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<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n(PA)<\/span><\/div>\nHere are 17 times that movies were blighted by real-life feuding \u2013 from David O Russell<\/a>\u2019s prolific run of actor arguments, to the director who dared to tell Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton that they needed acting lessons.<\/p>\nJake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
David Fincher is an infamously exacting filmmaker, often shooting dozens and sometimes hundreds of takes. One actor who particularly struggled with Fincher\u2019s approach was Jake Gyllenhaal, who worked with the filmmaker on 2007\u2019s Zodiac. He said that year that Fincher \u201cpaints with people\u201d while working, and that it\u2019s \u201ctough to be a colour\u201d. Asked about Gyllenhaal\u2019s comments in 2020, Fincher said that the former child actor had never \u201cbeen asked to concentrate on minutiae\u201d, adding that Gyllenhaal was \u201cvery distracted\u201d on set.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he\u2019d show up for work, he was very scattered,\u201d Fincher told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201c[He had] his managers and his silly agents who were all coming to his trailer at lunch to talk to him about the cover of GQ and this and that. He was being nibbled to death by ducks, and not particularly smart ducks. They got in his vision, and it was hard for him to hit the fastball.\u201d<\/p>\nKeira Knightley and John Carney<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The musical drama Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, was such an innocuous film that it came as a surprise when director John Carney later dubbed Knightley a \u201csupermodel\u201d and criticised her acting while speaking to The Independent<\/a>. He claimed that \u201cbeing a film actor requires a certain level of honesty and self-analysis that I don\u2019t think she\u2019s ready for yet\u201d, but later apologised. Asked for her own stance on their relationship, Knightley later said that she had accepted Carney\u2019s apology but admitted that the Begin Again shoot was \u201cvery difficult\u201d and that the pair \u201cdidn\u2019t get on\u201d. She added: \u201cIt\u2019s just a thing that happens sometimes and I say that with no blame. It takes two to tango.\u201d<\/p>\nGene Hackman and Wes Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
It remains unclear what exactly bothered Gene Hackman about his Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson, but he made it clear on set that he did not like him. In 2011, co-star Anjelica Huston claimed that Hackman told Anderson to \u201cpull up [his] pants and act like a man\u201d, while Noah Baumbach recalled Hackman dubbing Anderson a \u201cc***\u201d during filming. As for Anderson, though, he has no regrets about casting Hackman in the film, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s a huge force and I really enjoyed working with him. Even though he was very challenging with me, it was very exciting seeing him launch into these scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWes Anderson and Gene Hackman on the set of \u2018The Royal Tenenbaums’ (James Hamilton\/Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nThe cast of Steel Magnolias and Herbert Ross<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Despite being a beloved classic, the 1989 weepie Steel Magnolias had a tortured production, with most of the cast \u2013 Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley Maclaine and Dolly Parton \u2013 clashing with director Herbert Ross. \u201cMy deepest memories of the film were how we bonded together after he told one of us or all of us we couldn\u2019t act,\u201d Field said in 2013. \u201cHe went after Julia with a vengeance. This was pretty much her first big film.\u201d In 1993, Ross said that Roberts \u201clooked bad and gave a very bad performance\u201d in the film. In response, Roberts called Ross \u201cmean and out of line\u201d, adding: \u201cIf he thinks he can talk about me in such a condescending way and not have me say something about it, then he\u2019s nuts\u201d.<\/p>\n
Parton has also claimed that Ross would repeatedly tell her on the set that she needed acting lessons. Bemused, she told him: \u201cI\u2019m not an actress, I\u2019m Dolly Parton. I\u2019m a personality who has been hired to do this movie. You\u2019re the director. It\u2019s your job to make me look like I\u2019m acting.\u201d Ross died in 2001.<\/p>\n
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Buried in leaks from the Sony hack in 2014 were claims that Amy Adams and David O Russell clashed on the set of American Hustle, Russell\u2019s convoluted con movie from the year before. Discussing their relationship in 2016, Adams confirmed that the filmmaker made her cry due to his process, which involved talking and shouting at his actors mid-scene. \u201cHe was hard on me, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she told GQ<\/a>. \u201cIt was a lot. I was really just devastated on set.\u201d She added that she has no intention of working with him again.<\/p>\nGeorge Clooney and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Adams was just one of many stars to confirm friction with Russell. On the set of 1999\u2019s Three Kings, George Clooney confronted the filmmaker after he \u201cwent nuts on an extra\u201d, according to the actor. \u201cI would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren\u2019t allowed to defend themselves,\u201d Clooney said in 2003. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in it, and it makes me crazy. So my job was then to humiliate the people who were doing the humiliating.\u201d He also dubbed working on the film \u201cthe worst experience of [his] life\u201d. Speaking in a GQ interview in 2024, Clooney called O Russell \u201ca miserable f***\u201d who \u201cmade my life hell\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lily Tomlin and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s Lily Tomlin, who was seen in leaked footage from the set of 2004\u2019s I Heart Huckabees being screamed at by Russell and giving as good as she was getting. While the footage went viral in 2010 and somewhat dented Russell\u2019s image in the public eye, Tomlin has repeatedly said that the pair made up after a few hours of tension. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to misbehave; believe me, it\u2019s embarrassing. It\u2019s humiliating, you know?\u201d she said in 2011. \u201cBecause you just lose it. You act like a crazy person. But I adore David. I adore him as a talent.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nBruce Willis and Kevin Smith are all smiles on the set of \u2018Cop Out’ (Warner Bros\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nBruce Willis and Kevin Smith<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Willis and Smith\u2019s mutual loathing of one another is, unusually, far more famous than the movie they actually worked on together. Star and director of the forgotten police comedy Cop Out (2010), the pair were at each other\u2019s throats on set, and lambasted one another in the press as soon as it finished filming. Smith said in 2011 that working with Willis was \u201csoul-crushing\u201d and \u2013 in his 2021 autobiography \u2013 wrote that \u201cCop Out could have been a great experience if it were not for the fact that I met true darkness in Bruce Willis \u2013 I love making movies and he does not, at all\u201d. Asked in 2013 what actually went down on set, Willis replied: \u201cPoor Kevin. He\u2019s just a whiner, you know? We had some personal issues about how we approached work. I don\u2019t have an answer for him. I\u2019m never going to call him out and lay him out in public. Sometimes you just don\u2019t get along.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Dunaway\u2019s feud with Polanski on the set of the classic film noir Chinatown quickly went down in Hollywood lore. They reportedly fought over costuming, hair and toilet breaks. The filmmaker would claim that Dunaway was \u201cdifficult\u201d \u2013 a kiss of death for women of most eras in film \u2013 and dubbed her \u201ca gigantic pain\u201d in the press. In her autobiography, Dunaway claimed that misogyny led to the incidents on set being widely misreported. She claimed that Polanski was \u201cincessantly cruel\u201d, adding that he had a \u201cnever-ending need to humiliate\u201d her, along with demonstrating behaviour that \u201cbordered on sexual harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones and Joel Schumacher<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
In 1996, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher called out two of the stars of the film, neither of whom was invited back for his sequel, Batman & Robin. \u201cI\u2019m tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors,\u201d Schumacher said. \u201cI pray I don\u2019t work with them again.\u201d Dubbing Jones an \u201ca*****e\u201d and Kilmer \u201cpsychotic\u201d, Schumacher claimed that his relationship with Kilmer became so bad on the set that they stopped talking. \u201cHe was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThen we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
A beautiful comic partnership between Murray and Ramis resulted in a number of classic films, including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. But it was the latter project \u2013 which Ramis directed and Murray starred in \u2013 that led to a 21-year bust-up. According to a 2018 biography of Ramis by his daughter Violet, the pair had such volatile tension on the set that Ramis ended up grabbing Murray by the shirt collar and throwing him against a wall. The biography claims that, after Murray swore off their friendship, Ramis was left \u201cheartbroken, confused and yet unsurprised by the rejection\u201d. More than two decades later, with Ramis on his deathbed, Murray appeared at his door with a box of doughnuts and proceeded to mend fences with his one-time collaborator at the very last minute.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nJulia Roberts and Steven Spielberg on the set of \u2018Hook’ (Moviestore\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nJulia Roberts and Steven Spielberg<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
An infamous Hollywood feud primarily because of how famous both of them are, Roberts and Spielberg did not get along on the set of his polarising Peter Pan film Hook in 1991. Roberts was apparently not used to CGI work \u2013 she was playing Tinkerbell and acted by herself and against a green-screen for almost all of filming \u2013 and made her frustrations known on set. She was reportedly dubbed \u201cTinkerhell\u201d by the crew as a result. \u201cNo, I never heard [the nickname],\u201d Roberts later said. \u201cBut I\u2019m a normal person. I mean, if I sit in my trailer for six hours doing nothing, I\u2019m going to say: \u2018What the f**k is going on?\u2019\u201d Spielberg himself admitted to feeling sorry for the star, as she was dealing with the breakdown of her relationship with Kiefer Sutherland during filming. \u201cIt was simply bad timing for all of us that she happened to start on Hook at that low point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mike Myers and Penelope Spheeris<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The star and director of cult comedy Wayne\u2019s World were tense with each other on the set of the film, with Myers complaining about the film\u2019s ultimately iconic \u201chead-banging to \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019\u201d scene \u2013 something Spheeris improvised on set \u2013 and then asking to edit the film without her. In the end, Myers blocked Spheeris from directing the film\u2019s sequel. For what it\u2019s worth, Spheeris said in 2017 that she has no ill will towards Myers. \u201cIt really made me a better person and a stronger person,\u201d she told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI mean, I was really depressed over it \u2026 and I felt horrible. When you go through something like that, you just come out stronger. So I thank them for it.\u201d<\/p>\nBurt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Burt Reynolds may have received an Oscar nomination for his work in 1997\u2019s Boogie Nights, but it didn\u2019t quell his feelings about his director, Paul Thomas Anderson. The pair clashed on set, and Reynolds told GQ<\/a> in 2015 that he wouldn\u2019t work with him again despite the film\u2019s acclaim. \u201cPersonality-wise, we didn\u2019t fit,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]. I remember the first shot we did in Boogie Nights, where I drive the car to Grauman\u2019s Theater. After he said, \u2018Isn\u2019t that amazing?\u2019 And I named five pictures that had the same kind of shot. It wasn\u2019t original.\u201d<\/p>\n\n![\"Sam](\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/12\/31\/15\/shutterstock_editorial_5854546a.jpg\")
