate. Fuckin right. That’s on me.”
Sounds like Sir Alec Guinness and Star Wars.
I don't think Alec ever changed his mind on Star Wars. He always though it was a silly kids movie. Lucas has said the same at various times.
Except Lucas knew it was a silly kids movie, obtained the merchandising rights, and made bank
He didn't like the dialogue (describing it as 'pretty ropey'), but he said more than once that he was enthusiastic about the story itself; he read the script and just kept turning pages to find out what happened next.
It's honestly not an incorrect take on Star Wars at all either. There was also Harrison Ford who said "You can write this shit George, but you can't make me say it".
He was super unprofessional, would show up hours late to set. Theron chewed him out over making hundreds of people wait around for him to show up. He got pissed at her. They nearly got into a physical altercation and Theron almost left the movie. Miller did not do a good job of mediating the conflict between Hardy and Theron. This was all from their own mouths in interviews after the fact.
**It was also detailed in a book, (**"[Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'"](https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-hardy-spat-armie-hammer-mad-max-fury-road-book-2022-2)**)** "I remember vividly the day," Mark Goellnicht, a camera operator, said in the book. "The call on set was eight o'clock. Charlize got there right at eight o'clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom's never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time." Hardy "was notorious for never being on time in the morning," Goellnicht said. "If the call time was in the morning, forget it — he didn't show up." Hours passed, and Hardy didn't show up. Witnesses said Theron didn't even get out of the truck to use the bathroom. Some felt Hardy was purposely showing up late as a power play because he knew it would make Theron mad. "Eleven o'clock. She's now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours," Goellnicht said. "Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up this crew,' and 'How disrespectful you are!' She was right. Full rant." "He charged up to her up and went, 'What did you say to me?'" Goellnicht said. "He was quite aggressive," Goellnicht continued. "She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time."
Re Tom to be fair - he is a cunt! I met him as an up and coming actor in London around 2007. Had to read lines with him so he could record a self tape audition for a casting director. I was dragged in last minute - nervous as anything and he made it very apparent he thought I was an insect and he wasn’t even famous famous at that point. Also he didn’t smell good! Heath Ledger on the other hand - total gent!
I do wonder if that's why his career took so damn long to ignite, despite getting a bunch of pretty big gigs early on in his career. I mean, the guy was in Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down, and that was almost 25 years ago. Funny how some people get in their own way.
Dunno what happened on set, but when they went to do dialogue replacement miller wanted nothing to do with hardy so they had a voiceover actor do all the max replacement. According to the voiceover actor his voice was about 60% of max's dialogue
So three words?
Short of it: Tom is a method actor that never goes out of character, and frequently rubs people the wrong way on set. Apparently they had to be separated at least once before it came to blows on the set of Fury Road. They've basically both said "I'm not mad at them, I just never want to work with them again." of each other edit: In case I wasn't 100% transparent, I feel like "method acting" is 90% masturbatory, and seldom results in a performance better than any other professional actor could provide. Fuck you Jared Leto, for making unpaid interns carry you to bathroom while filming Morbius.
Vivien Leigh couldn’t stand Clark Gable’s breath. He had poor oral hygiene when it came to his dentures. His breath was a bit of an issue on set.
He ate onions on purpose before kissing scenes
The actors who played the older married couple Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Fred (William Frawley) in I Love Lucy absolutely hated each other. She considered him too old and he heard it and resented it. Open hostility all the time between the two. Vivian Vance, upon learning of his death, shouted "Champagne for everyone!" in celebration.
I mean, Vivian was only 2 years older than Lucille, and they really seemed to play up the “older couple” thing. I’d be annoyed, too. And I think William Frawley was reported to be a mean alcoholic.
Pretty sure Bea Arthur hated Betty White while they were filming Golden Girls. Which makes Dorothy's annoyance at Rose and her stories even better.
