History HostilityOnTheSet / LiveActionFilms

* During production of ''Film/RedPlanet'', Creator/ValKilmer and Creator/TomSizemore began feuding. According to reports, it all began when Kilmer got annoyed about a fancy exercise machine that Sizemore wanted to be shipped from England to the set in Australia. Eventually, the two hated each other so much, Kilmer would not come out of his trailer if Sizemore was on the set. Many of their scenes together were filmed over the shoulders of photo doubles. Kilmer reportedly refused to say Sizemore's character's name, saying instead "Hey, you!" At one point, they got into a confrontation that escalated into them throwing weights at each other until Sizemore knocked out Kilmer with a punch to the chest.[[note]]At a crewmember's request, he avoided Kilmer's face[[/note]] The two have never worked together again.

* In an interview by the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, Creator/RebeccaFerguson revealed that she was once screamed at by a co-star on the set of ''Film/DunePartTwo'' to such an unprofessional degree that she ultimately fired back and requested she only act opposite the back of the actor's head. Ferguson did not name the actor.

** During production, Raymond Massey was rude and condescending to everyone - especially to his co-star Creator/JamesDean. Elia Kazan took advantage of this, as the tension was good for their characters. Ironically Raymond Massey would later call Adam Trask his favorite role.

* In yet another Creator/ValKilmer example, he and Creator/TomSizemore began feuding during production of ''Film/RedPlanet''. According to reports, it all began when Kilmer got annoyed about a fancy exercise machine that Sizemore wanted to be shipped from England to the set in Australia. Eventually, the two hated each other so much, Kilmer would not come out of his trailer if Sizemore was on the set. Many of their scenes together were filmed over the shoulders of photo doubles. Kilmer reportedly refused to say Sizemore's character's name, saying instead "Hey, you!" At one point, they got into a confrontation that escalated into them throwing weights at each other until Sizemore knocked out Kilmer with a punch to the chest.[[note]]At a crewmember's request, he avoided Kilmer's face[[/note]] The two have never worked together again.

* Shirley [=MacLaine=] and Creator/DebraWinger[[note]]heavily using cocaine at the time[[/note]] grew deeply antipathetic to each other very quickly on the set of ''Film/TermsOfEndearment''. At one point Winger reportedly pulled down her pants and farted in [=MacLaine=]'s face.

* The independent action film ''Assassin's Fury'' [[http://bzfilm.com/talks-interviews/real-nightmare-on-set-of-independent-action-film-exclusive/ experienced this]] thanks to Willa Ford. She was cast as the villain, and in short, [[ThePrimaDonna she acted like one on set]], with co-writer and executive producer Fabio Soldani saying that she was "a nightmare to be around and it made the shoot a really sad place." After only five days, Soldani fired Ford and replaced her with Cynthia Murell, and things progressed far more smoothly.

* ''Film/CarryOnScreaming'':
** When filming the opening scene where Albert tries to court an increasingly frightened Doris, Creator/AngelaDouglas would scream louder and louder in Creator/JimDale's ear with each take. While Douglas wasn't doing this on purpose, Dale got quite frustrated during the scene.
** Another example involving Dale - during a late shoot at 2 in the morning it was pouring with rain, and he joked to Norman Mitchell that they should all go on strike for more money. News of this made it back to Creator/PeterRogers who thought it was an attempt to challenge his authority and demanded an apology from him, which Dale had to do over the phone.

* Creator/TonyCurtis and Creator/NatalieWood had previously costarred on two films (''King's Go Forth'' and ''Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl'') and had a very acrimonious relationship on the set of ''Film/TheGreatRace''. Part of the reason that Wood was unhappy on the film was that she felt she was being sexually harassed by both Curtis and Creator/JackLemmon.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** Prior to August 2015, the movies were made under Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} itself rather than Creator/{{Disney}}'s live-action group. At Marvel, the leadership was made up of CEO Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter and his creative committee (big writers/editors at Marvel). As the years went on, the tension between Perlmutter/Marvel and MCU chief Creator/KevinFeige only continued to grow. Perlmutter overrode many of Feige's creative decisions. Maya Hansen was supposed to be the villain of ''Film/IronMan3'' but Perlmutter changed it because he felt like she wouldn't sell toys. Feige had wanted to make ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/CarolDanvers movies for quite some time but was shot down under the same toy pretenses. Both movies didn't happen until 2018 and 2019 respectively, a decade into the franchise. Perlmutter is also believed to be the reason Creator/EdgarWright left ''Film/AntMan1'' at the eleventh hour. Wright had been working on the project since before the MCU was formed and wanted to make the movie more standalone whereas the people at Marvel wanted it to be in the formula. Feige is reported to have been on Wright's side and was willing to give him more creative freedom. This would be the final straw for Feige and the last movie before he put his foot down.
** The tension finally came to a head on the 2015 set of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' when the infamously penny pinching [[note]]So much that at the press junket for ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', reporters who were there all day weren't fed lunch, were given a quota of two bags of chips and a can of soda, and then had to resort to "stealing" food from another movie’s press junket.[[/note]] Perlmutter wanted to drop Creator/RobertDowneyJr from the project because of his salary. Feige went to Alan Horn (head of Disney's live-action group) and threatened to quit there and then if they didn't get him out from under Perlmutter. Disney acquiesced, the creative committee was disbanded (Feige got to pick his own team), Marvel Studios was split off from Marvel Entertainment and put under the Disney umbrella, and Horn is now Feige's boss. Perlmutter stepped down as CEO of Marvel Entertainment in 2018 but remained chairman of the board until late 2019 when Disney kicked Perlmutter out of Marvel permanently and put Feige in his position. Although he stayed on as a member of the board for several years, Perlmutter was among a large group of executives who were laid off from Disney in March 2023.
** Subverted in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and a rather harmless one, where Creator/BenedictCumberbatch originally ignored Creator/TomHolland, thinking he was an overeager crew member and fan, until he found out he was a co-star. Some found this [[{{Pun}} strange]] as they did ''Film/TheCurrentWar'' together the previous year.
** Kevin Feige would later admit that due to past issues and disagreements, he would not want Creator/EdwardNorton or Creator/JossWhedon to return to the MCU in the future.

* Following the announcement of ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', Creator/RayFisher (who played [[ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} Victor Stone/Cyborg]]) came forth with accusations against Creator/JossWhedon on social media, saying that his behavior on the set during the reshoots that resulted in the [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 2017 theatrical version]] was "abusive and unprofessional". This was backed by Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GalGadot (who was on the receiving end of threats by Whedon), and several film crew members. Fisher also criticized Creator/GeoffJohns and Jon Berg (then-heads of Creator/DCFilms) for allowing Whedon's behavior and singled out Johns in particular for "making thinly veiled threats" to Fisher's career when they were filming the reshoots in Los Angeles. The affair was apparently serious enough for Creator/WarnerMedia to conduct an investigation on it. Fisher would then expand his accusations to Walter Hamada, current President of DC Films, whom Fisher alleges has sabotaged the investigation, vowing never again to work with him as long as he was President. Whether it's related to this or not, Whedon dropped from showrunning the HBO series ''Series/TheNevers'' shortly afterwards.
* ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'':
** Both Creator/ValKilmer and Creator/MarlonBrando made things difficult to the point where Creator/RichardStanley got fired, and Creator/JohnFrankenheimer was hired partially because he had a history of controlling inflated egos. Frankenheimer was reported to have shouted "Cut! Now get that bastard off my set!" once Kilmer had no more scenes left, and stated after release that "There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world."
** Even Brando got fed up with Kilmer, telling him, "You're confusing your talent with the size of your paycheck." There was one reported incident where the actors playing Moreau's creations, having spent hours in makeup, were kept waiting because Brando and Kilmer refused to come out of their trailers until the other did.
** For his part, Kilmer denied having a feud with Brando. He shared some of the behind-the-scenes footage of friendly moments he had with Brando as well as him and Creator/DavidThewlis complaining about Frankenheimer's work ethic in the documentary ''Val''. In his memoir ''I'm Your Huckleberry'', Kilmer said:
-->John Frankenheimer went on to blame me publicly for ruining the movie. I always thought it an odd thing to try to do, blame me for his failure to make an entertaining film, because my character dies halfway through, and the last half of the film sucks as bad as the first.
** Screenwriter Ron Hutchinson said that "everybody behaved monstrously to each other" and that Brando had "poisonous" relations with most actors.
** Nelson de la Rosa was instantly loved by Marlon Brando, and essentially replaced Daniel Rigney as Moreau's assistant. de la Rosa lorded it over Thewlis, once ''[[GroinAttack punching Rigney in the balls]]'' in an elevator.
* ''Film/HushHushSweetCharlotte'' had a very heated feud between Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/JoanCrawford. While they had been able to work together on ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'' despite this, on this film it was too much.[[note]]What happened during the interim, you may ask? During the 1963 Academy Awards, Davis was nominated for Best Actress for her role in ''Baby Jane'' but lost to Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Film/TheMiracleWorker''. Because Bancroft was not at the ceremony (she was performing on Broadway at the time), Crawford volunteered to accept the award on her behalf. Davis -- and the press -- interpreted this move as Crawford hogging the spotlight for herself while rubbing Davis's loss in her face. Davis remained bitter about Crawford's actions that night for decades afterward.[[/note]] Joan Crawford checked herself into the hospital, claiming she fell ill, but in reality just did not want to work with Bette Davis again. This led to her being replaced with Olivia de Havilland (whom Davis actually liked, fortunately for all concerned).
* Invoked by Creator/AlfredHitchcock on ''{{Film/Rebecca|1940}}''. Creator/LaurenceOlivier treated Creator/JoanFontaine horribly, feeling his wife Creator/VivienLeigh should have had her part instead. Hitchcock told Joan that everyone else hated her too, [[EnforcedMethodActing in order to create an authentic feeling of isolation for her]].
* Speaking of Olivier, while it's well-known by now that ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' ended any remains of the friendship between producer-star Creator/KirkDouglas and substitute director Creator/StanleyKubrick,[[note]]At one point Douglas admits, in his memoirs, that he threw a folding chair at Kubrick out of sheer frustration.[[/note]] it's not as well known that Olivier and his fellow co-star Creator/CharlesLaughton were barely on speaking terms for much of the picture. That apparently wasn't enough discord for him,[[note]]He was distracted by his divorce from Creator/VivienLeigh.[[/note]] because at one point he went to Douglas and suggested, in all apparent honesty, that ''he'' should play the title role.

