Actors often go to great extremes for a role, but the following actors' crazy on-set behavior
gives new meaning to the term "too far."
From on-set meltdowns to physical altercations, you won't believe some of the lines these
actors crossed.
Every story that's come out about Jared Leto's Method acting while filming his scenes as
the Joker for Suicide Squad has sounded less awe-inspiring than simply gross.
He confessed to E! News that he sent various cast members, well, used condoms and anal
beads.
"I did a lot of things to create a dynamic to create an element of surprise, a spontaneity."
"That's surprise!"
Seriously, dude.
What?
"I mean, the Joker is somebody who doesn't really respect things like personal space
or boundaries."
Fortunately for Leto, he didn't mess with Viola Davis, whose reaction to his on-set
antics perfectly summed up the reaction of any rational human being.
"I would have got my husband, who was called the Headache Ball back in the day when he
played football.
I would have said, 'Take care of the Joker.'"
Of all the film set freak-outs in Hollywood history, none may ever equal the expletive-filled
rant Christian Bale fired off at cinematographer Shane Hurlbut during the making of Terminator:
Salvation in 2009.
It painted a horrible picture of Bale, who came off looking like a rage-filled blowhard
after Hurlbut reportedly distracted him during a quiet, emotional scene.
"Am I going to walk around and rip your f---in' lights down, in the middle of a scene?
Then why the f--- are you walking right through, ah duh-da-duh-da like this in the background?"
Listening to Bale's tantrum years after it leaked, it's easy to understand why he was
quick to apologize on KROQ-FM's "Kevin and Bean" show.
"There is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me."
"I make no excuses for it.
It is inexcusable."
Bale went on to say that he and Hurlbut made up very shortly after, although, shocker,
they haven't worked together since.
Katherine Heigl is one of those actresses who's reportedly so difficult to work with,
entire lists are made about her alleged on-set behavior.
In the case of the 2010 movie Life as We Know It, it depends who you believe.
While the film's director and executive producer praised Heigl's work on the movie to The Hollywood
Reporter, some insiders claimed they witnessed "desperately difficult situations" involving
the Emmy-winning star.
The source revealed,
"She can cost you time every single day of shooting.
Wardrobe issues, not getting out of the trailer, questioning the script every single day.
Even getting her deal closed at Warners was hard.
She hit that point of 'no.'"
When you start to remember that Heigl reportedly made $12 million for the movie, you can't
help but roll your eyes.
It's not a huge wonder, then, that Heigl has essentially disappeared from Hollywood.
As fun as she was to watch, you still have to play nice at work.
Rumors have persisted for years that Gene Hackman was a nightmare to work with on the
set of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.
Those stories were finally confirmed by Anderson and Tenenbaum stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Anjelica
Huston during a 10th anniversary screening of the film at the New York Film Festival
in 2011.
According to IndieWire, all three of them admitted to being scared to work with Hackman
in the first place.
During a Q&A panel, Huston said,
"I was a lot scared but I was more concerned with protecting Wes…
[None of us have] heard or seen of Gene since this movie."
Later in the Q&A, Anderson vaguely confirmed a longstanding rumor that, yes, Hackman really
did call him the C-word.
Still, he did his best to downplay the whole situation, saying,
"He's a huge force and I really enjoyed working with him.
Even though he was very challenging with me, it was very exciting seeing him launch into
these scenes."
He may be funny while the cameras are rolling, but in between takes, Mike Myers is reportedly
incredibly difficult to work with.
His ridiculous antics on the set of Wayne's World have been agonizingly detailed by the
film's director, Penelope Spheeris, who later told Entertainment Weekly that she, quote,
"hated that bastard for years."
She vented,
"You should have heard him b----ing when I was trying to do that 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
scene.
'I can't move my neck like that!
Why do we have to do this so many times?
No one is going to laugh at that!'"
Even worse, according to ABC News, Spheeris recalled a moment when Myers spent hours on
the phone with his manager threatening to quit because the set didn't provide margarine.
If there's one director in Hollywood you shouldn't piss off, it's Steven Spielberg.
That's allegedly what Julia Roberts did while filming Hook in 1991.
Reportedly heartbroken over the end of her relationship with Kiefer Sutherland, Roberts
was rumored to have been notoriously difficult to work with, to the point where some tabloids
referred to her as "Tinkerhell," according to the New York Times.
Even Spielberg himself confirmed tensions on the set in an interview with 60 Minutes,
saying flat-out,
"It was an unfortunate time for us to work together."
"Steven Spielberg I find quite confused…
I find him to be unfortunately not as good at remembering the that time we spent together
as I am."
If tabloid rumors are to be believed, Jennifer Lopez may have experienced her own unflattering
moment while filming the romantic comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting.
According to the New York Daily News, Lopez, who had just split from her husband of 10
years, Marc Anthony, "wouldn't talk to anyone directly" on the film's Atlanta set.
In fact, the only way she allegedly would communicate was "through her handler."
So much for still being Jenny from the block.
The exact details of how and why Shia LaBeouf threw a punch at Tom Hardy while filming their
2012 movie Lawless are unclear.