<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSam Elliott, Cher and Peter Bogdanovich on the set of \u2018Mask’ (Universal\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nCher and Peter Bogdanovich<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Cher has form with feuding with her directors (\u201cYou just have to be as smart as I am,\u201d she said in 1990. \u201cIf the director is smart, he is worth his weight in gold \u2013 otherwise I want him to leave me alone\u201d) but it\u2019s debatable whether any of her detractors have a point. She claimed in 2018 that she was only tense with her Witches of Eastwick director George Miller after he dubbed her \u201ctoo old and not sexy\u201d, while her Mask director Peter Bogdanovich gave a bizarre explanation for their on-set feud in 2019. After telling Vulture <\/a>that Cher was the most difficult actor he\u2019d ever worked with, Bogdanovich said: \u201cShe didn\u2019t trust anybody, particularly men. She doesn\u2019t like men. That\u2019s why she\u2019s named Cher. She dropped her father\u2019s name. Sarkisian, it is. She can\u2019t act. She won Best Actress at Cannes because I shot her very well\u201d. Despite Bogdanovich\u2019s claims about her lack of talent, Cher went on to win an Oscar for her 1987 film Moonstruck.<\/p>\nHarvey Keitel and Stanley Kubrick<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Like an even more extreme version of David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick was renowned for making his actors shoot take after take until he was satisfied with the result. But this was sometimes so arduous that it bordered on the ridiculous. In 2012, Gary Oldman recalled an anecdote by Harvey Keitel in which he explained why he quit Kubrick\u2019s final film Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. \u201cHe was doing the scene and they were just walking through a door and after the 68th take of this \u2013 just walking through a door \u2013 Harvey Keitel said \u2018I\u2019m out of here, you\u2019re f***ing crazy\u2019. He just said, \u2018you\u2019re f***ing out of your mind\u2019, and left.\u201d Keitel was replaced by the presumably more accommodating Sydney Pollack.<\/p>\n
Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher and Joss Whedon<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Production of 2017\u2019s Justice League was a nightmare, with original director Zack Snyder bowing out due to a family crisis, and Joss Whedon roped in to essentially re-do the entire movie. While the situation had a happy ending \u2013 Snyder\u2019s original cut of the film debuted to praise from fans in 2021 \u2013 Whedon\u2019s own reputation diminished. Ray Fisher, who portrayed Cyborg in the film, alleged that Whedon dismissed his concerns about the revised script and behaved inappropriately on set, while Gadot alleged that Whedon \u201cthreatened [her] career\u201d after she expressed unease with a sexualised comedy scene. Whedon has dropped out of the public eye since the allegations surfaced and has not spoken publicly about many of Fisher and Gadot\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nT<\/span>he Hollywood ideal is for actors and directors to make magic together. Think Gena Rowlands<\/a> and John Cassavetes, or Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro<\/a>. But sometimes, regardless of the quality of the film that gets made, actors can\u2019t stand their directors and vice versa.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s interesting about actor-director feuds, though, is that it\u2019s very easy to keep quiet about them. Nobody gets along with everyone, and having many creative people operating in a tiny bubble will inevitably spark tension. So if a bit of off-camera vitriol spills out from the set and into public record, you just know real toxicity must have gone down.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n(PA)<\/span><\/div>\nHere are 17 times that movies were blighted by real-life feuding \u2013 from David O Russell<\/a>\u2019s prolific run of actor arguments, to the director who dared to tell Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton that they needed acting lessons.<\/p>\nJake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
David Fincher is an infamously exacting filmmaker, often shooting dozens and sometimes hundreds of takes. One actor who particularly struggled with Fincher\u2019s approach was Jake Gyllenhaal, who worked with the filmmaker on 2007\u2019s Zodiac. He said that year that Fincher \u201cpaints with people\u201d while working, and that it\u2019s \u201ctough to be a colour\u201d. Asked about Gyllenhaal\u2019s comments in 2020, Fincher said that the former child actor had never \u201cbeen asked to concentrate on minutiae\u201d, adding that Gyllenhaal was \u201cvery distracted\u201d on set.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he\u2019d show up for work, he was very scattered,\u201d Fincher told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201c[He had] his managers and his silly agents who were all coming to his trailer at lunch to talk to him about the cover of GQ and this and that. He was being nibbled to death by ducks, and not particularly smart ducks. They got in his vision, and it was hard for him to hit the fastball.\u201d<\/p>\nKeira Knightley and John Carney<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The musical drama Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, was such an innocuous film that it came as a surprise when director John Carney later dubbed Knightley a \u201csupermodel\u201d and criticised her acting while speaking to The Independent<\/a>. He claimed that \u201cbeing a film actor requires a certain level of honesty and self-analysis that I don\u2019t think she\u2019s ready for yet\u201d, but later apologised. Asked for her own stance on their relationship, Knightley later said that she had accepted Carney\u2019s apology but admitted that the Begin Again shoot was \u201cvery difficult\u201d and that the pair \u201cdidn\u2019t get on\u201d. She added: \u201cIt\u2019s just a thing that happens sometimes and I say that with no blame. It takes two to tango.\u201d<\/p>\nGene Hackman and Wes Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