* Actress Creator/ClaudiaChristian got along with ''nobody'' on the set of ''Film/ManiacCop2'', and single-handedly turned the shoot into a TroubledProduction. Christian couldn't get along with Creator/RobertDavi, refused to take direction from William Lustig, and threw a tantrum when she had someone take measurements of her trailer and found it was ten feet smaller than Davi's. She also failed to inform Lustig and the producers that she was three months pregnant, even though she was taking a physically demanding role in an ''action slasher flick''. This led to her suffering a miscarriage in the middle of the shoot, grinding production to a halt and ruining the movie's insurance. Unable to recast her, the producers reluctantly allowed her back with an agreement that they wouldn't sue her, even though her antics cost them $200,000. When she returned to the set, Davi reportedly told her, "Maybe now you won't be such a hormonally-imbalanced bitch."

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': There was something of a rivalry between the extras playing Elves and the extras playing Uruk-hai. The Uruks coined the nickname "cupcakes" for their Elven counterparts. This apparently started because the Elven extras (who were largely local college students) weren't getting into character as soldiers, so the Uruk-hai (largely played by members of the [[UsefulNotes/KiwisWithCarbines New Zealand armed forces]]) decided to start [[TrashTalk taunting, jeering]], and otherwise acting like actual members of an opposing army. [[EnforcedMethodActing This got the Elven actors riled up enough to be in character.]]
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Creator/CharlizeTheron claimed that Creator/TomHardy and Creator/GeorgeMiller "[[http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/markcassidycbm/news/?a=120699 went at it"]] over the direction of the movie. Hardy would later apologize to Miller at the film's Cannes premiere, after seeing and enjoying the end product. For that matter, Theron and Hardy didn't get along either, due to his MethodActing putting her [[http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/10/tom-hardy-charlize-theron-feud-mad-max/ off]] - which, later on, both actors stated helped [[RealitySubtext pepper Max and Furiosa's untrusting, initially hostile relationship]].
* It's a miracle that Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/RachelMcAdams had great chemistry in ''Film/TheNotebook'', as [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2678160/Notebook-shocker-Ryan-Gosling-hated-Rachel-McAdams-filming-wanted-fired-screaming-sessions.html they did not get along well on set]]. However, unlike some other cases, they were able to patch over their differences enough to become a real-life couple for some time.
* By all accounts, Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/CatherineZetaJones were so hostile on the set of ''Film/OceansTwelve'' that they eventually had to be kept completely separate, never even being on the set at the same time. It's perhaps one of the reasons the film is a SophomoreSlump, and why ''neither'' actress returned for ''Film/OceansThirteen''.
* Likewise, after Creator/PauletteGoddard had the script of the wartime movie ''So Proudly We Hail'' rewritten so her part would be as prominent as Creator/ClaudetteColbert's, the two didn't get along on set.

* Actress Creator/LorettaYoung was notoriously high-maintenance and had several examples of this with her costars, especially due to her insistence on using a SwearJar on-set due to being devoutly Catholic. After shooting his final scene with her in ''Film/RachelAndTheStranger'', Creator/RobertMitchum dropped a $20 bill into the jar, saying "This should just about cover everything I've been wanting to say to Loretta."
* ''Film/{{Solo}}'':
** When it was announced on-set that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had been fired, applause broke out and continued for some time. Creator/AldenEhrenreich in particular had been exasperated by their attempt to make things LighterAndSofter, since he hadn't expected that when he took the part and didn't feel he did comedy well.[[note]]Notwithstanding that there's still a fair amount of funny in the movie[[/note]]
** Originally, it was reported the tone was specifically the reason they were canned, which fans of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' wore as a rallying cry when that film had critical and commercial success off their signature rapid-fire comedy (Lord co-wrote, both produced). However, sources later confirmed the two were constantly late to show up and not begin filming until around 11 a.m., very late for a non-location daily shoot, and their penchant of improvising new dialogue away from the script meant the movie was tracking very off-schedule to a release date that could not budge, which was weighing on cast and crew. While Creator/RonHoward was noted as a "safe" replacement by the industry, it was because Howard had a long-standing reputation of being able to finish a film on time with minimal complications.
* Creator/DavidORussell:
** The director got into conflict with several crew members and extras on the set of ''Film/ThreeKings''. Creator/GeorgeClooney tried to alleviate the situation, but when Russell violently threw an extra on the ground, Clooney scolded him for his treatment. Then, things got ugly when they ended up beating each other. Though the movie is a success, Clooney vowed that he would never work with Russell ever again. Fortunately, in 2012, they made up.
** Russell also had a fallout with Creator/LilyTomlin on the set of ''Film/IHeartHuckabees'' which was caught on camera and leaked out to the [[https://youtu.be/7SG43wa7Alo?t=68 Internet]].
** He was abusive on the set of ''Film/AmericanHustle'' with Amy Adams copping a lot of it, and Christian Bale having to defend her and then act as mediator. She's since said she won't work with him again.

