Co-Stars Of Popular Movies Who Couldn't Get Along

Ryan Gosling And Rachel McAdams

Even though they managed to date for more than three years after filming The Notebook, Ryan Gosling couldn’t stand Rachel McAdams while they were filming. Filmmaker Nicholas Cassavetes said it took an intervention of sorts that included a lot of yelling to get them to get along a bit better:

“Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here.’ And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?; I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.'”

Tyrese And James Franco

Let me be the first to say that the movie Annapolis was NOT worth the drama that transpired between Tyrese Gibson and James Franco. As the story goes, Gibson felt that Franco was a little too aggressive with him while on-set of the film. When they would have boxing scenes, Franco would really hit Gibson, and hard. Gibson told Playboy, “I never want to work with him again, and I’m sure he feels the same way. It felt very personal. It was f**ked up.”

It’s unclear if the two men were able to mend things, but Franco told Complex that he did try to make things right.

“Maybe I was too into that role. I don’t try to be mean to anybody on a movie. In the past I’ve tended to isolate (myself), and maybe people take that as me being rude or me not liking them, but it’s really a way for me to stay in my character. I really had nothing personal against Tyrese, but I guess there were a lot of misunderstandings.”

Terrence Howard And Robert Downey, Jr.

While he thought they got along on-set while filming Iron Man, Terrence Howard would say last year that Robert Downey, Jr. came for his money, and Howard is still not too happy about that. He said that when he tried to call Downey about everything, Howard didn’t hear back from the actor for about three months. So when asked why he wasn’t in Iron Man anymore recently, Howard reportedly said this while promoting Best Man Holiday: 

“Well, it turns out … in order for, um … this is gonna get me in a lot of trouble, but … it turns out that the person that I helped become Iron Man, when it was time to re-up for the second one, took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out.”

Downey has yet to speak on Howard’s statements.

Bill Murray and Lucy Liu

Both actors appeared in Charlies’ Angels, but Murray and Liu clashed like crazy one day when he openly criticized her “technique” as People mag put it. They wound up having a major argument, causing filming for that day to be put on hold so that everyone could get themselves together. In the end, the film was a hit, but Murray  would not take part in the sequel, being replaced by late comedian Bernie Mac. When asked later about what happened, Murray told the Times of London, “Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me. When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it.”

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger

I love Terms of Endearment, but it seems that the stars of the film, Shirley MacLaine (who played the mother) and Debra Winger ( who played the daughter), couldn’t stand one another. There were rumors of tension on set, including Winger lifting up her skirt and farting in the direction of the acting veteran. MacLaine would say that on-screen tension with not only Winger but Jack Nicholson was “chaotic.” When MacLaine won the Best Actress Oscar for her work in the film over Winger, MacLaine got on stage and said “I deserve it.” for As for Winger?

Winger would later tell the Herald-Tribune, “She just behaved badly–she was competing with me.”

Shia LaBeouf And Tom Hardy

While Lawless was a good movie, things weren’t all good between the two leads in the film–Shia LaBeouf and super fine actor Tom Hardy. Things reportedly got out of hand between the two men on set, and they came to blows. Hardy would admit later on that yes, he did get those hands put on him:

“I got knocked out by Shia LaBeouf, actually. He knocked me out sparko. Out cold. He’s a bad, bad boy. He is. He’s quite intimidating as well. He’s a scary dude… He just attacked me. He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan, and er, went down.”

Bruce Willis And Kevin Smith

Bruce Willis has been labeled in the last few years as something of a big jerk, and no one was screaming that from the mountaintop more than director Kevin Smith, who worked with Willis and Tracy Morgan in the film, Cop Out. Once a big fan, Smith said in his book, Tough Sh*t, that Willis was a huge disappointment, and “the unhappiest, most bitter, and meanest emo-bi**h I’ve ever met at any job I’ve held down.” According to The Guardian, Willis said Smith was nothing more than a big “whiner.”

Bette Davis And Joan Crawford

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is one of my mother’s favorite movies, and a classic, but it’s the strife between the iconic lead actresses that is also pretty classic. Davis was reportedly quoted as saying in Elizabeth Fuller’s Me And Jezebel that Crawford was basically jealous that she had to play second fiddle.

“Every time Crawford got near me, I could feel her trying to annihilate me!”

“She hay-ayted being Number Two.”

“The only thing I regret is that I didn’t get to slap her around more in Baby Jane.”

George Clooney And David O. Russell

Remember the movie Three Kings? The one with Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and George Clooney? Well, as it turns out, director David O. Russell (now very well-known for Oscar-nominated films Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle) and Clooney almost came to blows. Let’s allow Ice Cube to recount that story:

“…he was never satisfied that his star was George Clooney. So, that was the first problem. And it could never come out as he’s seen it in his head — so they would have to work on that all of the time. George Clooney had all of this technical dialogue and medical sh*t he was talking. Tactics and stuff. Then an extra f**ked up this big helicopter scene — an extra was in the wrong place. And David, all he did was [mimes grabbing a shirt], ‘Man, come on. Get over here!’ That made George go crazy. He’s like, ‘Dude, you can’t run in there and f**king put your hand on these extras and push them around, yelling.’ And David was like, ‘Man, just worry about your f**king acting.’ And that’s when they went at it. It was like two bulls forehead to forehead.”

The two have since buried the hatchet.