Who are actors that absolutely despise each other?
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw hated each other while filming Jaws.
Jay Baruchel and Jonah Hill. Apparently their scenes in “This Is the End” were based on real life.
Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep. Allegedly Mr. Hoffman was in method acting mode on the set of Kramer V. Kramer and some of the behavior went overboard.
Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. As the story goes, Seagal pissed off Van Damme at a house party at Sylvester Stallone’s place. Van Damme challenged Seagal to a fight, but Seagal refused and quickly left the party. Van Damme apparently chased Seagal around town trying to fight him, but Seagal managed to dodge JCVD at every opportunity. Apparently there was an offer on the table, $20 million each to both JCVD and Seagal, to fight in the ring in Vegas. Seagal never accepted the offer.
Jared Leto and everyone in his field of gravity
Chevy Chase and pretty much everyone
Jon Lovitz and Andy Dick. While Andy Dick is disliked by most people who’ve crossed paths with him, Jon Lovitz absolutely hates him, and blamed Dick for the death of Phil Hartman. Lovitz accused Dick of giving Hartman’s wife, Brynn Omdahl, cocaine despite her being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, causing her to relapse, which eventually led to her murder of Hartman in his sleep. The two have had multiple altercations since
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
The baldies, The rock vs Vin Diesel, I’ve heard that they even have stipulations in their contracts that none of them can lose a fight against each other even going as far as having to throw the same amount of punches and kicks, just two absolute thespians really prideful in their cinematic masterpieces
Another example is Juliana Margulies and Archie Panjabi where their conflict basically destroyed “The Good Wife”
They have great on screen chemistry, but apparently David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson did not get along while making The X-Files. They both worked long hours, were together a lot and apparently just pushed each others buttons/grated on each other.
Some time and separation from the show helped though, and now they *are* genuinely good friends.
Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog, and anyone else who worked with Klaus Kinski
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron
Sigourney Weaver and the cat from Alien. She realised almost immediately prior to shooting that she was allergic to cats when she was holding him for a scene. She managed to hold her reaction together and even sacrificed her life to rescue the thing before the scary beetle man lizard ate it when the ship was going to explode. An icon.
Sharon Stone and a Baldwin filming Sliver.
Rip Torn and Dennis Hopper hated each other’s guts
Marilyn Monroe pissed off many costars with her chronic lateness. Tony Curtis called her “Hitler”
Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall
Lucy Liu and Bill Murray
Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts despised each other on I Love Trouble and both spoke poorly of the other for close to 30 years
I don’t know if they absolutely despised each other, but Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey on both sets of Red Dawn and Dirty Dancing, disliked working together. Though their chemistry on screen, especially in Dirty Dancing, was absolutely amazing.
William Frawley and Vivian Vance (Fred and Ethel)
Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Sisters whose hatred for each other was legendary.
Bruce Willis & Cyble Shepherd
I’ve heard Beavis and Butthead immediately go to their separate trailers between scenes
Bill Murray and (insert name here). Apparently, it was a common occurrence.
Jared Leto and pretty much everyone he has ever worked with. I have heard that even on Fight Club, Ed Norton was kind of fulfilling the wish of everyone else involved.
Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano.
Chevy Chase vs the world
Tommy Lee Jones and Jim carry. Mike Meyers and Madonna
William Shatner and George Takei and Leonard Nemoy and Nichelle Nichols and so on and so on.
John Candy and Chevy Chase
In 1977 while they were filming Animal House, John Candy threw a bash and walked around the party with Chevy Chase in a headlock for at least 2 hours.
Headlock….2 hours…..
David Thewlis and Val Kilmer apparently took one hell of a disliking to each other on Island Of Dr. Moreau.
Clint Eastwood was so butthurt Sandra Locke broke up with him he ruined her career.
Kevin Costner has apparently pissed off endless people in his dual director/actor capacity.
Mark Harmon and Pauley Perrette after the incident with his dog and claims that he was abusive to her on the set of NCIS. She quit acting over it apparently and doesn’t talk about it.
Will Smith and Janet Hubert-Whitten which was a clash of egos causing her to be replaced after season one of Fresh Prince.
Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty clashed on the set of Charmed and Doherty was either fired or quit.
Katherine Heigl and Shonda Rhimes. Heigl withdrew her own name from the Emmys saying that Rhimes material that she was acting with wasn’t good enough to warrant an Emmy so Rhimes wrote her character out of Grey’s Anatomy.
Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. Apparently the crew on Moonlighting couldn’t decide which one was worse. They hated each other and everyone hated them.
Jerry Seinfeld and Bobcat Goldthwait. Goldthwait had few swipes at Seinfeld’s penchant for dating very young girls and Jerry did not take it well.
Chevy chase and the cast of community
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. After completing Groundhog Day, they didn’t speak to each other until Ramis was on his deathbed.
Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard apparently
Kris Kristofferson said, “working with Barbara Streisand was the hardest thing I’ve done since Ranger School.”
Ryan gosling and Justin Timberlake went from childhood to teenage besties to hating each other as adults
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase.
Peter Griffin and the Chicken.
andy griffith and aunt bea
hated each other
Steven Seagal and almost literally everyone he’s ever worked with
Not the most popular, but Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
essentially hated each other and ruined whatever chemistry they were supposed to have
Bill Murray while filming “What About Bob” from the book “Keys To The Kingdom” about the inner workings of 90’s Disney:
In return, Murray was a nightmare throughout the production. He and costar Richard Dreyfuss got into arguments that once involved throwing ashtrays at one another. And director Frank Oz was not one to step into a confrontation.
Producer Laura Ziskin tried to pamper Murray, and when the cast was filming on location in Virginia even got a Richmond high-school marching band to surprise him with a rendition of “Happy Birthday” when the star turned forty.
But when Murray found out that the producers planned to work on Columbus Day, he was incensed. When Ziskin came on the set, he asked loudly, “So, Laura, are we getting the day off?” Ziskin knew this was a sore point, so she stopped short of answering. “Were you expecting the day off?” she asked.
Murray jumped up and screamed, “Was I expecting the day off?” He picked up a light, threw it against the wall, and pulled down a piece of the set before walking out. Ziskin felt she had to follow him. In the parking lot, he turned on her, ripped off her glasses, broke them, and threw them at her. “I’m going to throw you across the fucking parking lot!” he yelled.
She stood her ground and he stalked off. The rumor immediately sped through the industry that he had belted her. After this treatment, Ziskin told Jeffrey Katzenberg that he had to back her up and make the star work on Columbus Day.
Katzenberg didn’t have the stomach for the fight. “What is that Kenny Rogers song?” he says with a laugh. “‘Know when to fold ’em.’ It’s not as though I didn’t have more than my fair share of battles.” With Ovitz’s help, Murray got an expensive day off—along with the crew.
Terri Hatcher is apparently really difficult to work with, but she and Dean Cane especially do not like each other.
Apparently a lot of the other actors hated Shia LaBeouf on the set of fury. He would refuse to shower, would start fights with people, would self-mutilate like cut his own face and even pulled his own tooth to “get into character”.
I heard brad pitt said he smelled bad and was weirdo.