* During the filming of the ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' movie, there was apparently so much hostility between co-stars Creator/BillMurray and Creator/LucyLiu that it actually became violent. After Murray repeatedly called her acting skills into question, she attacked him, forcing the crew to intervene and separate the pair. Director [=McG=] also claimed that Murray headbutted him, which Murray denies.
* The feud between director Creator/KevinSmith and star Creator/BruceWillis on the set of ''Film/CopOut'' has been remarked on numerous times by Smith. They had previously worked together on ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' (where Smith was a guest star) when Willis called him on July 4th and offered to do another movie. However, after filming started, Smith was dismayed when he realized that Willis was [[MoneyDearBoy only there for the money]], was prone to WagTheDirector, and very temperamental, going so far as to call Bruce "the unhappiest, most bitter, and meanest emo-bitch I’ve ever met at any job I’ve held down" in his autobiography and vowing never to work with him again. Smith himself was publicly criticized by Willis for "smoking too much pot" on set- though if Smith's own claims are true, you couldn't exactly blame him.
* Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/ErrolFlynn disliked each other while making ''The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex''. For one scene where Elizabeth slaps Essex, Davis ''really'' slapped Flynn and his reaction was genuine. She was against his casting from the beginning, claiming that he couldn't read blank verse very well. According to Creator/OliviaDeHavilland, she and Davis screened the film again a short while before Davis suffered four strokes in 1983. At film's end, Davis turned to de Havilland and declared that she had been wrong about Flynn and that he had given a fine performance as Essex.
* Creator/BetteDavis got on well with all her castmates on ''Film/AllAboutEve'', except Celeste Holm. As she put it:
-->'''Celeste Holm''': I walked onto the set on the first day and said, 'Good morning,' and do you know her reply? She said, 'Oh shit, good manners.' I never spoke to her again - ever.
** Davis intimidated Creator/MarilynMonroe so badly that Monroe went into the bathroom to StressVomit after her scenes with Davis. After one particular scene, Davis whispered to her other co-stars— within poor Marilyn's hearing— "That little blonde slut can't act her way out of a paper bag! She thinks if she wiggles her ass and coos away, she can carry her scene— well, she can't!"
* Creator/WCFields and Creator/MaeWest starred in the ScrewballComedy ''My Little Chickadee'', even though they greatly disliked each other (Fields once called her, "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra"). Co-star Dick Foran, who was being paid by the week, would go to West and tell her that Fields was rewriting his lines to give himself more screen time and to try to steal the film from her. Then he would go to Fields and tell him the same thing about West. In this manner, he was able to extend his employment from a few weeks to several months, as both stars would hold up production while they would rewrite their scenes.
* Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/JohnHuston collaborated just once in 1958's ''The Barbarian and the Geisha''. They didn't see eye-to-eye on the production, and Wayne at one point yelled for all to hear, "Huston can't direct a damn story without his father or Bogart in it!" But the director was not around to hear that. Legend has it that they got into a brawl.
* John Wayne and Creator/WilliamHolden didn't get along while making ''The Horse Soldiers'' due to their differing political beliefs. Following the wrap, each actor vowed to never again work with the other and they didn't.
* Creator/RexHarrison didn't get along with Creator/CharltonHeston while making ''The Agony and the Ecstasy''. Fittingly, they played antagonists in the film. Years later, they were both in Richard Lester's ''The Prince and the Pauper'' and Harrison deliberately avoided Heston. The troubled production of ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' also did not do any favors to Harrison's [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna]] behaviour, and the film failed at the box office, was one of the films that killed the [[GenreKiller family musical]], and [[StarDerailingRole ensured that his career would never recover]].
* John Huston and Errol Flynn were constantly at odds while filming ''The Roots of Heaven'', partly due to the latter's alcoholism. At one point, Flynn provoked Huston into a fight; while Flynn was a former amateur boxer, the years of fast living had taken a heavy toll on him, and Huston, himself a former professional boxer, flattened Flynn with a single punch.
* There was plenty of strife on the set of [[TheMovie the film version]] of ''Theatre/HelloDolly''. Creator/BarbraStreisand was the diva, clashing regularly with director Creator/GeneKelly and her costar Creator/WalterMatthau, a particularly heated[[note]]literally as well; it was a ''very'' hot day[[/note]] standoff coming between the two on the day after Robert F. Kennedy was shot. Behind the camera, choreographer Michael Kidd also had a hate triangle going on, with costume designer Irene Sharaff and Kelly; his feud with the latter resulted, as many of these do, in the two not talking for most of the production.
* While making the film version of ''Literature/GorkyPark'', Creator/LeeMarvin was so disgusted with Creator/WilliamHurt's drunkenness at one point that he punched him out in front of the entire crew.
* Among many critical complaints about ''Film/Grease2'' is the obvious lack of chemistry between leads Maxwell Caulfield and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, which was likely because the two didn't like each other ... Caulfield saw her as stuck-up, while she in turn has remarked that he was rather self-absorbed.
* Creator/AnthonyHopkins and Creator/ShirleyMacLaine didn't get along while making ''A Change of Seasons''. He described her as, "The most obnoxious actress I've ever worked with".
* In turn, Shirley [=MacLaine=] and Creator/DebraWinger[[note]]heavily using cocaine at the time[[/note]] grew deeply antipathetic to each other very quickly on the set of ''Film/TermsOfEndearment''. At one point Winger reportedly pulled down her pants and farted in [=MacLaine=]'s face.
* Creator/CharlieChaplin's last film ''Film/ACountessFromHongKong'' was by all accounts an unhappy film to make.
** Creator/MarlonBrando had always greatly admired Chaplin's work and looked upon him as "probably the most talented man the [movie] medium has ever produced." In his autobiography, Brando described Chaplin as "probably the most sadistic man I'd ever met, a fearsomely cruel man...He was an egotistical tyrant and a penny pincher." According to Brando, Chaplin frequently berated his son, Sydney Chaplin, and, when Brando arrived onset fifteen minutes late, Chaplin gave him a dressing down in front of the cast and crew. An embarrassed Brando demanded -- and received -- an apology. Chaplin, for his part, described directing Brando as "impossible".
** Brando and Creator/SophiaLoren didn't get along, especially after the day they were doing a love scene and he commented, "Did you know you have black hairs up your nostrils?"
* Creator/BurtReynolds and Creator/KathleenTurner feuded throughout ''Switching Channels'', which led their costar Creator/ChristopherReeve to describe it as an unhappy film to make, as he had to mediate between them.
** Having to play referee was almost certainly the last straw for Reeve when it came to this film. He was going through a divorce at the time, and originally agreed to do the movie because he thought doing a comedy would be fun, and his friend Creator/MichaelCaine was originally scheduled to star. However, when he showed up, he quickly found out Caine had been dropped, and almost immediately discovered that he had to separate his two costars constantly. Finally, as if that weren’t bad enough, Reeve himself in his autobiography said this film's failure knocked him off the A list, and he had to audition for the rest of his career. To put things in perspective, even after ''Superman IV'', he was still considered a star. This film did what that one couldn’t.
* Reeve himself had to deal with Sarah Douglas (Ursa) and Jack O'Halloran (Non) in ''Film/SupermanII'', to the point where O'Halloran once pushed him against a wall and prepared to beat him. Douglas would later describe Reeve at the time as "difficult" and "caught up in his own image". While on the subject of ''Superman IV'', actor Mark Pillow (who played the villain Nuclear Man) also described Reeve to be, while not exactly hostile, very intense and not particularly approachable.
* In a video on her Website/YouTube channel, Music/AshleyTisdale featured Creator/LucasGrabeel and they discussed how they "hated" each other during filming of the first ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. In a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} they then went on to discuss how they love each other now and to cover the first song they sang together in the film.
* While making the B-movie ''Film/Venom1981'', Creator/OliverReed and Creator/KlausKinski absolutely hated each other. The jovial, fun-loving Reed would often provoke the intense, humorless Kinski into losing his temper (which wasn't a difficult task). The pair came to blows at least once.

