It seems like every job has at least one coworker that everybody in the office avoids like the
plague. In Hollywood, some celebrities have earned a serious reputation among their co-stars,
so much so that other actors don't want to work with them. Here are some celebs who flat
out refused to work together.
The crime epic The Irishman was a grand reunion of Hollywood legends, but Mickey Rourke wasn't
invited. According to Page Six, he claimed on an Italian TV show that he was in line
for a part in the film until one of the stars stepped in and put the blocks on it.
Rourke admitted that his problems with Robert De Niro began in 1987 when they appeared opposite
one another in the psychological horror movie Angel Heart. Rourke grew up idolizing De Niro,
but his opinion changed after he introduced himself on set. He revealed,
"About five minutes later, [De Niro] comes over. He said, 'I think it's better if we
don't talk because of [our] characters in the movie. It's better if we don't say hello,
talk or anything.' It hurt my feelings a little bit, 'cause I looked up to him."
Producers denied his claims in a statement, saying:
"Mickey Rourke was never asked to be in The Irishman nor was he ever even thought of,
discussed or considered to be in the movie."
Back in the early '90s, Mark Wahlberg was better known as Marky Mark, the frontman of
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He wasn't taken very seriously in Hollywood, and when
Leonardo DiCaprio found out that Marky Mark was being considered for a role in The Basketball
Diaries, he apparently freaked out. Wahlberg told The Hollywood Reporter,
"Leonardo was like, 'Over my dead f---ing body, Marky Mark's not going to be in this
f---ing movie.'...I was a bit of a d--- to him at a charity basketball game. So he was
like, 'This f---ing ass---- is not going to be in this movie.'"
According to Wahlberg, he and DiCaprio both had, quote, "a specific opinion about each
other" prior to meeting, but that all went out the window as soon as they got to work.
Wahlberg told Extra,
"Once I finally got to the point where I was able to audition and read with him, then we
just both kinda looked at each other, we were like, 'Wow!' We were literally out that night
and we became fast friends."
Audiences fell hard for 2004's The Notebook, but according to the director, the drama sometimes
continued after he yelled "cut." Co-stars Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling apparently
clashed in front of the entire crew. Nick Cassavetes told VH1,
"They were really not getting along one day on set...Ryan came to me, and there's 150
people standing in this big scene...and he says, 'Would you take her out of here and
bring in another actress to read off camera with me?...'I can't. I can't do it with her.
I'm just not getting anything from this.'"
"Now I hate you, you smug bastard."
"Well I hate you!"
Producers called a clear-the-air meeting after Gosling refused to shoot the big scene with
McAdams, and it got off to a rocky start. The director explained,
"They started screaming and yelling at each other. They had it out. I think Ryan respected
her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open.
The rest of the film wasn't smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing."
The two actors ended up dating for a couple of years after wrapping The Notebook.
Rumors about a beef between Vin Diesel and The Fate of the Furious co-star Dwayne Johnson
turned out to be 100 percent true. It all kicked off when Johnson took to social media
to slam an anonymous co-star during the last week of filming, saying in a since-deleted
Instagram caption,
“My female co-stars are always amazing and I love ’em. My male co-stars however are
a different story. Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while
others don't. The ones that don’t are too chicken s--- to do anything about it anyway.
Candy asses.”
Johnson later confirmed that he was indeed talking about Diesel, who was reportedly late
to set on a regular basis. Johnson later told Rolling Stone,
"Vin and I had a few discussions, including an important face-to-face in my trailer. We
have a fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating...I
wish him all the best, and I harbor no ill will there, just because of the clarity we
have. Actually, you can erase that last part about 'no ill will.' We'll just keep it with
the clarity."
When the film came out, some suggested the pair's scenes were shot to hide the fact that
they weren't even together on the set. Johnson confirmed, saying,
"That is correct. We were not in any scenes together."
"And will you ever film a scene with him again?"
"Gotta plead the fifth on that one."
Former NCIS star Pauley Perrette has revealed that she'll never return to the CBS procedural
because she's scared of former colleague Mark Harmon. She admitted on Twitter,
"I am terrified of Harmon and him attacking me. I have nightmares about it."
Perrette didn't go into specifics about why she was so scared of Harmon, claiming that
there was a, quote, "very powerful publicity machine" keeping her quiet. She did, however,
seem to confirm that she was subjected to violence during her time on the show, tweeting,
"I've been supporting ant[i]-bullying programs forever. But now I KNOW because it was ME!
If it's school or work, that you're required to go to? It's horrifying. I left. Multiple
Physical Assaults. I REALLY get it now."
According to Vanity Fair, the two actors started shooting on different days to avoid contact
with one another before Parrette's departure.
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