When watching a movie or show, it's only natural for viewers
to buy into the illusion that actors are besties in real life. However,
that's not always the case. Here are a handful of co-stars who couldn't stand each other.
Rebooting the Road Warrior franchise resulted in big-screen triumph,
with director George Miller's 2015 action flick Mad Max: Fury Road
going on to sweep the 2016 Academy Awards, nabbing six Oscars out of 10 nominations.
But the contentious relationship between co-stars Charlize Theron and
Tom Hardy made it a long haul. It wasn't just a rumor that the actors were engaged in a
vicious feud. Both of them admitted they were at odds during filming. Theron confessed to Esquire:
"We f--kin' went at it, yeah."
She also explained to The New York Times that their real-life relationship
mirrored their characters' animosity. She said:
"In a weird way, we were functioning like our characters: everything was about survival,"
Hardy admitted he wasn't blameless. He said:
"I think in hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways. The
pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times."
Fury Road actress Zoë Kravitz was asked about the feud during an appearance on Watch What
Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Kravitz responded matter-of-factly, by stating:
"I actually don't know what, like if there was one issue,
I just think it was like they weren't vibing."
Reports of tension between co-stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
seeped from the set of The X-Files during the 1990s,
and the co-stars have admitted they were not the best of friends during the run of the series.
In a 2016 interview with Jimmy Kimmel to promote the reboot, Anderson blamed the Vancouver climate,
which caused her hair to become frizzy and left Duchovny impatiently waiting while
the show's hairstylist returned her locks to Scully-like perfection. She admitted:
"I think it added to the tension."
But Duchovny said that they had simply grown sick of each other. He told Metro UK in 2008:
"Familiarity breeds contempt. It's nothing to do with the other person. All that fades away
and you're just left with the appreciation and love for the people you've worked with
for so long. We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other."
Anderson addressed the complicated dynamic head-on in a 2007 blog post. She wrote:
"Did David and I hate each other? At times yes like any brother and sister, husband and wife,
co-worker and co-worker forced to spend that much time together under such strenuous circumstances."
When The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air made its TV debut in 1990, the role of Aunt Viv was
played by actress Janet Hubert for three seasons. In 1993,
Hubert was let go, with actress Daphne Maxwell Reid brought in to replace her.
Ever since, Hubert has publicly blamed star Will Smith for her firing.
The reasons behind Hubert's termination are murky. Fresh Prince actor Alfonso Ribeiro
once claimed Hubert would, quote, "literally go off on people" and:
"She made it very difficult for us to work."
In 1993 Will Smith told an Atlanta radio station:
"I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air Show,
because I know she is going to dog me in the press. She said once,
'I've been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.'"
In 2011, Hubert told TMZ she would turn down an offer for a Fresh Prince reunion, stating:
"I will never do anything with an a--hole like Will Smith.
He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up."
The Notebook has become a classic romance story, but viewers had no idea that the two main actors,
who were supposed to be in love on screen, didn't get along. In fact, the tension between stars
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams once escalated to the point that Gosling refused to work with her.
The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes revealed to VH1:
"Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story,
but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not."
Cassavetes went on to say that Gosling interrupted on set mid-scene with McAdams and stated:
"Would you take [McAdams] 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."
Cassavetes pulled the actors into a room with a producer so the co-stars weren't, quote,
"screaming and yelling at each other." He explained when the talk was over that:
"Everybody came out like, 'All right let's do this.' And it got better after that."
The two co-stars ended up dating for a little while but eventually split in 2007.
While neither actress has commented, speculation of tension between co-stars Leighton Meester and
Blake Lively ran throughout the six seasons of Gossip Girl. Rumors were supposedly confirmed
by an anonymous source who spoke to the National Enquirer in 2010. The source claimed:
"They don't even acknowledge each other when they're not in a scene together."
Commenting on the allegations, Lively's publicist told the Enquirer:
"Blake and Leighton have never been best friends and never professed to be.
Blake goes to work, does her job, and goes home."
An article in New York Magazine backed up this claim, stating the two would, quote,
"avoid each other like the plague" during filming with the rest of the cast left to choose sides.
According to a source, who spoke to Perez Hilton:
"Leighton and Blake don't speak anymore."
Oscar-winners Anthony Hopkins and Shirley MacLaine headlined the
1980 film A Change of Seasons, and to say it was an unpleasant experience for both is an
understatement. According to The Independent, Hopkins famously described his co-star as:
"The most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with."
MacLaine was asked about Hopkins' remarks during an interview with the New York
Post and it was clear from her response that the feeling was mutual. She said:
"I didn't like him either, but he was on the wagon at that time and it was hard on him."
Hopkins has publicly acknowledged his alcoholism and quit drinking in the late 1970s,
which made matters worse on set for the film.
But Hopkins wasn't the first man to have been rubbed the wrong way by MacLaine.