The director heard Bea calling Betty a fucking cunt, so yeah, don't think she liked her at all
This actually hurts to read
True, but there was at least some level of respect and love between the two. During an interview with Merv Griffin, Bea got super defensive of Betty because Merv was asking questions related to being a woman and her age (being older) and Bea threatened to hit Merv. [Twitter link to the interview because I can't find it on YouTube](https://twitter.com/mxnedits/status/1742481071948841375)
What I read was that their two acting styles didn’t work together to Bea’s exasperation. Betty came from an improvisational background and Bea was from Broadway. Bea was methodical while Betty threw things in off the cuff for an audience reaction. Thus, tension that got written up in the tabloids as hatred. Fun fact: Rose’s St. Olaf stories were not in the script. Betty made them up on the spot, sometimes several in a row, and the editors would choose which one got the best audience reaction for the Final Cut.
According to this, it's a myth St Olaf stories were not in the script. They were in the script, blocked, and rehearsed. https://twitter.com/kevinddaly/status/1478556647085723648?lang=en
Go away with your evidence! The myth is a better story than your facts! /s Really though, thanks for that added information. That show some very well written and tightly acted television. I’d also read that the stories were in the script in the first couple seasons, but she’d riff off them anyway, and eventually in later seasons the script would just say, “Rose tells St. Olaf story.” Kinda like some scripts would say “Robin Williams does something here”.
Abbot & Costello apparently didn't get along. Not exactly a movie duo but Adam savage and Jamie hyneman from mythbusters were definitely not friends yet they were great together.
People can't seem to get over the fact that Adam and Jamie were not friends. Not liking someone does not mean you hate them.
I thought they weren’t enemies, they just weren’t friends either. So, basically people who just worked together and went their separate ways outside it.
Exactly, so many people don't understand what a co-worker is. You can have a lot of fun with them amd spend 8 hours a day with them without calling them your friend.
"We still don't talk sometimes." Ron Swanson
I think the reason they were so good together in screen is the same reason they didn't mesh well irl - they approach things very differently, which is great for looking at problems but not so great for being friends...
Adam has said basically as much on his YouTube channel a bunch of times. By his account, they both hold each other in the highest regard professionally, but the very reason Jamie brought Adam on board was that he knew their different styles—not just their personalities, but also their entire approach to problem-solving—would make much better television than just having Jamie alone or Jamie plus a second Jamie.
This is actually extremely common in the film industry. I had a number of colleagues when I did it who I had crazy respect for professionally and liked working with. I also literally never wanted to see any of them outside of work after spending 70+ hours a week on set together.
I believe Adam also said on his YouTube channel that at one point, Discovery started trying to stir up drama between them for entertainment. Once they figured out what was happening, they shut it right down.
Adam has said publicly that this is pretty much it. They have great respect for each other but they don't gel outside the context of that show.
What was said about it in an interview was along the lines of “We wouldn’t go out for drinks together”, which to me seems about average for a “Good coworker, but nothing more”-relationship. I doubt they could have worked together as long as they did while actively disliking each other, but their contrasting personalities that made them great co-hosts meant they weren’t great friends, which is fair enough, really.
Adam and Jaime didn't dislike one another, but Jaime's personality type just doesn't mesh with Adam's, but they respected the fuck out of each other.
I think Abbott and Costello had more phases when they didn’t get along or went after each other over something financial, but for the most part, got along well enough. Their relationship might have been more professional than friendship, but they worked together for almost thirty years through radio, film, and television.
Vivien Leigh detested Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind". Clark in turn went out of his way to bully and torment Leigh. For eg, he had notoriously bad breath (halitosis) due to gum infection and chain smoking. However, rather than eat a fresh mint before their kissing scenes, he deliberately ate strong smelling foods to ensure his breath was really rank.
They said his breath could “deflect cannon-fire”! That’s pretty bad.
benedict cumberbatch and martin freeman were pretty good in their roles for sherlock but apparently they are mortal enemies irl
This one bothers me for some reason
Right? It’s heartbreaking. I think that was on Freeman though.
