Lights, camera, feuds!
Simply because A-List actors are forged in a movie together doesn’t at all times mean they’ll get along.
Whether it’s an actor’s approach to preparation or questionable commitment to a job, there’s a plethora of reasons co-stars could butt heads.
In some instances, these experiences might be so bad that it means they’ll never ever work together again.
But for others, time heals their wounds and so they’re in a position to at the very least co-exist on set again — even when it’s only for the fans’ sake.
Other actors on this list didn’t just affect their co-stars, but members of the production team, too.
Let’s just say there’s a reason why they inform you to fulfill your idols, let alone work with them and be crushed by their lack of professionalism.
But without further ado, listed below are the actors that at the very least one cut-off date never desired to work together again.
Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel
Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel are perhaps one in every of the best-known examples of actors who refused to work together. The pair famously starred alongside one another within the “Fast and Furious” franchise, but drama stirred up in August 2016 when Johnson cryptically claimed some male actors on the project were unprofessional.
Johnson told Rolling Stone in April 2018 that the duo disagreed about professionalism and confirmed that that they had shot their scenes for the eighth installment of the franchise individually.
“Vin and I had a couple of discussions, including a crucial face-to-face in my trailer,” Johnson told the rock bible. “And what I got here to understand is that we’ve got a fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating. It took me a while, but I’m grateful for that clarity. Whether we work together again or not.”
Despite another public hiccups — Johnson slammed Diesel for pubic “manipulation” after Diesel publicly begged him to return for “Fast X” despite the pair having a non-public conversation — Johnson declared a cease-fire in June.
“Last summer Vin and I put all of the past behind us. We’ll lead with brotherhood and resolve – and at all times handle the franchise, characters & FANS that we love,” Johnson wrote in a tweet one month before stunning audiences with a cameo in “Fast X.”
James Franco And Tyrese Gibson
James Franco and Tyrese Gibson starred together within the 2006 Navy boxing drama “Annapolis” wherein Franco, a known method actor, would actually hit Gibson within the fight scenes.
“I never wish to work with him again, and I’m sure he feels the identical way,” Gibson told Playboy of Franco in 2007. “It felt very personal. It was f—ked up.”
The “Fast X” star elaborated on the experience in an interview with Elle that very same yr.
“James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character,” he claimed.
“Each time we’d need to get within the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.” He added, “I used to be at all times like, ‘James, loosen up, man. We’re just practicing.’ He never lightened up.”
Franco finally addressed Gibson’s remarks in an interview with GQ in 2008.
“I hear he wants to explode my hotel room,” Franco first joked before taking responsibility for the pair’s rough start.
“I used to be probably a jerk,” he admitted. I used to be not purposely cruel to him, but I used to be probably so wrapped up in my performance that I used to be not as friendly as I might have been.”
Franco continued, “That is such a silly issue I can’t imagine I’m still talking about it. But once I’m asked about it within the press it makes it seem as if it’s still a difficulty. I believe Tyrese is a sweet guy with heart. I wish him all the perfect.”
Will Smith and Janet Hubert
Janet Hubert portrayed Aunt Viv for the primary three seasons of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
However the air was never clear between Hubert and Will Smith. The “Switch” rapper claimed Hubert was “difficult to work with” and that the pair had “creative differences” when she left the show in 1993.
“I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be ‘The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air Show’ because I do know she goes to dog me within the press,” Smith said during a 1993 radio interview about her departure.
“She has mainly gone from 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 dollars a yr to nothing. She’s mad now but she’s been mad all along. She said once, ‘I’ve been within the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.’ Regardless of what, to her I’m just the Antichrist,” he claimed.
Hubert had her own alternative words for Smith on the time, telling TMZ in 2011, “There won’t ever be a reunion…as I won’t ever do anything with an a—hole like Will Smith.”
“He continues to be an egomaniac and has not grown up,” she added. This constant reunion thing won’t ever ever occur in my lifetime unless there’s an apology, which he doesn’t know the word.”
But perhaps time heals all wounds because the pair put their differences aside in 2020 throughout the “Fresh Prince” reunion special on Max.
Hubert revealed her home life was in a dark place while working on the sitcom and claims Smith took her creative outlet away from her when she left the show.
Eventually, the pair hugged it out.
“I couldn’t do a 30-year celebration of this show and never rejoice you, rejoice your contribution and rejoice your contribution to my life,” Smith told her.
Kevin Smith And Bruce Willis
Director Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis worked together on the 2010 buddy comedy “Cop Out.” Although Smith was a large fan of Willis before production of the movie, he would later describe working together with his hero as “soul crushing.”