* Creator/RichardHarris and Creator/JulieAndrews co-starred in 1966's ''Hawaii''. She disapproved of his rambunctious behavior and he greatly disliked her in return.
* Creator/PaulSchrader's ''Film/BlueCollar'' had a ''very'' tense shoot.
** The three lead actors, Creator/RichardPryor, Creator/YaphetKotto, and Creator/HarveyKeitel argued constantly. There were fights, verbal abuse, walk-offs, and Mexican stand-offs. According to Schrader, Pryor punched Keitel and hit Kotto with a chair during filming.
** Kotto for his part claimed that the only problem he had with Pryor was that Pryor would improvise frequently causing Kotto to lose his place.
** Schrader suffered a nervous breakdown that caused him to quit the film industry for a while. This was the result of an incident where Pryor pulled a gun on him and said there was no way in hell he was doing more than three takes of a scene.
** Actor George Memmoli filed a $1-million lawsuit against Pryor, claiming that Pryor hit him with a chair during filming and fractured his skull.
* Creator/AlPacino and Creator/GeneHackman didn't get along while making ''Film/{{Scarecrow|1973}}'' due to their different personalities. According to director Jerry Schatzberg, Hackman was hard to work with and argued with everyone on the set including his brother, Richard Hackman, who was working as his stand-in. To get back at Gene, Schatzberg gave Richard a part in the film. But Gene ended up being delighted that his brother was in the film.
* It was reported that Creator/VinceVaughn and Creator/ReeseWitherspoon didn't get along while making ''Film/FourChristmases''. They clashed over differing working methods - she wanted to practice and prepare before a scene, while he preferred to jump right in and ad-lib. Tellingly, they didn't walk the red carpet together.
* Creator/JamesFranco and Creator/TyreseGibson didn't get along while making ''Annapolis'', due to Franco's MethodActing. In a 2007 interview with ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'', Gibson said that he never wanted to work with Franco ever again, and claims that Franco feels the same way. Franco responded in an interview with ''Complex'' that he and Gibson had made up, or in his case, tried to make up with him after production wrapped, saying that he had nothing personal against Gibson, but guessed that there were a lot of misunderstandings.
* Creator/RosannaArquette disliked Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme immensely while making ''Film/NowhereToRun'', and stated in many interviews that she only took the role because good parts were few and far between.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Despite Creator/AlanCumming's highly-praised performance as ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he opted not to return for ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. At the time, Cumming said it was because he hated the hours-long makeup process, but in 2022, he revealed that that was only ''one'' of his reasons. Another reason was the oft-repeated claim that Creator/BryanSinger was abusive and unprofessional on-set, but the studio sided with Singer when Cumming complained to them.[[note]]His third reason was a general dislike of starring in blockbusters, preferring smaller roles that make less demands of his time.[[/note]]
** In 2017, Creator/ElliotPage revealed that he had to put up with homophobic bullying from director Creator/BrettRatner while filming ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. Creator/AnnaPaquin later backed up his claims.
* By the time Creator/MartinAndLewis made their last film ''Hollywood or Bust'', their relationship had deteriorated to the point where they weren't speaking to each other. Creator/JerryLewis couldn't even bring himself to watch the film because it brought back painful memories of their breakup.
* ''Film/{{Caligula}}'': While Creator/MalcolmMcDowell got along well with director Tinto Brass, Creator/PeterOToole immediately disliked him, while Creator/JohnGielgud and Creator/HelenMirren were indifferent; they focused on their own performances. O'Toole did not endear himself to producer Bob Guccione when he told the producer that he planned to launch his own magazine to rival ''Penthouse'', saying that it was to be called ''Basement'' and would include such features as "Rodent of the Month" and "Toe Rag of the Year".
* Creator/BryanSinger was fired from the production of the Music/{{Queen}} biopic ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' due to being absent on multiple occasions and getting into conflicts with the cast and crew. He even managed to get Creator/RamiMalek angry with him, which everyone says was a real accomplishment as Malek is known for being good-natured and agreeable to work with.
* Production on ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'' was dogged by rumors that Wrestling/DwayneJohnson and Creator/VinDiesel did not get along on set, after Johnson sent out a tweet saying that one of his co-stars (who went unnamed, but was figured by everybody to be Diesel) was unprofessional and a "candy ass". Johnson later [[https://news.avclub.com/dwayne-johnson-confirms-that-he-and-vin-diesel-refused-1825000417 confirmed]] that he and Diesel did not shoot any scenes together, that trick editing was employed to create the illusion of the two of them in the same room, and before the film's release, Johnson would also post on his Instagram that there were some scenes where his visible anger is plot-appropriate but isn't him acting ... he was genuinely angry with Diesel.
* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': The relationship between Creator/RobertShaw and Creator/RichardDreyfuss was notoriously antagonistic, which of course carried over into their characters. Creator/RoyScheider described Shaw as "a perfect gentleman whenever he was sober. All he needed was one drink and then he turned into a competitive son-of-a-bitch." The feud, along with the film's generally troubled shoot as a whole, inspired the comedic stage play ''The Shark is Broken'', which was co-written by Ian Shaw, the son of Robert.
** On one occasion, Shaw was having a drink between takes, at which one point he announced, "I wish I could quit drinking." Much to the surprise and horror of the crew, Dreyfuss simply grabbed Shaw's glass and tossed it into the ocean.
** Dreyfuss claimed that although Shaw could be very nice to him in private, such as the time he read Dreyfuss his entire play, ''Film/TheManInTheGlassBooth'', while the two were sitting in the hold of the Orca, publicly he was brutal to him, telling him things like he thought Dreyfuss would only have a career "if there's room for another Jewish character man like Paul Muni." At one point, Shaw, remarking loudly on what he said was Dreyfuss' cowardice, dared him to climb to the top of the Orca's mast (about 75 feet) and jump off into the ocean, for which he would pay him upwards of $1,000 (the price rising with each taunt). Creator/StevenSpielberg finally intervened by telling Dreyfuss, "I don't care how much money he offers you, you're not jumping off the mast, not in my movie."
** Another time, Shaw drenched Dreyfuss with a fire hose. Dreyfuss yelled at him, "That's it, I don't want to work with you anymore, go fuck yourself" and stormed off the set for the day.
* Creator/EdwardNorton was in a bad mood when Paramount made him do ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' for less than his usual salary at the time due to a [[ContractualObligationProject longstanding contractual obligation from earlier in his career]]. He quickly formed a low opinion of director F. Gary Gray and [[WagTheDirector clashed with him to an even greater extent than normal for him]] throughout the shooting. After the film was done he refused to do any media for it; when the producer sent gifts to the cast and crew to congratulate them on the film's better-than-expected box office, Norton returned his with the note "Send this to someone you actually like, or someone who actually likes you."
* ''Film/{{Sliver}}'': Creator/SharonStone and Creator/WilliamBaldwin disliked each other and demanded that their scenes be filmed separately whenever possible. During a kissing scene, she bit his tongue with such force that he couldn't talk properly for days.
* In a case of sad {{irony}}, Daniel Franzese, who played Derek Dvirko in the 2001 film ''Film/{{Bully}}'' which was based on the real-life murder of Bobby Kent who was killed due to his alleged bullying, revealed in 2018 that co-star Bijou Phillips, who played Ali Willis in the film, subjected him to a lot of homophobic and fat-shaming bullying while they were on the set. He claimed she kept trying to goad him into admitting that he was gay[[note]]which he later came out as over a decade later, but he just reluctantly said he was bisexual at the time to get her off his case[[/note]] and that she laughed at his appearance when he removed his shirt at a pool party and had even twisted one of his nipples. Even more troubling, he said the producers just looked the other way on the behavior (potentially due to the fact that she came from a famous family; her father was "Papa" John Phillips from Music/TheMamasAndThePapas and her older half-sisters were actress Mackenzie of ''Series/OneDayAtATime1975'' fame and singer Chynna of Wilson Phillips fame and he was just an up-and-coming actor) but said that his fellow co-stars Brad Renfro, Creator/MichaelPitt and Nick Stahl (who portrayed Kent himself) openly and repeatedly defended him and the latter, who was dating Phillips at the time, even tried to convince her to apologize to him.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'':
** In the "making of" documentary, both Creator/StephenBaldwin and Creator/KevinPollak acknowledge that their long-standing feud with each other began on the set of this film. Though neither actor directly states what caused their animosity towards each other, Pollak does mention that Baldwin, in an attempt to stay in character as [=MacManus=], would go around acting tough and sometimes bully the other actors. Baldwin does admit that he was bullying towards Pollak on film (their numerous "standoff" confrontations with each other on-screen).
** After Creator/KevinSpacey's career was torpedoed in 2017, Creator/GabrielByrne stated that he very much acted like a sexual predator on set, making the other actors so uncomfortable that filming was completely halted for a while. Kevin Pollak claims that Spacey ended up raping the much younger boyfriend (possibly 17 years old) of Creator/BryanSinger. After that, Singer refused to direct Spacey any further (leaving an AD to take over) and the two did not speak again for 10 years.
* In yet another Creator/ValKilmer example, he and Creator/TomSizemore began feuding during production of ''Film/RedPlanet''. According to reports, it all began when Kilmer got annoyed about a fancy exercise machine that Sizemore wanted to be shipped from England to the set in Australia. Eventually, the two hated each other so much, Kilmer would not come out of his trailer if Sizemore was on the set. Many of their scenes together were filmed over the shoulders of photo doubles. Kilmer reportedly refused to say Sizemore's character's name, saying instead "Hey, you!" At one point, they got into a confrontation that escalated into them throwing weights at each other until Sizemore knocked out Kilmer with a punch to the chest.[[note]]At a crewmember's request, he avoided Kilmer's face[[/note]] The two have never worked together again.
* The tension within Music/PinkFloyd during the recording of ''Music/TheWall'' followed Music/RogerWaters to the film adaptation, with Creator/AlanParker filling in for Music/DavidGilmour as Waters' sparring partner. (On the DVDCommentary, Creator/GeraldScarfe mentions Waters' relationship with Parker, and Waters immediately responds "''What'' relationship?")
* At one point during reshoots on ''Film/WorldWarZ'', relations between Creator/BradPitt and director Creator/MarcForster, whom Pitt himself had chosen for that job, had deteriorated to the point that they kept their distance to a maximum extent possible when not shooting scenes and communicated only through an intermediary.
* By all accounts, Creator/JuliaRoberts made life on the set of ''Film/{{Hook}}'' a nightmare. Already going through a messy breakup with her then-fiancé Creator/KieferSutherland which led to her suffering from depression and caused her to go and hide out in Ireland ''in the middle of production''; she only came back because Creator/StevenSpielberg threatened to fire her if she didn't. Upon returning, she proceeded to complain about everything from the script to her outfit (which at one point was to more closely resemble [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinkerbell's]] appearance, complete with a blonde wig, only for it to be changed after she became furious with it). Also, her final scene where she was full-size came about from a WagTheDirector moment where she demanded to appear onscreen with at least one other actor due to her frustration at having filmed all of her previous scenes in greenscreen. The end result led to her career being stunted for a while, the crew to nickname her "Tinkerhell" and for Spielberg to vow never to work with her again. She later apologized for her behavior.
* Creator/RichardGere clashed so much with Creator/SylvesterStallone on the set of ''Film/TheLordsOfFlatbush'' that Gere was fired, with all his scenes reshot by Perry King, and had to wait a year to make his feature-film debut in ''Film/ReportToTheCommissioner''. Gere has gone so far as to accuse Stallone of spreading the "gerbil" story around due to their animosity, something Stallone has always denied.

