| 1 | * ''Series/TwentyFour'': |
| 2 | ** At a [[FanConvention Comic-Con]] panel, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr revealed that he hated working on the show and with Creator/KieferSutherland so much that he almost quit acting altogether and mostly does voice work nowadays. |
| 3 | --->I did ''24''; it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face. I think everyone that's worked with him has said that. I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped. |
| 4 | ** Creator/ShohrehAghdashloo, who played Dina Araz in the fourth season, also admitted to having difficulties with working with Sutherland. Aghdashloo has gone on record that she suspects one reason Dina was killed off was because of Sutherland's interference. |
| 5 | * [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] experienced tension on its news side over who would be the one to lead coverage of breaking news and major events. Traditionally, this would be a role assumed by the evening news anchor, in ABC's case, Creator/DavidMuir. However, ABC relied on Creator/GeorgeStephanopoulos to fill this role. Muir bristled at being denied the responsibilities that anchors at other networks received. The network tried to ease tensions by naming both men co-lead news anchors and giving Stephanopoulos lead coverage for news that happened before 6pm and Muir lead coverage for news that happened afterward. This satisfied neither of them. Because ABC didn't want to lose either man, each a proven audience draw, the network decided to make Muir the sole lead news anchor while Stephanopoulos was given guaranteed primetime slots for specials he can develop at his own pleasure. |
| 6 | * ''Series/{{ALF}}'': The [[TroubledProduction difficulties]] in working both on a set with multiple open trap doors to accommodate a puppet and puppeteer, ''and'' with a puppeteer whose perfectionism led to most episodes taking longer than usual to film for a {{sitcom}} of that era, led most of the human cast to deeply resent having to play second fiddle to a puppet and sometimes lash out over it at whoever was convenient. "We're all puppets here!", Creator/MaxWright said at one point. In fact, one of the show's most infamous stories is that Wright was apparently so miserable, the ''moment'' the final shooting session was done, he made a bee-line to his car and drove off, not speaking a ''word'' to anyone. |
| 7 | * During ''[[Series/Alice1976 Alice]]'', Creator/LindaLavin was reported as being difficult to work with and was jealous of Creator/PollyHolliday's popularity as [[EnsembleDarkhorse Flo.]] Even after Holliday left and her SpinOff, ''Flo'', ended after one season, she refused to make any guest appearances. Her replacement Creator/DianeLadd also had difficulties with Lavin and cited that as the reason she left the series after only a year. |
| 8 | * ''Series/AllThat'': |
| 9 | ** Katrina Johnson recalls being told that she was "getting too fat" and that, "You can't be the fat one." because they already have a "fat one" (most likely referring to Lori Beth Denberg). |
| 10 | ** Angelique Bates, a cast member during the show's first two seasons, spoke out about bad experiences on and off set during her time on the show. All cast members were provided housing in a complex near Nickelodeon Studios in UsefulNotes/{{Orlando}}. Her mother was abusing her, verbally and physically, and her neighboring castmates could occasionally hear it going on. The physical abuse became known amongst the cast when Creator/KelMitchell's sister did Angelique's nails one day, only to notice them destroyed the next. {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} forced Angelique to be quiet about the abuse to avoid ruining the show or network's image. She also recalled verbal abuse from Creator/DanSchneider, who screamed at her in front of everyone and made her cry over something that was later proven to not be her fault. Angelique claims the set environment in general was misogynistic, as the male cast members were favored over the females, and the one female writer on the show, Kayla Alpert, was fired after only two episodes. Schneider reportedly told Angelique to lessen her comedic acting to avoid overshadowing her male costars. Because of this, along with Angelique's mother rejecting unwanted advances from male crew members, Angelique was given less screentime and dialogue in Season 2. |
| 11 | ** Bryan Hearne, who is black, recalls being fitted for a skin-colored bodysuit to play [[ItMakesSenseInContext a fetus]], and hearing someone on set refer to his skin color as "charcoal". Fellow black cast member Giovonnie Samuels also recalls being shown less regard than the white cast members. |
| 12 | * ''Series/AlloAllo'': |
| 13 | ** Creator/RoseHill and Creator/JackHaig had a sparky on-set relationship. On one occasion, when Hill had taken too long to deliver her next line, Haig muttered, "I could've eaten a bloody ham sandwich in that pause". |
| 14 | ** Haig also had a conflict with the make-up department, claiming that after fifty years of doing his makeup, he didn't need "some girl who had only been in the business five minutes". |
| 15 | ** Creator/ArthurBostrom wasn't happy with Steve Edwin when he guest starred in "Up the Crick Without a Piddle", as he didn't like that he got to say his CharacterCatchphrase, "Good moaning". |
| 16 | * ''Series/TheAmandaShow'': |
| 17 | ** When Raquel Lee celebrated her 13th birthday on set, she recalls Dan Schneider being angry over her birthday cake being "too big", and showing less regard to her than her white co-stars. |
| 18 | ** Writers Christy Stratton and Jenny Kilgen, the only two female writers on the show, recall Schneider making sexist comments right in front of them, such as challenging them to "name one funny female writer". Stratton was once egged on by Dan to mime being sodomized on a table while telling a story, much to her humiliation. Both writers were also told by Schneider that the surname of the character Penelope Taynt was intended to be a sexual reference (on a ''children's show'') and not to tell anyone. Schneider also had both women split the salary for one writer, something none of the male writers had to do. Kilgen went to the Writers Guild of America and asked if such a thing was allowed, which it was not. The WGA then investigated Schneider and forced him to pay both women full salaries, after which Schneider told Kilgen that if he finds out she was responsible for this, "You will never work for Nickelodeon again." |
| 19 | ** After Season 1, Stratton was let go while Kilgen remained, but Schneider told her she would be paid on a 16-week contract despite Season 2 being scheduled for 27 weeks of production, meaning she would have to work 11 weeks for free. After just four episodes of Season 2, Schenider called Kilgen into his office with all the male writers, and asked her out of nowhere, in front of everyone, "Didn't you used to do phone sex?" (she did not). Humiliated, Kilgen quit the show and sued Schneider for gender discrimination. |
| 20 | * ''Series/AmericanIdol'''s first two seasons had Creator/SimonCowell and Music/PaulaAbdul, who openly admit that they genuinely despised each other both on and off camera. According to both, however, by the third season something had "clicked" for them, and they became [[FireForgedFriendship very close friends]] (though the arguing [[VitriolicBestBuds didn't go anywhere]]). Simon says that while making true friends is rare in show business, he and Paula genuinely are. |
| 21 | * The August 22, 2017 edition of ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' had a live version of this: After Creator/SimonCowell made a passing remark about fellow judge [[Music/SpiceGirls Mel B]]'s ongoing divorce, the rapper saw it as an insensitve comment and threw a glass of water at Simon's face before leaving the judges' table. Apparently, since Simon had joined the show the year before, tensions between the two had grown, leading to several confrontations between them. |
| 22 | * ''Angel Street'' credited its short run in part to the hostility between leads Creator/RobinGivens and Pamela Gidley. |
| 23 | * While they stayed good friends and always kept things professional, Creator/MollieSugden and Creator/JohnInman would clash over who got top billing as ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' went on, as both believed themselves to be the star of the show. |
| 24 | * ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': |
| 25 | ** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': {{Showrunner}} Mark Guggenheim is infamous for causing tension on set because he has a history of making creative decisions without warning the actors involved. In particular, Creator/KatieCassidy and Creator/JohnBarrowman were not informed their characters were being killed off until only a few days before their death scenes were shot. For Cassidy, this led to most of the cast of ''Arrow'' and even some of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' publicly deriding the decision, as well as Cassidy revealing that she could blatantly see how much Guggenheim and the writing staff have had it out for her character since day one.[[note]]Cassidy started the show as the lead female and second-billed in the cast, and increasingly slid down the depth chart after Season 1[[/note]] For Barrowman, who had actually just negotiated his contract so he could reappear in any the next year's shows, this led to him finishing his role, telling the producers "where they could shove it", and then exiting the franchise almost completely.[[note]]He returned for the ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' crossover for a grand total of two scenes[[/note]] He has even gone on record saying that he believed the only reason why Malcolm's body was never shown was just as a way to protect himself from the backlash. |
| 26 | ** ''Series/Batwoman2019'': |
| 27 | *** In an [[https://www.cbr.com/batwoman-ruby-rose-horrifying-set-conditions-slams-wbtv-berlanti/ Instagram post]] in October 2021, Creator/RubyRose said that she left the show at the end of the first season due to her extremely fractured relationship with the producers and {{Showrunner}}s over the terrible working conditions the crew were in. She said that horrific injuries went ignored, including that she was forced to go back to work only ten days after an injury which nearly left her paralyzed, and accused showrunner Caroline Dries of "having no heart" and trying to force the crew to keep shooting even during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic (at least until lockdowns made production infeasible). She also spoke about her extremely poor relationship with Creator/DougrayScott, who she claimed was volatile and abusive to crew members and called him a "nightmare", and Creator/CamrusJohnson, who she called an "egomaniac kid", and said that [[Creator/WarnerBros WB]] chairman Peter Roth sexually harassed female employees and hired a private investigator to snoop on her (and then fired the investigator when his report didn't say what he was hoping it would say about Rose). She said she'd never return to the show no matter how much money they offered her. |
| 28 | *** However, it was [[https://tvline.com/2020/05/20/ruby-rose-batwoman-season-2-departure-scoop/ implied in this article]] released after Creator/RubyRose's departure that ''she'' was the source of hostility on set. A source close to the show claims that Rose was "wasn't happy working on the show, and did that make her fun to work with? No." It's also been alleged that she wasn't prepared at all for the long working hours that came with being a lead star of a TV show on top of the movies she was doing, which made her pretty irritable at times. [[https://www.insider.com/batwoman-crew-calls-ruby-rose-dictator-counters-complaints-2021-10 In response to Rose's own claims]], a production assistant went on record reaffirming the original claims, and added that Rose treated ''everyone'' badly on set, didn't have her lines memorised before arriving on set, and frequently arrived late. Scott denied her allegations, and Johnson reiterated that she was fired and didn't leave the project of her own volition. |
| 29 | *** During a roundtable discussion with Azie Tesfai (from ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}})'', Creator/CandicePatton (from ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'') and Creator/AnnaDiop (from ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}''), Creator/JaviciaLeslie talked frankly about having to deal with racist harassment from fans and how frustrated she was that her co-stars were not supporting her. Candice later detailed similar experiences on an episode of [[https://www.theopenuppodcast.com/podcast/episode/402d5221/candice-patton-on-quiet-abuse-in-tv-and-film-or-i-could-get-eaten-alive-out-here The Open Up Podcast]] in 2022. |
| 30 | * ''Series/TheATeam'': |
| 31 | ** Creator/MrT and Creator/GeorgePeppard didn't get along very well on the set. Arguments were fed by the fact that Mr. T became the real star of the show despite Peppard's being a "proper movie actor". Things got even worse when Peppard learned that Mr. T was paid more than he was. It got so bad that Peppard wouldn't even speak to Mr. T directly, using Creator/DirkBenedict to relay messages between the two. It was reported that they were able to patch up things before Peppard's death in 1994. |
| 32 | ** Creator/DwightSchultz recalled that when he first met Peppard, he introduced himself, then the veteran actor replied, "Very good. I'm George Peppard and I am ''not'' a nice man." |
| 33 | ** Peppard made it clear to both Creator/MelindaCulea and Marla Heasley that he didn't want their characters on the show. On Heasley's first day on set Peppard took her aside and told her "We don't want you on the show. None of the guys want you here. The only reason you're here is because the network and the producers want you. For some reason they think they need a girl." Ironically or not, on her last day of work Peppard took her aside again, saying: "I'm sorry that this is your last day, but remember what I said the very first day, that we didn't want a girl, has nothing to do with you. You were very professional, but no reason to have a girl." While the other male actors weren't as hostile towards Culea or Heasley as Peppard was, they ended up siding with him on the issue, with Creator/DirkBenedict later remarking... |
| 34 | --->It was a guy's show. It was male-driven. It was written by guys.[[note]]Babs Greyhosky begs to differ.[[/note]] It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It's about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry ... when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show. |
| 35 | ** Culea was also reputed to be difficult on-set, often demanding more action-based roles. This led to the producers unceremoniously dropping the character, unlike Heasley, whose character was at least given a proper exit. According to the Reunion special, Peppard commended Heasley on her last day, praising her professional attitude. |
| 36 | ** Even though he was hired specifically because it was thought his friendship with Peppard and his offscreen affability would help get Peppard and Mr. T back on the same page, Creator/RobertVaughn stated in a late career interview that Peppard had warned him that T was "crazy". Vaughn thought that Peppard was exaggerating at first, but stated "Mr. T would come in to work at 7AM with his entourage and he would be talking (Vaughn then did an impression of a motor mouthed Mr. T) and then when we would finish the day's shoot at 7PM or later, he was STILL talking. I think he was clinically insane". While Vaughn didn't actively dislike T, it was clear that he grated on his nerves. |
| 37 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': |
| 38 | ** Creator/PatrickMacnee and Creator/HonorBlackman had a disagreement, at about the time she left the series. According to the book written by Macnee about the series, he became verbally abusive toward Blackman while drunk. The reason for their argument was due to disagreeing over the organizing of security staff for a party which the studio was hosting. |
| 39 | ** While she got on well with Macnee, Creator/DianaRigg evidently didn't have a very enjoyable time on the show, which likely led to her leaving after only two seasons. One of her complaints was the pay disparity between her and Macnee (she was initially getting paid less than the show's cameraman); she has commented that her demanding more equality resulted her being slagged in the press at the time. |
| 40 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': TroubledProduction doesn't begin to describe it... |
| 41 | ** The first and most famous one is Creator/JerryDoyle's (Michael Garibaldi) hatred of Creator/MichaelOHare (Jeffrey Sinclair). Doyle found O'Hare's frequent outbursts and tendency to go off on strange tangents prima-donnalike and even referred to him as "the whackjob" in interviews. When O'Hare left the series after season one, Doyle threatened to "kick the whackjob's ass" if they ever set foot in the same room again, and, true to form, they never appeared on screen together again. A lot of this became HarsherInHindsight when it was revealed after O'Hare's death that he had been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for the entirety of the recording, that a lot of his strange behavior was due to his inability to separate reality and imagination, and that he had been holding the shreds of his sanity together on willpower alone to ensure that the rest of the cast would have a job to go to. |
| 42 | ** Jerry Doyle was also married to actress Creator/AndreaThompson (Talia Winters), during Season 1, but between seasons one and two, the couple went through an extremely bitter and acrimonious divorce. The set afterwards was something of a minefield. |
| 43 | ** Creator/JMichaelStraczynski and Creator/ClaudiaChristian fell out in atomic fashion, which led to Christian leaving the series before shooting on Season 5 began. If you ask Straczynski, Christian was trying to use her status as one of the key actors on the show and threatening to walk off the set to leverage an utterly outrageous pay-raise and he called her on it. If you ask Christian, she was fired for refusing a sexual advance from Straczynski. Neither party was willing to talk to the other, instead taking to the early fan forums on Usenet to rile up the fanbase against the other. As of 2020, Christian and Straczynski have not spoken in over 25 years, and the feud both between the creators and within the fandom continues with unabated fury. |
| 44 | * ''Series/BarneyMiller'' had a mostly happy set ... except years later, Creator/HalLinden (Barney) revealed that he and Creator/GregorySierra (Chano) simply did not get along at all on a personal level. You'd be hard-pressed to tell by their performances, though, as the two men did not let their personal issues affect their on-screen work. After two seasons, Sierra took the lead in another series created by Danny Arnold (''A.E.S. Hudson Street'') ... but when that series crashed and burned after six episodes, Sierra was never invited back to ''Barney Miller'', which continued for another six years. |
| 45 | * ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'': |
| 46 | ** Creator/AdamWest described Creator/NeilHamilton, who played Commissioner Gordon, as somewhat difficult to work with, due to him taking his work very seriously, even on a silly show like this. |
| 47 | ** Creator/OttoPreminger, best known as a director but also played Mr. Freeze in a two-parter, was known for being difficult to work with as both an actor and director. West commented that, when the time came for him to pick up Freeze's unconscious body, Preminger wouldn't offer any subtle assistance, forcing West to pick up dead weight. It's no surprise that [[TheOtherDarrin Freeze was recast]] for his next appearance. |
| 48 | * ''Series/BestOfFriends1963'' was cancelled after one series due to the offstage tensions between Creator/CharlesHawtrey and Hylda Baker being seen as not worth the trouble of making any more episodes. |
| 49 | * Creator/ShannenDoherty's clashes with her co-stars on ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' led to her departure at the end of the fourth season. When she moved on to ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' (which experienced very similar turbulence and departure), Creator/LukePerry reportedly said, [[WitchWithACapitalB "It's appropriate that she's playing a witch in her current show."]] she eventually made up with the cast enough to be included in the 2019 meta reboot. Best of all, Creator/JennieGarth and Shannen Doherty began a new friendship where they had learned their lesson and promised to never make the same mistakes again. |
| 50 | * ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': |