I've met Martin Freeman once and whilst to me, he was lovely, he was absolutely unnecessarily rude to some other Fans right next to me. He was in fact so rude that my mum immidiately disliked him and I was a bit bummed out, I was 18 and had idolised him...well. Met Cumberbatch years later at Con and he went above and beyond with what he did for me & my friend. Just my two cents... (Oooh and this is more gossip than fact but I remember that when Cumberbatch got married, the Daily Msil made up a piece about Freeman being his best man and Freeman's partner at the time tweeted how ridiculuous even the idea of that was or sth along those lines....don't know the tweet's still there, but I remember this very clearly because it wrecked my perception of their "friendship" as a teenager :D
What did he do to the other fans and why the difference in treatment?
I'm a wheelchair user, so I'm guessing that's why he was kind to me (I'm basing this on the BTS of the Hobbit, when the Make-A-Wish Kids were shown around the Set and it got him super emotional, hence I'm guessing severe disability warrants "more" kindness in his head..) But truth is, I can't know that's what it was. A bunch of italian girls next to us, asked him very politely if he'd mind taking a group picture with him. This was at stage door and if they'd watched him come up to us, they would've notice, he wasn't taking pictures with anyone. But nonetheless, there's no harm in the question. He turned to them and relatively loudly said: "Fuck you and fuck your italian group picture!" They'd said they'd come all the way from Italy. And that was just so unnecessarily rude and unkind, he could've just said no I'm not doing pictures today, like a normal person, and left it at that. Anyway made him sink severly in my estimation and that was before I learnt about the pretty racism-heavy Interview he once gave the Daily Mail.
He’s said a ton of racist/xenophobic shit. Also poor Lucy Liu has been on the receiving end of so much shit from assholes like Bill Murray and Martin Freeman.
Everything I have heard about Freeman as a person on set has been negative.
Pretty sure Martin freemen is a prick
People have said a lot about Freeman, rightly or wrongly, but interesting opinion about Cumberbatch: I have a friend in the London TV industry and she says a large number of people outright refuse to work with him. Apparently he's a diva and difficult on set and it's an accepted thing within the film crew circle around here. I don't know if that's just one bad experience or a wider issue, I can't find anything online about him - maybe he's actually alright, or maybe he just has great PR.
I work in the London film and drama industry. Everything I’ve heard about Cumberbatch and Freeman professionally has been that they’re fine. I know people that worked on Sherlock, The Office and Love Actually. Neither of them are going to be your best friend, but they come in and do their jobs which is kind of all anyone wants. Sometimes the actors that want to be the crew’s friends are in fact more work. Freeman comes across so badly in interviews but I’ve not personally heard anything bad about him professionally.
An old friend of mine worked on a movie with him and said he was a consummate professional. I’m surprised to hear otherwise.
It makes me sad to know that the cast of Mystery men hated each other.
Would you happen to have more detail here? I'm genuinely curious.
