38 Movies Where Actors Who Played Best Friends Or Lovers Were Enemies In Real Life
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Sometimes, when you see any type of relationship on screen, actors have such good chemistry that it makes it seem that they actually might be involved with each other. Sometimes, it’s actually true -- we have all heard of actors getting together behind the scenes. But sometimes, the reality isn’t so sweet. Just as we find some people in our lives that we don’t like, actors also do. And sometimes, these people end up being their co-stars, who are their friends or even lovers on screen, and that undeniable chemistry turns out to be just good acting. So, today, let’s take a look at some of the rumors or proven stories about actors who apparently hate working with each other.
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Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey in Batman Forever.
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Jim Carrey has said: “He must have been in a mid-kill-me fantasy or something like that. And he went to hug me, and he said, ‘I hate you. I really don’t like you.’ And I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ and pulled up a chair, which probably wasn’t smart. And he said, ‘I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'”
Clark Gable would eat onions before his kissing scenes with Vivian Lee in Gone With the Wind.
I've also read that Clark Gable wore dentures that he never cleaned. That's an unholy smell (please clean your dentures and TAKE THEM OUT AT NIGHT!!!)
Dirty Dancing. They were sick of each other's s**t since Red Dawn.
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Patrick Swayze in his memoir wrote: "We did have a few moments of friction", "She seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her."
They made up over the years, and Jennifer Grey even fondly reminisced about working with Swayze.
We all know what kind of feeling hate is, right? Well, if you don’t live under a rock where you are isolated from all kinds of feelings, you must have felt hate at least once in your lifetime. Maybe it wasn’t raging hate, where you become violent or even worse. Maybe it was just an intense, uncomfortable mixture of fear, mistrust, and dislike. Either way, you must have felt it.
Sometimes, hate is directed toward a thing or concept. For example, some things tend to be universally despised by most people. It can range from quite unserious things like life stories before recipes in blogs to serious ones like corrupt politicians.
Yet, sometimes, people simply hate other people. We can all agree that we aren’t the most friendly species to ever live. In fact, we probably are one of the most aggressive ones. Just take a look at our history, and you won’t need any other proof.
Julia Roberts and [take your pick].
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Julia Roberts had a reputation for being a little bit difficult to work with, especially during her early career. There are rumors that she clashed with nearly all of her co-stars.
There was a reason why she was called Tinker Hell on the set of Hook.
Bill Murray and Lucy Liu supposedly hate each other, after he played her mentor in the *Charlie's Angels* movies.
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There's gossip that Bill Murray told Lucy Liu "You can't act!"
Brent Spiner said that the cat who played Data's pet Spot on *Star Trek: The Next Generation* was "the worst actor he ever worked with".
There were a few Spot actors. Male most of the time but then one female for plot convenience in TNG episode 'Genesis'.
Sharon Stone and William Baldwin did not get along while making Sliver.
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Sharon Stone and William Baldwin have been beefing for a while now, with each of them making serious allegations against each other.
Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel couldn't even be filmed together in Fast & Furious 8.
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Dwayne has said that it came down to them having different approaches to how they do the job.
Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer during Magic Mike. There's a reason why Pettyfer was a one and done in the franchise.
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Channing Tatum thought casting Alex was a big risk and on set Alex could feel the dislike.
William Shatner and everyone who isn't Leonard Nimoy on Star Trek. Those feuds went on for decades and into the grave for many of them.
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William Shatner has a decades-long feud with George Takei, who revealed that William didn't get along with anyone on the Star Trek set.
We tend to hate each other so often that hatred can be split into different types:
- Microaggressions – subtle, often accidental actions or comments that demean individuals;
- Hate speech – more intentional actions or comments of hate;
- Hate crimes – criminal actions committed as acts of hate;
- Cyberbullying – spreading hate online.
Anyone can become someone’s target due to proper and improper grounds. For example, sometimes, a person can annoy a person, intentionally or not, and with time, that annoyance can turn into hatred. That’s just how our brains are wired. In 2022, it was reported that 90% of Americans say they have a co-worker that annoys them. So, it’s no surprise that we see so many people complaining (or joking) online about hating their coworkers.
R2D2 and C-3PO.
Anthony Daniels was apparently a massive d**k to Kenny Baker, but from what I've heard he's that way to most people.
Yes but R2D2 sucked it up everytime....that's why they made him into a little prototype for Swedish Vacuum manufacturers. Lol.