* Tensions between Creator/HenryFonda and Creator/JohnFord on the set of ''Film/MisterRoberts'' over the way Ford had softened the film to get the Navy's assistance, changes Fonda felt weakened not only the work but the title character he had played on Broadway for six years, led to the director punching his star out. Despite his swift apology, the once-productive relationship between the two was irreparably damaged; they rarely talked for the rest of the production and never worked together again.
** Ford also managed to antagonize co-star Creator/JamesCagney on set as well. When meeting Cagney at the airport just prior to filming, he started out remarking that he and Cagney would "tangle asses" at some point during filming. The next day, Cagney was slightly late for his call time, to which Ford proceeded to berate him. Cagney cut him short by loudly and belligerently proclaiming "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford, knowing Cagney's reputation a a scrapper, backed down and left him alone for the remainder of the shoot... or at least the portion he was present for. The hostility was too much, even for Ford, and he began to drink more than usual, ending up with a case of alcohol poisoning and gallstones. In the end, he was replaced by an uncredited Creator/MervynLeRoy to finish the film.
** Due to this experience, Cagney recalled Ford later thus: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man."
* Ford was later forced to cast Creator/JohnWayne in the title role of ''Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance''. He thus took it out on the Duke throughout production, referring to costar Woody Strode[[note]]who had actually played in the NFL while injuries ended Wayne's college career[[/note]] as "the ''real'' football player" on set, sometimes resulting in Wayne in turn taking it out on Strode.[[note]]Near the end of the production, Wayne apologized to Strode, blaming his mood on the way Ford was treating him. Strode said later that the whole production was "miserable" most of the time.[[/note]] Ford also contrasted [[Creator/JimmyStewart James Stewart]]'s war service as a bomber commander and his own as a combat documentarian for the Navy[[note]]which got him wounded at the Battle of Midway[[/note]] with Wayne's having stayed in Hollywood to get rich making movies in which he played war heroes.[[note]]Which was rather against Wayne's will at the time ... the studios and the War Department both agreed he was better utilized as a propaganda asset[[/note]] Wayne never gave it back to Ford, who had made him the big star he was, but he regularly wondered aloud to Stewart why Ford was never so abusive to him. Until the day, late in shooting, when Ford casually asked Stewart what he thought of Strode's costume for the scene in the funeral parlor. After Stewart said it looked a little "Uncle Remus-y" to him, Ford loudly implied to all present that Stewart might be racist. "Welcome to the club", Wayne told him afterwards.
* Stewart and Creator/PauletteGoddard co-starred in the 1941 comedy ''Pot O' Gold'', and the studio publicists had a field day trying to generate the impression that there were sparks flying between the two. The truth was the polar opposite. Goddard thought Stewart too boyish, even though he had a reputation around Hollywood as a real ladies' man. She also dismissed his acting, saying "anyone can swallow." Stewart didn't think much of Goddard's talent either and said she had to fall back on a wisecracking tone to get by.
* Before production began the next year on ''Film/IMarriedAWitch'', Creator/FredricMarch publicly dismissed his costar, Creator/VeronicaLake, as a brainless sexpot who couldn't act; she responded by calling him, equally publicly, a "pompous teapot". On set, she frequently played mean pranks on him, like hiding 40-pound weights in her dress prior to scenes where he had to pick her up and grinding her foot in his crotch during scenes where they embraced and were shot from the waist up.
* The animosity between Creator/KimCattrall and Creator/SarahJessicaParker from ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' continued on the sets of [[Film/SexAndTheCity the movie]] and [[Film/SexAndTheCity2 its sequel]]. When they spilled over into the public eye following a tweet by Cattrall in 2018, it was widely seen as having permanently scotched ''Sex and The City 3''. The franchise would eventually continue on streaming television with ''Series/AndJustLikeThat'', with which Cattrall has no involvement, and her character's absence explained by a falling-out with Parker's character.
* During production on ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', Creator/ChristianBale infamously went off on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvxmB8vi6M a furious and profane rant]] directed against director of photography Shane Hurlbut, telling him to get off the set because he was blocking the shot and calling him unprofessional. The audio of the incident went viral and {{memetic|Mutation}} to the point where it was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48 remixed]] into a VoiceClipSong, forcing Bale to [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/09/christian-bale-apologises-for-onset-rant issue an apology]].
* The cast and crew got along pretty well during the making of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''. However, behind the scenes, producer Creator/GeneRoddenberry was clashing with his co-screenwriter, Harold Livingston. Livingston had been hired to finish the script Roddenberry had started as the pilot for the never-produced ''Star Trek II'' TV series; knowing Roddenberry's penchant for rewriting others' work, he had it in his contract that Roddenberry could do no more work on the script than he already had. That didn't stop Roddenberry from doing it anyway, and Livingston was absolutely furious at Roddenberry for the notes he kept getting on things he knew he hadn't written. It got so bad that Creator/LeonardNimoy had to mediate between them, sometimes with Creator/WilliamShatner's help, after each day's filming was done; the film's production was well underway before the basic outlines of the third act were agreed on. Shatner, in his memoirs, titled the chapter about this movie "Star Trek: The Emotional Picture"
* Kelly [=McGillis=] clashed repeatedly with both Creator/AbelFerrara and Creator/PeterWeller while making ''Film/CatChaser''. The experience of the film's production was such a miserable one for [=McGillis=] that she stopped acting for three years.
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': According to Creator/KevinSmith, there were days where Creator/LindaFiorentino wouldn't even speak to him while shooting, which is understandably frustrating, and that he hugely regrets having fought to get her in the movie.
* Creator/TommyLeeJones' inability to get along with Fiorentino is also, supposedly, the reason that despite her character joining the ''Film/MenInBlack'' at the end of that film, she's not in [[Film/MenInBlackII the sequel]], her absence explained away with one line at the beginning.
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' started off with this. Creator/ChristopherPlummer disliked the film itself and didn't like Julie Andrews at first - calling her "Miss Disney". But they became good friends over time.
* The plentiful alcohol consumed on the set of ''Film/TheVIPs'' by almost everyone—led by Creator/RichardBurton and Creator/ElizabethTaylor—led to regular harangues by Burton against director Anthony Asquith, about the one person on the film who stayed sober (because he was in recovery).
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'':
** It has long been rumored that Creator/WesCraven did not get along with Creator/SarahMichelleGellar on the set of ''Film/Scream2'', feeling that she had a tendency to WagTheDirector. Allegedly, the character of Sarah Darling in ''Film/Scream3'' was a TakeThat at Gellar.
** ''Film/Scream4'' was made while Creator/CourteneyCox and Creator/DavidArquette were going through a very bad patch in their marriage, and the two split up shortly after the film was finished. Ironically, they had first fallen in love [[RomanceOnTheSet on the set of the first film]].

* Before filming the lay-by scene in ''Film/HotFuzz'', Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost reportedly had an argument. Pegg claimed Frost was getting cocky and making the Assistant Directors get him coffee, whereas Pegg wanted him to get his own. As a result, they took four hours to do that scene, and they didn't talk to each other at all, except when acting.
* During production of ''Film/SteelMagnolias'', Creator/SallyField and Creator/ShirleyMacLaine said in an interview that director Herbert Ross was very difficult to work with, telling the main lead actresses they couldn't act, and singling out Creator/JuliaRoberts in particular, to the point that she would be left in tears.
* Creator/RobertMitchum and Creator/RockHudson reportedly did not get along with each other while filming ''The Ambassador''. A life-long alcoholic, Mitchum was said to have been frequently drunk on and off camera, and often verbally clashed with Hudson who was in poor health which held up production for days.

* Creator/WesleySnipes really didn't like the script for ''Film/BladeTrinity'' or writer David S. Goyer being the director, and proceeded to refuse to interact with Goyer or any of his co-stars personally (using either assistants or notes which he signed as "Blade"), refusing to film several scenes, getting high on marijuana, and accusing Goyer of racism. He annoyed Creator/ParkerPosey so much that she slipped in a TakeThat which ended up on the GagReel, Creator/RyanReynolds' line "He doesn't like me, does he?" was actually a ThrowItIn in regards to Snipes. Creator/PattonOswalt dished quite a bit of dirt in an interview with TheAVClub. There's also a magazine article still rolling around the net that outlines [[TroubledProduction just how much trouble]] Wesley Snipes cause the production, which basically states that the movie got made only because everyone but Snipes dedicated themselves to making it work.
* Despite making four movies together, ''Film/SilverStreak'', ''Film/StirCrazy'', ''Film/SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil'', and ''Another You'', Creator/GeneWilder and Creator/RichardPryor hated one another. Wilder thought Pryor was too lackadaisical, while Pryor thought Wilder was too uptight.