| 51 | ** Creator/RobertReed hated starring on such a "silly" show and constantly butted heads with creator Creator/SherwoodSchwartz, often having temper tantrums on set and sending memos criticizing the writing over matters as small as whether strawberries give off a smell when cooked. There were some episodes that Reed outright refused to participate in for being too absurd for his tastes, including the show's final episode "The Hair-Brained Scheme". As a result, Mike Brady was said to be "out of town" for Greg's graduation. Schwartz later stated that he had planned to drop Mike for Season 6 had the show not been cancelled. Despite his problems with Schwartz, Reed got along very well with the kids on the show, and often bonded with them off-screen; he and Creator/FlorenceHenderson were also good friends.[[note]]In early 1992, as Reed was dying, he called Henderson and asked her to inform "the kids" of his condition on his behalf, which she did.[[/note]] He also reprised his role as Mike Brady in all ''Brady'' sequel series and TV movies. (Yes, even ''The Brady Bunch (Variety) Hour''. The complete lack of Sherwood Schwartz involvement there may have helped - it was a co-production between [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Television]] and Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions!) |
| 52 | ** Echoing their characters' occasional squabbles, Creator/EvePlumb (Jan) did not care to be around Creator/MaureenMcCormick (Marcia) for many years. Depending on who you ask, they didn't care for each other even when the original show was in production. Maureen claims they were "best friends" during the show, while Eve stated that she didn't consider Maureen more than an acquaintance, and it is rumored that Jan's frequent animosity and jealousy of Marcia was genuine emotion from Eve. In the 1990's, after the cancellation of the final ''Brady'' series, ''Series/TheBradys'' (in which Maureen declined to participate), Eve dyed her hair brown to distance herself from the Jan character and the ''Brady'' franchise as a whole, and was the only surviving cast member to decline making a cameo appearance in ''Film/TheBradyBunchMovie'' (although half of the others' cameos didn't make the final cut, including Maureen's). What really set off the rivalry between the two TV sisters was an appearance by Maureen on the 1997 talk show ''Vibe'', where she mentioned kissing all of the other cast members, including Eve, which took the host by surprise. This resulted in the media spinning her comment into stories of the two girls having a lesbian affair while doing the show. Eve was furious and refused to speak to Maureen for years, especially after she decided to go along with the lesbian rumor and use it to promote her autobiography. Eve rarely participated in ''Brady'' reunions, and some were outright cancelled due to Eve being the only one to decline. When she did participate, she was never seated near Maureen, or the latter was not present at all. Creator/SusanOlsen (Cindy) commented that she hates being a middlewoman between the two, having maintained friendships with both of them, but sympathizes with Eve and respects her decision to move on from Jan. Eve would later embrace her time on ''The Brady Bunch'' more openly after the surviving cast reunited for ''Series/AVeryBradyRenovation'' in 2019, the first time in 15 years all six Brady kids had been in the same room. When asked about Maureen, Eve denied any feud and said there was "no remedy needed". Creator/ChristopherKnight (Peter) stated that any tension between the girls "was soon dissipated". |
| 53 | * Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}: |
| 54 | ** Reports had come out in the years after ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ended regarding backstage tension and difficulties between producers, cast, and crew. This came to a breaking point in 2021 with numerous cast members acknowledging the issue, which lead to an [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/joss-whedon-buffy-angel-charisma-carpenter-toxic-workplace-1234915549/ in-depth expose]] by Adam B. Vary and Elizabeth Wagmeister for ''Variety'', who stated, "The series was set at a UsefulNotes/{{California}} high school beset by vampires, demons and toxic mean girls, but it turns out its real-life BigBad was the show’s creator, Creator/JossWhedon." The general opinion of Whedon was that he was a talented {{Showrunner}} who collaborated well, but also a tyrant who forged a CultOfPersonality around himself that only grew as he became [[CreatorWorship a geek icon seen as the driving force behind the success]] of ''Buffy''. Between Whedon's inexperience running a TV show, the low-budget show's heavy reliance on special effects, the long hours, the young cast, and the lack of supervision by the studio, the atmosphere on the set of ''Buffy'' quickly turned into something resembling its HighSchool setting, with Whedon as its AlphaBitch: treating his inner circle well and regarding them as TrueCompanions, and everybody else like dirt and subjecting them to bullying and scorn. As such, many people have horror stories about the production of both ''Buffy'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''. |
| 55 | ** Creator/JamesMarsters has [[https://www.comicbookmovie.com/tv/buffy_the_vampire_slayer/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-star-james-marsters-on-aggressive-disturbing-interaction-with-joss-whedon-a176820#gs.aylwza stated]] that Whedon reacted ''very'' negatively to Spike's EnsembleDarkHorse status. He envisioned the show's vampires purely as AlwaysChaoticEvil villains, and the audience reaction to Spike caused him to lash out in anger at Marsters. |
| 56 | ** Few had as miserable a time working on ''Buffy'' and ''Angel'' as Creator/CharismaCarpenter. In 2021, she [[https://twitter.com/AllCharisma/status/1359537746843365381 went public]] with long-rumored allegations surrounding her time on ''Buffy'' and ''Angel'', which inspired the ''Variety'' article. She said that Whedon played favorites with actors on set and pit them against each other to win his approval, that she was overworked to the point where it caused her physical harm, and that she only stayed on [[MoneyDearBoy for the steady paycheck]], all while justifying his behavior in her mind because she didn't want to admit she was being harassed. The ''Variety'' article notes she was a network-mandated hire, which grated on Whedon, who wanted complete control and would be dismissive of her performance. Whedon in turn was frustrated by Carpenter's tardiness. She also suffered from anxiety which caused her to struggle with her lines and marks, which frustrated Whedon, who was obsessed with word-perfect dialogue. Long before this was revealed, it was known that her pregnancy in the fourth season of ''Angel'' caused a lot of friction between her and Whedon, but he seemed to take the reveal personally (suggesting she get an abortion), which ended with Cordelia being written out of the fifth season in a manner that left a lot of bad blood, not least because Carpenter only found out from the press. She was eventually brought back for the fifth-season episode [[Recap/AngelS05E12YoureWelcome "You're Welcome"]], [[spoiler:only for Cordelia to be KilledOffForReal after Whedon [[LyingCreator promised her he wouldn't do so]]]]. By her account, Carpenter was in tears when she realized how she was being written out of the show. In 2022, she referred to him as her "former tyrannical, narcissistic boss who is still unable to be accountable or just apologize". Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg, Marsters, Creator/AmberBenson (who described the onset atmosphere as toxic), Creator/NicholasBrendon, Creator/AnthonyHead, Creator/DavidBoreanaz, Creator/ElizaDushku, Creator/EmmaCaulfield, Creator/JulieBenz, Creator/ClareKramer, Creator/AdamBusch, Creator/DannyStrong, Creator/TomLenk, Jonathan M. Woodward and James C. Leary either backed up her claims and/or lent their support. |
| 57 | ** Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg's mother was horrified by some of the raunchy jokes that were regularly thrown around backstage. Reportedly, this hit the teenage Michelle herself, who later accused Whedon of inappropriate behavior; while she didn't go into detail, she claimed that [[FridgeHorror he wasn't allowed to be alone in a room]] with her after an exchange that several crew members believed crossed a line. Although Whedon would later deny that such a rule existed, interviews with the show's crew confirmed that it did, but was not so much a rule forbidding Whedon from one-on-one alone time with her as it was a guideline that she was not to be left alone with him, which Whedon may not have actually been informed about. |
| 58 | ** In 2017, Whedon's ex-wife Kai Cole wrote an open letter accusing him of having had several affairs throughout their marriage, including with women he worked with on his shows. Some of the sources in the ''Variety'' article corroborated Cole's claims that Whedon was having affairs with female employees. Eventually, in a now-infamous interview with ''Vulture'', Whedon admitted to the affairs bizarrely claiming that he felt he "had" to do them. |
| 59 | ** ''Buffy''[='=]s stunt coordinator/second unit director Jeff Pruitt and Gellar's StuntDouble (and Pruitt's wife) Sophia Crawford feuded with both Whedon and Gellar, which contributed to their departure. They have [[https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/12/egomaniac-joss-whedon-faces-claims-buffy-stunt-double-12942160/ said]] that Whedon let the show's growing popularity and critical acclaim go to his head, and that, while he started the show as a humble guy who regularly turned to Pruitt for help shooting fight scenes, he eventually let fame go to his head and turned into an egomaniac. The last straw was when Whedon demanded that Pruitt and Crawford end their romance if they wanted to keep working on the show. Pruitt also claimed that the production had installed a keylogger on his computer, allowing the producers access to all of his emails. As for Gellar, Pruitt wrote [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000619003429/http://www.mcs.net/~jcomroe/Knight.html a short fantasy story]] that was a thinly-veiled RomanAClef of his and Sophia's feelings regarding working with her, and while he would later disown it and be more diplomatic regarding her later on, saying that she'd mellowed out since, he still [[http://buffyangelshow.fr/buffy/dossiers/jeff-pruitt-sophia-crawford-the-interview/ believes]] that, back then, Gellar had a tendency to WagTheDirector with the way scenes were shot and that she had grown jealous of Crawford during the third season. Whedon, for his part, [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer/jIAqP0884z0 countered]] that Pruitt and Crawford weren't blameless in their departure, and that Pruitt had an ego of his own, seeing himself "as a noble knight being plotted against by evil courtiers, [which] really doesn't help." |
| 60 | ** Creator/AlysonHannigan, once close friends with Gellar, was not on speaking terms with her by the time the show wrapped. In a post-series interview, she blamed her for putting her out of a job without any warning (Gellar chose to end the show after the seventh season through an announcement in ''Entertainment Weekly''), and said that Gellar was getting sick of working on the show as early as the third season, though she was quick to praise Gellar's work ethic. However, time (and mutual parenthood) seems to heal all wounds, and the evidence indicates that Hannigan and Gellar are friends again. |
| 61 | ** Darla was reportedly written out of the first season more quickly than intended because of conflict between Creator/JulieBenz and the regular cast members, especially Hannigan, who claimed that Benz was mean to her. Fortunately, she later mellowed out enough for Whedon to bring her back for a couple of guest spots, and eventually a recurring role on ''Angel''. By the 2000s, Benz and Hannigan had patched things up and could be seen exchanging pleasantries on Website/{{Twitter}}. |
| 62 | ** While Creator/EmmaCaulfield has never named names, she has [[https://gregstacy.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/emma-caulfield-on-buffy%E2%80%99s-final-days/ said]] that, by Season 7, she felt "very unappreciated" and "continually disrespected" by certain people involved with the show, and that they had made her experience working on ''Buffy'' miserable. She reportedly requested that Anya be killed off so she could not be used on any future shows. |
| 63 | ** According to Caulfield, Creator/NicholasBrendon and Creator/DavidBoreanaz never really got along. For the twentieth anniversary reunion, Boreanaz reportedly had Brendon blocked from the photoshoot, possibly due to his substance abuse issues (he was inserted in later). It's worth noting that Boreanaz was close friends with his late ''Angel'' co-star Creator/GlennQuinn, who had a drug problem that resulted in his premature death. |
| 64 | ** Season 6 is arguably the show's most divisive season, and few people were as open and vocal about that as Buffy herself, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar. Her grievances? Where to begin? For starters, she was ''very'' unhappy about the ChannelHop from Creator/TheWB to Creator/{{UPN}}, eliminating the chances for crossovers with ''Angel''. She was also quite upset about the decision to pair Buffy and Spike in a mutually destructive relationship (Gellar is an outspoken Buffy/Angel shipper, calling them "soul mates"), and the graphic sexual nature of their scenes made her very uncomfortable (she's reported to have said "If I wanted to do porn, I'd do porn!"), finding it disrespectful to her and her character. Finally, she felt that [[DarkerAndEdgier the dark and depressing nature of the season]] was out of tone with the show and that the Buffy she was playing was unrecognisable from the one she and the fans knew and loved. With Whedon largely hands-off this season to work on the third season of ''Angel'' and ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', she felt that she had nobody to vent her complaints to. It reportedly got so bad that she almost quit the series after this season, but ultimately stayed on for a final season, with a few conditions, among them Whedon returning as ShowRunner and a significantly LighterAndSofter tone. Gellar would later [[https://www.thewrap.com/sarah-michelle-gellar-extremely-toxic-male-set-buffy/ describe the set]] as an "extremely toxic" environment in which the female stars were routinely pitted against each other by the men in charge, and said that "[w]hile I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon." |
| 65 | ** In an interview for the book ''Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born'', Creator/AmberBenson [[https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/woa9zi/from_the_book_into_every_generation_a_slayer_is/ stated]] that she was having issues with somebody on the show that were coming to a head just as her character Tara left, and that, despite many fan requests to bring Tara back (including Whedon reaching out to her personally), she refused to return to the show because it would've meant interacting with them again. Benson also disputes that there was any serious intention for Tara to return, as she was only offered ''the First Evil'' for season seven. |
| 66 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': There were plenty of rumors that there were serious problems between Creator/StanaKatic and Creator/NathanFillion starting from around Season 4. They'd done joint appearances until Season 3. They apparently couldn't be in the same room together for too long and shot scenes together only when they absolutely had to, resulting in Castle and Beckett starting to have separate storylines. The tensions reportedly reached a point where lines were being drawn within the cast. These were going to result in Katic's departure from the show, had it not been cancelled. A series finale was therefore hastily cobbled together. She claims that it came from the pay discrepancy between the two of them. She says she understands why he made a lot more money than her at the beginning because he was the established name and she was the unknown actor. However, she felt that as time went on the gap should have closed and she felt like the network was helping him at her expense. He's never commented on the issue. |
| 67 | * ''Series/CharliesAngels'': |
| 68 | ** Creator/KateJackson and Creator/CherylLadd reportedly did not get along during their two seasons working together. Ladd stated in interviews there were some days Jackson would not even speak to her. |
| 69 | ** Era magazines in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} consistently reported that Ladd was jealous of Creator/ShelleyHack from the get-go, because Shelley's height made her uncomfortable and she felt dwarfed by it. Ladd also wanted to be "the only blonde on the show". They further claimed that Cheryl bullied Shelley, often to tears, and constantly walked into the producers' office and demanded Shelley's lines, so as to diminish her role. (Ladd was often the star of the episode, since her arrival.) Indeed, Tiffany incidentally had less and less to say as the show progressed. Eventually, Ladd threatened to walk unless Shelley was fired, the Spanish magazines reported that she got her way: rather than deal with the drama, Shelley chose to leave on her own. However, it would appear that none of this ever made the [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates U.S.]] press. It is unclear if there ever was any truth to these published facts, or from where they were obtained, but Spanish fans still hold Ladd directly responsible for Shelley's departure. Strangely enough, as if to expunge her mea culpa, in later interviews, Ladd often claimed that she took one look at Creator/TanyaRoberts when she came on-board, referred to her as a bitch and said something to the effect of: "I don't want to work with her, she is too sexy!" This was supposed to be a self-humbling declaration on Ladd's part. |
| 70 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': |
| 71 | ** The animosity between the three (eventually four) lead actresses has evolved into the stuff of legend. Creator/ShannenDoherty and Creator/HollyMarieCombs had been friends prior to the show, and the latter even convinced the former to sign on in the first place. They were good enough friends with Creator/AlyssaMilano to act as her bridesmaids during the first season, but all parties began to fall out during the second. The network started actively pitting the actresses against each other to prevent them banding together the way the ''{{Series/Friends}}'' cast famously had at the time, and Holly admitted that the frustration with frequent clashes with the higher-ups over the lack of resources provided for the stunts and special effects as well as {{Showrunner}} Constance M. Burge being ousted from her position lead to the girls "just going at it", Alyssa confessing there were some days when they would only speak to each other to say their lines and that the set sometimes felt "like high school". Although Shannen claimed for years that her departure at the end of Season 3 was something she had been pushing for out of creative frustration and feeling that Prue had run her course as a character, she revealed in a 2023 podcast interview that she actually was fired because Alyssa had threatened to sue for creating a toxic work environment. The latter maintained that she had no power to get anyone fired, and that she was the only one of the actresses to speak to the corporate mediator the network had hired. Whatever the case, none of the actresses ever appeared at a convention panel together even twenty-five years later, and Holly became rather infamous in the fandom for which of her co-stars she was not speaking to at a given time. |
| 72 | ** It was rumored at the time that Ted King, who played Andy, was killed off at the end of Season 1 because he and Shannen didn't get along either. Other sources say he left to pursue other roles or asked for more screen time but the writers had no more ideas for him. He later said of her: |
| 73 | --> "I like Shannen, I think she's a straight shooter. I don't know where the press was getting their information but with me she's been nothing but honest, hard-working and a complete professional." |
| 74 | ** During a 2010 convention appearance, Creator/ArminShimerman, who guest starred in an episode in Season 4 when Creator/RoseMcGowan joined the cast, [[https://youtu.be/_zl24cHSS-w?t=486 made clear]] his dislike towards all three of the show's leads, saying it was all too apt that they were playing witches. |
| 75 | ** [=McGowan=] likewise got into a very public Website/{{Twitter}} spat with Alyssa in 2020 where she accused her of making the set "toxic af". When working on ''Charmed'', [=McGowan=] was dealing with the fallout from her sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein, who subsequently had her blacklisted from Hollywood over it, which wasn't helped by the long shooting hours. The production itself was extremely hectic, as there was no on-set producer and it was nearly impossible to get the show runners on the phone to verify dialogue changes, meaning that the actresses themselves served as ''de facto'' producers. |
| 76 | ** Creator/DanielleHarris, who had a guest spot in the first season's "The Fourth Sister", had a miserable time on set, claiming Alyssa tried to tell her what to do, the three leads were "always fighting" and Shannen was very mean to her in particular after a crew member she had previously dated started flirting with Danielle to get back at her. |
| 77 | * ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': |
| 78 | ** There were rumours that Creator/ShelleyLong didn't get along with her co-stars, which have since been confirmed by most of the show's cast and crew in retrospect. She often kept to herself between takes and was also said to be perceived as seeing herself "above" those with whom she worked on the show. She did get on with Creator/NicholasColasanto (Coach). His tragic death in 1985 during the filming of Season 3 not only demoralized the cast, but it left her without an ally among them, and this likely contributed to her decision to leave the show after Season 5. |