My uncle was a grip on the set of Roseanne during the time Tom Arnold joined the cast (he was a writer and wrote himself into the show) he said it was pandemonium anytime he was on set and did not get along with anyone in the cast including his wife.
He left and joined the show “Dinosaurs” as a grip which he said was a breeze compared.
Not a movie, but on the show I Love Lucy, William Frawley and Vivian Vance played a married couple and absolutely loathed each other IRL.
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A feud started with Vivian being unhappy with the age difference between them, which turned into mutual dislike.
Well, as we said previously, actors are humans, too. Sometimes, they can simply be annoyed by or hate their coworkers. The only thing that’s different for them in their job is that they might have to act like they’re best friends or even in love with that co-worker. To talk a little bit more about that, Bored Panda reached out to film critic and host of the Girls On Film podcast, Anna Smith.
She said that the actors’ dislike for each other shouldn’t technically be an issue as long as they can do their job of acting.
Looking at this list, we can clearly see that, quite a lot of times, actors can pull it off, and sometimes, they do it so well that it might be hard to see how these people can’t stand each other.
Abbott and Costello hated each other. But they were very successful, so they put up with each other.
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In 1945 Abbott hired a maid who had previously worked for Costello, starting a feud in a duo.
Not a movie, but Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were not friendly off the Mythbusters set. They had (and still have) what they both describe as immense professional respect for each other's work, but they have never been friends.
Jamie Hyneman said in an interview "If you're like me, then what's the use of you? I need someone different to work with. I think you see this setup as a very kind of Yin and Yang setup that worked well in the MythBusters" And it absolutely worked too. I have worked with people like that, and I agree that despite me not being their friend they were damn good workers and would absolutely give them a recommendation if they asked
Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in Romeo+Juliet.
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Claire Danes thought of Leo as a little immature, while he thought she was uptight.
Naturally she thought DiCaprio was immature. She was way too old for him.
Susan Sarandon hated Tim Curry on the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. You can see the moment during "You Better Wise Up, Janet Weiss" where she legit knees him in the balls when running away from him on the stairs. She saw her chance and took it.
They definitely weren't friends on camera either but they do qualify as lovers in that movie.
To add on, for years Susan Sarandon would bring up how she caught pneumonia while filming RHPS in the pool scenes. Then there was a group interview from the 2010s that included Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry. Susan once again brought up how she caught pneumonia during filming and Tim Curry goes "Yeah and she hasn't shut up about it since." Lol!
Yet, sadly, gossip media sniff out some “juicy” stories about actors not getting along and make it a way bigger deal than it actually is, which Anna called lazy and harmful. She also gave an example: “Women are so often pitted against each other as well. When in truth, most women in the industry really support one another, as I've found by interviewing them for Girls On Film.”
And if there is some mild bad blood between any women or actors of any other gender, the gossip media might complicate the dynamics even more by making it public and not giving the people privacy to solve things on their own terms, making their job harder than it should be.
Did any of the pairings in the list surprise you? Share them with us in the comments!
Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei in the Wrestler. They would have people stand in for each other whenever possible during dialogue scenes so that they didn’t have to be around each other for a moment longer than necessary.
Bea Arthur couldn’t stand Betty White on The Golden Girls.
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Bea thought Betty's behavior was unkind to Estelle Getty, who played Sophia on the same show.
Bea was from the theater, Betty was used to working in television. Two different disciplines
In Caddyshack, Ty and Carl’s scene together is remarkably chill considering how much Chevy Chase and Bill Murray despised one another.
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The feud started when Bill Murray made a rude comment about Chevy Chase’s marriage to Jacqueline Carlin, Chase bashed Murray's physical appearance and they got into a brawl.
No one really remembers the movie, but Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts hated each other in I Love Trouble.
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon didn’t get along in Four Christmases. Vaughn prefers to improv while Reese wanted to stick to the script so she could prepare her reactions.
Poor Julia, Denzel Washington had trouble playing opposite her as well. I read somewhere he hated touching her and as for kissing they usually had to hire a double to shoot the scene.
I completely believe that Hill and Mintz-Plasse didn’t like each other. Did we see the same movie?
Seth Rogen said that their irl tension is part of why they cast the guy as McLovin.
I kinda get the impression that Jonah Hill doesn't really l like anybody
Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner.
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Some believe the mutual dislike came from actors having different acting methods.
Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot Johnny
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Tony Curtis has made a derogatory comment about kissing Marilyn.
Depp/Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.
