34 Co-Stars Who Totally Hated Each Other

The stars of 50 Shades of Grey couldn’t stand each other. In the promotional roll out for their steamy film, the two actors had all the chemistry of a couple of boiled hot dogs, and there were massive reshoots due to the couple’s less than sultry performances. One source referred to Johnson as a “dishrag.”

A quick browse of their promotional photos tells you all you need to know. The fact that rumors flew that Dornan was not exactly jumping at the chance to reprise his role in the film’s two sequels also wasn’t a good sign. Um… Mr. YIKES will see you now.

According to The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, Gosling and McAdams (who would go on to have an IRL relationship) hated each other on set. One day on a break from the set, the two actors had it out privately and things got better. Sort of.

“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,’” Cassavetes said. “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.’

“We went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other,” the director explained. “I walked out. At that point I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette and everybody came out like, ‘All right let’s do this.’ And it got better after that, you know? They had it out… I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open.”

Claire and Leo may have played star crossed lovers in the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of Romeo + Juliet, but rumor has it their chemistry on set was anything but lovely. The word on the street is that Danes avoided DiCaprio at every turn.

Apparently Danes didn’t appreciate DiCaprio’s jokes and pranks during filming, and even called him “very immature,” to other people on set.

On The Howard Stern Show, Franco referred to his 2011 Oscar co-host as a “goody two shoes” and refused to defend her when the DJ talked about the Hatha-Haters. Hathaway reportedly responded by not creating a terrible weirdo art piece about the feud.

Stern set up the situation by saying, “Everyone sort of hates Anne Hathaway, and I’ve explained that I do too and I don’t know even know why sometimes. She’s just so affected [and] actress-y that even when she wins an award she’s out of breath, and then she has the standard joke that sounds like it’s [been] written [for her]. And it all seems so scripted and acted.”

Any other co-star might have rushed to Hathaway’s defense, perhaps talking about what a sweet, caring person Hathaway is (supposedly). But Franco just said, “I’m not an expert on — I guess they’re called ‘Hatha-haters’– but I think that’s what maybe triggers it.” He also confessed that the two didn’t talk much anymore.

In what was a case of life imitating art, Michele and Rivera’s on set relationship went from icy to UFC after the two were involved in a “major altercation” on set. We doubt that it was one of their classic sing offs. At another point, both sides claimed that the other was kicked off the set for diva-like behavior, although the jury’s still out on what really happened.

Later, rumors swirled that Michele and Chris Colfer were conspiring to get Rivera and Darren Criss booted from the show. The icing on the cake was when Lea Michele had Rivera written out of the show at the end of the fifth season.

The filming of Blade: Trinity has become the thing of film nerd legend; according to EVERYONE on set, Wesley Snipes was an absolute nut. He only spoke to the director via hand written notes signed “Blade” (RIGHT?!), and he only showed up to film his closeups, which left nice guy Ryan Reynolds to film his scenes alone.

Reynolds wasn’t the only one who got the rough end of Snipes’ antics. According to co-star Patton Oswalt,Snipes told director David Goyer, “‘I think you need to quit. You’re detrimental to this movie”. And apparently, Goyer’s response was “Why don’t you quit? We’ve got all your close-ups and we could shoot the rest with your stand-in.”

Minaj and Carey joined Idol in 2013 and quickly began a bitter rivalry that spilled out into the press. The feud (which happened on screen and off) escalated when Minaj called Carey a “bitter, insecure woman” and Minaj taunted her for never having a No. 1 single.

Carey later said her time on the show was far from enjoyable. “Honestly, I hated it,” Mimi said, adding that “It was like going to work every day in hell with Satan.” Ouch.

Have you ever found yourself wondering why Bill Murray was replaced with Bernie Mac in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle? Well, ponder no more! On the set of Charlie’s Angels, Murray killed time by provoking Liu by saying that she couldn’t act. That’s one way to get written out of a franchise.

According to one source, ” Bill Murray stopped a scene in progress and pointed to Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu saying in order, “I get why you’re here, and you’ve got talent….but what in the hell are you doing here. You can’t act!” At that, Liu blew her lid and attacked Murray, wildly throwing punches. The actors had to be separated to opposite corners of the room while they lobbed verbal hand grenades at each other.” Who knows if it’s true, but the fact that Bill Murray wasn’t in the movie is telling.

Hey, it’s Bill Murray again! Why can’t the sad hipster grandpa make friends with anyone he works with? Is it because they won’t sing karaoke with him? The two tight-knit friends had their falling out on the set of Groundhog Day when, according to Murray, they argued about whether the film should be more philosophical or a straight comedy.

The late Ramis insisted that their feud actually came to be because Murray brought his relationship baggage to the set. Thankfully, the two made up prior to Ramis’s passing in 2014.

If you thought the set of Golden Girls was all shots of bourbon and capfuls of Metamucil, then you were dead wrong. According to Rue McClanahan (the sexiest Golden Girl) and White herself, Bea Arthur haaaaaaated White for seemingly no reason. Although there was speculation that Arthur, a seasoned theater actor, despised White for her television background and sunny disposition.

White got the last laugh: if you haven’t noticed, she’s literally on everything ever forever.

Though they played best friends on Desperate Housewives, once the cameras were off they were anything but. Hatcher was described as “a loner” by co-star Eva Longoria and on the set of a Vanity Fairphoto shoot, Cross became angry that Hatcher was front and center.

To put a button on the issue, Cross left Hatcher’s name off of the “goodbye gift” at the end of the series. This kitten has claws.

Lars Von Trier is famous for eliciting visceral reactions from his actors, but the most alarming instance was his work with Bjork on Dancer in the Dark. The Icelandic singer hated working with the Danish director so much that she once spat on the ground rather than say hello to him one morning and allegedly ate her sweater in her trailer after a rather tense day on set.

That last part might not be true, but with Bjork you can’t rule anything out.

Sean Young is famous for being crazy go nuts on and off set (Google “Sean Young Catwoman” if you’re brave) but on the set of Wall Street, after failing to convince the director to swap her role with Daryl Hannah’s, she attempted to slow down the production by being unprofessional. You know you’ve done something amazing when you’ve become more unprofessional than Charlie Sheen.

To retaliate, Sheen stuck a piece of paper to her back that read “I am a c***” Stay classy, Sheen.

In a 2016 Instagram post, Dwayne Johnson went on a rant about the unprofessional behaviors of his male co-stars while filming the eighth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Later, TMZ reported that Johnson and Vin Diesel were butting heads on set, but attempted to hash out their differences for the sake of the production. In April 2018, Johnson confirmed the rumors in a Rolling Stone interview.

Johnson said he never shot scenes in person with Diesel, and that scenes featuring both their characters were the result of editing. Johnson contributed the disagreements to “a fundamental difference in philosophies” in regards to movie making. While Johnson noted the pair had mostly made up after a face-to-face discussion in his trailer, he did go on to say:

I wish him all the best, and I harbor no ill will there, just because of the clarity we have. Actually, you can erase that last part about “no ill will.” We’ll just keep it with the clarity.