Rifts between co-stars are nothing new, and while some actors don't get along, others
might opt out of sharing screen time altogether.
We can only imagine the pleasant working conditions that creates for everyone else, but we digress.
These are the actors who refused to shoot scenes together.
Actor Wesley Snipes has faced his fair share of drama over the years, and it sounds like
it was ever-present on the set of 2004's Blade: Trinity.
According to an AV Club interview with comedian Patton Oswalt, who played Nightstalker member
Hedges in the third installment of the Blade series, Snipes was decidedly less than friendly
to his fellow actors.
"What, you amateurs are supposed to be helping me?"
Among the anecdotes Oswalt recounted were tales of Snipes refusing to leave his trailer,
smoking marijuana all day, and attempting to strangle the film's director.
Additionally, per Oswalt's interview, Snipes apparently refused to film any scenes at all
with his fellow actors for the most part.
Oswalt explained to the AV Club that Snipes only arrived on set, quote, "for close-ups,"
saying:
"Everything else was done by his stand-in.
I only did one scene with him."
Tempers allegedly boiled over to the point that the film's director, David Goyer, asked
Snipes to quit, after which point Snipes selected Post-it notes as his only means of communication
with Goyer, which he would sign "From Blade."
And yet, Oswalt insisted:
"That was an example of a very troubled shoot that we made fun.
You have to find a way to make it fun."
"And that's basically turning a frown upside-down."
Amen to that.
Helen Hunt has been honest about the fact that filming 1996's tornado-chasing blockbuster
Twister was, in a word, "terrifying."
She told HuffPost in 2015 that the story was, quote, "so much more [...] real than you think"
because of the techniques used — which included a hail machine.
The actress added:
"I mean, it was crazy [...] They had firehoses pointed at us, and you couldn't hear anything,
which is not the safest way to make a movie, so I was really happy to make it through in
one piece."
That experience would justify Hunt being hesitant to film scenes for Universal Studios' Twister...
Ride It Out ride.
It turns out, however, that there was another reason she wasn't keen on the situation: having
to reunite with her Twister co-star Bill Paxton.
While the rumors have "never been confirmed," according to Screen Crush, the site contends:
"[T]he reports on many (many) websites claim that by the end of shooting, Paxton and Hunt
hated each other so much that they only agreed to appear 'together' in Twister...
Ride It Out separately."
"I don't want to fight."
"I'm not fighting, I'm talking."
"I don't want to fight."
Anyone who's been on the ride will remember that Paxton and Hunt appear during its pre-show,
where they each talk about tornadoes and the experience of shooting Twister.
They are not, however, in the same frame together, but instead deliver alternating lines in recordings
that were shot in two completely different locations.
Be that as it may, Screen Crush notes that Paxton, who died in 2017, did once say that
he wanted to direct a Twister sequel starring Hunt.
While that vision never came to be, a reboot of the storm-chasing film may still touch
down sometime in the future.
Lars von Trier is a controversial figure in Hollywood.
Along with having what CNN describes as "a reputation for being tough on his actors,"
he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival for seven years when, during a 2011 press
conference, he joked about being a Nazi and expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler.
When he made his return in 2018, over 100 people walked out of his screening of The
House That Jack Built, because it was, quote, "Gross.
Pretentious.
Vomitive.
Torturous.
Pathetic."
Bjork might have similar opinions about von Trier and his work, as a result of her experience
working on 2000's Dancer in the Dark, which he directed.
According to Cheat Sheet, the two were supposed to appear in a scene together.
That didn't happen, however, because Bjork apparently hated the director.
According to CNN, the star would tell him every morning:
"Mr. von Trier, I despise you."
She would also reportedly spit at him.
As for the cause of her hatred, Bjork revealed on Facebook in 2017 that she had been sexually
harassed by a Danish film director, writing:
"[W]hen i turned the director down repeatedly he sulked and punished me and created for
his team an impressive net of illusion where i was framed as the difficult one."
While she didn't explicitly name von Trier, the Chicago Tribune points out that reports
of the pair's difficult on-set relationship, quote, "verifies that she [was] referring
to him."
In the end, Bjork won the best actress honor at Cannes for her role, and von Trier earned
the coveted Palme d'Or.
Despite that, it seems safe to say that they won't be working together ever again.
Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere were supposed to appear together in 1974's The Lords of
Flatbush.
Unfortunately Gere, who was originally cast as Chico, was dropped from the production
after leaving Stallone seriously unimpressed.
The Rocky star told Ain't It Cool News in 2006 that they, quote, "never hit it off,"
and said:
"He would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the
round table."
"You're something really special, aren't you?"
During one improvised fight scene, Stallone said that Gere, quote, "got a little carried
away," and was, quote, "impossible to deal with."
But things came to a head between the two actors during a lunchtime incident at Coney
Island.
Stallone explained:
"I was eating a hotdog [in the backseat of a Toyota] and he climbs in with a half a chicken
covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper.
I said, 'That thing is going to drip all over the place.'
He said, 'Don’t worry about it.'"
After giving Gere a warning not to let any of it get onto his leg, Stallone said the
actor took one bite… and did just that.
He went on:
"I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car.
The director had to make a choice: one of us had to go, one of us had to stay.
Richard was given his walking papers and to this day seriously dislikes me."
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