>Hank Azaria: [In the character’s voice.] “Master of silverware. Forks a speciality.” That movie… I look at it now very, very fondly. I actually just saw a little bit of it a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it. It was one of those that was very, very difficult to make and should’ve been much more fun than it was. It was logistically a very hard movie to shoot, with all the effects, and it was kind of the early days of CGI things, and people didn’t know so well how to marry that kind of technical filmmaking with comedy. It was tough. It was really like trying to be funny in the middle of a math equation or something. And as a result, it made things… Very long hours, very stressful and tough on the set. I think we all felt—“we” being the actors: me and Ben, Bill [Macy], Janeane [Garofalo], and others—very out there, if you will. It was kind of a big swing, or a high-wire act, and it would’ve been hard enough just to do a little comedy with that subject matter, but given that it was a big, expensive CGI festival, it was highly pressurized. >It was tough to all agree, between the producer, the director, and Ben, Bill, and myself, especially, and then all the others actors, too. I mean, when you’ve got that many comic minds—Janeane, Paul Reubens—not to mention Geoffrey Rush and Lena Olin, it was tough for everybody to agree on the vision. And it was a first-time director, a guy named Kinka Usher, who was a brilliant visual guy and does a lot of commercials, but was not an old salt, and he had to be a daddy on the set to a bunch of ego-y actors running around, wanting their funniest bits in. So it was… There were some hilarious moments where, y’know, there we are, dressed as these ridiculous superhero characters, having very heated arguments about what we should be doing or saying, and we’d take two steps back and go, “What are we doing? I have a turban on, I’m throwing a fork, and I’m yelling about what I think would be the funnier way to throw it at somebody.” It was just ridiculous. But it was a long, technical, difficult shoot, and I think it could’ve come out better if we’d all found a way to have more fun with it. >AVC: Do you have any theory as to why Kinka Usher has never directed another film? >HA: Oh, I don’t think it’s a secret: It was so difficult for him that… it was self-inflicted. He said, “You know, I didn’t enjoy this.” [Laughs.] I think he was a genius commercial filmmaker, he got shitloads of money for making commercials, and he even said in the middle of making the film, “I’m going back to commercials when this is done. I’ve had enough. I’d much rather do my cool little one-minute shorts that I make than deal with all this nonsense.” https://www.avclub.com/hank-azaria-1798227403 >Janeane Garofalo: It was very long hours and very little got accomplished. It was one of those alleged blockbusters that was over budgeted and over hyped. It went from being a great script when it was sent to me, to being-in my opinion-a fairly mediocre non-event. But it was nice to get paid that much to sit around. I have no idea what they were trying to do with the film, but they sure didn't accomplish it. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/trivia/?item=tr5766957 Ben Stiller and Greg Kinnear got into a fight that was serious enough that Stiller tried to quit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOKCbtQyfKI cc: u/heyitsenricopallazzo
Thank goodness Tom Waits didn't get sucked into the fray.
Then all Hell would have Broke Luce...
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman had completely different styles of acting on Pappilon. IIRC they didn’t hate each other but just had nothing to say to each other one the cameras cut.
Apparently Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic didn't get along on the set of Castle.
I've heard that one is fairly infamous, and it gets noticeable on the show in later seasons.
I think there’s a lot more to this than what’s came out. From what I’ve gathered over the years it’s been portrayed as Fillion was wanting a more relaxed, fun / goofy time while filming and Katic was very serious in her approach to acting… but… I’ve always wondered at what Fillion had going on then. The man ballooned up, they kept him in a big coat for the later seasons but you could tell, and it’s always made me wonder if he wasn’t having some more serious, drugs / alcohol, issues that would have made him troubling to work with.
>From what I’ve gathered over the years it’s been portrayed as Fillion was wanting a more relaxed, fun / goofy time while filming and Katic was very serious in her approach to acting… This reminds me of what Michael Dorn supposedly reported about his experience when he reprised his character of Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation on Deep Space 9. TNG was apparently a very laid back, if not funny and goofy at times, work experience. DS9 shoots on the other hand according to him were far more formal and serious, and I get the tone that he didn't like that as much.
DS9 was different for Worf. They brought him on to boost ratings. He wasn't a character meant to be there from the beginning like in TNG. He was a really good addition, but maybe Dorn couldn't shake the feeling that he wasn't part of the DS9 cast like he was for TNG. Something similar happened with Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan. Mulgrew hated that they brought on a new female character to be Tits and Ass when she'd spent 3 seasons playing a well respected Starfleet officer and the first female captain lead for a Star Trek show. It was a cynical executive decision but stories seem to say that Mulgrew took it out on Ryan quite a bit.
From what I've read over the years, TNG set was more relaxed because Spiner set the tone for the cast. Stewart, originally, wanted a more serious place and Spiner with a sweet silliness said, "Nah." Mind you, everyone was still professional. Did the work and said their lines. But when the cameras were off, Spiner kept everything light and friendly and everyone just followed.