LaBeouf first alluded to it in an interview with Details, and Hardy confirmed the altercation
in a subsequent chat with Den of Geek, saying with a laugh,
"He just attacked me.
He was drinking moonshine.
I was wearing a cardigan, and er, went down."
The actual punch has since been downplayed.
LaBeouf later told MTV News that it was brotherly love, not moonshine, that caused the fight.
Meanwhile, director John Hillcoat claimed on Reddit that, while the fight did happen,
Hardy wasn't actually knocked out.
Instead, the two of them simply had to be restrained.
Isaiah Washington was fired from the set of Grey's Anatomy in 2007 amid rumors that he
directed a homophobic slur at co-star T.R.
Knight during a heated fight with Patrick Dempsey on the set the previous fall.
In the lead-up to getting fired, Washington repeatedly denied the allegations, most famously
during a press conference at the 2007 Golden Globes….
"No I did not call T.R. a f-----.
Never happened.
Never happened."
Knight contradicted his account.
Washington finally copped to his offense in an interview with Larry King, claiming he
meant to use the offending word in the context of, quote, "somebody who is being weak."
Aaaaaaand… goodbye, Isaiah Washington!
Lindsay Lohan's bad behavior on the set of Georgia Rule is the stuff of Hollywood legend.
According to the Los Angeles Times, things eventually got so bad that the studio chief
of Morgan Creek Productions actually sent her a letter in which he claimed she was,
quote, "acting like a spoiled child."
Lohan, who was often late to the set or missed filming days altogether, even ticked off various
cast members, including none other than two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda.
Amid rumors of an on-set blow-up, Fonda confirmed to CBS News that, yes, she once cursed Lohan
out in her trailer.
"She was late one day and I got mad, and went in and said, 'Get your (blank) out here on
the set.'"
If it's any consolation for Lohan, her feud with Fonda was limited to just that incident,
and Fonda claimed that overall, she loved working with her.
If Patton Oswalt is to be believed, Wesley Snipes was a terror to work with on the set
of Blade: Trinity.
"He would only answer to the name Blade.
You couldn't call him…"
"He would only answer to Blade?!"
"To Blade, yeah."
Speaking to The A.V.
Club in 2012, Oswalt described Snipes as an off-the rails diva who only came to set to
film his close-ups.
He revealed,
"He wouldn't come out of his trailer, and he would smoke weed all day."
"You'd walk by his trailer, and this wall of pot stench would just like WHOA and like
kinda push you to the side."
Even worse, Oswalt claims that Snipes at one point "tried to strangle" the film's director,
David Goyer.
Yeah, that's about 50 lines crossed right there.
LL Cool J's alleged improvising on the set of Oliver Stone's football drama Any Given
Sunday reportedly got so violent, the Miami-Dade Police Department had to get involved.
According to MTV News, Cool J pushed and punched co-star Jamie Foxx, who was wearing a helmet,
during an unscripted moment.
"I was rough with him again, and, then, you know, I don't know why, but, you know, he
thought it was a good idea to punch me in my face."
Foxx had reportedly tried to reason with LL, and when that didn't work, sources said Foxx
threw the punch in his face.
Both were said to have suffered minor injuries, with LL claiming to have knocked Foxx out
with a retaliatory smackdown.
Cool J allegedly claimed he was trying to make the scene, quote, "more believable since
they were acting."
Whatever the case, Foxx told MTV News in 2006 that they ended their feud after running into
each other at a Miami Heat game.
By that point, he said,
"When you're grown, you don't really have time for all that [beefing].
When you're young, it's cool to have your emotions on your chest.
But we're grown now."
What's a surefire way to tick people off in Hollywood?
Air out your dirty laundry on social media.
That's exactly what Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson did in August 2016 when he posted a message
to Facebook calling out some of his male castmates in Fast 8.
Without naming names, he wrote,
"Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't…
When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these
scenes and my blood is legit boiling, you're right."
TMZ later alleged that Johnson was directly referencing Vin Diesel, with whom Johnson
was rumored to clash over Diesel's producing decisions, among other things.
Whatever the case, their feud appears to have died down, leading some to wonder if the feud
was really just a setup.
Either way, for the amount of cash he's making for Fast 8, Johnson could probably stand to
bite a few bullets.
The allegedly awful way in which Dustin Hoffman treated co-star Meryl Streep on the set of
Kramer vs. Kramer was well documented in the 2016 biography Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep.
According to excerpts obtained by Vanity Fair, Hoffman allegedly tortured Streep during the
filming of the movie.
He would bring up the death of her former boyfriend, and once improvised a scene by
smashing a glass against a wall, leaving shards of it in her hair.
"And then, in another scene, he slapped me.
And when I see the movie, I see the imprint of his hand."
Although she didn't participate in the biography, Streep did imply that shooting Kramer vs.
Kramer with Hoffman wasn't exactly the best of times in a 2011 interview with CBS News.
"But I think he's very, very gifted.
It wasn't the most fun I've ever had on a film."
Pissing off Meryl Streep?
Oh, Dustin.
That's a big no-no.
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