| 79 | ** The timing of Colasanto's death coincided with the introduction of the character of Dr. Frasier Crane, played by Creator/KelseyGrammer. Long was what we would today call a major Sam/Diane [[{{Shipping}} shipper]], and didn't appreciate the character of Frasier interfering with their romance. Grammer, for his part, claimed that Long tried to have all of his punchlines removed from the script but Long denies this. The writers of the show loved Grammer and what he brought to the role of Frasier, tending to side with him over Long whenever there were any disputes between them. (Grammer stated that he and Long made peace with each other during her guest appearance on ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.) |
| 80 | ** One of Long's biggest enemies on set was Creator/RheaPerlman, [[EnforcedMethodActing which no doubt enhanced the antipathy between their characters]]. When ''GQ'' did its retrospective on the series, the interviewer asked Perlman if Long's antics annoyed her: "I can't go there again. I just can't. Life is too short". |
| 81 | ** In the ''Cheers'' biography documentary, Creator/TedDanson admitted there was tension between him and Long but "never at a personal level and always at a work level" due to their different modes of working. Two examples of this, both admitted by Long herself: she apparently asked "too many questions" of the writers (which Long said was based on a desire to better understand her character and motivation); and she was always late to filming (according to Long, because makeup and hair took much longer for her than her castmates, which they were not sympathetic about). Danson also stated that Long was much more like her character than she would like to admit, but also said that her performances often "carried the show." |
| 82 | * Creator/SophiaBush left ''Series/ChicagoPD'' under similar circumstances to Creator/PauleyPerrette's (see ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' below), citing having to brave both the harsh UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} weather and "a constant, onslaught barrage of abusive behavior" to the point that her body was "falling apart", as reasons for her departure. She'd brought up her concerns with the producers several times, but was rebuffed and when she threatened to quit if improvements weren't made, was refused her departure due to her seven-year contract. Four seasons in, she finally put her foot down and gave the producers the choice of letting her break her contract or suing the network. They opted for the former. It's been surmised that Creator/JasonBeghe's anger management problems, which got to the point that counselors had to be brought on-set to help him control his outbursts, were what she was at least partially refrrring to. |
| 83 | * Creator/LarryWilcox and Creator/ErikEstrada were often said to frequently clash while making ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'', and did not get along well with each other during the production of this show. This was reported to be a factor in Wilcox's decision to quit the series. Estrada was said to be similarly displeased working with Tom Reilly, who replaced Wilcox as Ponch's partner Officer Bob "Bobby" Nelson. |
| 84 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 85 | ** The feud between Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/DanHarmon on the set has been well documented. Creator Harmon was not above making fun of actor Chase publicly, and Chase was increasingly uncomfortable with his on-screen character's bigotry, leading to a hate-filled voice mail to Harmon. |
| 86 | ** Not to say that Chase wasn't acting this way to just the creator/writers. In 2018, Creator/DonaldGlover stated that the actor had made racist jokes to him, among which he said that "People think you're funnier because you're black." |
| 87 | ** For Harmon's part, Megan Ganz, one of the show's writers, accused him in 2018 of sexually harassing her on set. Harmon admitted the accusations were true and apologized. |
| 88 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Creator/ThomasGibson got fired after he fought one of the episode writers while filming Season 12. As a result, Aaron Hotchner left the BAU and was PutOnABus. |
| 89 | * The ''Series/{{Cybill}}'' set was not a happy place for most of the cast and crew, by their own accounts due to star Creator/CybillShepherd's behavior. Writer Alan Ball mainly stuck around for the money and later admitted he had zero respect for the show's star. As for the cast, Creator/AlanRosenberg described it as the worst job he ever had, Creator/AliciaWitt confirmed there was a fair amount of tension on the set, while the experience led Creator/PeterKrause to consider quitting acting altogether. Creator/ChristineBaranski has largely kept her mouth shut, though Liz Smith did once report that Baranski claimed she'd someday reveal how "bad" Shepherd was. Allegedly, much of the hostility stemmed from Baranski's MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}} win, while Shepherd herself lost. Many believe that was the catalyst which led to Shepherd having Creator/ChuckLorre fired, and subsequently assuming more creative control to look after her own self-interest. |
| 90 | * Although the cast of ''Series/DadsArmy'' generally got on well with each other, there were problems between some actors: |
| 91 | ** Creator/JohnLaurie intensely disliked Creator/ArnoldRidley, often needling him about his advanced age and frailty (although Laurie was only a year younger than Ridley). Laurie was also irritated that Ridley was let off from some of the more strenuous aspects of filming, while he was not. On the other hand, Creator/IanLavender would recall them having deep conversations based on a CommonalityConnection; how horrific they'd found the ''[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First]]'' [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI World War]]. |
| 92 | ** Laurie generally made no secret of his feelings that the material was beneath him and resented the fact that "this crap" was all the public knew him for, complaining that he had once been one of the most prolific Shakespearean stage actors, appeared opposite Creator/LaurenceOlivier and acted for Creator/AlfredHitchcock during the interwar period. He also didn't hold much regard for David Croft and Jimmy Perry, at one point calling them "damned nearly illiterate" to their faces and threatening to phone in his performance if they wrote him a small part. |
| 93 | ** Creator/ArthurLowe and Creator/CliveDunn didn't get on due to the two men's personal politics (Lowe was a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party whereas Dunn was an enthusiastic and committed socialist). |
| 94 | ** Several cast members took exception when Dunn, a friend and supporter of Prime Minister UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson, was appointed an OBE when none of the other main actors were similarly honoured. |
| 95 | ** Creator/BillPertwee claimed that he was looked down on by some of the other actors because of his background in variety rather than "serious" theatre. |
| 96 | ** Lowe's refusal to take scripts home with him ("I'm not having that rubbish in the house") also rankled with his co-stars, as it meant he could never remember his lines. |
| 97 | ** Creator/JamesBeck used to enjoy riling up Croft after a few gin and tonics by saying that he wouldn't say certain lines in the script, only stopping his joking when Croft would threaten to cancel his contract. |
| 98 | * ''Series/DesigningWomen'': |
| 99 | ** Creator/DeltaBurke publicly feuded not only with the show's creators, Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, due to long hours, labor disputes, and the direction of the show, she also feuded with co-star and on-screen sister Creator/DixieCarter due to her repeatedly siding with the Thomasons over her. This all culminated in her firing, but she did eventually make up with all three of them (though she and Carter didn't speak for ten years). |
| 100 | ** A more minor example came with Carter, who was a staunch libertarian while Bloodworth-Thomason was an equally staunch liberal, with Carter's character Julia Sugarbaker serving as [[AuthorAvatar a mouthpiece for Bloodworth-Thomason's politics]] who regularly goes on [[AuthorFilibuster fiery political rants]]. They soon came to a deal: every time Carter had to deliver a monologue that she disagreed with, she got to [[TheCastShowoff sing on air]] in a future episode. (Carter did wind up supporting UsefulNotes/BillClinton later on, though.) |
| 101 | * ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' star Creator/TeriHatcher did not get along well with her co-stars, and it got to the point that [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2141549/Desperate-Housewives-feud-finally-open-Teri-Hatchers-left-off-crews-farewell-gift-cast.html her name was absent on the stars' farewell gift to the crew]]. |
| 102 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' is one of the most candidly-documented shows ever, but most actors still insist that they all got along famously. There are only a handful of cases of people admitting the opposite: |
| 103 | ** Creator/MichaelCraze, who played Ben, one of Creator/WilliamHartnell's last two companions, has said that Hartnell was extremely nasty to both him and Creator/AnnekeWills (Polly), the third regular cast member at the time. This was probably partly due to Hartnell's dementia and partly to him being unhappy about his impending departure from the show. Hartnell also had a poor working relationship with producer Creator/JohnWiles, whose attempts to make the show DarkerAndEdgier didn't go over well with Hartnell who as the sole remaining member of the original team saw himself as the guardian of the series' original values. When Wiles' attempts to remove the star were unsuccessful, he removed the actors who played Vicki and Steven Taylor, his co-stars Creator/MaureenOBrien and Creator/PeterPurves (the latter revealed that he has no fond memories of Wiles). |
| 104 | ** Creator/PatrickTroughton and Creator/JonPertwee reportedly did not get on during the making of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", due to a clash of acting styles. (Troughton's tendency to ad-lib whenever he thought he could improve on the script unsettled Pertwee, who preferred to play the part as written.) Creator/TerranceDicks remembered this and wrote "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" so that the two of them wouldn't share a scene until the big final confrontation between everyone, which ended up upsetting both actors, who had become friends later through doing {{fan convention}}s together. |
| 105 | ** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LouiseJameson, who played Leela, have admitted that they got on very badly, because Jameson couldn't put up with Baker's ego, while Baker didn't think that the Doctor should be tolerating Leela's PsychoSidekick tendencies and allowed his dislike for the character to bleed into his treatment of her actress. He did soften to her eventually and they buried the hatchet enough to record audio plays together. |
| 106 | ** Baker clashed with his second producer Creator/GrahamWilliams over his demand for greater creative control. After season sixteen, their conflict escalated to the point where both of them threatened to resign. This was eventually settled when when Williams advised Head of Drama Shaun Sutton that Baker was bluffing, which he was. |
| 107 | ** There were also periods of virulent feuding between Baker and Creator/LallaWard, who played the second incarnation of Romana, but that was down to the up-and-down progress of their RomanceOnTheSet. (Once asked by an interviewer who was the worst monster she had faced on the show, Ward promptly replied "Tom Baker", which in turn [[ActuallyPrettyFunny amused]] Baker when he heard about it.) To this day, Baker and Ward have never recorded a [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish Audio]] in the same room, despite having appeared together in dozens of them. Both Baker and Ward reportedly did not get on with Creator/MatthewWaterhouse, because they thought he was incompetent and didn't like the concept of his character. Creator/JanetFielding and Creator/SarahSutton both found Baker intimidating. |
| 108 | ** In a weird example, while Creator/TomBaker got along fine with Creator/JohnLeeson, the voice of [=K9=], he was hostile to the [=K9=] prop itself for being slow, awkward and breaking down constantly - an admittedly common complaint behind the scenes (Creator/DouglasAdams being prone to putting jabs in the script referring to the little robot heading off at "what passes for top speed", for example). |
| 109 | ** [[https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/yoursay/opinion/look/10038017.jimmy-savile-was-cold-and-patronising/ Recalling the filming]] of "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix with Sontarans]]" after Creator/JimmySavile was exposed as [[DepravedKidsShowHost a sexual predator]], Creator/ColinBaker described Savile's demeanour as "[[ThePrimaDonna neither friendly, nor inclusive]]" and "creepy and patronising", and the working environment as "[[ControlFreak very much his territory and his agenda]]". |
| 110 | ** In [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140321181338/http://benjamincook.net/writing/doctor-who-magazine/interviews-and-articles/paul-mcgann-daphne-ashbrook this interview]], Creator/PaulMcGann and Creator/DaphneAshbrook have nothing but nice things to say about almost everything about [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]]... except Creator/EricRoberts, who was apparently standoffish, rude (making personal remarks about [=McGann=] being "effeminate"), and sometimes "amazingly bad". |
| 111 | ** Creator/JohnBarrowman revealed that he didn't get on with Creator/ChristopherEccleston: |
| 112 | --->Chris was always grumpy. You don't always have to be intense. There comes a point when intensity makes you miserable - I think that was the case with Chris. I much prefer working with Creator/{{David|Tennant}} - he likes to have a bit more fun, he's more charismatic as a person. Chris might have been a great Doc but he was darker and had a chip on his shoulder, he was not as much fun on set as David. I will give him the credit that he was the first Doctor to bring back the series and made a damn good job of it. But I just wouldn't go to the pub with him. On the other hand, David's been to my house, we went to the Music/{{Madonna}} concert with our partners - we socialise together. He's a lot more fun. |
| 113 | ** Eccleston for his part claimed that he didn't enjoy the onset environment due to conflicts with certain people behind the scenes. In a series of 2018 interviews with ''Radio Times'', he claims that his working relationship with Creator/RussellTDavies broke down during filming on the series; since Eccleston was known primarily for his serious dramatic roles, he wasn't entirely comfortable in a more light-hearted series. He also claims that he was blacklisted by certain powers that be at Creator/TheBBC for a few years, for leaving the show, and he had to work in America until there was a "regime change". He said that, as a result, he will never work with Davies again because, despite his promise to not to say anything that might ruin the fledgling revival's reputation, he was still blacklisted. Davies either supported it, or did nothing to help Eccleston out. When it was announced that Eccleston would appear in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' which Davies has no involvement with, Eccleston gave this quote to the press release: "Forget producers, forget politics – here are real people who have seen me do my stuff and want to shake my hand". |
| 114 | ** Creator/TomBaker [[http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a860547/doctor-who-50th-special-tom-baker-matt-smith/ claimed]] that he was mostly ignored on the set of "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", with the exception of Creator/MattSmith, whom he got on very well with. |
| 115 | ** Creator/StevenMoffat reportedly had a fractuous relationship with producer Caroline Skinner. This reached breaking point during season seven when she resigned following a blazing row with Moffat. |
| 116 | ** This may have been the cause of ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'''s notorious car-crash interview with Clive Swift (guest character Mr. Copper in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]"), in which Swift is clearly not interested in engaging with such an interview, and ends up expressing contempt for the interviewer, the magazine, the show and the fans. Benjamin Cook, the aforementioned interviewer, would later refer to claims that Swift had been "a sod" on set, suggesting that the production team had therefore approved the interview ''because'' they knew he didn't want to do it. Davies later said he regretted doing so, noting that when you employ an actor you should have a duty of care to them. |
| 117 | * On the later seasons of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Creator/JulianFellowes' tendency to do rewrites on set, with most of the actors having to remain in their tight Edwardian costumes under hot lights as spoiling dinner food fouled the air, did not endear him to many of the main cast. Others had also been alienated by his vindictive tendency to have minor characters killed off offscreen when the actors were too busy doing other work to come back to the show. By the end of the series many were swearing they'd never work with him again.[[note]]Although some did for [[Film/DowntonAbbey the 2019 movie]][[/note]] |
| 118 | * ''Series/Dynasty1981'': |
| 119 | ** Creator/JoanCollins and Creator/JohnForsythe didn't get along, which added a lot to their characters' volatile relationship. Ironically, she got on fine with Creator/LindaEvans. |
| 120 | ** Creator/GeorgePeppard was the original Blake Carrington, but producers found him so difficult to work with that he was replaced with John Forsythe. He would eventually end up starring on [[Series/TheATeam another popular 80s show]] and also dealt with similar issues there as well. |
| 121 | * ''Series/{{ER}}'': |
| 122 | ** Creator/NoahWyle (John Carter) and Creator/KellieMartin (Lucy Knight) did not get along, resulting in her character not being used very much or developed (once he nixed plans for her to be his girlfriend) [[note]]To be fair, he also [[JerkassHasAPoint truthfully pointed out]] that such a relationship would be inappropriate (because she was a student) and out of character for Carter.[[/note]] and her deciding to leave the show. |
| 123 | ** Wyle's attitude apparently also affected other co-stars. Reportedly, when Wyle once complained about the buffet for cast and crew, Creator/GoranVisnjic (Luka Kovac) snapped "How dare you complain about this food when there are people all over the world who would give their lives for a fraction of what you have!" (Apparently this was due to the Croatian Višnjić's experiences as a veteran of UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars.) |
| 124 | * Multiple cast and crew members of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' got along poorly with Creator/FrankLangella, reportedly due to his conduct with others on and off-set being highly inappropriate and offensive (which Langella defended as jokes). Many people reportedly felt uncomfortable around him and Ruth Codd outright left the set in the middle of filming a sex scene due to Langella's behaviour towards her. It was bad enough that Langella was [[RoleEndingMisdemeanour booted off the show]] midway through filming and [[TheOtherMarty replaced]] with Creator/BruceGreenwood; Creator/KateSiegel stated in a podcast interview there was "palpable relief from everyone" over the recasting and that Greenwood, comparatively, behaved respectfully and professionally. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | * ''Series/FamilyMatters'': The reason youngest child Judy infamously [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome vanished out of existence]] in the fourth season was because actress Jaimee Foxworth didn't get along with Steve Urkel's actor Creator/JaleelWhite. Foxworth talked on Website/{{Facebook}} about one incident where White berated her ''in front of the studio audience'' when she forgot her line. As a result, the characters didn't interact much, and as Steve became the show's big draw, Judy had less and less to do, leading to her unceremonious exit. |
| 127 | * ''Series/FantasyIsland'': Creator/RicardoMontalban and Creator/HerveVillechaize didn't get along, and the former's disdain for the latter is ''very'' often seen in the show itself. Montalbán didn't bother hiding his annoyance during their scenes. (A ''Bloom County'' comic strip at the time suggested Montalbán's fantasy was for Tattoo to drive a 1982 Chrysler Cordoba off a cliff.) Villechaize eventually demanded to be paid as much as Montalbán and was subsequently fired. |