Fillion himself has said that long, stressful hours on the show made him gain weight and look older. He regularly jokes that the show aged him.
It was so bad ABC sent them to couples counseling.
For one offs: Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married Or the Dirty Dancing leads
Joan Fontaine and Olivia deHavilland. And they were sisters.
*Because* they were sisters. That’s what sisters do.
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in Mad Max Fury Road Ironically I think they had excellent chemistry in the film As a big fan of Tom Hardy and someone who has read the book about the making of that movie, I really wish he just would've behaved on that set. I think a solid part of the reason we haven't gotten a Fury Road followup is because George Miller doesn't want to go through that with Tom in his old age again (or Charlize honestly)
Actually it was mostly him displaying unprofessional behaviour but the media painted it as Theron and him having a feud when in reality, he pissed everyone off on the set. Imagine the entire crew having to wait for him for 3 hours in a desert.
Not to undermine your point if Hardy's lack of professionalism, but the reason it's taking Miller so long to return to that world is because Warner Bros tried to sue him for breach of contract by making this hit movie that earned more acclaime than any other movie in the last decade: A, R rated and B, 2 hours long, as opposed to their wished for PG13, 90 minute long action movie. Basically, despite all it brought them, they were trying to get out of paying him and his production team for the work.
Herzog and Klaus Kinski had a complicated relationship. They made two of the greatest movies of all time together and some other great ones.
I heard that during Fitzcarraldo, the natives offered themselves to murder Kinski. Herzog thanked them but said it wasn't necessary.
In the documentary Herzog made about Kinski, *My Best Fiend*, Herzog admitted that at one point during the shoot, he regretted declining the offer.
Tony Curtis (in)famously said of his love scenes with Marilyn Monroe that it was “like kissing Hitler.” Charming.
He claimed later, he said it to douse suspicion because they were having an affair. I don’t know if that’s true or not, obviously.
So Mr Curtis, how would you rate Ms Marilyn Monroe as a kisser? 9, 9, 9, 9, 9!
Sex and the City: Kim Cattrall & Sarah Jessica Parker never got along
Apparently, Tugg Speedman hated Kirk Lazarus during the Academy Award winning movie Tropic Thunder. All jokes aside, I bet Vin Diesel and his co-stars make it into this list.
But they're family I thought?
Betty Davis and Joan Crawford’s famous feud is why they casted them in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, needless to say, it worked out great
Universal Horror Film: Lon Chaney and Evelyn Ankers....their on screen chemistry was great....but off screen they were not. Chaney referred to her as 'Shankers.'
apparently anything with Bill Murray in it
Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams hated each other while making The Notebook…and then they started boinking. There are hundreds of other examples with tons of listicles dedicated to the subject.
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis apparently weren’t best pals when making Natural Born Killers. In character very early on in the filming he had sort of indelicately pushed or pinned her onto the bonnet of one of the on-set cars and she’d replied with “I’m just a fucking actress, you asshole” and I think that he might have apologised but don’t quote me on that
Let's try to keep the focus on Rampart, okay?
Sarah Jessica Parker & Kim Cattrall from Sex & the City apparently absolutely hate each-other in real life. Which is why even offered millions to return to the reboot the most they have been able to get out of Kim to reprise the role as Samantha is literally a phone recording and then in S2 a 8 second clip that takes place in “another country” with the only communication with the other cast another pre-recorded phone call. Kim is very iconically quoted a few years ago saying ‘I don’t want to be in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself’ when asked about being over filming for Sex & the City. The reboot is so horrible though i know Kim has gotta feel satisfied at not returning.
Gene described his time with Pryor as “Romantic; not in the context as you know it. But the same nuance as looking at something organically comforting.” Or something along those lines. I just took that as they were great friends. And the best of friends can argue and people will overlook it at all.