* ''Film/EastOfEden'':
** During production, Raymond Massey was rude and condescending to everyone - especially to his co-star Creator/JamesDean. Elia Kazan took advantage of this, as the tension was good for their characters. Ironically Raymond Massey would later call Adam Trask his favorite role.
** Creator/TimothyCarey, who played the bouncer at Kate's saloon, drove Kazan so nuts, he actually punched him, the only time he'd ever done such a thing.
* Creator/DustinHoffman managed to resolve the tension between him and director Creator/SydneyPollack on the set of ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'' by suggesting that Pollack play his agent; the exasperation Pollack shows with Hoffman in the part is genuine and improves the film.
* Creator/PatrickSwayze had opposed Creator/JenniferGrey being cast as one of lead characters in ''Film/DirtyDancing'' due to tensions between them from when they had worked together on ''Film/{{Red Dawn|1984}}'' a few years before. After she was cast anyway, the two had a long talk that mostly worked things out. But some tension remained, most notably in one scene where the two are practicing in closeup as he reaches for her arm, only for her to pull it away at the last moment. It looks playful in the film, but in actuality, it was one of the times the tension resurfaced, and the director [[ThrowItIn decided to keep it]].
* Ralph Brown revealed that during ''Film/Alien3'', Creator/SigourneyWeaver was aloof at best and outright rude at worst to most of the crew--especially to him, Creator/CharlesDance, and the late Brian Glover, though they made up after the premiere and Brown believed it to be the result of the film's TroubledProduction.
* ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' had to deal with this as part of its TroubledProduction:
** Cindy Morgan was constantly thrown off by Creator/ChevyChase's continuous improvising during their scenes and the two came to blows.
** Ted Knight did not get along with Chase and Creator/RodneyDangerfield due to their style of comedy and constant improvisation, and was dismissive of the teens playing the caddies due to their on-set shenanigans.
** However, it was miraculously subverted with Chase and Creator/BillMurray. The studio executives demanded that a scene between the two be added, but the crew was terrified of shooting it because the two infamously almost got into a brawl backstage on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Amazingly, the two were completely professional about it and showed no sign of their previous feud, so filming the scene went smoothly.
* Creator/RavenSymone admitted that [[https://nationalledger.com/2007/08/raven-symone-out-of-cheetah-girls-third-movie-installment/ the reason why she didn't appear]] in the third movie of ''Film/TheCheetahGirls'' was because there was drama between her and the other three girls. She didn't get along with them and they had catfights.
* The independent action film ''Assassin's Fury'' [[http://bzfilm.com/talks-interviews/real-nightmare-on-set-of-independent-action-film-exclusive/ experienced this]] thanks to Willa Ford. She was cast as the villain, and in short, [[ThePrimaDonna she acted like one on set]], with co-writer and executive producer Fabio Soldani saying that she was "a nightmare to be around and it made the shoot a really sad place." After only five days, Soldani fired Ford and replaced her with Cynthia Murell, and things progressed far more smoothly.
* While filming ''Film/TheLastOfSheila'', Creator/RaquelWelch not only clashed with director Herbert Ross but alienated most of her castmates, leading Creator/JamesMason to call her "the rudest, most unprofessional actress I've ever had the displeasure of working with," which led to his infamous statement of "If I could, I would spank her from here to Aswan."

* On the set of Stone's later ''Film/WallStreet'' Creator/SeanYoung pissed off Creator/CharlieSheen so much that he covertly taped a sign to her back saying "I am a cunt" during one scene. It says much about how everyone else on set felt about her that no one told her about it. The animosity between the two was enough that Stone abandoned a subplot where the two characters had an affair; this explains why Gekko is so angry with Fox in their final confrontation.
* Reports say that Creator/DennisMiller, who had only agreed to do the film [[MoneyDearBoy once he got paid a million dollars]], did not get along with anyone on the set of ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'', even as far as being accused of stealing a set van to leave. He not only alienated castmates by [[ThrowItIn improvising all his dialogue]] and then getting permission to skip out of shooting for the rest of the day, leaving them to try to work out how to react and act around lines he probably never said, he alienated the crew because all this forced them to work weekends. Apparently heat between him and Creator/CoreyFeldman got so bad that the producers had to enforce a distance between the two on set in between takes.

* According to Jason Johnson, the production of ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' was plagued by Derek Savage being an unprofessional creep who made constant [[AbhorrentAdmirer unwanted advances]] on Momma Cat's actress, April Ann Reese, culminating in him furiously screaming at Johnson and Reese in a jealous rage [[FelonyMisdemeanor because she let Johnson use her shower]]. Both actors refuse to ever work with Savage again, though Johnson didn't truly have his bridges burned with Derek until after giving an interview on Youtube which Derek tried to take down [[SmallNameBigEgo for making him look bad]]. Bad blood continues to exist between Savage and Johnson when Savage made another "movie" that was mostly stock footage of Johnson in the Cool Cat suit, only overdubbed with Savage himself and Johnson not given any credit or compensation.
* Production on ''Over the Brooklyn Bridge'' was shut down for one day after Creator/ElliottGould and Creator/TheCannonGroup head Menahem Golan (also the director) got into an argument over the scene where Gould confesses to Margaux Hemingway that he loves her. The end result was Gould calling Golan a cocksucker during the argument and storming off the set to the shock of cast and crew. Gould apologized two days later to Golan personally and filming then resumed.
* During the production of ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'', the scenes with Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/JonVoight were filmed separately as both were still estranged at the time.
* During ''Film/KindergartenCop'', Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller apparently acted like a diva and the crew disliked working with her. Peter Kent, Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double, decided to get back at her by giving Arnie, unbeknownst to the actor, pasta with tomato sauce made with juiced vegetables on a day when he knew Arnie and Miller would be shooting in an enclosed space. Miller had no choice but to endure Arnie's uncontrollable farting and, as an unintended consequence, Arnie had to deal with the discomfort of trying and failing to hold it all in.
* ''Film/BlackSheep1996'' director Creator/PenelopeSpheeris told Creator/DavidSpade ''to his face'' she wasn't a fan of his comedy and forced the film's writers to change scenes featuring his character and remove others. Spade in turn felt Spheeris received too much credit by the studio for the success of ''Film/WaynesWorld'' and went so far as to leave a message on her answering machine yelling that “[She] spent this whole movie trying to cut my comedy balls off.”
* ''Film/GorillaInterrupted'': This NoBudget bit of juvenalia by the future founders of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia had an extremely troubled production. A lot of that was due to hostility between Garret Gilchrist and the rest of the cast. He squabbled with director Mike Stoklasa by coming to the shoot with a rewritten script, filled with what Stoklasa called "pointless dialogue" that could never get filmed in the time permitted. He ultimately confronted Gilchrist to reassert creative control of the project. The cast generally spent the week-long shoot grumpy, tired, and suffering from colds. In the making-of documentary, ''How Not to Make a Movie,'' none of the other cast members had anything good to say about Gilchrist, whose absence from the doc is not addressed. Gilchrist has also made disparaging comments about the others during a livestream.
* ''Franchise/RoboCop'':
** Creator/PeterWeller's attempt at MethodActing during the first few weeks on ''Film/RoboCop1987'', insisting that he be called "Murphy" or "Robo" (depending on the scene) while on set, didn't earn him brownie points, but the collective ire of director Creator/PaulVerhoeven and co-stars Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton). Verhoeven found it silly and told Weller that he couldn't bring himself to humor Weller, Ferrer actively mocked it by intentionally addressing Weller by his real name, and Smith chose to ignore him for the majority of that time.
** Creator/NancyAllen and director Irvin Kershner didn't get along during the filming of ''Film/RoboCop2'' and even four months before Kershner's death, Allen stated she outright hated him and working with him.
* The late Creator/NigelHawthorne loathed the filming of ''Film/DemolitionMan'', saying Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/WesleySnipes routinely kept the cast and crew waiting and going as far as to call Stallone "rude and arrogant." It turned out he'd wanted to reprise his ''Theatre/TheMadnessOfGeorgeIII'' role as the titular George III for ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'' and took the role of Raymond Cocteau to prove he could work on film -- with the "unnecessary case" part coming in as Nicholas Hytner already wanted him for the role, so he put himself through misery for something he was ultimately already a lock for.
* There was loads of hostility between the leads of ''Film/KramerVsKramer''.
** By all accounts, Creator/DustinHoffman has been widely reported in different media to have harassed Creator/MerylStreep during the making of the movie, and the two had a contentious working relationship as a result. In a 1979 ''Time'' magazine interview, Streep claimed that Hoffman groped her breast on their first meeting. When Streep advocated for herself, wanting to portray Joanna as more sympathetic and vulnerable than she was written, she received pushback from him. Attributing the behaviour to his commitment to being a method actor, he would also hurl insults and obscenities at Streep, taunting her with the name of her recently deceased fiancé, John Cazale, claiming this was designed to draw a better performance out of her. He famously threw a wine glass against the wall without telling her (although he did inform the cameraman beforehand), which shattered and sent glass shards into her hair. Her response was: "Next time you do that, I'd appreciate you letting me know."
** Hoffman was hearing lots of advance publicity about newcomer Streep and how she was mastering the role and Hoffman felt he was being upstaged. When Streep wanted to change around the dialogue in the restaurant meeting scene, Hoffman became furious. As Hoffman recalled, "I hated her guts. Yes, I hated her guts. But I respected her." He accepted that Streep wasn't arguing for what was best for her character but what was best for the movie. Streep decided never to work with Hoffman again after he hit her to get her into character.
** The stars would often, jokingly, try to get Justin Henry to pick one of them over the other. One day on the set, Hoffman asked Henry who he'd rather be with. Henry said, "Her. She's nicer", to which Hoffman replied, "Oh yeah? Work with her five weeks then see what you say."
* Jack Reynor hated his time on ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'', where allegedly Creator/MarkWahlberg bullied him relentlessly. Notably he didn't return for ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''. Creator/TJMiller also didn't get on well with director Creator/MichaelBay.
* The UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film ''The Heroes of Telemark'' was hit by clashes between Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/RichardHarris, constantly arguing as to who the star was.
** Things got off to a bad start when Harris visited Douglas at his home and saw that he'd hung all his film awards up in his hallway. "Do you have to remind yourself how great you are", Harris asked. "Are you that sad?"
** Co-star Ulla Jacobsson recalled:
--->It was a battle from beginning to end. They were both fighting for camera position and neither was prepared to give way to the other. I have never known anything quite like it before. Even when this battle for supremacy did not result in an explosion, tension remained.
** Douglas' constant bragging about his latest girlfriend annoyed Harris. Upon the revelation that she'd once been Miss Norway, Harris quipped, "Oh yeah, what year?"
** Harris taunted Douglas that he was too old to start anything with him:
--->Twenty years ago you could have handled me - maybe - but not now. So don't press your luck.
** According to publicist John Willis, their demands became ridiculous to the point of seriously affecting production. Harris arrived at the studio one day with a tape measure, measured Douglas' trailer and then announced that he was going home, as it was a few inches bigger than his, leaving the cast and crew with nothing to do until a longer trailer could be found. On another occasion, Douglas fired his chauffeur after an argument and Harris turned round and hired him on the spot.
** One day, the British press ran a story detailing the rivalry and bad behaviour, infuriating Harris. At the film's premier in Rome, he spotted Willis in the cinema foyer, pushed everyone out of the way and demanded to know who leaked the story. Willis remained silent, so Harris threatened to hit him and had to be pulled away from him.
** On the last day of shooting at Creator/PinewoodStudios, both stars met each other in a corridor and walked towards each other like a Wild West showdown. According to Willis, they shook each other's hands like old friends and walked off to their dressing rooms.
* On the western ''The Way West'', Creator/RobertMitchum and Creator/RichardWidmark reportedly did not get along with Creator/KirkDouglas because of his tendency to usurp control of the project from director Andrew V. [=McLaglen=].