| 128 | * The premise of the French sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''[[note]] ''The Girls Next Door'' [[/note]] was a trio of women getting back together after failed marriages and sharing an apartment as single girls-about-town. Despite the fact that the characters are best friends, there was an awful lot of not-so-pleasant chirping between the three principal actresses off-stage. It didn't help that the producer Jean-Luc Azoulay is a dictatorial ControlFreak, and an insane production schedule calling for at least three (and sometimes four) completed episodes a week and filming could often drag on till the early hours of the following morning. |
| 129 | ** Helene le Moignic (Magalie), the only one of the trio not to come from a "proper" acting background in film, TV and theatre, claimed that she was frozen out and snubbed straight away by co-star Cécile Auclert (Fanny), who considered it beneath her dignity to speak to the amateur upstart. It did not help that Magalie was considered to be the plum role and Auclert had really wanted this part rather than Fanny. Le Moignic alleges Auclert took out this resentment on her continually, and used her clout with the producers to have scripts rewritten at the last minute so that Fanny got more punchlines and more screen-time. Le Moignic also alleged that the third star, Christiane Jean (Claire), could be amenable if Auclert was not around but tended to side with her like a spineless schoolgirl sucking up to the AlphaBitch. Neither Auclert nor Jean have spoken publicly about any alleged rows on set, but both have conceded that time spent on this show was not happy, and it contributed to a disillusionment with TV acting.[[note]]Auclert in particular, rather than speaking on her time on this particular show or on any clashes with other people involved in it, has spoken more about her "disappointment" at being written out of TV shows in general, abruptly and without explanation, as well as of broken promises made by producers and directors. She too no longer works or has any desire to work in TV, saying: "I live as a hermit in 33 square metres of Marseilles but what the hell, I'm free."[[/note]] As of May 2018, [[CreatorBreakdown le Moignic is on probation for violent assault on her partner]] and has been advised to seek anger-management therapy. |
| 130 | ** Supporting actress Dan Simkovitch (Georgette Bellefeuille) described Christiane Jean as bring cold and distant but always polite. She notes a gulf between the core cast and the supporting actors, and said it took le Moignic the best part of three months even to say "hello" to her. "There was something wrong about her" she said. Simkovitch says pay and working conditions were appalling, and alleges that after an accident on set (involving a negligently assembled set and unsecured props) requiring medical attention and which put her in a wheelchair for a short period, her pay was docked for non-attendance and the producers gave her an ultimatum - come in to do your job, even in a wheelchair, or you are sacked. No asking after her health and certainly no sick pay - just "work or be sacked". She was employed by the day and had no long-term contract or job security, and strongly feels she was exploited - especially since she was having difficulties with the Social Security administration and needed the work. She also highlighted the insane production schedule - four days a week, notionally from 8:00 am to 10:00pm but often longer, for four days a week, together with the fact she often did not receive her script until the very last minute - as factors that made the show such a treadmill. She also feels she was singled out for workplace bullying because of her trade union membership and left-wing politics - not liked at all by Azoulay, and that this resulted in her sacking. In an interview, she likened the AB production studios to a concentration camp for actors and described dreams about the studios being surrounded by barbed-wire fences and watchtowers. She is also in dispute with AB over royalties and residuals owing to her from video and UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} releases, as well as from re-runs on national TV, and has not received a centime. |
| 131 | ** It appears Thierry Redler, who played the abominable Marc, was universally liked by all his co-stars. Nobody appears to have a bad word to say about him and his young co-star Vincent Latorre (who played Claire's brattish son) was especially appreciative of how Redler put himself out to be supportive, friendly, and something of a mentor to the young teenage boy on set. Latorre describes Redler as unselfish and one who thought of his own needs last of all. Dan Simkovitch also spoke warmly of both him and Gérard Vives (Gérard). |
| 132 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', like the aforementioned ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', also reportedly suffered from Creator/JossWhedon's [[PrimaDonnaDirector Prima Donna Showrunner]] tendencies. Writer Jose Melina [[https://deadline.com/2021/02/more-speak-out-against-buffy-producer-joss-whedon-1234693460/ stated]] that Whedon treated the show's writing staff like dirt and thought it was funny to be mean to them, with the female writers singled out for the worst of it. According to him, Whedon would boast of an incident where he made one of his writers cry twice during a meeting. |
| 133 | * Creator/AlfonsoRibeiro confirmed that the whole cast of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' was like one big family, except for [[Creator/JanetHubert Janet Hubert-Whitten]], who was difficult to work with and toxic to be around, and really killed the mood on set. This was further corroborated by Creator/JamesAvery in a June 2013 edition of ''omg! Insider'', in which he remarked that he constantly had to remind Hubert-Whitten that the show was ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', not "''Philip and Vivian of Bel-Air''." She was allegedly fired from the show due her conflict with Creator/WillSmith which lasted all the way to 2020, where they finally buried the hatchet when the cast came together for a reunion special celebrating 30 years of the show. |
| 134 | ** Creator/TatyanaAli is said to have been very doubtful of Will's acting potential during the earliest episodes of the show, saying that he constantly messed up his lines. Because of this, there was slight tension between them while on set. |
| 135 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 136 | ** Creator/JenniferAniston's real-life fiancé Creator/TateDonovan was cast as Rachel's boyfriend, but their relationship deteriorated during his run and they broke up both on the show and in real life. Donovan outright said the experience was awful. |
| 137 | ** Subverted with the rumor that guest star Creator/ReeseWitherspoon supposedly didn't get along with Jennifer Aniston; [[https://www.eonline.com/news/1026911/inside-jennifer-aniston-and-reese-witherspoon-s-sweet-history-of-fangirling-and-friendship it wasn't true]] in the slightest, and Witherspoon and Aniston [[FriendshipOnTheSet became good friends instead]]. Depending on who you ask, she couldn't return either due to her film commitments, or because she wasn't comfortable with the filming process for a three-camera sitcom -- but either way, it had nothing to do with Aniston, and the two would reunite for ''Series/TheMorningShow'' years later. |
| 138 | ** Creator/PaulRudd much later confessed that he felt out of place on the show, being brought in very late in the series to be Phoebe's successful romantic interest. Recognizing this, in the GrandFinale he tried to be funny by saying things like "We made it, guys!" Since everyone else was emotionally distraught with the ending of the show, it didn't go over very well. |
| 139 | ** Creator/KathleenTurner, who played Chandler's father, said that she found the main cast not welcoming, calling them a "clique". She recalled one time when she was wearing a difficult gown and her high heels were "killing" her, and found it odd that none of them thought to offer her a seat, before one of the older crew members did so. She credited it on them being "such a tight little group that nobody from the outside mattered", though she did however "respect the camaraderie they had." |
| 140 | * ''Series/FullHouse'': Creator/BobSaget and Creator/JohnStamos initially didn't get along when the show first started. Stamos was said to have taken the acting seriously, while Saget had the tendency to make any person laugh. It was said the clashing styles didn't really lead the two to get along at first. They would work out their differences eventually by finding common ground and the two would become very good friends later on. When Saget died in 2022, Stamos appeared to be the most devastated amongst the cast members who publicly shared their grief. |
| 141 | * Before ever being part of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Creator/JeromeFlynn (Bronn) and Creator/LenaHeadey (Queen Cersei) were in a relationship that did not end well. As a result, it's rumored that the two had it written into their contracts that they wouldn't ever have to share a scene and are never on the set at the same time in order to prevent any hostility from occurring. There are lots of scenes on the show where one of their characters conveniently exits the scene just before the other enters. Normally it isn't too noticeable until Season 8, when Cersei hires Bronn to go North to assassinate [[spoiler: her brothers]]... with Qyburn as the middleman. You'd think that for something so deeply personal, Cersei would have spoken with Bronn herself. However, Flynn [[https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/game-of-thrones-jerome-flynn-feud-lena-heady_uk_5d2b070fe4b02a5a5d5c51be debunked]] reports that he and Headey weren't on speaking terms in a 2019 Q&A. |
| 142 | * While the rest of the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' cast got along famously well, Creator/TinaLouise (Ginger) did not. She felt the show was beneath her and feared it would keep her from [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra doing Shakespeare on stage as she really wanted]]. This attitude did not endear her to the rest of the cast; as a result (egged on by [[http://www.gilligansisle.com/4th.html a popular fansite on the early internet]]) it was long-rumored that she would have been written off in the hastily-canceled fourth season. But [[https://jacksonupperco.com/2020/10/14/debunking-a-gilligans-island-myth/ this has been debunked]]; Tina was asked directly and although (as always) she made no secret of her disdain for the show, she had every intention of coming back for a fourth season. |
| 143 | * On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Creator/LeaMichele played the [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna theater brat]] Rachel Berry, and by all accounts, her character's bad attitude was [[LifeImitatesArt a pretty good reflection of her real-life personality]]. |
| 144 | ** Creator/NayaRivera confirmed in her biography that she didn't get along with Michele, to the point where they were not on speaking terms by Season 6. However, she also added that the rumors of their feud were blown out of proportion. |
| 145 | ** Samantha Marie Ware (who played Jane Hayward in Season 6) was not nearly so diplomatic, accusing Michele of making her life a "living hell" on set. Michele tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was the last straw for Ware (who is Black), who called Michele a {{hypocrite}} and accused her of subjecting her to routine racist abuse on set, including claiming that she'd "shit in [her] wig". Ware claimed that she almost quit Hollywood because of her experience. Shortly after, several of Michele's co-stars from ''Glee'' and other projects she'd worked on all [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lea-michele-has-been-terrorizing-people-since-she-was-12-years-old-say-former-castmates chimed in]] to support Ware's accusations, with some of them adding their own horror stories of working with Michele and even those defending her from some of the worst charges admitting that she was unpleasant to work with. |
| 146 | ** As for the rest of the cast, both Creator/RyanMurphy and Marti Noxon have said that many of the male actors on the show did not get along with each other and that some of them also acted like bullies, but that it never got as much attention as the reports of Michele's diva behavior. |
| 147 | * Creator/TerryScott (well known for being difficult to work with) was a nightmare behind the scenes of ''Series/TheGnomesOfDulwich'', emptying sets by raging at how intolerable the conditions of making the series were. He later remarked that people wanted to shoot him after filming, while he only wanted to shoot himself. |
| 148 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Creator/BeaArthur reportedly did not get along with her co-stars very well. Creator/BettyWhite admitted that they did not have a good relationship, and that Bea found Betty's optimism annoying. Creator/RueMcClanahan has said she didn't have a relationship with Bea either, despite the fact that they had worked together before on ''Series/{{Maude}}'', calling her very eccentric. With the exception of Betty and Rue, the cast weren't really friends. That said, all four maintained that they respected each other professionally and worked well together regardless of any personal differences. |
| 149 | * ''Series/GoodTimes'': Creator/JimmieWalker (JJ) often clashed with the actors playing his onscreen parents, Creator/JohnAmos (James) and Creator/EstherRolle (Florida), as they felt his slapstick comedy reeked of UncleTomfoolery. However, Walker had the producers on his side, who encouraged his [[CharacterCatchphrase dy-no-mite]] behavior because JJ had become the show's BreakoutCharacter. As a result, Amos was released from his contract in the third season due to his disagreements, with the explanation that James [[DroppedABridgeOnHim died offscreen]]. Rolle, having lost her ally in the cast, left the show after the fourth season, her own disappearance explained as her [[PutOnABus remarrying and moving to Arizona]] with her new husband. When ratings sank due to viewers feeling the show had JumpedTheShark without its two original leads, the producers begged Rolle to come back, but one of her demands was for JJ to grow up and become the man of the house. The producers acquiesced, but Rolle and Walker had a chilly relationship for the remainder of the series. Even when Rolle passed away in 1998, Walker was the only former ''Good Times'' castmember not to attend her funeral. |
| 150 | * Another notorious example was the dislike between Creator/JuliannaMargulies and Archie Panjabi during later seasons of ''Series/TheGoodWife'', which led to them refusing to be on set together to the point that a pivotal scene in the SeriesFinale had to be created using green-screen. |
| 151 | ** This has ''never'' been confirmed by anyone involved in the show, least of all the two actresses. But [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/kalinda-and-alicia-relationship-on-the-good-wife fans noticed]] that for the last two seasons, despite having reconciled to their original best-friends status after their characters grew distant, the two characters were never seen talking to each other in the same room. The green-screen was explained by the creators as necessitated by Panjabi's schedule, only for her to immediately contradict that on Website/{{Twitter}}. |
| 152 | * ''Series/GraceUnderFire''[='=]s cast suffered from Creator/BrettButler's antics: |
| 153 | ** The rumor that most persistently dogs the show (it was never officially confirmed by the actor - possibly as the result of a non-disclosure agreement - but is widely considered credible) is that Brett Butler flashed Jon Paul Steuer, then a ''12-year-old'' child actor playing her son, after she had gotten breast implants. She apparently showed off her new breasts to just about everyone on set, but she probably should have drawn the line at her underage co-stars. As a result, Steuer's parents pulled him out of the show after the third season, with the studio quietly paying off the remaining two years of his contract in lieu of the incident being made ''officially'' public (or to prevent a costly and embarrassing lawsuit). Steuer had to quit acting afterwards, because whenever he would try out for a part all anyone would want to talk to him about were his experiences working with Butler.[[note]]As an adult he became a musician and then a restaurateur before he tragically committed suicide in 2018 at the age of 33.[[/note]] |
| 154 | ** Creator/JulieWhite, who played Grace's best friend Nadine, left the show in disgust at her antics at the end of the following season, necessitating a separation between her now-absent character Nadine and her husband Wade, played by Creator/CaseySander (who stayed behind). As had been the case with Steuer, White saw the remaining year of her contract paid up despite her departure. |
| 155 | ** Not to say that the writers got off easy. Creator/ChuckLorre probably thought creating his own show would insulate him from ThePrimaDonna antics of his star like what he had faced over on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. (He probably should have talked to Matt Williams first...) He faced CreativeDifferences with Butler almost instantly and the studio sided with her over him, so he was out by the end of the second season. Lorre, undeterred, dusted himself off and created ''Series/{{Cybill}}'', presumably thinking that a washed-up has-been like Creator/CybillShepherd wouldn't give him any trouble. (Should have talked to [[Series/{{Moonlighting}} Glenn Cordon Caron]] first...) |
| 156 | * ''Series/GrowingPains'' suffered through this after Creator/KirkCameron became a born-again Christian in the middle of Season 3. Immediately thereafter, he began alienating most of the cast and crew with his HolierThanThou attitude. |
| 157 | ** Cameron got into frequent clashes with the writers for adding even the slightest bit of innuendo in the scripts, and many of the lines Cameron refused to say ended up being transferred to other cast members, primarily Creator/JeremyMiller, who played Cameron's younger brother. |
| 158 | ** Cameron also used his reputation as the ''de facto'' star as leverage to fire those he had issues with. Most notably, Cameron's mother, who was also his agent, pressured the producers to fire Julie [=McCullough=], a former ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' model from the show or else he wouldn't renew his contract. [=McCullough=] claims she was specifically targeted because of her ''Playboy'' past, though Cameron denied it. Finally, the producers had enough and demanded to [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] executives that they fire Cameron; the network refused and the producers quit. |
| 159 | ** Eventually, Cameron cut all ties with his TV family; he refused to invite them to his wedding, and Creator/TraceyGold refused to invite Cameron to hers, suspecting that Cameron wouldn't attend. It wasn't until the ''Growing Pains'' reunion movie in 2000 that he ended up making contact with them again, and owned up to his past behavior. |
| 160 | * Creator/LeonardRoberts hoped that the role of D.L. Hawkins on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' would be his StarMakingRole, but instead, it [[https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/heroes-leonard-roberts-ali-larter-1234854439/ "nearly broke him."]] Much of it came down to friction with his co-star Creator/AliLarter, who played his character's wife Niki Sanders, and the indifference shown to it by {{Showrunner}} Tim Kring. D.L. and Niki were portrayed as being in a fraught relationship, and this was reflected in Roberts and Larter's interactions, with Larter often dismissing and belittling Roberts and feeling uncomfortable shooting intimate scenes with him. The fact that Larter was white and Roberts was Black also added a racial dimension to their hostility, especially since she had no such reservations about shooting a similar, more explicit scene where she seduces her white co-star Creator/AdrianPasdar. Other people who had worked on ''Heroes'' reported that Larter was a divisive presence in general, and got along poorly with several people on set. During production, ''Magazine/TVGuide'' published [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/missed-32131/ a blind item]] reporting hostility between two unnamed opposite-sex co-stars to the point where their scenes together had been cut down, and Roberts not only confirmed that it was about him and Larter, he mentions bringing it up with producer Dennis Hammer, who simply assured him that they were taking care of it. When Roberts learned that two other non-white characters, [[spoiler:Isaac and Simone]], were due to be [[BlackDudeDiesFirst killed off]], he started getting nervous about the fate of D.L., culminating in him being pulled into Kring's office with Hammer before the start of production on season 2. There, he was told plainly that the "Ali Larter situation" had led to D.L. being [[BusCrash killed off between seasons]]. The stress of his experience working on ''Heroes'' dealt a serious blow to his career; only in 2017 did he land another major role, as Ray Stabler on ''Series/{{Mom}}''. |
| 161 | * ''Series/HiDeHi'': |
| 162 | ** Creator/BarryHoward turned to drink as the show went on and he got more and more unhappy with his role. Jimmy Perry kept giving him chances to improve but grew frustrated with Howard's behaviour, especially when Howard pushed one of the Yellowcoat girls into the pool during the filming of Series 7. Howard was let go at the end of that series. |
