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* Creator/MeganFox notoriously failed to do this and openly [[GodwinsLaw compared]] Creator/MichaelBay to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, single-handedly torpedoing her career almost overnight. As it turned out, it was ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' producer Creator/StevenSpielberg who was personally offended, and not Bay himself. Not really surprising, as Spielberg is Jewish (meaning that he's not likely to brush off Nazi comparisons), and one of the biggest films of his career, ''Film/SchindlersList'', was about a German man who saved several Jews from the Nazi death camps by employing them to work in his factories.

If you like your job - or if you [[MoneyDearBoy just like the money you get from doing your job]] - you don't openly badmouth your workplace or your work environment in front of your TargetAudience.

->"''Don't bite the hand that feeds you''"

* Creator/RobertPattinson is quite vocal about how much he loathes ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', Creator/StephenieMeyer, and the fans. It's made him hugely popular with ''Twilight''[='=]s {{hatedom}}. Creator/KristenStewart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvfmg5UF_Jo has also criticized it]].

* An InUniverse example happens in the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''. [[spoiler:Bojack, [[LostInCharacter increasingly unable to separate his own life from his role]] on a gritty DetectiveDrama, violently strangles his [[RomanceOnTheSet costar/girlfriend Gina Cazador]] while filming]]. Footage of the incident goes viral, and the producers rush to do damage-control. The two tensely agree to maintain a professional relationship, and for positive PR, appear in a joint interview downplaying the incident as merely intense acting.

** Louise Jameson, who played the Fourth Doctor's companion Leela, insisted to the press that she was quitting the role because she'd felt the character of Leela had been taken as far as she could go, and because she wanted to get back to working in theatre. This was all true but also was to tactfully avoid mentioning her HostilityOnTheSet with Tom Baker. Almost twenty years later she declined to appear on a Tom Baker interview for ''Series/ThisIsYourLife'' because he'd hurt her deeply enough that she didn't feel comfortable exchanging harmless WittyBanter with him as if nothing had happened. He did eventually apologise to her and the two have since made up and apparently adore each other. In a feature in the November 2014 issue of ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' she wrote a 'letter to her past self' about it and assured the young Louise that, as strange as it seems, she loves Tom Baker nowadays, now that he's 'mellowed' and is 'nothing but generous'. Aw.

** Janet Fielding, who played the Fourth and Fifth Doctor companion Tegan Jovanka, went on stage at a '90s ''Doctor Who'' FanConvention and announced that a show that treated female characters as badly as ''Doctor Who'' deserved to have been cancelled. She may have had a point, but remarks like that coming so soon after the cancellation (and trying to talk about feminism to an audience of male nerds) did little to endear it to the fandom at the time.