* Casting Stewart Granger and Pier Angeli as Lot and his wife Ildith in ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'' was unwise given the enmity that had developed between them when they made ''The Light Touch'' together ten years earlier. Their on-screen chemistry was adversely affected, and in her autobiography, Angeli recalled telling Granger to his face that she was sleeping with some of her co-stars - except him.
* ''Film/{{Karla}}'': Director Joel Bender was apparently very creepy on set, with Creator/MishaCollins referencing a time where, after he had finished acting out a horrific rape scene, Bender had apparently called it "hot" in a tone that implied he wasn't joking. Collins later filed a restraining order against Bender to ensure they would never work together again.
* Creator/MikeMyers, while not as bad as Chevy Chase has a reputation of being hard to work with:
** According to Penelope Spheeris, while making ''Film/WaynesWorld'', he arrived on set one day to discover that the snack table only had butter and not margarine for his bagel. Myers reportedly became enraged, flipped the table over, stormed off the set, and did not come out of his trailer for hours. She assigned her daughter to be his assistant. She told ''Entertainment Weekly'':
-->He (Myers) was emotionally needy and got more difficult as the shoot went along. 'You should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that "Bohemian Rhapsody" scene: 'I can't move my neck like that! Why do we have to do this so many times? No one is going to laugh at that!' To this day, I have this image of my daughter sitting on this little cooler, looking at me, like, "Mom, I f-ing hate you".
** In an interview for the AV Club's "Random Reviews" feature, Amy Hill said that he was terrible to work with on ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' because he refused to talk to any of the cast and crew members aside from Bo Welch, and during filming breaks, he isolated himself from the cast and crew by hiding in his trailer. Hill also noted that the film ended up having long and pointless additional retakes of scenes because Myers overruled Welch on whether they were good or not. In addition, he always showed up on set late and there were scenes he would downright refuse to do unless he was given a chocolate bar, which led to one of the producers setting up a Tupperware full of chocolate bars.
* During the filming of ''Film/BlueSteel'', lead actress Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was often at odds with director Creator/KathrynBigelow.
* As production for ''Film/TheNightStrangler'' began to wrap, director Dan Curtis (best known as the creator of ''Series/DarkShadows'', who had also produced the preceding film ''Film/TheNightStalker'') began directing undeserved anger towards the crew, which led Creator/DarrenMcGavin to confront Curtis before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere deciding to quit]], saying, "You've got enough film. Make your movie. Goodbye." Lingering tension between Curtis and [=McGavin=] led to the production on the planned third Kolchak movie, ''The Night Killers'', stagnating and ultimately evolving into the ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' series (without Curtis's involvement).
* Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/SallyField disliked each other immensely while making ''Back Roads'' in 1981. Field later admitted on ''The Ellen [=DeGeneres=] Show'' that they reconciled years later and apologised for being so difficult. They later appeared in ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''.
* Creator/TonyCurtis and Creator/NatalieWood had previously costarred on two films (''King's Go Forth'' and ''Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl'') and had a very acrimonious relationship on the set of ''Film/TheGreatRace''. Part of the reason that Wood was unhappy on the film was that she felt she was being sexually harassed by both Curtis and Creator/JackLemmon.
* For production of ''Film/MedicineMan'', Creator/LorraineBracco, who was just coming off ''Film/GoodFellas'', complained non-stop about everything from the food to the weather to the script. Bracco also came with a [[SmallNameBigEgo massive entourage]] (nannies, hairstylists, makeup artists, acting coach, etc). In a nutshell, she soon drove Creator/SeanConnery and the director Creator/JohnMcTiernan insane and was loathed among the crew. At some point it was arranged that [=McTiernan=] would convey any [[WagTheDirector direction]] he had for her to her acting coach, who would in turn pass it on to Bracco, because [=McTiernan=] refused to deal with her anymore. Connery stopped speaking to her as well.
* ''Film/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' had a few:
** Director Creator/RichardLester got into repeated arguments with Creator/PhilSilvers, who was cast in the role of Lycus and complained about many aspects of the film, particularly being forced to abandon his trademark glasses in the name of historical realism. This, and Silvers apparently not being recognized by anyone in Spain (something which annoyed him greatly), culminated in Silvers refusing to perform[[note]]According to Creator/JonPertwee in a later interview, Silvers apparently locked himself in the room he was staying in at the producers' villa, and repeatedly jumped up and down on the bed chanting the Lord's Prayer refusing to come out or otherwise be reasonable.[[/note]]. Lester was able to contact Creator/JonPertwee (whose played Lycus in the original London production) and soon had him on the set, in costume, ready to step in. When Silvers learned he had been replaced so quickly, he emerged from his trailer in a much more agreeable mood. Pertwee was recast in the smaller role of Crassus as compensation.
** Lester and the film's writer/producer Melvin Frank did not see eye to eye, as Lester disliked the wisecracking verbal comedy of the script and the original musical, and pushed to include more visual humor in the style of classic silent movies.
* Even before its release, ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' has already become [[https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-drama-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh notorious]] for the widespread rumors that the cast and crew did not get along during production, which the people involved did little to counter. Some observers remarked that, no matter how the film turned out, the behind-the-scenes drama from it was already a more compelling story in its own right.
** According to Creator/OliviaWilde, who directed the film and played the main character's best friend, the film's lead star Creator/ShiaLaBeouf was combative during production, and tensions between the two combined with his substance abuse problems led her to fire him from the film and [[TheOtherDarrin recast the role]] with Music/HarryStyles. However, in August 2022, [=LaBeouf=] [[https://www.indiewire.com/2022/08/shia-labeouf-denies-olivia-wilde-fired-him-dont-worry-darling-1234755673/ countered this assertion]] and claimed that not only did he leave the film under his own volition due to a lack of rehearsal time, but that Wilde in fact begged him not to -- and produced a video call and text messages from Wilde backing up his claim.
** Moreover, it has also been asserted that Wilde herself was at the center of a lot of the hostility on set, most notably with co-star Creator/FlorencePugh. In an [[https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a40772062/florence-pugh-dont-worry-darling-interview/ interview]] with ''Harper's Bazaar'', Pugh expressed her frustration with the intense focus that Wilde was putting on the film's sex scenes in its promotion, feeling that they were overshadowing what the film was actually about. Wilde, in an [[https://variety.com/2022/film/features/olivia-wilde-harry-styles-sex-scenes-dont-worry-darling-1235347929/ interview]] with ''Variety'', countered Pugh by arguing that the sex scenes were integral to the story. According to [[https://pagesix.com/2022/07/30/florence-pugh-upset-over-olivia-wilde-harry-styles-affair/ accounts]] by ''Page Six'', Pugh was also frustrated by Wilde's RomanceOnTheSet with Styles, which she felt was unprofessional, especially since Wilde was still engaged to Creator/JasonSudeikis at the time.