| 163 | ** Creator/DavidGriffin didn't have a particularly happy time on set. While his castmates weren't nasty to him, they would constantly bring up Creator/SimonCadell (who Griffin had replaced when he chose to leave), making it hard for Griffin to fit in with the rest of the cast. |
| 164 | ** Creator/LindaRegan got on the bad side of David Croft during the rehearsals for "Man Trap"; she was scripted to slap Creator/JeffreyHolland, but felt bad and didn't want to do it, making Croft madder and madder each time. On the night, however, Regan didn't hold back and cracked Holland one harder than anyone was expecting, much to her horror afterward. |
| 165 | * One of the many aspects of the TroubledProduction of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'' was the ongoing dispute between Creator/DouglasAdams and producer Alan Bell. Adams thought that Bell, a Light Entertainment man, just didn't get science fiction, while Bell thought Adams didn't get the realities of television and kept coming up with unfilmable ideas. (He also claimed that the best television was made like this, and when everyone got on it was a disaster.) Adams also claimed the actors (and indeed the tea-lady, but that's probably comic licence) didn't get on with Bell either, and Mark Wing-Davey at least has said he always felt like Bell resented the radio actors getting first refusal on the roles. |
| 166 | * In an interview long after ''Series/HomeImprovement'' ended, Creator/PatriciaRichardson said that it was ultimately her decision that lead led to the show ending. The full story was that she needed to focus on her family and refused any amounts of money offered to her for a ninth season; Creator/TimAllen in turn wanted to play Tim Taylor forever and tried to convince her otherwise. But when the network execs started pitching a "[[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Jill dies, show continues on]]" approach, [[TrueCompanions Allen sided with Richardson and made the decision to end the show]]. Despite remaining on good terms, Richardson said she felt Allen quietly resented her for having to make that decision. |
| 167 | * Vivian Vance and Creator/WilliamFrawley, who played Ethel and Fred Mertz on ''Series/ILoveLucy'', despised one another. The contempt grew to such extremes that Vance would often memorize her scripts just to see how much screen time she had with Frawley. Frawley was reportedly furious with Vance for turning down an opportunity to make a Fred and Ethel spinoff after the conclusion of the series. Legend has it that Vance, upon hearing that Frawley was dead, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing ordered Champagne]] for the entire restaurant she was in. Despite the hostilities, both were said to be true professionals on the set and were noted for their amazing chemistry with each other on screen, to the point that when it first came out, fans of the show could not believe it. That being said, part of why they worked on screen together was in part because the pair played an embodiment of LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. |
| 168 | * No one was expecting Creator/MichaelBates, who was suffering from cancer at the time, to return for Series 5 of ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', so David Croft didn't include him in a picture for the front cover of the ''Radio Times'' alongside his costars, Creator/WindsorDavies, Creator/MelvynHayes, and Creator/DonEstelle. Bates did end up returning and was understandably furious at his absence, but never voiced his opinion on the matter. |
| 169 | * ''Series/ItsAwfullyBadForYourEyesDarling'': |
| 170 | ** Writer Jilly Cooper recalls how her scripts constantly being picked apart and redone led to many rows which often left her crying. |
| 171 | ** The script doctor, Christopher Bond, clashed with David Croft over his rewrites, so Croft and Jeremy Lloyd withdrew from their writing duties after three episodes. |
| 172 | * John Stevenson, who wrote and created ''Series/TheLastOfTheBaskets'', didn't have the best relationship with his star, Creator/ArthurLowe, who thought he was above Stevenson. |
| 173 | * ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'': |
| 174 | ** According to Creator/PeterSallis, the series almost didn't get off the ground because of this. The original trio consisted of him, Creator/BillOwen, and Creator/MichaelBates. Before filming the cast went out for dinner and Bates and Owen got into a blazing row about politics (Bates being very Conservative, Owen being very left-wing). It got so bad that the producer had to come in and read them the Riot Act. For the sake of the series, they agreed to never talk about politics again. |
| 175 | ** Unfortunately, this was repeated with Creator/Brian Wilde, as he too was a Conservative, albeit of a milder stamp than Michael Bates. This lead to them sitting in different areas of the crew bus, Owen chatting amiably with the driver at the front, Wilde sitting on his own in the middle, and Sallis entertaining the rest of the crew at the back of the bus. Sallis said that even he, who got on reasonably well with both, would occasionally be ragged about for his own political views - Sallis was a lifelong Liberal, and at times, actually a party member. |
| 176 | ** Tom Owen apparently had a very poor relationship with co-star Creator/KathyStaff, claiming in a newspaper interview, that she constantly criticised and complained about him to other cast members behind his back. |
| 177 | * In ''Series/LawAndOrder'', this happened often in the show's early years: |
| 178 | ** Creator/GeorgeDzundza disliked commuting from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles to shoot in UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}} and bristled at the show's focus on the ensemble over its leads (namely, him). This didn't endear him to said ensemble and he left after the first season. Allegedly he and his onscreen partner Creator/ChrisNoth had a particular antipathy which, fortunately, [[EnforcedMethodActing added depth and realism to the squabbles between their characters]]. His replacement, Creator/PaulSorvino, got along better with the cast but had trouble keeping up with the show's grueling filming schedule and asked to be released from his contract after just a season and a half. He was replaced by Creator/JerryOrbach. Fortunately, everybody ''loved'' Jerry Orbach, up to and including the ''real'' [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD.]] |
| 179 | ** Noth and Creator/MichaelMoriarty were very displeased by the [[ExecutiveMeddling controversial removal of Dann Florek and Richard Brooks due to]] Creator/{{NBC}} [[ExecutiveMeddling wanting females added on the show]], and their relationships with Creator/DickWolf went downhill as a result. Moriarty also became increasingly hostile to the show's "liberal" political bent (ironically, Wolf supported the presidential campaigns of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and other ''L&O'' cast member Senator Creator/FredThompson, both conservative Republicans), and wasn't pleased when UsefulNotes/BillClinton won the Presidential election in 1992. He constantly and ''very'' publicly attacked US Attorney General Janet Reno, accusing her of actively censoring network television and "forcing" shows like ''Law & Order'' to promote the agenda of the Clinton administration. Moriarty left at the end of the show's fourth season, and vowed never to return unless NBC fired Wolf (which as of this writing, they have yet to do). Tellingly, unlike Florek and Brooks and even Creator/ChrisNoth, all of whom left the show on unpleasant terms, Moriarty has never returned to the franchise, and indeed, his character was [[BusCrash killed offscreen]] on the SpinOff ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' in 2018. |
| 180 | ** Noth stayed on an extra year, partly because he was [[MrFanservice very popular with female viewers]], and partly because unlike Moriarty, he avoided tilting at windmills and focused his ire on Wolf himself. Noth even claimed the show was better with an all-male cast. After his contract was up at the end of the fifth season, Wolf declined to renew it and Noth was fired - and replaced with another MrFanservice in Creator/BenjaminBratt as the new junior detective. However, Noth and Wolf patched things up surprisingly quickly - just three years later Noth's character of Det. Mike Logan returned as the lead character of the only TV movie in the franchise's history, ''Film/ExiledALawAndOrderMovie'', and went on to costar on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' after star Creator/VincentDOnofrio started to experience burnout due to the latter series' grueling schedule. |
| 181 | * ''Series/TheLikelyLads'' co-stars Rodney Bewes and James Bolam had minimal contact from 1977 until Bewes' death in 2017, but although Bewes frequently claimed the rift started after a single incident when he told an interviewer about the intensely private Bolam almost running his car off the road in surprise when his wife, Susan Jameson, told him she was pregnant (when Bewes called Bolam to apologise, Bolam slammed the phone down), while Bolam downplayed the rift entirely, the truth is that Bolam's feelings toward Bewes had been growing sour for years thanks to the latter's inability to keep a secret or to read a room if he was recounting (often exaggerated) personal show business anecdotes to uninterested audiences.[[note]] To illustrate their differing attitudes toward their personal lives, during filming of the original ''Likely Lads'', Bolam shared a London flat with a young musician named Mark Field, and some accounts hold that Field chose the stage name Music/MarcBolan partly in tribute to his flatmate; however, Bolam has never discussed this publicly. By contrast, Bewes took a fleeting meeting with Music/JimiHendrix in the 1960s and expanded it into a frequently repeated claim that Hendrix had played electric guitar for the ''Likely Lads'' theme (which not only featured no guitar, but was composed by Ronnie Hazelhurst before Hendrix moved to England).[[/note]] Although the hostility was fairly one-sided on Bolam's part, his frustration with Bewes' InnocentlyInsensitive nature regarding personal boundaries simmered below the surface throughout filming of ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'' and the 1976 ''Likely Lads'' [[TheMovie feature film]]; rather than being a sudden end to a valued friendship, the 1977 interview incident was instead the straw that broke the camel's back for Bolam. |
| 182 | * It is rumored that Creator/JosephMawle left ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' because of some tension on the set. Apparently, he had many key scenes cut down and he felt disrespected. The only proof for this, is [[https://imgur.com/MPDoT4l?r a deleted Facebook message]] made by the son of one of the actors playing Orcs, Jed Brophy, where he talks about Adar's cut scenes. |
| 183 | * Creator/LorettaYoung carried her SwearJar over to her self-titled show, with one particular incident involving the notoriously foul-mouthed Creator/EthelMerman. According to Music/StephenSondheim, Young kept chastising Merman for letting profanity slip, at the end of the day Merman dug into her purse and handed over a bill, saying "Loretta, here's ten bucks. Now go fuck yourself!" |
| 184 | * ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': According to interviews with both Creator/JordanPeele and Creator/KeeganMichaelKey, cast member Creator/AriesSpears was cold to them and oftentimes difficult to work with. Creator/BobbyLee has also spoken poorly of Spears on his podcast (along with several of his other castmates), and the show even played with {{Kayfabe}} in a season 4 sketch purportedly based on a "real" ''Magazine/TVGuide'' article reporting backstage tensions between Spears and Creator/NicoleSullivan. Spears, for his part, has accused Creator/AlexBorstein of racist remarks. Ironically, Lee, who (given Borstein's popular Ms. Swan character being widely regarded as an Asian caricature) you'd think might ''also'' have a bee in his bonnet about Borstein, remembers her fondly. |
| 185 | * On ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Al and Marcy [[SitcomArchNemesis were archenemies]], and actors Creator/EdONeill and Creator/AmandaBearse weren't much better. Bearse also didn't have the best relationship with Creator/DavidFaustino (Bud), to the point that the two men were the only former castmates [[https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/modern-familys-ed-oneill-had-strained-relationship-lesbian-co-star-previous-sitcom not invited to her wedding]]. During the show's run, Bearse grew increasingly comfortable as a lesbian and began cutting her hair and dressing in a more masculine manner, which O'Neill criticized since her character was straight.[[note]]You can see the evolution of Marcy's appearance in the show. In the early seasons, she had shoulder-length hair and was conventionally feminine, but later on she took a liking to power suits and progressively-shorter hairstyles, which could be interpreted in-universe as her wanting to be taken more seriously as her banking career advanced[[/note]] Although Bearse shared the stage with O'Neill and Faustino during the ''Married... with Children'' reunion special, they tellingly do not interact with each other very much, even though the SitcomArchNemesis relationship between Al and Marcy is one of the most beloved aspects of the show. According to Ed O'Neill, their relationship was so bad that at one point, in front of the entire cast and crew, he reminded her of his position as the undisputed star of the show (as opposed to hers, of a replacable supporting character), by stating that if he wanted to, he could go to the producers and tell them "I can’t work with her. She goes or I go. Who goes?" |
| 186 | * Not long after getting the hosting gig on ''Series/FamilyFeud'', Richard Dawson seemed to become increasingly detached from his role as a panelist on ''Series/MatchGame''. From about 1976 until his departure from ''Match Game'' in 1978, Dawson became increasingly laconic and bitter, often giving blunt one-word answers, refusing to joke around, and at least once, refusing to smile even when host Gene Rayburn all but demanded him to. Dawson ironically later incited this on ''Feud'' itself, as the show's popularity led to him taking on a very self-centered approach, barring the producer from the set, hogging the spotlight with long rambling monologues, and even hiring his son to do some grunt work on the show. ''Feud'' creator Creator/MarkGoodson later remarked that Dawson gave him ''tsoris'' (Yiddish for "trouble") on ''Feud''. |
| 187 | * Creator/MartinLawrence clashed with Creator/TishaCampbell (who played his wife Gina) and Creator/GarrettMorris (his boss Mr. Winters) while making ''Series/{{Martin}}''. Campbell actually left the show in the second half of the fifth season after suing Lawrence for sexual harassment; Gina's absence was usually {{handwave}}d with some line about her being away on business. She only agreed to [[BackForTheFinale come back for the two-part series finale]] after being assured that she wouldn't have to interact with Martin in any way. All of their scenes in the finale were filmed separately, and they only interacted by talking on the phone or yelling from another room. Eventually though, around 2020 Lawrence and Campbell have buried the hatchet and are now friends. Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII has also stated that he and Lawrence didn't get along, which is surprising [[HeterosexualLifePartners considering their onscreen chemistry]]. Ironically, Lawrence did become close with Creator/TichinaArnold, who played his [[SitcomArchEnemy arch-enemy]] Pam on the show, and they remain good friends to this day. |
| 188 | * ''Series/MelrosePlace'': |
| 189 | ** Around Season 4, tensions between cast members and producers were spiking. In particular, Creator/DaphneZuniga, who played photographer Jo Reynolds, was reportedly very unpopular with both the cast and crew and asked to be written out of the show before the season ended. |
| 190 | ** Also around this time and sometime after, many of the female co-stars were unhappy with the preferential treatment of Creator/HeatherLocklear by both producers and the network (particularly with her increased salary over their own). This lead to the eventual resignations of both Creator/LauraLeighton (Sydney) and Creator/CourtneyThorneSmith (Alison), who later resurfaced on fellow Creator/{{Fox}} shows ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' and ''Series/AllyMcBeal'', respectively. |
| 191 | * According to Larry Manetti, during the {{Crossover}} episode of ''Series/MagnumPI'' with ''Series/MurderSheWrote'', Creator/AngelaLansbury did not interact with him at all, and acted as though she was "above" him. |
| 192 | * Creator/DonJohnson and Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos often argued during the first season of ''Series/MiamiVice'' due to their different acting styles. Olmos used his anger towards Johnson for his character in their scenes together. In some episodes, Lt. Castillo never looks at Crockett at all. |
| 193 | * Reportedly on the set of ''Series/{{Moesha}}'', Music/{{Brandy}} and co-star Creator/CountessVaughn, who played her best friend Kim, did not get along. There were stories about how Vaughn would be the subject of numerous fat jokes that everyone except her were aware would be in the script and how Brandy, who even as a teenager, still would have a say over what was to be said, but did nothing out of jealousy over her popularity. There were also stories that Brandy and her on-screen stepmother, Creator/SherylLeeRalph, did not get along, which were more or less confirmed when the former apologized to the latter years after the series ended. |
| 194 | * The onset conflict between Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/CybillShepherd on ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' has been well documented. His success with ''Film/DieHard'' further strained their relationship. He became a major film star, and bristled at being the second-billed actor on a TV series and resented her, blaming her for many of the shooting delays. |
| 195 | * ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''[='=] Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman always tell anyone who will listen that they are not friends. Adam finds Jamie too serious and nitpicky, and Jamie finds Adam too goofy and (especially earlier in the series) sloppy. This being said, they have a fantastic ''working'' relationship, and have a high level of respect for each other, to the point that when producers attempted to inject "drama" into the show by showing more of their disagreements, they both refused, saying that they wanted to be professional, and it was more important to show them working well together ''in spite of'' their personal feelings, rather than playing up the rare moments their frustrations boiled over (which of course can happen even with good friends). |
| 196 | -->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhFGu16EN4 Adam]]:''' We have respect for each other, but we also drive each other absolutely batty. |
| 197 | ** Behind-the-scenes articles, interviews, and books often mention a producer during the show's early seasons that was borderline abusive to much of the cast and widely disliked as a result. None of the Mythbusters have named this producer out of professionalism but the fandom is confident they know who it was. |
| 198 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Creator/PauleyPerrette decided to leave the show after a [[https://www.inquisitr.com/4707701/pauley-perrette-is-reportedly-leaving-ncis-over-mark-harmons-on-set-companion/ falling-out]] with Creator/MarkHarmon. Things degenerated to the point that she refused to be on the set at the same time he was, resulting in Abby and Gibbs having very few scenes together in Season 15, not even in her final episode... at least that's what the network says. [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/pauley-perrette-ncis-exit-multiple-physical-assaults-allegations Perrette has posted on Twitter that her reason for leaving may be due to sexual assault by someone she has yet to name, and accused CBS of lying about the reason to cover it up.]] |
| 199 | * [[Creator/{{ITV}} Granada Television]]'s 1968-73 sitcom ''Nearest and Dearest'' starred Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker as siblings who inherit a pickling business from their late father. It was originally conceived by writers Vince Powell and Harry Driver as a vehicle for Jewel, with Baker placed in a supporting role, but during rehearsals for the third episode, Baker began demanding more screen time and more funny lines, thereby earning Jewel's unending hatred. Both were convinced ''they'' were the real star, and for the rest of the series' run, whether on the small screen, the stage, or the big screen, they undermined each other any way they could. For example, if Baker found herself in the background of shots focusing on Jewel, she would perform visual gags to draw audience attention away from him. Meanwhile, as Baker needed to rely on cue cards for some of her more complicated {{Malaprop|er}}ism-laden lines (an aspect of her character she brought to the series from her stage work, over Jewel's objections), Jewel took to deliberately hiding the objects on which her lines were written to throw her off.[[note]] Baker's struggles to remember her lines on ''Nearest and Dearest'' are now believed to have been an early symptom of dementia, with which she was formally diagnosed in the 1980s.[[/note]] During the stage run, Baker stood outside the theatre on a chair with a tape measure to see if her credit on the poster was higher than Jewel's, and both performers demanded the best dressing room, forcing the theatre to create two identical "best" dressing rooms. By the fifth series, they only communicated through third parties and wouldn't look at each other unless the cameras were rolling. When the final episode aired, Baker threw an end-of-series party, but almost no-one attended, as the cast and crew were drained from the five-year war between her and Jewel and just wanted to move on. |