It remains unclear what exactly bothered Gene Hackman about his Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson, but he made it clear on set that he did not like him. In 2011, co-star Anjelica Huston claimed that Hackman told Anderson to \u201cpull up [his] pants and act like a man\u201d, while Noah Baumbach recalled Hackman dubbing Anderson a \u201cc***\u201d during filming. As for Anderson, though, he has no regrets about casting Hackman in the film, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s a huge force and I really enjoyed working with him. Even though he was very challenging with me, it was very exciting seeing him launch into these scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWes Anderson and Gene Hackman on the set of \u2018The Royal Tenenbaums’ (James Hamilton\/Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nThe cast of Steel Magnolias and Herbert Ross<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Despite being a beloved classic, the 1989 weepie Steel Magnolias had a tortured production, with most of the cast \u2013 Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley Maclaine and Dolly Parton \u2013 clashing with director Herbert Ross. \u201cMy deepest memories of the film were how we bonded together after he told one of us or all of us we couldn\u2019t act,\u201d Field said in 2013. \u201cHe went after Julia with a vengeance. This was pretty much her first big film.\u201d In 1993, Ross said that Roberts \u201clooked bad and gave a very bad performance\u201d in the film. In response, Roberts called Ross \u201cmean and out of line\u201d, adding: \u201cIf he thinks he can talk about me in such a condescending way and not have me say something about it, then he\u2019s nuts\u201d.<\/p>\n
Parton has also claimed that Ross would repeatedly tell her on the set that she needed acting lessons. Bemused, she told him: \u201cI\u2019m not an actress, I\u2019m Dolly Parton. I\u2019m a personality who has been hired to do this movie. You\u2019re the director. It\u2019s your job to make me look like I\u2019m acting.\u201d Ross died in 2001.<\/p>\n
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Buried in leaks from the Sony hack in 2014 were claims that Amy Adams and David O Russell clashed on the set of American Hustle, Russell\u2019s convoluted con movie from the year before. Discussing their relationship in 2016, Adams confirmed that the filmmaker made her cry due to his process, which involved talking and shouting at his actors mid-scene. \u201cHe was hard on me, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she told GQ<\/a>. \u201cIt was a lot. I was really just devastated on set.\u201d She added that she has no intention of working with him again.<\/p>\nGeorge Clooney and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Adams was just one of many stars to confirm friction with Russell. On the set of 1999\u2019s Three Kings, George Clooney confronted the filmmaker after he \u201cwent nuts on an extra\u201d, according to the actor. \u201cI would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren\u2019t allowed to defend themselves,\u201d Clooney said in 2003. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in it, and it makes me crazy. So my job was then to humiliate the people who were doing the humiliating.\u201d He also dubbed working on the film \u201cthe worst experience of [his] life\u201d. Speaking in a GQ interview in 2024, Clooney called O Russell \u201ca miserable f***\u201d who \u201cmade my life hell\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lily Tomlin and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s Lily Tomlin, who was seen in leaked footage from the set of 2004\u2019s I Heart Huckabees being screamed at by Russell and giving as good as she was getting. While the footage went viral in 2010 and somewhat dented Russell\u2019s image in the public eye, Tomlin has repeatedly said that the pair made up after a few hours of tension. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to misbehave; believe me, it\u2019s embarrassing. It\u2019s humiliating, you know?\u201d she said in 2011. \u201cBecause you just lose it. You act like a crazy person. But I adore David. I adore him as a talent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nBruce Willis and Kevin Smith are all smiles on the set of \u2018Cop Out’ (Warner Bros\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nBruce Willis and Kevin Smith<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Willis and Smith\u2019s mutual loathing of one another is, unusually, far more famous than the movie they actually worked on together. Star and director of the forgotten police comedy Cop Out (2010), the pair were at each other\u2019s throats on set, and lambasted one another in the press as soon as it finished filming. Smith said in 2011 that working with Willis was \u201csoul-crushing\u201d and \u2013 in his 2021 autobiography \u2013 wrote that \u201cCop Out could have been a great experience if it were not for the fact that I met true darkness in Bruce Willis \u2013 I love making movies and he does not, at all\u201d. Asked in 2013 what actually went down on set, Willis replied: \u201cPoor Kevin. He\u2019s just a whiner, you know? We had some personal issues about how we approached work. I don\u2019t have an answer for him. I\u2019m never going to call him out and lay him out in public. Sometimes you just don\u2019t get along.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Dunaway\u2019s feud with Polanski on the set of the classic film noir Chinatown quickly went down in Hollywood lore. They reportedly fought over costuming, hair and toilet breaks. The filmmaker would claim that Dunaway was \u201cdifficult\u201d \u2013 a kiss of death for women of most eras in film \u2013 and dubbed her \u201ca gigantic pain\u201d in the press. In her autobiography, Dunaway claimed that misogyny led to the incidents on set being widely misreported. She claimed that Polanski was \u201cincessantly cruel\u201d, adding that he had a \u201cnever-ending need to humiliate\u201d her, along with demonstrating behaviour that \u201cbordered on sexual harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones and Joel Schumacher<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