Editor's note: Both of the actors were annoyed by each other due to various reasons.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny definitely have had tense periods. They seemed friendly a while back (Gillian joining him on stage on his tour) but apparently they are ‘feuding’ again. During the X-Files years they were definitely not friendly and it came out in interviews. .
Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep’s Kramer Vs Kramer feud is legendary.
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While filming one of the argument scenes Dustin slapped Meryl, which was improvised. Later, Meryl voiced that she believes that Dustin overstepped the line with his violent behavior.
You wouldn't know it from the onscreen results, but Richard Gere and Debra Winger apparently didn't get along at all filming "An Officer and a Gentleman.".
Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde in Don't Worry Darling.
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Florence Pugh said that she believed that Olivia Wilde reduced the movie to only its intimate scenes, which caused a strain to their relationship.
Of course, one fancied Harry and the other one dated him. Both denied being jealous but even a blind man would have noticed.
I know this is movies but in GoT Leana headey, (Cersei) and the actor who plays Bron, previously dated and f*****g despised each other. The had to do some rewrites and in one of the final episodes, in the dragon pit, Brons character sees Cersei walk in and sit down and he just goes, “come on pod, let’s go have a drink.” And walks off.
During filming of The Notebook, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did not get along. Ironic enough, they ended up dating each other after filming.
Mad Max Fury Road: Not necessarily best friends in the film. But Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron did not get along in the beginning of filming. Charlize said that she was frustrated with how cold and stand offish Tom was BTS.
Edit: I was wrong for the reason between Charlize and Tom. Please look at Stinkycheese response to my comment.
Stinkycheese clarified in the comments that: "That’s not at all what Charlize said. And “cold and standoffish” is definitely not how Hardy was described.
Richard Dreyfuss feuded with Robert Shaw in Jaws and Bill Murray in What About Bob?
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Richard's and Robert's feud started because Robert was annoyed by arrogance and relative inexperience of his co-star.
In 2019 Richard alleged that at one point during the production of What About Bob Murray screamed at him while intoxicated "Everyone hates you! You are tolerated!" and then threw an ashtray at him.
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder couldn't stand each other and would often get into fights in between takes.
On the TV side, I know that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from the X-Files didn't get along in real life even though made some incredible promo pictures and like that Rolling Stone cover. I also read that Nathan Fillion had to do couples therapy with Stana Katic in order to even be around her during Castle.
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. Though to be fair, their feud happened after Wayne's World. I'm not sure whether they got along on set or not, and they seem to be on okay terms now.
The former Saturday Night Live castmates drifted apart after Carvey thought Myers stole the Dr. Evil character from him. theres a clip online of Carvey explaining.
In Hot Fuzz Nick Frost and Simon Pegg got into a fight and wouldn't speak to each other for days, with Edgar Wright having to be the go between.
But they are brilliant together! So many good movies and I'm having a brain fart on the TV series. But it's so funny. They are òne of my favourite comedy duos.
End of Watch. Not so much hate but just didn’t like/care about the other. Gyllenhaal said it took a lot of work for him and Peña to build chemistry .
Look up Werner Herzog and Klaus Klinski. Klinski seems like truly one of the worst men in cinema history. They hated/respected each other. Yet fitzcarroldo and Aguirre, the wrath of god are two of the best movies ever made and Klinski is incredible in both.
His name was Kinski (right) and he was a real nutcase. fl-1810-20...a28b43.jpg 
Penn & Teller did a movie together called *Penn & Teller Get Killed*. They are famous for not being friends outside their work. I don’t think they hate each other, but they’re not close.
Dexter, the lead actor was married to the actress that played his sister Deb on the show. During the shows run he cheated on her, they got divorced etc and reports were that things were tense on set for the final few seasons. Also on Game of Thrones Cersie’s actress dated the sword for hire guy (Bron I think) that taught Arya how to sword fight in season one. Once they broke up she refused to be in scenes with him so famously he was left out of many big scenes in the later half of the show.
Lazy. There's a thing called Google, or even better imdb, on which one can find out these names before posting.
The leads in Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, had amazing on-screen chemistry but reportedly couldn't stand each other behind the scenes. They were still professional on set though.
god forbid we dont have every detail about someones private life?
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No sources and not even any fun gossip. Literally just a list of names. I can do that too! Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Timmy and Lassie
Why do you think Timmy kept "falling" in the well?
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Don't tell me that's the real reason why Doherty character died
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god forbid we dont have every detail about someones private life?
Load More Replies... No sources and not even any fun gossip. Literally just a list of names. I can do that too! Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Timmy and Lassie
Why do you think Timmy kept "falling" in the well?
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