| 200 | * Creator/MaryFrann didn't have the best time working on ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', with the media ''constantly'' comparing her to her predecessor as Creator/BobNewhart's TV wife, Creator/SuzannePleshette. The cast and crew of ''Newhart'', including Bob himself, didn't seem terribly sympathetic, inviting Pleshette to make a backstage appearance during the filming of the show's first season, which Frann (though brushing it off when the media asked about it) did not appreciate. A surviving blooper showing Bob flubbing a take by referring to Frann's character Joanna as "Emily" got a great reaction from Frann (and the studio audience) but the dramatics of her sauntering off stage and taking her bows do suggest some irritation at even her co-star and onscreen husband failing to recognize her as her own woman. The show's infamous ending, relegating her entire character to having been a dream of [[Series/TheBobNewhartShow Bob Hartley's]], with Emily herself showing up in bed next to him, was the icing on the cake. Pleshette, many years later (and after Frann's too-early death in 1998) acknowledged in a candid interview for the Archive of American Television that she felt bad for Frann having to live and work in her shadow, and claimed to have snuck out of the series finale after-party as it "wasn't [her] house". (Although she apparently hung around for long enough that Creator/LisaKudrow - who played one of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl's wives - was able to meet her.) |
| 201 | * When Creator/JonLovitz joined the cast of ''Series/NewsRadio'' following Creator/PhilHartman's death, he took an instant hatred to Creator/AndyDick, blaming him for Hartman's death by introducing Hartman's wife Brynn Omdahl to cocaine, which resulted in the murder-suicide that resulted in the deaths of Hartman and Omdahl. |
| 202 | * ''Series/NightCourt'': |
| 203 | ** As the show went along, Creator/JohnLarroquette and Creator/RichardMoll grew to despise one another. Moll also couldn't get along with Creator/HarryAnderson after awhile, because Anderson was close with Larroquette. Reasons for the feud tend to boil down to both sides claiming the other was jealous over who was the true "star" of the show. It kept Moll from participating in the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' reunion (Larroquette had a filming commitment with ''Series/BostonLegal'' at the time the show was taped). Moll also [[https://www.tmz.com/2013/01/23/night-court-richard-moll-no-reunion-video/ flatly turned down]] any suggestion that he might participate in [[Series/NightCourt2023 the 2023 reboot.]] |
| 204 | ** Bob Perlow, the show's warm-up guy, has offered a very different explanation for Creator/KarenAustin's departure than the "official" Bell's Palsy story. Perlow claims Austin was very difficult to work with during her brief stint on the show, allegedly jealous over Harry Anderson having a larger and funnier role. Ultimately, Austin's anger caused her to physically attack Anderson, stabbing him with a pencil and throwing hot coffee in his face. Though Perlow did not witness this event, those who did told him security had to drag her out kicking and screaming. Needless to say, she never came back. |
| 205 | ** Also Moll (who was a classically trained actor) had very little patience for the relatively inexperienced actor Anderson, and in general grew increasingly fed up with the ad-libs and goofing around by the other actors on set. |
| 206 | * There was some of this on ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', as revealed in a much later retrospective. According to John Lloyd, the producer, when Creator/RowanAtkinson took control of the VHS compilations, he essentially cut Creator/PamelaStephenson out entirely, and when Lloyd questioned this said he just didn't think she was funny. Griff Rhys Jones has said that he felt it became "The Rowan Atkinson Show", which is why he and Creator/MelSmith decided to move on to ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'' (although this doesn't seem to have been about Atkinson personally, as they were happy to work with him on other projects). |
| 207 | * Creator/ChristopherEccleston revealed in his memoir ''I Love the Bones of You'' that he didn't quite gel with his castmates on ''Series/OurFriendsInTheNorth'': |
| 208 | ** Eccleston described Creator/GinaMcKee as a very private person who didn't socialise, to the extent that he got to know her character rather than her real self. |
| 209 | ** Creator/MarkStrong revealed that for some reason, Eccleston took an immediate dislike to him and when they weren't filming, the two didn't speak to each other throughout the whole year of shooting. Eccleston for his part stated that they mutually disliked each other, as their characters did and suspected that Strong was jealous of him. |
| 210 | ** Strong became close friends with Creator/DanielCraig, which affected Eccleston's relationship with the latter. While they did interact, Eccleston suggested that Craig disliked him. |
| 211 | * Jeremy Gelbwaks, the original actor of youngest brother Chris on ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', didn't get along with Creator/DannyBonaduce (with the latter claiming years later on ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' that he wasn't above kicking him before they would film a scene). He was replaced by Brian Forster, who got along fine with Danny. |
| 212 | * The set of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' was apparently a tense place stemming from Creator/JimCaviezel's personal beliefs and behavior. |
| 213 | ** Caviezel often cornered crew members for minutes, without letting them get a word in or leave to do their work, with passionate rants espousing extreme right-wing views; the crew came to call it "getting sucked into the Cavortex". He also kept bringing up UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler unprompted, even doing crude impressions by combing his hair down like Hitler's and holding a finger to his lip like a mustache. This habit made everyone so uncomfortable, Caviezel's agent had to tell him to cut it out. |
| 214 | ** He tried speaking to an Asian studio executive in mock Chinese. When confronted about this, he insisted he was actually speaking Chinese and excused his behavior by pointing out he'd adopted three children from UsefulNotes/{{China}}. In another incident, he suddenly started speaking to a White writer in mock German for no other reason than that they were both White men on set, causing further unease. |
| 215 | ** He had a tendency to injure guest stars and stunt performers by going off-script and manhandling people or landing hard blows without warning. Boker, the first dog who played Bear, had to be replaced with a different dog (with its chest painted to match), because Jim handled it so roughly that it went against its training and bit him. |
| 216 | ** He refused to shoot an episode where his character had to protect a gay couple, only relenting when told that the firefighters on [=9/11=] didn't care about such things when they ran into the Twin Towers. He apparently spent the entire shoot repeatedly comparing himself to those firefighters to anyone who'd listen. To avoid further disruption, scenes depicting homosexual romance were only shot when Caviezel was off set. Also LGBTQ+ members of the production kept their personal lives secret to avoid conflict. |
| 217 | ** Last but not least, he refused to let his character enter a romance with a Black woman because he personally disagrees with interracial relationships and made sure everyone knew. This offended actress Creator/TarajiPHenson enough to leave the show altogether, necessitating her character getting killed off. |
| 218 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 219 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' originated a conflict between Creator/AustinStJohn (Jason) and Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy). Exact details vary, ranging from personality clashes to arguments over [[CastTheExpert their personal martial arts credentials]]. The severity of the conflict has gone up and down, they seemed fine appearing with each other for various reunion episodes and publicity opportunities, but notably seemed to avoid doing convention panels together. This unfortunately went darker as [[LoonyFan a man was arrested at the Phoenix Comic-Con]] trying to carry weapons inside, claiming to be targeting Frank (among others) due to this rumored feud. Frank himself made a public statement afterward about the need for safety at the conventions as well as putting to rest the stories of the feud (indicating either it was exaggerated or the two of them decided to bury it). |
| 220 | ** This is the reported reason why Creator/DavidYost (Billy) left the series during ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. After he came out as gay, the production crew would harass him with homophobic remarks behind the scenes and deliberately gave Billy multiple female {{Love Interest}}s as a way of mocking him. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Ultimately he couldn't take it any more, walked off set and never came back]], forcing the writers to write him out. Years later he turned down the chance to cameo in MilestoneCelebration series ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', comparing it to an abusive former lover showing up and saying that they wanted to rekindle the relationship. Yost has repeatedly stressed that his castmates were '''not''' among those who harassed him and maintains good relationships with them to this day. |
| 221 | ** It was rumored that not all of the ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' cast got on with each other. According to Jessica Rey (Alyssa), Ricardo Medina, Jr. (Cole) was a bit full of himself, while Alyson Kiperman (Taylor) mostly kept to herself. Only Jack Guzman (Danny) and Phillip Jean-Marie (Max) got along with each other. |
| 222 | ** Invoked with ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]''. Christopher Khayman Lee (Andros) was told to avoid his costars and act "like an asshole" towards them in the beginning to better sell the friction between their characters. As his character acclimated to the group, Lee was able to lighten up towards the other actors. |
| 223 | * Deliberately invoked, at least initially, by the creator of ''Series/TheProfessionals'' - Creator/MartinShaw and Lewis Collins were cast because they did not get on while working together on a previous project and he thought that would give the onscreen relationship between them the edge he wanted. While they worked out their differences in fairly short order and became friends offscreen they were good enough actors to keep the onscreen dynamic he wanted. |
| 224 | * The 1972-3 series ''The Protectors'' featured a lot of tension behind the scenes. Creator/RobertVaughn wrote in his autobiography that he had problems with both Creator/GerryAnderson and Lew Grade, though he had a better relationship with the latter. Anderson wrote in his memoir that acted like a Hollywood prima donna and refused to get along with the other actors. John Hough, directed many episodes, had many more problems with Vaughn's business partner, Sherwood Price, than with Vaughn himself. |
| 225 | * Creator/CraigCharles and Creator/ChrisBarrie didn't get on initially while making ''Series/RedDwarf'' (at least partially because Barrie, the only member of the initial cast who was treated as a "real" actor, was being paid twice what everyone else was getting). Charles noted that it actually worked for the [[VitriolicBestBuds dynamic]] between Rimmer and Lister, although the tension between the two meant that the writers stopped doing the two-hander scenes set in the bunkroom that were a staple of the early series. |
| 226 | * It was rumoured that Creator/PierceBrosnan and Creator/StephanieZimbalist didn't get on while making ''Series/RemingtonSteele''. They both admitted some level of personal conflict in press interviews during and since, attributing some of it to the stress of long working hours, while also maintaining that it did not damage their ability to work together. |
| 227 | * ''Series/RichardOsmansHouseOfGames:'' When James Acaster appeared on the show, he won the first three "days" of his week (actually all filmed in one day), but then appeared to completely stop trying for the last two shows. [[https://youtu.be/jTQn186DXow?t=2604 Acaster later revealed on Richard Herring's podcast]] his reason for giving up: the atmosphere between him and some of the other contestants had gotten genuinely contentious, with fellow contestant Anne Diamond even cornering him in the green room to berate him between tapings. |
| 228 | * Creator/BurtReynolds left the series ''Riverboat'' after twenty episodes due to not getting on with co-star Darren [=McGavin=] or the executive producer. |
| 229 | * ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' had plenty of this: |
| 230 | ** It was allegedly the main reason for the departure of Sal Barone, the original D.J., after the {{pilot}}. He and Creator/SaraGilbert didn't get along. |
| 231 | ** The show was notorious for Creator/RoseanneBarr constantly fighting with and belittling her writers, which was a problem from the very beginning. She resented the pilot writer and initial {{Showrunner}} Matt Williams being credited as the sole creator of the show despite it having been based on her "Domestic Goddess" stand-up persona (she felt that he should have been credited as the show's developer, with herself as the creator; as a compromise, she received a credit for "based on a character created by"). The two constantly butted heads over how her character was portrayed; she outright refused to say a line he wrote ("well, you're my equal in bed, but that's it"). Williams approached her co-stars Creator/JohnGoodman and Creator/LaurieMetcalf hoping to entice them to go along with a ReTool in which Roseanne's character would be written out; they both supported Roseanne, and Williams, outflanked, left the show after the first season. (He would go on to co-create ''Series/HomeImprovement''.) From then on, Roseanne made it clear that ''she'' was in charge, and often spoke poorly of her writers in particular and of television writing in general to anyone who would listen. Most writers and writer-producers who've worked on the show have little nice to say about the atmosphere in the writers' room, and even writers on other shows would make digs at her tyranny (on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the Girls film a commercial in their kitchen and the director compares a cranky Rose to working on "The Roseanne Barr Show"). Most notably, Creator/ChuckLorre had his first of many run-ins with [[ThePrimaDonna prima-donna stars]] on this show before moving on to ''Series/GraceUnderFire'', ''Series/{{Cybill}}'', and ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' in his later career. |
| 232 | ** It happened again with the show's 2018 {{revival}}, which was already contentious given not only Roseanne's history, but her recent embrace of far-right politics and [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]]. The latter point ultimately became [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the show's undoing]], with [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] canceling it after Roseanne made a particularly toxic set of tweets[[note]]Specifically, she compared Valerie Jarrett, a former official in the UsefulNotes/BarackObama administration and a Black woman, to an ape.[[/note]] -- but not before head writer Creator/WandaSykes and actress Creator/EmmaKenney (who played Roseanne's granddaughter Harris) quit the show in disgust. The backstage drama even spread to other ABC shows, with ''Series/BlackIsh'' creator Creator/KenyaBarris [[https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/kenya-barris-roseanne-abc-jill-soloway-gloria-calderon-kellett-1202834347/ preparing to walk away from his show]] unless ABC fired Roseanne;[[note]]Barris would leave ''black•ish'' after that season anyway, in large part due to ABC shelving an anti-[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] episode for the same reason they hired Roseanne: to woo viewers in conservative-leaning Middle America.[[/note]] after she was fired, he compared the situation to ABC "hiring a monster and then [asking] why the monster was killing villagers." ABC, not wanting to part with their highest-rated show but also knowing Roseanne was (once again) irreparably toxic to the crew, went ''Series/TheHoganFamily'' route by firing Roseanne and rebranding the show as ''Series/TheConners'', which was enough to placate Kenney and crewmembers to stay on the program. |
| 233 | * On ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', most of the onscreen arguments and rivalries can be chalked up to ManipulativeEditing and/or stress from long shooting hours, with a couple notable exceptions: |
| 234 | ** Season 1 finalist Rebecca Glasscock didn't get along with the other two finalists, Bebe Zahara Benet and Nina Flowers, who had bonded and hoped to work together again afterwards, but Rebecca made it very clear that she wasn't friends with either of them. |
| 235 | ** The Season 2 contestants have minced no words saying that they did ''not'' get along with season winner Tyra Sanchez, who was very much ThePrimaDonna during the season. When Tyra was crowned, runner-up Raven's farewell message was, "Watch the stars, because you'll never be one." This has only continued after the season; Tyra was banned from [=DragCon=] for threatening violence against Tatianna (among other antics too numerous to list here). When asked or criticized about her behavior, Tyra would always fall back on excuses of [[NeverMyFault her social media being hacked, her words taken too seriously or out of context, and/or people simply hating her because she's Black]]. Fellow contestant Pandora Boxx summed up the cast's feelings when she tweeted, "Tyra Sanchez you were an asshole 8 years ago and you're an asshole now." To Tyra's credit, she has since apologized for her toxic behavior in the past and retired from drag. |
| 236 | ** Played with in Season 4 with Sharon Needles and Phi Phi O'Hara. The feud between them is now legendary, their "pet names" for each other being "Party City"[[note]]An American chain of party supply stores that sells cheap Halloween costumes in October[[/note]] for Sharon and "Tired-Ass Showgirl" for Phi Phi. Even though their bickering was real at first, they later revealed that they eventually made amends offscreen (most likely during the "Frenemies" challenge when they had to work together), but they decided to keep pretending to be enemies on camera, knowing that it would make for good television. Unfortunately, the editing made Sharon seem like the more sympathetic of the two even though she gave as good as she got, which led to her becoming a fan favorite while Phi Phi became TheScrappy in a ''big'' way. |
| 237 | ** Invoked in Season 5 with Alyssa Edwards and Coco Montrese, who were rivals outside the show due to drama surrounding the [[BeautyContest Miss Gay America drag pageant]]. Despite their constant bickering during the season, when it came time for the ballet challenge, Coco ''chose'' to work with Alyssa because she respects that the latter is a choreographer, and their segment just happened to be a black swan and white swan squaring off. Fortunately, they were able to "[[{{Malaproper}} bury the hatch]]" and were friends again by the time of ''All-Stars 2''. |
| 238 | ** Creator/{{RuPaul}} himself experienced this in the 90's when he was a guest star on Music/LLCoolJ's {{sitcom}} ''Series/InTheHouse''. The two did not get along due to LL's homophobia, to the point that LL threatened Ru with violence[[note]]Ru, to his credit, took it all in stride and didn't provoke LL back. But as he stated in the interview where he revealed this altercation, he regretted ''not'' daring LL to hit him so he could sue the rapper to oblivion[[/note]]. What makes this sadly ironic is that in the episode, Ru played a high school friend of LL's character Marion who reveals that he's now a drag queen, and Marion learns to accept his friend's career choice. This means LL learned absolutely nothing from his own show. Their bad blood continues into the present day; Ru has said that he thinks LL's show ''Series/LipSyncBattle'' is a [[FollowTheLeader poor ripoff]] of ''Drag Race''. |
