Everybody who has ever had a job has also had the experience of being forced to work
alongside that one co-worker you just can't stand.
You know, the guy who makes fish in the office microwave, or the lady who's always taking
personal calls from her cat-sitter.
And Hollywood is no different, except when stars have a problem with their co-workers,
it makes headlines.
Here's a look at some actors who got along so badly they refused to shoot scenes together.
The Rock and Vin Diesel
Rumors of a feud between actors Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vin Diesel made headlines
in 2016 when Johnson took to Instagram in a since-removed post to complain about his
experience filming the eighth incarnation of The Fast and The Furious franchise.
He noted that his female co-stars were "always amazing," but said that his male co-stars
...
"... are a different story.
Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals [...] The ones that don't
are too chicken s**t to do anything about it anyway.
Candy asses."
It became evident who the "candy ass" in question was in 2018 when Johnson confirmed to Rolling
Stone that he and Diesel didn't film any scenes together during the shooting of The Fate of
the Furious.
He explained,
"[W]hat I came to realize is that we have a fundamental difference in philosophies on
how we approach movie making and collaborating.
It took me some time, but I'm grateful for that clarity.
Whether we work together again or not.
[...] I wish him all the best, and I harbor no ill will there [...] Actually, you can
erase that last part about 'no ill will.'
We'll just keep it with the clarity."
So we shouldn't expect a buddy comedy anytime soon.
"Watch this."
Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn
Game of Thrones has about a million plot lines and characters, so it's not too surprising
that certain actors don't cross paths during the show's filming.
However, two characters who should have shared a lot of screen time but haven't are Lena
Headey's evil Queen Cersei Lannister and Jerome Flynn's mercenary Bronn, who at various times
works for each of Cersei's brothers.
So why have they only shared one brief scene together?
According to The Telegraph, Headey and Flynn were a couple off-screen way back in 2002,
and in the wake of an ugly split refused to be in the same room.
A source told the paper,
"Jerome and Lena aren't on speaking terms any more and they are never in the same room
at the same time.
[...] It's a pity because they appeared to have patched things up for a while, but now
the word is they should be kept apart at all costs."
Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi
Up through season two of The Good Wife, Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi's characters
were best friends, until it was revealed that Kalinda had once slept with Alicia's husband.
After that the two characters almost never shared a scene together.
According to Vogue, a long-rumored feud between the co-stars may have played a role in the
plot twist, and may have been the real reason why the actresses no longer shared screen-time.
Although the actresses initially denied any problems on set, the show's season six finale,
in which the characters "reunite," set tongues wagging when it became apparent they hadn't
in fact shot the big reunion scene together.
Yep: they weren't even in the room together.
After Margulies told Vulture that the scene was shot this way due to Panjabi filming the
TV show The Fall at the same time, Panjabi tweeted,
"[The Fall] was not even in production at that time and I was in New York ready to film
the scene!"
Sounds like there might be a lot more to this particular split-screen story.
Emma Watson and Channing Tatum
According to anonymous sources, Emma Watson was so flustered while shooting a planned
scene with Channing Tatum for This is the End that she walked off the set in the middle
of a strip routine.
In 2013, James Franco confirmed the incident happened, though he didn't call out Watson
by name.
He told Interview,
"[T]his actress—I won't say who, but she had a smaller role in the film—walked off
the movie in the middle of a scene [...] [W]hat was going on around her was, I guess, too
extreme for her.
[...] And she said, 'Yeah, I've got to leave.'"
"When I got the script I was like, 'OK, this is not my normal type of thing, not really
always my sense of humor."
Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte
The 1994 romcom I Love Trouble didn't exactly set the world on fire, and part of that might
be due to the total lack of chemistry between stars Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte.
In fact, according to the Los Angeles Times, things got so hostile on set they ended up
filming most of their scenes separately.
"Roberts reportedly wasn't thrilled with Nolte's machismo, so she would deride and insult her
co-star.
Some on the set claim that he became so annoyed with her attitude that he would do things
to agitate her even more.
The discord was so intense [...] the two played more to stand-ins than to each other."
After filming wrapped, Roberts also told The New York Times that while Nolte could be ...
"... charming and nice, he's also completely disgusting."
Nolte responded by saying:
"It's not nice to call someone 'disgusting.'
But she's not a nice person.
Everyone knows that."
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