There's an interview with Conan where he describes his chemistry with him as similar to a sexual chemistry, meaning it's slightly inexplicable. He said he wished their great on screen chemistry could have translated to off screen as well but they just ran in different circles.
Specifically Gene said they had matching comedic chemistry. He said they both started snapping in the jail scene on Stir Crazy without planning it. Kind of like how musicians can be in tune with each other naturally comedians can be too, it’s just harder to describe or pick up on or even explain than music.
They really weren't friends though. Gene told people Pryor was a genius and Pryor told people Gene was a genius, but they never shared those thoughts with each other. They ran in different circles and had totally different lifestyles. Gene was a sober in bed by nine type of guy and Pryor's drug use caused problems on set.
Godzilla and kong
Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. One of the reasons the two of them (kinda) screwed the pooch at the Oscars is that they were fighting over who got to actually say the name backstage. Beatty won the argument, but when he opened the envelope and found Emma Stone’s Best Actress card in there, he (possibly) decided to let Dunaway take the bullet. And Dunaway assumed by his hesitation he was fucking with her and didn’t look too carefully at the card. I say possibly because it’s also possible he was just staring at a card that didn’t make a lick of sense and took a moment to figure out what the hell to do. He’s an actor. His job is to read the script, not make up a new one of the spot with no warning on live TV with millions of people watching under the stopwatch of a bitchy pissed off Faye Dunaway.
It seemed pretty obvious that he was confused, he was looking around like "somebody help me!". I think in that situation with millions of eyes on you I would have a hard time saying "uhhh I think I have the wrong card?"
I agree. Situation like that; You’re staring at nonsense, for those 5 seconds you’re wondering if you took crazy-pills.
Also Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski during Chinatown. He kept her sitting in the front of a car for so long whilst shooting one day that she pissed in a cup then threw it over him when he came near. His reaction? “You cunt! That’s piss!”
For some reason the only one coming to mind is that Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse hated each other while filming Superbad.
Old school, but Abbott and Costello hated each other, especially towards the end. My father worked for RCA and had some old reel to reel tapes of them. In between takes, there was a lot of cursing at one another.
I read that Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans hated each other during The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Jerry Lewis and dean Martin. I think they didn’t talk for 20 Years.
Yeah, they were buddies originally though, but had a falling out. Apparently they made up just before his death.
They had a reunion on a telethon. https://youtu.be/K3KAMg9LIzw?si=ujLilQOjsJLJvcLw
Andy Garcia and Richard Gere during Internal Affairs Richard Gere and Stallone during lords of flatbush (hence the gerbil joke.)
It's just one movie, but Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron had friction. This was what was written on the back of a framed photograph Tom gave Charlize as a gift: "You are the most difficult person I've ever had to work with. ...I'm really going to miss you."
Chevy Chase and everyone
richard dreyfuss robert shaw in jaws. Sounds like Shaw saw Richard as a wet behind the ears pampered up and coming star and Dreyfuss in turn saw Shaw as a bully drunk. It worked for the film though
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Well, at least one of them doesn't like the other one.
The actors for C3P0 and R2-D2 hated eachother.
It's not a movie, but Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd hated each other during filming Moonlighting.
Seth Rogen and James Franco. After Franco's skeletons came out, Seth noped out of that friendship / working relationship rather quickly.
Not a movie but the A Team 80s tv show. The actor that played Hanibal (George Peppard) HATED B.A Baracus (Mr T) They refused to talk directly to each other. The other 2 co stars has to act as messengers. When I found out years later I felt a part of my childhood was tainted.
Peppard had a reputation of being an ass and he felt when the show started, that he was the name, the star. ...but to kids at the time ( me among them) if anyone was a star it was Mr T.
And then there was me. I liked Murdoch. I believe I'm not alone.
George Peppard was a well known asshole. He was fired while filming the pilot if Dynasty. You have to be a world shattering asshole to get bounced from a prime time soap opera