| 239 | * Surprisingly enough, ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' of all shows had this happen with a recurring guest star: In a 2015 interview on ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'', Creator/JasonAlexander revealed that the main cast had difficulty working with Creator/HeidiSwedberg, who played Susan Ross (George Costanza's one-time girlfriend/fiancée). Alexander, along with Creator/JerrySeinfeld and Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus, complained to series creator Creator/LarryDavid that Swedberg didn't mesh with the main cast. This would lead to Susan getting written out of the show due to [[spoiler:getting killed by licking very cheap toxic envelopes for her and George's wedding invitations]]. When Alexander's comments hit the airwaves, he (and the rest of the main cast) backtracked and apologized to Swedberg, saying that she was a fun person to work with. It was more a matter of different comedic sensibilities disrupting the rhythm of the cast than not liking her personally. |
| 240 | * On ''Series/SevenDays1998'', Creator/JonathanLaPaglia and Justina Vail, whose BelligerentSexualTension between their characters Frank Parker and Olga Vukavitch was one of the more popular plotlines, did not get along ''at all'' when the cameras weren't rolling. Vail actually quit before the end of Season 3, which was one of the contributing factors to Creator/{{UPN}} not renewing the show for a fourth season. |
| 241 | * It was long-rumoured, and eventually confirmed, that Creator/SarahJessicaParker and Creator/KimCattrall didn't get on while making ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. Apparently, the two would ignore each other any time they weren’t filming scenes for the show. This was also the reason why both of the ''Sex and the City'' movies went through DevelopmentHell -- to do those movies would mean the cast working with each other again, which nobody involved wanted to do for anything less than [[MoneyDearBoy a huge payday]]. For a long time after the franchise had ended, both tried to chalk up any tension between them to exhausting days on set. However, in February 2018, it became clear that the feud between them was quite real, and had never quite gone away, as Cattrall lashed out at Parker in an Instagram post after Cattrall's brother died. |
| 242 | -->"Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven't already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I'm writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your 'nice girl' persona." |
| 243 | ** Parker and Cattrall's animosity became such an OpenSecret that it was parodied on ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' in an acting challenge based on the show. Cattrall also conspicuously refused to return for the announced Creator/{{Max}} [[Series/AndJustLikeThat revival of SATC]]. |
| 244 | * On July 18, 2018, Creator/AliceWetterlund took to Website/{{Twitter}} to accuse Creator/TJMiller of inappropriate, unprofessional behavior on the set of ''Series/SiliconValley'', writing: |
| 245 | -->I hope to not ruin it for you, but Creator/TJMiller was a bully and petulant brat. |
| 246 | * {{Soap Opera}}s are rife with this. It's unclear how many stories are completely untrue, exaggerated, or downplayed. |
| 247 | ** In the mid-90's, ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'''s Hunter Tylo (Taylor Hayes) and Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter) were once good friends (they and their husbands frequently hung out together, and are rumored to have even engaged in swinging) had a falling out when Kimberlin took Hunter's husband's side when the two separated, openly supporting him in the ensuing divorce and custody battle. Things escalated to the point that each woman had a bodyguard with them on set, claiming that the other had threatened them. |
| 248 | ** Rumours from unconfirmed sources claimed that Creator/SusanLucci and Creator/SarahMichelleGellar couldn't stand each other while making ''Series/AllMyChildren'' -- Lucci supposedly resented the fact that Gellar won a [[MediaNotes/EmmyAward Daytime Emmy]] within two years on the show while [[AwardSnub she had yet to win after almost 25]]. However, in multiple interviews, Lucci outright [[http://www.tvguide.com/news/susan-lucci-amc-1037227/ denied these rumors]] and Gellar stated that the rumors blew everything way out of proportion. |
| 249 | ** ''Series/GeneralHospital'' co-stars Anthony Geary and Genie Francis are rumored to have had phases of not getting along, despite playing one of the most popular couples in soap opera history, Luke and Laura. Neither actor was ever comfortable with what was supposed to be a rape storyline turning into a romance, and both were uncomfortable with the fame that was thrust upon them during the show's heyday. Francis has expressed frustration that the producers always credited Geary with the pairing's success and were willing to accommodate many of Geary's requests but not hers. Geary has called her his acting soul mate, but he has also been vocal about preferring Luke with characters other than Laura and not wanting Luke to be a family man. By the time Geary left the show, Luke and Laura did not even say goodbye onscreen. |
| 250 | * ''The Music/SonnyAndCher Show'': Music/SonnyBono and Music/{{Cher}} divorced in 1975, but they attempted to keep their creative and professional partnership going with a relaunch of their VarietyShow the following year. While it debuted to high ratings, it very quickly became obvious to anybody watching that the two of them still had a lot of residual bitterness, frequently engaging in awkward, insulting banter onscreen about their relationship. Cher's extravagant lifestyle and [[TabloidMelodrama relationship]] with [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Gregg Allman]] didn't help matters either. Between the decline of the variety show genre in the late '70s and the fact that the show's two stars were a divorced couple who clearly hadn't put their issues behind them, ratings collapsed and the show barely lasted a year. |
| 251 | * ''Series/TheSopranos'': |
| 252 | ** Although both were crucial characters and presence of the show, it was widely rumored that Creator/EdieFalco and Creator/LorraineBracco did not get along. This apparently stemmed from the belief that the latter was jealous of the former's larger screentime and attention, despite her being Creator/JamesGandolfini's onscreen wife.[[note]]The original premise involved Tony and Melfi's sessions being the central crux of the show, but was de-emphasized as the show went on[[/note]] |
| 253 | ** Dane Curley (Justin Cifaretto) revealed on Website/{{Reddit}} that Creator/JoePantoliano only found out that his character would be killed off at a read-through and he took the news badly: |
| 254 | --->Joe Pantoliano, who portrayed my character's father Ralph Cifaretto, found out his character was being killed off the show in real time during the table read for our episode. Yeah, he wasn't happy! As soon as he realized he was getting whacked (maybe by reading a few pages ahead of where we were), he angrily shouted (at no one in particular, but presumably the writers) and stood up from the session. His phone went up to his ear so fast to call his agent, and he stormed off. As he did this, Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) yelled back some choice words to him: something like, "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!" The ruthlessness of showbusiness. Got to see the reality of this business well before my 14th birthday." |
| 255 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 256 | ** Creator/WilliamShatner was disliked by most of the cast of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', who accused him of stealing lines and screentime from them. Some saw it as an "us and them" situation (Shatner, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/DeForestKelley on one side, and Creator/JamesDoohan, Creator/GeorgeTakei, Creator/NichelleNichols[[note]]When the two filmed their famous kiss, they both stated in their memoirs that keeping the scene unedited despite the racial tensions of the time was the ''only'' thing they ever agreed on[[/note]] and Creator/WalterKoenig on the other). Furthermore, Shatner was initially jealous of Nimoy's popularity. |
| 257 | *** Apparently, Shatner was oblivious to much of his co-stars' disdain, until he sat them down for interviews while working on the book ''Star Trek Memories,'' and many of them called him out over his glory-hogging, especially Creator/NichelleNichols. Shatner has at least ''somewhat'' mellowed out since then. |
| 258 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had a notorious TroubledProduction in its first few seasons, it wasn't until the third season that the production team stabilized and the cast really started to get along. |
| 259 | *** Creator/DeniseCrosby was told up front that her character was not going to get much screentime (as they were attempting a replicate the Kirk, Spock and Bones PowerTrio with Picard, Crusher and Data) and because her bridge station was directly behind the captain, she would spend all day on set with few lines and often just her legs in the frame. This encouraged her to request to be written out. She would also reveal in interviews years later that she did not get on with Creator/GeneRoddenberry, who was very upfront with her about the fact that her role was to be the show's sex appeal and little else. According to her, this was the reason why she was so abruptly killed off as Roddenberry had been very clear to her that if she left, there would be no coming back. Its noteworthy that her next appearance in the show would be after he had relinquished creative control due to ill-health. |
| 260 | *** Creator/GatesMcFadden was vocal about the sexism and racism that turned up in the first season (especially "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]"), which she attributed to her time in a theater conservatory that encouraged such feedback. This did not help the already difficult writers' room. (They notoriously went through dozens of writers, many of whom were hired and fired in the same week.) Once Maurice Hurley took control for the second season, he demanded that she be fired.[[note]]Hurley also had a crush on her. Depending on who you hear the story from, he either poured his heart out to her only for her to reject him, or essentially sexually harassed her. Either way there is another reason for her second-season absence[[/note]] Once Hurley left and Michael Piller took over in the third season, he convinced the execs and [=McFadden=] herself to return. |
| 261 | *** Creator/PatrickStewart was uncertain of how successful the show would be, and did not settle into his apartment for years. He was also finicky about being [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra a noted Shakespearean actor]] in a sci-fi show, and would berate the rest of the cast for joking around in between takes. Famously, when the cast said they were just having fun, his response was a very terse "[[StopHavingFunGuys And where in our contract does it say we are here to have 'fun'?]]". In another incident before the show aired, a documentary/interview crew was on set to help promote the show and the production allowed the interviewer to wear his costume, which he obviously did not appreciate. Stewart eventually lightened up and joined in on the jokes and pranks (to the point that he became notable as one of the cast's bigger pranksters), although the cast still gives him grief over the "fun" line. |
| 262 | *** Creator/BrentSpiner has mentioned, however, that Stewart began to loosen up as early as that same day, in the form of enthusiastically singing ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' during a scene set in a hilly environment. |
| 263 | *** Creator/DianaMuldaur left the show after only one season. Afterwards, she described the experience as "unhappy" and said, "Everybody was out for themselves. I don't think they were happy to have me there."[[note]]Probably true, as she had been brought in to replace the aforementioned Gates [=McFadden=], who came back in the following season[[/note]] Ironically, she has much fonder memories of her time on ''Series/LALaw'', which infamously ended with her character ''falling down an open elevator shaft''. |
| 264 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' had nothing too extensive, but the behind-the-scenes attitude was very dour. |
| 265 | *** It's been said that Creator/AveryBrooks, Creator/ArminShimerman, and Marc Alaimo took their roles very seriously. (Brooks' temperament was partially due to MethodActing, Shimerman always fought against Ferengi as comic relief and Alaimo, despite [[FakeGuestStar technically being a guest star]], would behave as though he was the lead.) During the first few years with ''TNG'' filming next to them, when people were actually talking and laughing, the producers knew that Creator/MarinaSirtis had wandered over to visit some friends. Upon joining the cast in the fourth season, Creator/MichaelDorn said it took him some time to get everyone to lighten up. |
| 266 | *** Creator/AlexanderSiddig claimed that Avery Brooks took to him early on in the series, noting that they were both POC on a sci-fi show. This bond did not last, when Brooks terminated their friendship midway through the run and was hostile to him from then on. Siddig claims to not know what he'd done.[[note]]The difference may have been ideological: Siddig is on record saying that Bashir just happening to be of North African descent and that being wholly incidental to his character was enough of a powerful statement for him in terms of racial progressivism. (He also changed his stage name from the very Arabic "Siddig El Fadil" to the European "Alexander" partway through the show's run.) Brooks, on the other hand, grew increasingly vocal about addressing Benjamin Sisko's African-American heritage in-story, from directing the acclaimed episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars Far Beyond the Stars]]" to adding in a line denouncing the inherent racism of 20th century UsefulNotes/LasVegas and convincing the writers to change the show's ending as it looked like Sisko was abandoning his pregnant wife.[[/note]] Brooks allegedly was difficult to work with as a director as well as a cast member, and only a few of the regular cast would consider him a friend. |
| 267 | *** Many years later, in Creator/WilliamShatner's ''The Captains'' documentary, Brooks (alone among the captains - by contrast, Creator/KateMulgrew in particular has a very good rapport with Shatner) is unresponsive and evasive toward Shatner's line of questioning, frequently trying to change the subject by playing music. Shatner plays this off as Brooks being something of a CloudCuckooLander but it's clearly not good faith interview conduct. |
| 268 | *** Brooks declined to be interviewed altogether for the ''What We Left Behind'' documentary, the only major cast member to do so (though according to Ira Steven Behr, he did have input behind the scenes). He has also made it clear that he has no intention to reprise his role despite Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/KateMulgrew, and Creator/ScottBakula all agreeing to return to the franchise. |
| 269 | *** Creator/TerryFarrell was frustrated over not receiving the same amount of pay as her co-stars. When she finally demanded to be paid equally, producer Creator/RickBerman fired her. |
| 270 | ** There was considerable tension between Creator/KateMulgrew and Creator/JeriRyan on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Mulgrew resented the character of Seven of Nine, due to the fact that she was getting more focus than Janeway, who was meant to be the star. Mulgrew felt that having a sexy female character brought on for ratings undermined the show and her position as a feminist role model. This caused conflict, because the rest of cast and crew generally loved both actresses, with Garret Wang saying that it felt like your mom and your sister fighting. Mulgrew has since expressed regret for her behavior, and she and Ryan have been seen to get along great at conventions. |
| 271 | * ''Series/{{Succession}}'': Creator/BrianCox made no secret that he found Creator/JeremyStrong to be a giant pain in the ass due to his insistence on MethodActing. There was a level of respect there, though, as he was also quick to say that Strong was a gifted actor who didn't need to stay in character like he insisted. |
| 272 | * The cast of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' despised it whenever Creator/AndyKaufman played Tony Clifton because Kaufman refused to break character and acted as boorishly as humanly possible to everyone. It got to the point where everyone banded together and threatened to revolt if Kaufman wasn't fired immediately. The producers managed to come up with a compromise where they called Tony Clifton into a cast meeting, fired him, and had security guards physically throw him off the lot. This ensured that Kaufman couldn't bring the Clifton persona back onto the show and satisfied the rest of the cast enough to keep on working with Kaufman. |
| 273 | ** Conversely, Creator/TonyDanza has stated that Andy himself wasn't rude or hostile while ''working'', despite his distaste for the show, but he sometimes rubbed people the wrong way with his complete detachment; even with his two-days-a-week stipulation, his absence forced the crew to often use a stand-in because he could never make rehearsal on time, and he'd stay separate from the other actors and meditate in the parking lot before filming. At one point Danza lost his patience, pulled a fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed him with foam just to get ''some'' kind of reaction — and Andy calmly stared at him as he did it. |
| 274 | ** Creator/JeffConaway personally despised Kaufman more than anyone. At the MediaNotes/{{Golden Globe|Award}}s, he punched Kaufman in the face believing Andy thought he was better than the rest of his co-stars. After that, Kaufman never participated in any of the other cast-and-crew get-togethers ever again. |
| 275 | ** Conaway was also difficult to deal with; he believed his character should be the focal character of the show. (In Conaway's telling, this is what he was promised when he agreed to join the ''Taxi'' cast.) His drug addictions didn't help matters. Eventually, on an episode where Conaway's addictions rendered him unable to physically perform that week, the writers ressigned his lines to Tony Danza. Soon enough, the writers realized Conaway's character wasn't really necessary -- and Danza was much easier to deal with. Conaway was soon gone from the show, and no-one from the cast (or crew) was advocating for his reinstatement. |
| 276 | * ''Series/That70sShow'': |
| 277 | ** While Creator/AshtonKutcher (Michael Kelso) and Creator/MilaKunis (Jackie Burkhart) would eventually [[RomanceOnTheSet get married]], they did not get along when they first started working together, and took some time to warm up to one another. As Kunis would later tell ''[[https://www.glamour.com/story/mila-kunis-on-life-with-ashton-and-making-babies Glamour]]'' magazine in 2016: |
| 278 | --->''There's nothing we don't know about each other because we've known each other for so long: the ugly, the bad, the good. We went through a period where I thought he was crazy. At the height of his career, I was like, "Ugh, I don't like you. I don't even know you anymore. You think you're such hot s**t."'' |
| 279 | ** While it never reached a boiling point and got better, by her own admission, Creator/DebraJoRupp wasn't a pleasant person to be around in season 3 due to her quitting smoking with her on-screen husband Creator/KurtwoodSmith bearing the brunt of her withdrawal. |
| 280 | ** While nobody involved has ever confirmed it, it's widely believed that Creator/TopherGrace, who played the protagonist Eric Forman, did not get along with his castmates, and that this played a role in his departure from the show at the end of season seven. At the very least, he was not part of the clique that his male co-stars Kutcher, Creator/DannyMasterson, and Creator/WilmerValderrama formed among themselves, he was the one person in the show's cast who Kutcher never pranked for his show ''Series/{{Punkd}}'', and he was one of three main cast members (the others being Creator/DebraJoRupp and Creator/KurtwoodSmith, who played the parents Kitty and Red Forman) who did not show up for a cast reunion in 2016 on the set of Kutcher and Masterson's show ''Series/{{The Ranch|2016}}''. One version of the story claims that Grace was standoffish, difficult to work with, and thought he was too good for the show, while the other claims that he was instead put off by both the hard-partying lifestyles of his male co-stars and the [[https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-in-cult-scientology-well-ashton-kutcher-scientologist-claims-explored-danny-masterson-support-sparks-backlash prominence]] of [[ChurchOfHappyology the Church of Scientology]] on set, with Masterson (a second-generation Scientologist) and Creator/LauraPrepon (who joined the Church while dating Masterson's brother Creator/{{Christopher|Masterson}}) both being members at the time and the rest of the cast also associating with it, including appearances at fundraisers put on by the Church. Grace's attitude was viewed in a [[https://www.insider.com/danny-masterson-sentence-vindicates-topher-grace-fans-say-2023-9 new light]] after Masterson was convicted of rape in 2023, suggesting that Grace had ''very'' good reason why he never wanted to go partying with the boys after filming. The revelation that Kutcher and Kunis had written letters to the judge on the case defending Masterson only bolstered this. |
