9 Famous Movie Couples Who Hated working together
Relationships take work.
It takes years to develop chemistry with your partner.
Finding out what makes them tick, hoping they tolerate your quirks.
Even then, even after so much personal investment, it may not work out.
When a casting director has to find actors to portray a romantic couple, people who have
to act like they love each other, it can be an arduous task.
While most movie sets are usually a friendly experience, with everyone getting along, every
so often the people pretending to be in love don’t really like each other that much.
Here are 10 Famous Movie Couples Who Hated Working Together.
Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road
A high-octane car chase through a deserted wasteland is the perfect analogy for a new
relationship.
While they never realized their romance, the glance exchanged between Furiosa and Max at
the end of Mad Max: Fury Road appears to be a blossoming of their love.
Unfortunately, its hard to grow anything after a nuclear holocaust.
During filming, co-stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy got along even less their on-screen
counterparts.
Director George Miller and his crew spent weeks in the African desert, filming a war
movie on a singular truck.
The tight spaces and isolation took a toll on the stars of the movie… well that and
because Tom Hardy is a wee bit intense.
According to Theron, her and Hardy went at it most of the shooting.
Since the release of the film, both stars have praised each other in the media, claiming
they’ve come to respect each others work.
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, The Tourist
Put two of Hollywood’s biggest icons in a globe-trotting comedy thriller and you should
make movie magic.
However, in 2010’s The Tourist, we got a lousy movie with zero chemistry between the
leads.
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie are two great actors who aren’t great together.
Rumors from the set had Jolie annoyed by Depp’s aloof lifestyle, claiming he refused to get
in shape or cut his hair for his role as a bumbling traveler with secret.
He was often late to the set, spending nights practicing with his band.
Depp had his own gripes.
According to those close to him, Angelina came to the set with an attitude, spending
hours in her trailer, and rarely interacting with the cast.
With both actors going through public divorces, we’re pretty sure they won’t be turning
to each other for comfort.
Harrison Ford and Sean Young, Blade Runner
It’s no surprise Sean Young is not reprising her role in Blade Runner 2049, the currently
filming sequel to Blade Runner.
More famous for her off-the-set actions, Young brought an amazing presence to the role of
Rachael, a bio-robotic android that believes it’s human.
Harrison Ford, as Deckard, is tasked with hunting down the replicants and exterminating
them.
Tension already existed on set, as Director Ridley Scott and Ford argued often.
This might be the reason for the issues between Ford and Young, or maybe Young just doesn't
get along with anyone, reportedly having trouble with co-stars from other movies, including
James Woods and Kevin Costner.
The dislike between the two leads explains the intensity in Young and Ford’s brief
romantic scene, which involves Deckard angrily making out with Rachael.
Normally this would be called a love scene, but was dubbed a “hate scene” by the crew.
Ryan Gosling and Rachael McAdams, The Notebook
What started as just another teen romance movie, became a love story for an entire generation.
A pretend story that actually developed into a real relationship between co-stars Ryan
Gosling and Rachel McAdams, who dated for several years following the wrap of the The
Notebook.
According to director Nick Cassavetes, that relationship almost never happened, needing
on-set therapy for two of Hollywood’s hottest to realize their common goal.
During one particularly frustrating day of filming, Gosling was so fed up with McAdams,
and the lack of chemistry, that he wanted to replace her with another actress.
With no other recourse, the two temperamental thespians were placed in a room with a producer
and allowed to yell it out… and loudly yell they did.
Apparently it worked, as they continued filming though their working relationship was rocky
throughout filming.
Thankfully they kissed and made up, apparently living by the motto: “It wasn’t over.
It still isn’t over.”
Sharon Stone and William Baldwin, Sliver
After her success in Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone re-teamed with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas
to make Sliver, a… you guessed it, sexy tale of murder and intrigue.
A story that sees her character move into a New York apartment with the creepiest tenants
ever.
William Baldwin, fresh off the success of Backdraft, was hoping to separate himself
from his more famous brothers.
During the film, Baldwin and Stone find themselves engaged in several sexy scenes, so many that
the film had to fight to avoid a NC-17 rating.
While they seem to have charisma on screen, off-screen it was not the same.
Stone is rumored to have bit Baldwin’s tongue hard enough to make it bleed on more than
one occasion.
In fact, she hated kissing her co-star so badly, she would also ask for mouthwash immediately
following their scenes.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, Romeo + Juliet
Leonardo DiCaprio is named after DaVinci with a Mona Lisa smile, and in the mid 1990’s
that smile took him anywhere he wanted to go.
Fresh off several acclaimed roles, DiCaprio was a hard-partying twenty year old.
Claire Danes was mostly known as a television star, with Romeo and Juliet being her first
starring role.
Though a few years younger, Danes was constantly annoyed at the immaturity that DiCaprio brought
to the set, including flying members of of his posse to Australia during the filming
and spending most night in the company of woman and booze.
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, Four Christmases
The holidays are supposed to the happiest time of the year, a time when a chill and
romance are in the air.
Why do you think some many babies are born in the late summer?
However, it’s also a hectic time, with people traveling to be with family, even if they
don’t always get along with each other.
Essentially that is the premise of the 2008 movie Four Christmases, starring Reese Witherspoon
and Vince Vaughn.
They play a couple whose relationship is tested when they meet various family members on one
crazy Christmas Day.
Witherspoon, a student of acting, who prepares meticulously for her roles clashed often with
Vaughn, who prefers to improvise most scenes.
It did not end well.
The pair did not appear on the red carper for the release of the movie, and haven’t
worked together since.
Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs Kramer
Perhaps no movie has mirrored it’s plot more than Kramer vs. Kramer, the 1979 drama
starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
They portray a separated couple losing themselves to a bitter child custody battle.
The movie mopped up during the awards season, winning five Oscars including Best Picture,
Director, Actor for Hoffman and Supporting Actress for Streep.
The tumultuous nature of the shoot, brought on by the aggressive method acting of Dustin
Hoffman, led to a blurring of the lines between real and fiction during filming.
Tensions were already high, as Streep demanded rewrites for her character, one she wasn’t
even supposed to play.
Hoffman made things worse by whispering the name of Streep’s dead boyfriend, who passed
away shortly before shooting, in her ear before scenes.
He is also rumored to have slapped her right before filming a tense scene to increase the
dramatics of the moment.
Most of the crew was intimidated by Hoffman’s action, but Streep stood confident, further
adding to the animosity.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway, The 2011 Academy Awards
While technically not an on-screen love affair, this duo was tasked with hosting the 2011
Academy Awards and from the opening monologue, you knew you were in for a night that would
feel longer than the four hour run time.
A night that Anne Hathaway refers to it as one of the most embarrassing moments of her
life.
It started off poorly, with Franco looking like he just woke up and blazed, while Hathaway
was overly perky and energetic.
She sang and danced, while Franco would disappear for long portions of the telecast.
Making matters even more strange, Franco seemed energetic and engaged during the various “backstage
footage” shown.
Most of the audience assumed it was a work, with Franco’s disinterested attitude setting
up a hilarious payoff.
They were wrong, and the hosts went down as one of the worst in the shows esteemed history.
Sometimes we work with people we don’t like.
Whether starring in cinema or sitting in a cubicle.
Filming a movie, pretending to be in love, is already a tough task.
Pulling it off when you can’t stand the other person…
that’s movie magic.
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