Don Siegel directed MacLaine in the Clint Eastwood western Two Mules for Sister Sara and once told
The Independent that he found it, quote, "hard to feel much warmth for her," feeling she was:
"Too unfeminine and has too much balls. She's very, very hard."
Lena Headey played the devious Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones while Jerome Flynn portrayed
hired mercenary Bronn. What viewers may not have realized is that the two actors were reportedly
once a couple and things apparently did not end well. A crew member told The Telegraph:
"Jerome and Lena aren't on speaking terms anymore 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 awhile,
but now the word is they should be kept apart at all costs."
The pair reportedly met on the set of Flynn's 1990s British series
Soldier Soldier and dated in the early 2000s. An insider told The Sun:
"They kept the full extent of it secret but it was a very turbulent relationship
and it has been very awkward on set. She appears to have a genuine hate towards him."
But Flynn has denied any problems with Headey. When asked about the
rumors during a fan convention, Flynn stated:
"We were actually in the same scene together. And the last time I saw Lena we were speaking,
so I wouldn't believe everything you read and... [the media] can get pretty desperate for stories."
In a 2005 interview with TV Guide, Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham was asked about comments she
made indicating she'd prefer her character to wind up with the father of Rory, Christopher,
played by David Sutcliffe, and not grumpy restaurateur Luke, played by Scott Patterson.
Specifically she was asked if that preference was because she and Patterson didn't get along.
Graham said that wasn't the case, claiming she was speaking about what would work
best for the characters. When asked about her relationship with Patterson, Graham insisted:
"It's fine... we're not intimates. We talk kind of how we talk [on the show]. We work well together."
When asked if she was social with any of her co-stars, including Patterson,
Graham replied that she works:
"An average of 50 hours a week, so there isn't a lot of socializing for any of us."
In a subsequent TV Guide interview, Patterson was
questioned about the speculation of a rocky relationship for him and Graham. He said:
"No, I think it's not accurate. I think it's really inaccurate.
And I think people thrive on rumor and innuendo; that sells papers,
gets people to click on websites [...] All of that stuff is just overblown."
"Keeping tabs on me?”
“Always safer to know which direction the tornado is coming from."
What can you say about a Hollywood feud so legendary that an entire TV miniseries was
made about it? FX's Feud: Bette and Joan dramatized the epic battle between Bette
Davis and Joan Crawford when they co-starred in the hit What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.
In a 1987 interview, Davis revealed that Crawford stole the love of Davis' life, actor
Franchot Tone, who became Crawford's second husband. Davis said after Crawford's death:
"She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness.
I have never forgiven her for that and never will."
Their animosity for each other while shooting Baby Jane boiled over in what's
become an iconic piece of Hollywood lore. According to Harper's Bazaar,
Crawford insisted that a body double stand in for her in scenes involving fights,
fearing that Davis would physically harm her. When a closeup didn't enable a body double to
be used in a scene where Davis' character strikes Crawford's character in the head,
Davis reportedly bashed Crawford so hard that she required stitches. Davis reportedly claimed.
"[I] barely touched her."
For 10 years, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London bantered their way through countless fashion
disasters on TLC's What Not to Wear. While it may have appeared to viewers
that the two were bickering best buds, that was far from the reality behind
the scenes. Details of what actually went down between the two are murky,
but a clue can be found in Kelly's 2017 memoir I Hate Everyone, Except You. In the book, he asked:
"Why did I love and loathe Stacy? [...] I
loathed Stacy because … Well … Maybe there was some jealousy on my part."
A few months after the book came out, Kelly tweeted a since-deleted screenshot indicating
London had blocked him on Twitter, and in another since-deleted tweet,
he addressed fans' speculation she was retaliating for the comments in his book. Kelly wrote:
“Don’t go spreading out-of-context bulls--t. You obviously didn’t read the book”
Two months later, London issued a cryptic Instagram post featuring
a screenshot of the block feature, writing that:
"When I'm hurt I can hold a grudge."
London said she'd come to realize that:
"Blocking people in order to feel some sense of control
over others’ actions is a waste of my time."
Back in 2008, Lindsay Lohan guest-starred on the ABC comedy Ugly Betty, playing the high school
nemesis of the show's titular Betty, played by America Ferrera. According to a report in the
New York Post, Lohan's guest-starring arc was initially planned to extend for six episodes
but was cut back to just four because Ferrera and Lohan didn't get along. A source told the Post:
"It was a mess. Lindsay would show up every day with an entourage of people. She smoked 24/7,
and after she left, they had to repaint her dressing room it was such a mess."
However, a friend of Lohan told a different story, claiming that Lohan's entourage was actually:
"Her sober companion with her, as well as her manager,
assistant, and [then-girlfriend] Samantha Ronson."
This source claimed that it was Ferrera who was the problem,
griping that America was outright mean to Lindsay.
A rep for Ferrera diplomatically told the Post:
"America is grateful to have had her on the show
and thinks everyone should tune in to see how great the episodes are."
"Look we don't have to be friends, just don't pretend we are if we're not."
"No no, we are friends."
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