In 1996, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher called out two of the stars of the film, neither of whom was invited back for his sequel, Batman & Robin. \u201cI\u2019m tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors,\u201d Schumacher said. \u201cI pray I don\u2019t work with them again.\u201d Dubbing Jones an \u201ca*****e\u201d and Kilmer \u201cpsychotic\u201d, Schumacher claimed that his relationship with Kilmer became so bad on the set that they stopped talking. \u201cHe was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThen we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
A beautiful comic partnership between Murray and Ramis resulted in a number of classic films, including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. But it was the latter project \u2013 which Ramis directed and Murray starred in \u2013 that led to a 21-year bust-up. According to a 2018 biography of Ramis by his daughter Violet, the pair had such volatile tension on the set that Ramis ended up grabbing Murray by the shirt collar and throwing him against a wall. The biography claims that, after Murray swore off their friendship, Ramis was left \u201cheartbroken, confused and yet unsurprised by the rejection\u201d. More than two decades later, with Ramis on his deathbed, Murray appeared at his door with a box of doughnuts and proceeded to mend fences with his one-time collaborator at the very last minute.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nJulia Roberts and Steven Spielberg on the set of \u2018Hook’ (Moviestore\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nJulia Roberts and Steven Spielberg<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
An infamous Hollywood feud primarily because of how famous both of them are, Roberts and Spielberg did not get along on the set of his polarising Peter Pan film Hook in 1991. Roberts was apparently not used to CGI work \u2013 she was playing Tinkerbell and acted by herself and against a green-screen for almost all of filming \u2013 and made her frustrations known on set. She was reportedly dubbed \u201cTinkerhell\u201d by the crew as a result. \u201cNo, I never heard [the nickname],\u201d Roberts later said. \u201cBut I\u2019m a normal person. I mean, if I sit in my trailer for six hours doing nothing, I\u2019m going to say: \u2018What the f**k is going on?\u2019\u201d Spielberg himself admitted to feeling sorry for the star, as she was dealing with the breakdown of her relationship with Kiefer Sutherland during filming. \u201cIt was simply bad timing for all of us that she happened to start on Hook at that low point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mike Myers and Penelope Spheeris<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The star and director of cult comedy Wayne\u2019s World were tense with each other on the set of the film, with Myers complaining about the film\u2019s ultimately iconic \u201chead-banging to \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019\u201d scene \u2013 something Spheeris improvised on set \u2013 and then asking to edit the film without her. In the end, Myers blocked Spheeris from directing the film\u2019s sequel. For what it\u2019s worth, Spheeris said in 2017 that she has no ill will towards Myers. \u201cIt really made me a better person and a stronger person,\u201d she told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI mean, I was really depressed over it \u2026 and I felt horrible. When you go through something like that, you just come out stronger. So I thank them for it.\u201d<\/p>\nBurt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Burt Reynolds may have received an Oscar nomination for his work in 1997\u2019s Boogie Nights, but it didn\u2019t quell his feelings about his director, Paul Thomas Anderson. The pair clashed on set, and Reynolds told GQ<\/a> in 2015 that he wouldn\u2019t work with him again despite the film\u2019s acclaim. \u201cPersonality-wise, we didn\u2019t fit,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]. I remember the first shot we did in Boogie Nights, where I drive the car to Grauman\u2019s Theater. After he said, \u2018Isn\u2019t that amazing?\u2019 And I named five pictures that had the same kind of shot. It wasn\u2019t original.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\nopen image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSam Elliott, Cher and Peter Bogdanovich on the set of \u2018Mask’ (Universal\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\nCher and Peter Bogdanovich<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Cher has form with feuding with her directors (\u201cYou just have to be as smart as I am,\u201d she said in 1990. \u201cIf the director is smart, he is worth his weight in gold \u2013 otherwise I want him to leave me alone\u201d) but it\u2019s debatable whether any of her detractors have a point. She claimed in 2018 that she was only tense with her Witches of Eastwick director George Miller after he dubbed her \u201ctoo old and not sexy\u201d, while her Mask director Peter Bogdanovich gave a bizarre explanation for their on-set feud in 2019. After telling Vulture <\/a>that Cher was the most difficult actor he\u2019d ever worked with, Bogdanovich said: \u201cShe didn\u2019t trust anybody, particularly men. She doesn\u2019t like men. That\u2019s why she\u2019s named Cher. She dropped her father\u2019s name. Sarkisian, it is. She can\u2019t act. She won Best Actress at Cannes because I shot her very well\u201d. Despite Bogdanovich\u2019s claims about her lack of talent, Cher went on to win an Oscar for her 1987 film Moonstruck.<\/p>\nHarvey Keitel and Stanley Kubrick<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Like an even more extreme version of David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick was renowned for making his actors shoot take after take until he was satisfied with the result. But this was sometimes so arduous that it bordered on the ridiculous. In 2012, Gary Oldman recalled an anecdote by Harvey Keitel in which he explained why he quit Kubrick\u2019s final film Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. \u201cHe was doing the scene and they were just walking through a door and after the 68th take of this \u2013 just walking through a door \u2013 Harvey Keitel said \u2018I\u2019m out of here, you\u2019re f***ing crazy\u2019. He just said, \u2018you\u2019re f***ing out of your mind\u2019, and left.\u201d Keitel was replaced by the presumably more accommodating Sydney Pollack.<\/p>\n
Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher and Joss Whedon<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Production of 2017\u2019s Justice League was a nightmare, with original director Zack Snyder bowing out due to a family crisis, and Joss Whedon roped in to essentially re-do the entire movie. While the situation had a happy ending \u2013 Snyder\u2019s original cut of the film debuted to praise from fans in 2021 \u2013 Whedon\u2019s own reputation diminished. Ray Fisher, who portrayed Cyborg in the film, alleged that Whedon dismissed his concerns about the revised script and behaved inappropriately on set, while Gadot alleged that Whedon \u201cthreatened [her] career\u201d after she expressed unease with a sexualised comedy scene. Whedon has dropped out of the public eye since the allegations surfaced and has not spoken publicly about many of Fisher and Gadot\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nT<\/span>he Hollywood ideal is for actors and directors to make magic together. Think Gena Rowlands<\/a> and John Cassavetes, or Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro<\/a>. But sometimes, regardless of the quality of the film that gets made, actors can\u2019t stand their directors and vice versa.<\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting about actor-director feuds, though, is that it\u2019s very easy to keep quiet about them. Nobody gets along with everyone, and having many creative people operating in a tiny bubble will inevitably spark tension. So if a bit of off-camera vitriol spills out from the set and into public record, you just know real toxicity must have gone down.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n (PA)<\/span><\/div>\n Here are 17 times that movies were blighted by real-life feuding \u2013 from David O Russell<\/a>\u2019s prolific run of actor arguments, to the director who dared to tell Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton that they needed acting lessons.<\/p>\n David Fincher is an infamously exacting filmmaker, often shooting dozens and sometimes hundreds of takes. One actor who particularly struggled with Fincher\u2019s approach was Jake Gyllenhaal, who worked with the filmmaker on 2007\u2019s Zodiac. He said that year that Fincher \u201cpaints with people\u201d while working, and that it\u2019s \u201ctough to be a colour\u201d. Asked about Gyllenhaal\u2019s comments in 2020, Fincher said that the former child actor had never \u201cbeen asked to concentrate on minutiae\u201d, adding that Gyllenhaal was \u201cvery distracted\u201d on set.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen he\u2019d show up for work, he was very scattered,\u201d Fincher told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201c[He had] his managers and his silly agents who were all coming to his trailer at lunch to talk to him about the cover of GQ and this and that. He was being nibbled to death by ducks, and not particularly smart ducks. They got in his vision, and it was hard for him to hit the fastball.\u201d<\/p>\n The musical drama Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, was such an innocuous film that it came as a surprise when director John Carney later dubbed Knightley a \u201csupermodel\u201d and criticised her acting while speaking to The Independent<\/a>. He claimed that \u201cbeing a film actor requires a certain level of honesty and self-analysis that I don\u2019t think she\u2019s ready for yet\u201d, but later apologised. Asked for her own stance on their relationship, Knightley later said that she had accepted Carney\u2019s apology but admitted that the Begin Again shoot was \u201cvery difficult\u201d and that the pair \u201cdidn\u2019t get on\u201d. She added: \u201cIt\u2019s just a thing that happens sometimes and I say that with no blame. It takes two to tango.\u201d<\/p>\n It remains unclear what exactly bothered Gene Hackman about his Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson, but he made it clear on set that he did not like him. In 2011, co-star Anjelica Huston claimed that Hackman told Anderson to \u201cpull up [his] pants and act like a man\u201d, while Noah Baumbach recalled Hackman dubbing Anderson a \u201cc***\u201d during filming. As for Anderson, though, he has no regrets about casting Hackman in the film, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s a huge force and I really enjoyed working with him. Even though he was very challenging with me, it was very exciting seeing him launch into these scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Wes Anderson and Gene Hackman on the set of \u2018The Royal Tenenbaums’ (James Hamilton\/Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\n Despite being a beloved classic, the 1989 weepie Steel Magnolias had a tortured production, with most of the cast \u2013 Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley Maclaine and Dolly Parton \u2013 clashing with director Herbert Ross. \u201cMy deepest memories of the film were how we bonded together after he told one of us or all of us we couldn\u2019t act,\u201d Field said in 2013. \u201cHe went after Julia with a vengeance. This was pretty much her first big film.\u201d In 1993, Ross said that Roberts \u201clooked bad and gave a very bad performance\u201d in the film. In response, Roberts called Ross \u201cmean and out of line\u201d, adding: \u201cIf he thinks he can talk about me in such a condescending way and not have me say something about it, then he\u2019s nuts\u201d.