[[note]]According to [[https://www.elle.com.au/celebrity/florence-pugh-olivia-wilde-feud-27379 one rumor]] that went viral on [=TikTok=], both the cinematographer and Pugh herself had to step in to direct some scenes because Wilde was busy having sex with Styles backstage.[[/note]] It was also rumored that Styles' paycheck for the film was three times larger than Pugh's despite their equal roles, a rumor that, if true, would have [[DontShootTheMessage badly undermined the film's feminist message]]. (Wilde dismissed the report as false, calling it "clickbait".) Finally, in the messages that [=LaBeouf=] released, Wilde mentioned that his presence on set made Pugh uncomfortable due to his reputation,[[note]]Shortly after leaving the film, [=LaBeouf=]'s ex-girlfriend Music/FKATwigs sued him for abuse, and he checked into rehab soon after.[[/note]] but asked him to stay anyway in the hopes that they would be able to patch things up, contradicting her previous assertion that she fired him for that reason. Notably, Pugh, who was initially excited to work with Wilde, had little involvement in the film's promotion despite being its star and having a reputation for quickly responding to tabloid rumors she believes are false, fueling speculation that she had a falling out with Wilde and wanted nothing to do with her or the film.
* ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'': Director Creator/SamTaylorJohnson and author/producer Creator/ELJames reportedly got into a lot of arguments over the first film, including arguing on-set. James vetoed many of Taylor-Johnson's attempts to change the plot and characters, while the director originally aimed for a more PragmaticAdaptation. As a consequence, Taylor-Johnson refused to direct the sequels and [[OldShame expressed regret over making the film at all]], citing her issues with James and their CreativeDifferences.
* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': According to Creator/JimCarrey's makeup artist, Kazu Hiro, Carrey spent a good chunk of the film's production being "really mean to everybody" and constantly going AWOL, (after all, [[DyeingForYourArt really uncomfortable make-up that included full eyeball lenses and a mask that covered his nose]] led to a full-fledged breakdown) stalling production to the point where they could only get three days' worth of filming done. Creator/RonHoward eventually confronted Carrey when Hiro attempted to quit, and got him to keep his anger in check for the remainder of filming. (part of the treatment involved hiring an interrogation expert specialized in training special forces to endure torture!)
* ''Film/HuntingScenesFromBavaria'': Due to the film's unflattering portrayal of small-town life and controversial subject matter involving homophobia and SlutShaming, the film crew often had to deal with hostile reactions from the residents of the real-life Bavarian village where the film was shot.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' had at least two cases of this:
** During the first few weeks of shooting Creator/EricStoltz was [[TheOtherMarty cast as Marty McFly]], and took the role so seriously to the point where [[MethodActing he insisted on being called "Marty" at all times, refusing to break character.]] As a result, during the filming of the scene where Marty confronts Biff Tannen in the cafeteria, Stoltz left Creator/ThomasFWilson with [[OnSetInjury actual bruises]]. As such, Wilson resented Stoltz for this, and planned to return the favor in the scene where Biff pulls Marty out of the car, but he would never get the chance, as Stoltz had been replaced by Creator/MichaelJFox before said scene was filmed.
** By the accounts of director Creator/RobertZemeckis and several producers, Creator/CrispinGlover's eccentric behaviour made him difficult to work with. He clashed with the crew on-set over various things, with one of them being a refusal to perform a scene within the camera frame, leading to Zemeckis asking the grips to build a wall to prevent Glover from doing this again. He also had a tendency to defy the script, at one point getting chewed out by producer Neil Canton for not getting in costume during filming. By some accounts, one reason that Glover was recast for the sequels is because he wanted a paycheck as big as Fox's, plus [[WagTheDirector script approval and director approval]], something that writer-producer Bob Gale naturally refused to go along with.
* ''Film/TheMarriedCoupleOfTheYearTwo'': Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo had a RomanceOnTheSet with Italian actress Laura Antonelli and tried to have her role expanded, to no avail since it would have reduced that of Creator/MarleneJobert, who was very angry at him because of these attempts.
* ''Film/KillBill'':
** Creator/UmaThurman and Creator/DarylHannah did not get along on set, an animosity that [[http://www.contactmusic.com/kill-bill/news/thurman-and-hannah-continue-feud reportedly continued]] for some time after the film was done. Given that their characters are trying to kill each other, [[EnforcedMethodActing their real-life tension ultimately made their on-screen relationship feel more authentic]].
** Thurman was also furious with Creator/QuentinTarantino after he pushed for her to [[NoStuntDouble do a dangerous vehicular stunt]] even though she had raised concerns about its safety beforehand, which ended with her suffering a bad neck injury that left her with chronic pain for years after. While Tarantino eventually apologized and the two of them reconciled, the incident destroyed their [[ProductionPosse working relationship]].
* ''Film/{{Get Carter|1971}}'': Creator/IanHendry, who plays Eric, was in line for the title role and never forgave Creator/MichaelCaine for [[TheOtherMarty taking over it]]. The onscreen hatred he displays onscreen is very real.
* During rehearsals for ''Film/RaisingTheWind'', Creator/JimDale delivered one of his lines doing an impression of Creator/KennethWilliams. Everyone laughed, while Williams stalked off to Creator/GeraldThomas to talk about Dale. Dale was worried that Williams hated him, and he would never work with him again. Luckily, Williams saw the funny side, and actually told Thomas, "For God's sake, use him. If he can take the mickey out of me and make me laugh, he's a godsend", leading to Dale joining the ''Film/CarryOnSeries''.
* ''Film/UpTheFront'': Producer Ned Sherrin had an uneven relationship with Creator/FrankieHowerd; when Howerd returned from Creator/ElizabethTaylor's legendary 40th birthday party in Budapest, Sherrin had no sympathy for his hangover and sent him straight back to work.
* On the set of ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', There was considerable competition between Creator/ElizabethBerkley and Creator/GinaGershon off-screen, which was subtly encouraged by Creator/PaulVerhoeven to help them portray their on-screen feud better.

*** He and the crew also did not get along with leading lady Creator/TanyaRoberts due to her diva-like behaviour. For example, when she and Bond have to steal a set of miner's overalls in order to infiltrate the BigBad's operation, Roberts refused to film the scene until she had a pair of custom-made overalls that flattered her figure. When Bond sees her and says "Lucky you could find a pair that fits," that was an ad-lib from Moore, lampshading the unlikelihood of there being many petite-framed women working in a mine. The dirty look she gave him was real, and the producers [[ThrowItIn kept the scene]] as a TakeThat to her entitled attitude.

* ''Film/BlackSheep1996'' director Penelope Spheeris told Creator/DavidSpade ''to his face'' she wasn't a fan of his comedy and forced the film's writers to change scenes featuring his character and remove others. Spade in turn felt Spheeris received too much credit by the studio for the success of ''Film/WaynesWorld'' and went so far as to leave a message on her answering machine yelling that “[She] spent this whole movie trying to cut my comedy balls off.”

* Jack Reynor hated his time on ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'', where allegedly Creator/MarkWahlberg bullied him relentlessly. Notably he didn't return for ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''. Creator/TJMiller also didn't get on well with director Creator/MichaelBay