“It was difficult,” Smith said on comedian Marc Maron’s podcast in 2011, adding that the “Die Hard” star “wouldn’t even sit for a f——g poster shoot.”
“Were it not for Tracy [Morgan, Willis’ co-star], I might need killed either myself or another person within the making of f–king ‘Cop Out.’”
Nonetheless, Smith walked back his criticism of Willis when the actor’s family announced his aphasia diagnosis — which as since been updated to frontotemporal dementia — in March 2022.
“Long before any of the ‘Cop Out’ stuff, I used to be a giant Bruce Willis fan, so this is de facto heartbreaking to read,” Smith tweeted on the time. “He loved to act and sing and the lack of that must be devastating for him.”
“I feel like an a–hole for my petty complaints from 2010. So sorry to BW and his family,” Smith concluded.
Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf
Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf didn’t exactly see eye to eye while preparing for the play “Orphans” in 2013.
The “Rust” actor claimed the “Honey Boy” star once “attacked” him in front of a stage filled with people.
“He said, ‘You’re slowing me down, and also you don’t know your lines. And in case you don’t say your lines, I’m just going to maintain saying my lines,’” Baldwin told Vulture in 2014 of LaBeouf.
“All of us sat, frozen,” he continued. “I snorted a bit, and, turning to him in front of the entire forged, I asked, ‘If I don’t say my words fast enough, you’re going to only say your next line?’ I said. ‘You realize the lines are written in a certain order?’” Baldwin claimed. “He just glared at me.”
LaBeouf later dropped out of the play as a result of “creative differences.”
Baldwin also compared LaBeouf to a performative “celebrity chef” who didn’t wish to put in exertions.
“A few of the best movie stars had really serious theatre careers and still do,” Baldwin said. “And lots of film actors, though, who’re purely film actors, they’re form of like celebrity chefs, you understand what I mean?”
But LaBeouf would try and get the last word as he later tweet out emails allegedly between him and director Daniel Sullivan wherein Sullivan seemingly warned him that Baldwin may not come to the theater prepared.
Ryan Reynolds and Wesley Snipes
In one more example of method acting gone fallacious, Wesley Snipes stayed in character as daywalker Blade during production of the “Blade Runner” movies.
But this didn’t exactly gel with the “Deadpool” star’s goofy personality — or anyone else on set, including director David S. Goyer.
Snipes reportedly barely talked to anyone on the set and referred to Reynolds as “the cracker,” and was allegedly difficult to work with.
But Reynolds didn’t hold it against Snipes, as he admitted in 2004 that he never even really met him.
“It’s at all times overblown,” he told IGN of the stories from filming being blown out of proportion.
“My personality is the polar opposite of Wesley. I never met Wesley, I only met Blade, and he is a technique actor. Say what you wish about that variety of acting, I actually have the utmost respect for whatever it takes to get through this process. All of us say that these actors make a lot money and so they live such a lifetime of leisure and privilege, but that may be a vulnerable process, stepping onto the set on a regular basis and performing in front of 110 judgmental souls.”
Reynolds concluded,”So whatever it takes for him or anyone else to get through that in a way that’s artistically fulfilling to them, I actually have the utmost respect for.”
Nonetheless, Reynolds politely declined the concept of ever making a “Blade 4” when asked by a reporter in 2016.
Lucy Liu and Bill Murray
Bill Murray apparently wasn’t much of an angel to work on “Charlie’s Angels” in 2000.
Lucy Liu claimed in 2021 that the “Groundhog Day” star used langue on the set of the film that was “inexcusable and unacceptable,” which caused conflict between the 2 of them.
“I used to be not going to only sit there and take it. So, yes, I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it,” she claimed on the Los Angeles Times’ “Asian Enough” podcast.
“As we’re doing the scene, Bill starts to type of hurl insults, and I won’t get into the specifics, but it surely kept occurring and on. I used to be, like, “Wow, he looks like he’s looking straight at me.” I couldn’t imagine that [the comments] may very well be towards me, because what do I actually have to do with anything majorly necessary at the moment?”
Liu continued, “I literally do the go searching my shoulder thing, like, who’s he talking to behind me? I say, “I’m so sorry. Are you talking to me?” And clearly he was, because then it began to grow to be a one-on-one communication.”
After all, the “Kill Bill” star isn’t the one one in every of Murray’s co-star’s to have accused him of bad behavior on set. Chevy Chase, Geena Davis, Richard Dreyfuss, Seth Green, and Solange Knowles all had their issues with him, too — simply to name a couple of.