<\/p>\n Parton has also claimed that Ross would repeatedly tell her on the set that she needed acting lessons. Bemused, she told him: \u201cI\u2019m not an actress, I\u2019m Dolly Parton. I\u2019m a personality who has been hired to do this movie. You\u2019re the director. It\u2019s your job to make me look like I\u2019m acting.\u201d Ross died in 2001.<\/p>\n Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 day<\/p>\n New subscribers only. \u00a39.99\/mo. after free trial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Try for free<\/a><\/div>\n ADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 day<\/p>\n New subscribers only. \u00a39.99\/mo. after free trial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Try for free<\/a><\/div>\n ADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Buried in leaks from the Sony hack in 2014 were claims that Amy Adams and David O Russell clashed on the set of American Hustle, Russell\u2019s convoluted con movie from the year before. Discussing their relationship in 2016, Adams confirmed that the filmmaker made her cry due to his process, which involved talking and shouting at his actors mid-scene. \u201cHe was hard on me, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she told GQ<\/a>. \u201cIt was a lot. I was really just devastated on set.\u201d She added that she has no intention of working with him again.<\/p>\n Adams was just one of many stars to confirm friction with Russell. On the set of 1999\u2019s Three Kings, George Clooney confronted the filmmaker after he \u201cwent nuts on an extra\u201d, according to the actor. \u201cI would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren\u2019t allowed to defend themselves,\u201d Clooney said in 2003. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in it, and it makes me crazy. So my job was then to humiliate the people who were doing the humiliating.\u201d He also dubbed working on the film \u201cthe worst experience of [his] life\u201d. Speaking in a GQ interview in 2024, Clooney called O Russell \u201ca miserable f***\u201d who \u201cmade my life hell\u201d.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Lily Tomlin, who was seen in leaked footage from the set of 2004\u2019s I Heart Huckabees being screamed at by Russell and giving as good as she was getting. While the footage went viral in 2010 and somewhat dented Russell\u2019s image in the public eye, Tomlin has repeatedly said that the pair made up after a few hours of tension. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to misbehave; believe me, it\u2019s embarrassing. It\u2019s humiliating, you know?\u201d she said in 2011. \u201cBecause you just lose it. You act like a crazy person. But I adore David. I adore him as a talent.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith are all smiles on the set of \u2018Cop Out’ (Warner Bros\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\n Willis and Smith\u2019s mutual loathing of one another is, unusually, far more famous than the movie they actually worked on together. Star and director of the forgotten police comedy Cop Out (2010), the pair were at each other\u2019s throats on set, and lambasted one another in the press as soon as it finished filming. Smith said in 2011 that working with Willis was \u201csoul-crushing\u201d and \u2013 in his 2021 autobiography \u2013 wrote that \u201cCop Out could have been a great experience if it were not for the fact that I met true darkness in Bruce Willis \u2013 I love making movies and he does not, at all\u201d. Asked in 2013 what actually went down on set, Willis replied: \u201cPoor Kevin. He\u2019s just a whiner, you know? We had some personal issues about how we approached work. I don\u2019t have an answer for him. I\u2019m never going to call him out and lay him out in public. Sometimes you just don\u2019t get along.\u201d<\/p>\n Dunaway\u2019s feud with Polanski on the set of the classic film noir Chinatown quickly went down in Hollywood lore. They reportedly fought over costuming, hair and toilet breaks. The filmmaker would claim that Dunaway was \u201cdifficult\u201d \u2013 a kiss of death for women of most eras in film \u2013 and dubbed her \u201ca gigantic pain\u201d in the press. In her autobiography, Dunaway claimed that misogyny led to the incidents on set being widely misreported. She claimed that Polanski was \u201cincessantly cruel\u201d, adding that he had a \u201cnever-ending need to humiliate\u201d her, along with demonstrating behaviour that \u201cbordered on sexual harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n In 1996, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher called out two of the stars of the film, neither of whom was invited back for his sequel, Batman & Robin. \u201cI\u2019m tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors,\u201d Schumacher said. \u201cI pray I don\u2019t work with them again.\u201d Dubbing Jones an \u201ca*****e\u201d and Kilmer \u201cpsychotic\u201d, Schumacher claimed that his relationship with Kilmer became so bad on the set that they stopped talking. \u201cHe was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThen we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n A beautiful comic partnership between Murray and Ramis resulted in a number of classic films, including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. But it was the latter project \u2013 which Ramis directed and Murray starred in \u2013 that led to a 21-year bust-up. According to a 2018 biography of Ramis by his daughter Violet, the pair had such volatile tension on the set that Ramis ended up grabbing Murray by the shirt collar and throwing him against a wall. The biography claims that, after Murray swore off their friendship, Ramis was left \u201cheartbroken, confused and yet unsurprised by the rejection\u201d. More than two decades later, with Ramis on his deathbed, Murray appeared at his door with a box of doughnuts and proceeded to mend fences with his one-time collaborator at the very last minute.