| 281 | * The short-lived [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] sitcom ''Series/{{Thea}}'' had star Thea Vidale and her on-screen daughter, Music/{{Brandy}}, not get along. Although the reasons for the beef remain murky, depending on whom you believe, it was either because the veteran comedienne was envious of the up-and-coming singer and actress or it was because Brandy was something of a brat on the set, not in any way helped by the presence of her [[StageMom mother/manager]] Sonja. |
| 282 | * In ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Creator/SuzanneSomers made a demand for a pay increase to match Creator/JohnRitter, even though he was always the clear star while she and Creator/JoyceDeWitt were supporting characters. This was intended as a strategic move but caused so much friction during the fifth season that the producers gradually wrote her out of the set via a phone call FramingDevice to match the terms of her current contract, and then wrote her out entirely at the end of the season. Her plan caused considerable harm to her career and ruined her relationships with Ritter and [=DeWitt=], not speaking to them for over 30 years. However, she was able to make up with Ritter before his untimely 2003 death, and made up with [=DeWitt=] several years afterwards. |
| 283 | * ''Series/TillDeathUsDoPart'': |
| 284 | ** Creator/WarrenMitchell and Creator/AnthonyBooth hated each other just as their characters did. |
| 285 | ** Writer Johnny Speight fell out with Creator/TheBBC during Series 3; Speight was furious that his scripts were being censored and aired OutOfOrder, whereas the Beeb were fed up with receiving late scripts. |
| 286 | * In 1980, in response to ''[[Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson The Tonight Show]]'' being shortened from ninety minutes to sixty, Creator/{{NBC}} decided to ReTool the following (expanded) program, ''Tomorrow with Tom Snyder'', by having ''Series/{{Today}}'' entertainment correspondent Rona Barrett co-anchor with Snyder. The two notoriously did not get along -- Snyder resented how Barrett's fluffy infotainment segments clashed with the low-key interview style ''Tomorrow'' was known for, while Barrett regarded Snyder as a sexist who regularly mistreated her behind the scenes; she also chafed at how Snyder relegated her segment to the last thirty minutes of the show (at about 1:30 a.m.) each night. By June of 1981, with ratings for the program failing, Barrett had had enough and announced her departure. ''Tomorrow'' 's fortunes never recovered and the program was cancelled in December 1981. When asked whether Snyder or Barrett was more responsible for the failure, an anonymous NBC executive was quoted as replying, "That's like asking if you'd rather die of a heart attack or cancer." |
| 287 | * The chemistry between ''Two Fat Ladies'' stars Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson-Wright did not continue at all when the cameras stopped rolling. Both women were strong-willed and difficult; Paterson has been described as bitter and insulting, and while Dickson-Wright was a bit more amiable, she was possessed with a volatile temper (crew members nicknamed her "Krakatoa"). The animosity between them was so pronounced that they stayed in separate hotels during filming. Clarissa was also put off by Jennifer's on-set smoking and drinking (particularly the latter, as Clarissa was a recovering alcoholic). Although the animosity between the two was frequently reported in the tabloids, Dickson-Wright (who survived Paterson, [[DiedDuringProduction whose death ended the show's production]], by 15 years) consistently denied it as long as she was alive, going so far as to claim she had bought a tin of caviar for her "friend" but wasn't able to visit her in hospital before she died (and then eating it herself in tribute to her). At Paterson's lavish and well-attended funeral service[[note]]her uncle was gentiluomo to Cardinal Hume, the head of the Catholic Church in England[[/note]], it was noted that Dickson-Wright was carefully seated in the third row, not so far back that it would be perceived as a snub, but ''not'' up front either (which Paterson was said to have been firmly against). |
| 288 | * One episode of the 1980s {{Sitcom}} ''Up the Elephant and Round the Castle'' opens with Creator/JimDavidson getting mugged. Davidson was reportedly so unpopular with the crew that they had a whip-round for the actor playing the mugger to hit him for real. The actor, needing the money, agreed and did so. Davidson was furious and vowed that the actor would never work in show business again. That young actor was Creator/DavidThewlis. |
| 289 | * Creator/NinaDobrev admitted that she and ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' co-star Creator/PaulWesley "despised each other" their first few months of shooting, which was ironic because they were playing love interests. They smoothed it out sooner than later. |
| 290 | * The first season or two of ''Series/{{Webster}}'' were marked by this as creators, co-stars and co-producers Susan Clark and Alex Karras feuded, sometimes with each other but more often with Creator/{{Paramount}} and [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompay ABC]], both of whom had reneged on early promises that the show's storylines would focus on all three of its main characters in favor of [[BreakoutCharacter all Webster all the time, trying to capitalize on child star Emmanuel Lewis's sudden fame]]. While Lewis was often quickly hustled off set when the shouting started, he heard enough of it to start internalizing and believing it was ''his'' fault. By the third season, everyone's differences had been worked out and they got along for the rest of the series' run. |
| 291 | * ''Series/WonderWoman'': |
| 292 | ** Tensions between Creator/LyndaCarter and Creator/LyleWaggoner grew to the point that as the series went on they appeared in fewer and fewer scenes together. So that Waggoner's character would have more activity on the show, producers brought in S. Pearl Sharp to play fellow IADC agent Eve. Waggoner was to be completely written out of the show as in the last episode of the series Diana is relocated to the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles bureau of IADC. In recent interviews, Lynda Carter has denied any tension existed. |
| 293 | ** Creator/DebraWinger didn't like working with Carter, but Lynda said that they didn't have any problems and was like a big sister to her. |
| 294 | * In the [[UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom UK]] variety series ''The Word'', hosts Terry Christian and Mark Lamarr humorously traded insults on-camera. In reality, they didn't get on at all. One producer confirmed that they almost came to blows in the green room. |
| 295 | * According to Bill Davis, things were never happy around ''Series/TheXFiles'' lot due to Creator/DavidDuchovny and Creator/GillianAnderson's open warfare. (Duchovny took to the press to make fun of his hotheaded co-star, going so far to "protest" that her character won more fights than he did!). Money was an issue here as well; Gillian complained that the disparity between her and Duchovny's incomes was sexist and unfair, especially given the fact that she'd become such a major draw for the series. Years after the show ended, with the actors [[FireForgedFriends having become friends and all]], [[http://uproxx.com/hitfix/a-complete-history-of-gillian-anderson-and-david-duchovnys-x-files-feud/ they said part of the animosity was exhaustion from enduring long shoots together]], summing up that production "made monsters out of us". |
| 296 | * ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' is a show about larger-than-life [[NewOldWest modern-day cowboys]] butting heads whose success made it the center of a vast SharedUniverse, so it was perhaps only natural that, as [[https://www.vox.com/culture/23667960/yellowstone-cast-drama-paleyfest-2023-costner-returning-season-five-release-date this article]] by Aja Romano for ''Vox'' lays out, the show wound up dominated by the two clashing egos at its center that threatened to derail production in its fifth season, those of its ShowRunner Creator/TaylorSheridan and its leading man Creator/KevinCostner. |
| 297 | ** Costner had a reputation as an exacting, temperamental [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna]] going back to TheNineties, and he brought that reputation with him to the set of ''Yellowstone'', where he and his people reportedly alienated Sheridan, the show's crew, and the rest of the cast. Once the show became a breakout hit and the anchor of the Creator/ParamountNetwork, Costner's demands grew in accordance with the show's ratings, including short production windows and compensation for promotion days on top of his considerable paycheck (which hit $1.2 million per episode by Season 5). Costner coming down with [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID]] during production on the second half of season five only made the delays worse, as instead of extending his shoot days to accommodate his recovery, he decided that the time he spent in quarantine was part of his shoot days and left once they ended, forcing months of delays at considerable expense. |
| 298 | ** Sheridan, for his part, developed a reputation for ScheduleSlip and AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder once ''Yellowstone'' became a hit and made him one of the most in-demand show runners in Hollywood, causing many of his scripts to come in late. This was a problem on a show where, right from the start, he demanded [[ProtectionFromEditors considerable creative freedom]] to the point that the main role of the executives above him was to supply him with the show's budget. [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11991051/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-developed-god-complex-created-tension-set-tension.html Reportedly,]] he grew an ego of his own to match that of his star, with Costner growing increasingly concerned with the show's creative direction only to be told by Sheridan to "stick to acting" and not question his creative decisions even though Costner, like Sheridan, was also an executive producer on the show. According to the same reports, Costner was ready to begin production on the second half of season five in December 2022 or January 2023, but Sheridan, overburdened working on both the show's spinoffs and various other projects, didn't have the scripts ready. |
| 299 | ** Things [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/04/02/yellowstone-kevin-costner-taylor-sheridan-miss-fan-paleyfest/11587511002/ came to a head]] at [=PaleyFest=] in April 2023, when neither Sheridan, Costner, nor any of the show's other stars showed up to a planned panel, leading the fans in attendance to start booing. This was the point when the backstage drama around the show spilled out into the open and started raising serious questions about whether the fifth season would be its last. Even though the first half of season five aired its final episode on January 1, as of this writing production on the second half remains stalled, with cast members offering only non-committal promises that it would start later this year once Costner and Sheridan worked out their feud. |
| 300 | * Creator/AlexaNikolas (Nicole) left ''Series/Zoey101'' halfway through its four-season run after some uncomfortable experiences on set. At the time, she refused to talk about it, but has since been very open about her experience in recent years, claiming that she was bullied for much of her time on the show by both the cast and crew. |
| 301 | ** When the show first began, Alexa claims series star Creator/JamieLynnSpears (younger sister of [[Music/BritneySpears Britney]]) refused to associate with her off-camera, despite the two playing best friends on the show. Alexa accepted this at first, but then noticed that Jamie Lynn ''did'' get along very well with castmate Kristin Herrera (Dana), and the two would frequently hang out off set and rarely include Alexa. Once the rest of the cast discovered this dynamic, they began forming a clique, with Alexa being excluded from nearly all off-set activities. She also recalls having lunch alone in her trailer because nobody else would sit with her, and that others would call her an "alien" because of her bubbly personality. The cast reportedly made fun of her for ''smiling too much''. However, Alexa claims Sean Flynn (Chase) was nice to her most of the time, and most of her few positive memories from the set were with him. |
| 302 | ** While filming the episode "Little Beach Party", which was mostly filmed on location at a deserted beach, Alexa claims that she was positioned behind large rocks with Kristin Herrera, and the two were supposed to come running out from behind them. Right before the scene began shooting, Alexa claims Kristin physically assaulted her. Kristin denied this and blocked fans online who inquired her about it. After this and other incidents, Alexa's mother tried to get the show's staff to intervene and stop the bullying, but they instead told her that her then-12-year-old daughter needed to "grow up" and to "be professional". Following the filming of this episode, which was the last of Season 1, Paul Butcher (Dustin) began passing out invitations to the season wrap party. Alexa watched him do so and eagerly anticipated hers, but Paul instead shook his head at Alexa and ran away while laughing at her, causing her to break down in tears. Paul later claimed that it was not his party and he was not in charge of the guest list, and that he would not have excluded her if he was. |
| 303 | ** Going into Season 2, Alexa and her castmates learned that Kristin would not be returning. Longtime rumors claim that it was because she looked too old for her character, but Alexa believes it was due to the assault behind the beach rocks. However, the show gained a new cast member: Music/VictoriaJustice, who already knew Alexa. Alexa was initially thrilled that she finally had a friend on the show, and finally felt "safe", despite Jamie Lynn still refusing to associate with her (and, by association, Victoria). With Kristin gone, the bullying mostly stopped. However, one day, Alexa and Victoria had a small disagreement about a boy, and the next day on set, Alexa found Jamie Lynn and Victoria whispering to each other and laughing at her, which once again led to daily bullying and the staff doing nothing to stop it. |
| 304 | ** The final straw for Alexa was a traumatizing and unethical incident that happened during the filming of the episode "Spring Break-Up", the last episode of Season 2 in production order (but not the last to air). Alexa's mother was approached by producer Ian Jordan (who was close friends with the Spears family) for permission to escort her daughter to the makeup and hair trailer (a policy for taking minors anywhere on set without their guardian), which she approved. On the way there, Jordan violated set policy and diverted the destination to Jamie Lynn's trailer, telling Alexa, "Jamie and Britney want to talk to you." Alexa thought this meant that Jamie Lynn wanted to settle her differences with her, though this was far from the case. Alexa entered the trailer, saw Jamie Lynn run to the back, and noticed that Jordan abandoned her. Britney then came out, locked the door, and began berating Alexa and threatening to end her acting career, reportedly calling her an "evil little girl". Alexa was so traumatized she was in the fetal position, and ran back to her own trailer so distraught that she was vomiting and couldn't speak coherently when her mother asked what happened. Mrs. Nikolas called for series creator Creator/DanSchneider, who showed up along with two {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} executives asking, "What ''now'', Alexa?" Alexa explained the situation, but Schneider was impatient, as they had one more scene to shoot, and they were running out of daylight (much of the episode was filmed outdoors). Schneider said that they would discuss the situation at another time, gave Alexa her wrap gift early (a portable UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} player), hoping it would make her feel better (it didn't), and forced her to go back to the set. Alexa held back tears as Jamie Lynn and Victoria teased her more and shot her with water guns used in the scene. |
| 305 | ** Following the Britney incident, Alexa and her mother went to the Nickelodeon offices to have a meeting with Schneider and other Nick and [[Creator/ParamountGlobal Viacom]] executives, including VP of Talent, Sharon Lieblein, who asked her, "Why are you always crying?". Alexa claims she was forced to enter the room alone (suggesting that she wouldn't be able to comfortably tell her side with her mother hovering over her), and was belittled by Schneider, who told her, "The show is not called ''Nicole 101''." He also agreed with Britney's alleged remarks that Alexa should not be working in the acting industry, and that she just needs to deal with whatever attitude Jamie Lynn shows towards her, since she's the star. Alexa tearfully said, "I don't want anyone to not like me.", to which Schneider responded by yelling, "''No one'' likes you!" This sent Alexa running out of the room, sobbing. Her mother demanded that she be released from her contract. At first, Nickelodeon refused, then eventually relented, but banned her from all future UsefulNotes/{{Kids Choice Award}}s. Nicole was PutOnABus after Season 2, and she was even left out of the opening credits of the in-universe TV show she and the rest of the cast were piloting in the "Spring Break-Up" episode. |
| 306 | ** In 2019, most of the cast, including recurring members, got together with Schneider for a reunion dinner, apparently to discuss a possible reboot. Alexa saw photos on castmate Creator/ChristopherMassey's Instagram (one of the only cast members she remained in any contact with) and was not having it. She called them out on still excluding her even in adulthood, and soon began publicly posting about just how traumatizing her experience on ''Zoey'' was. She later revealed that Schneider's lawyers even tried contacting her to reach "an agreement" to stop discussing it publicly, but she refused. A few days after the reunion, Alexa did a lengthy Instagram livestream going into full detail of her experiences, and also mentioned how none of her castmates have responded to her attempts to reach out. |
| 307 | ** A while later, Jamie Lynn Spears seemingly wanted to make amends with Alexa, assuring her that she would be included in any plans for a reboot, and even sending her gifts for her then-newborn baby. However, Jamie Lynn would later change her mind. In her 2022 memoir ''Things I Should Have Said'', [[https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/britney-defends-alexa-nikolas-calls-out-jamie-lynn-1235024946/ responded]] to Alexa by accusing her of having started their feud by spreading nasty rumors about her on set, and then accusing her of bullying years later as a [[AttentionWhore bid for attention]] -- accusations that met a furious response from Alexa, who accused Jamie Lynn of "lying up a storm" and PlayingTheVictimCard. Notably, due to Britney's concurrent family conflict with Jamie Lynn, she publicly apologized for what she did to Alexa and took her side in the feud, calling Jamie Lynn "scum" and a liar. Jamie Lynn even tried to send a copy of the book to Alexa as another "gift" shortly before Alexa demanded that she never contact her again. |
| 308 | ** Christopher Massey, who remained on good terms with both Alexa and Jamie Lynn, denied Alexa's allegations and said there was "definitely no bullying" on the set. Alexa immediately disputed this, and claimed that, while Christopher himself didn't participate in any bullying, his mother witnessed it and even comforted her at times; this argument quickly ended their friendship. |
| 309 | ** Alexa has also described Nickelodeon in general as a nightmare of a company to work for, and said that she did not feel safe working around Schneider. In 2022, she [[https://pagesix.com/2022/10/28/zoey-101s-alexa-nikolas-claims-dan-schneider-sat-in-costume-fittings/ accused]] Schneider of creepy sexual behavior towards her and her female castmates on set, sitting in the changing room on the other side of a curtain while she got dressed and then asking the wardrobe artist for Polaroids of her, behavior that only realized was creepy when she worked on ''Series/MadMen'' and experienced nothing of the sort. Her experience led her to found the activist group Eat Predators protesting sexual abuse of child stars in the entertainment industry. |
| 310 | ** Matthew Underwood (Logan) denies all of Alexa's allegations and accused her of being a "diva" trying to built excitement, behavior he also accused her of showing while doing the show. Matthew also defended the various allegations against Dan Schneider (attributing his many foot jokes as being lazy writing rather than a possible fetish), and claims that Alexa tried to spread a rumor around the set that Jamie Lynn had lice, one of multiple mean rumors that Jamie Lynn corroborated in her memoir. He also stated that he, along with Sean and Christopher, went to great efforts to make sure Alexa felt "included" on set. Alexa vehemently denies spreading or hearing any rumors of anyone having lice, along with Matthew showing any effort of making her feel included (she did agree that Sean was good about that, and Christopher to a lesser extent). |
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