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Julia Roberts and Steven Spielberg on the set of \u2018Hook’ (Moviestore\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\n An infamous Hollywood feud primarily because of how famous both of them are, Roberts and Spielberg did not get along on the set of his polarising Peter Pan film Hook in 1991. Roberts was apparently not used to CGI work \u2013 she was playing Tinkerbell and acted by herself and against a green-screen for almost all of filming \u2013 and made her frustrations known on set. She was reportedly dubbed \u201cTinkerhell\u201d by the crew as a result. \u201cNo, I never heard [the nickname],\u201d Roberts later said. \u201cBut I\u2019m a normal person. I mean, if I sit in my trailer for six hours doing nothing, I\u2019m going to say: \u2018What the f**k is going on?\u2019\u201d Spielberg himself admitted to feeling sorry for the star, as she was dealing with the breakdown of her relationship with Kiefer Sutherland during filming. \u201cIt was simply bad timing for all of us that she happened to start on Hook at that low point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The star and director of cult comedy Wayne\u2019s World were tense with each other on the set of the film, with Myers complaining about the film\u2019s ultimately iconic \u201chead-banging to \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019\u201d scene \u2013 something Spheeris improvised on set \u2013 and then asking to edit the film without her. In the end, Myers blocked Spheeris from directing the film\u2019s sequel. For what it\u2019s worth, Spheeris said in 2017 that she has no ill will towards Myers. \u201cIt really made me a better person and a stronger person,\u201d she told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI mean, I was really depressed over it \u2026 and I felt horrible. When you go through something like that, you just come out stronger. So I thank them for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Burt Reynolds may have received an Oscar nomination for his work in 1997\u2019s Boogie Nights, but it didn\u2019t quell his feelings about his director, Paul Thomas Anderson. The pair clashed on set, and Reynolds told GQ<\/a> in 2015 that he wouldn\u2019t work with him again despite the film\u2019s acclaim. \u201cPersonality-wise, we didn\u2019t fit,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]. I remember the first shot we did in Boogie Nights, where I drive the car to Grauman\u2019s Theater. After he said, \u2018Isn\u2019t that amazing?\u2019 And I named five pictures that had the same kind of shot. It wasn\u2019t original.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sam Elliott, Cher and Peter Bogdanovich on the set of \u2018Mask’ (Universal\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/span><\/div>\n Cher has form with feuding with her directors (\u201cYou just have to be as smart as I am,\u201d she said in 1990. \u201cIf the director is smart, he is worth his weight in gold \u2013 otherwise I want him to leave me alone\u201d) but it\u2019s debatable whether any of her detractors have a point. She claimed in 2018 that she was only tense with her Witches of Eastwick director George Miller after he dubbed her \u201ctoo old and not sexy\u201d, while her Mask director Peter Bogdanovich gave a bizarre explanation for their on-set feud in 2019. After telling Vulture <\/a>that Cher was the most difficult actor he\u2019d ever worked with, Bogdanovich said: \u201cShe didn\u2019t trust anybody, particularly men. She doesn\u2019t like men. That\u2019s why she\u2019s named Cher. She dropped her father\u2019s name. Sarkisian, it is. She can\u2019t act. She won Best Actress at Cannes because I shot her very well\u201d. Despite Bogdanovich\u2019s claims about her lack of talent, Cher went on to win an Oscar for her 1987 film Moonstruck.<\/p>\n Like an even more extreme version of David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick was renowned for making his actors shoot take after take until he was satisfied with the result. But this was sometimes so arduous that it bordered on the ridiculous. In 2012, Gary Oldman recalled an anecdote by Harvey Keitel in which he explained why he quit Kubrick\u2019s final film Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. \u201cHe was doing the scene and they were just walking through a door and after the 68th take of this \u2013 just walking through a door \u2013 Harvey Keitel said \u2018I\u2019m out of here, you\u2019re f***ing crazy\u2019. He just said, \u2018you\u2019re f***ing out of your mind\u2019, and left.\u201d Keitel was replaced by the presumably more accommodating Sydney Pollack.<\/p>\n Production of 2017\u2019s Justice League was a nightmare, with original director Zack Snyder bowing out due to a family crisis, and Joss Whedon roped in to essentially re-do the entire movie. While the situation had a happy ending \u2013 Snyder\u2019s original cut of the film debuted to praise from fans in 2021 \u2013 Whedon\u2019s own reputation diminished. Ray Fisher, who portrayed Cyborg in the film, alleged that Whedon dismissed his concerns about the revised script and behaved inappropriately on set, while Gadot alleged that Whedon \u201cthreatened [her] career\u201d after she expressed unease with a sexualised comedy scene. Whedon has dropped out of the public eye since the allegations surfaced and has not spoken publicly about many of Fisher and Gadot\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Hollywood ideal is for actors and directors to make magic together. 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Keira Knightley and John Carney<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Gene Hackman and Wes Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nThe cast of Steel Magnolias and Herbert Ross<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAmy Adams and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
George Clooney and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Lily Tomlin and David O Russell<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nBruce Willis and Kevin Smith<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones and Joel Schumacher<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nJulia Roberts and Steven Spielberg<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Mike Myers and Penelope Spheeris<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nCher and Peter Bogdanovich<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Harvey Keitel and Stanley Kubrick<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher and Joss Whedon<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n