Actors Who Publicly Hate Their Co-Stars! Why They…

Every employee appears to have at least one of these obnoxious coworkers, who everyone in the office tries to avoid at all costs. Perhaps they like doing “pranks” that only they find amusing, swiping lunches from the common refrigerator, or using every chance to brag to management by taking credit for others’ efforts. Unfortunately, this is another example of how, in many ways, working in Hollywood is like any other employment.

Several well-known people have developed a negative reputation among their co-stars over time, to the point that other performers never want to collaborate with them again. Let’s look at some of the most famous co-star beef and how they began, from straightforward personality clashes to irrational name-calling and everything in between. These actors have all outright refused to collaborate.

Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones

Jim Carrey was at the pinnacle of his more “comedic” cinematic career when he played the Riddler in Batman Forever. Tommy Lee Jones, who played Harvey Dent, was Carrey’s co-star and most obviously wasn’t a fan of his slapstick humor. Joel Schumacher, the film’s director, stated to Entertainment Weekly in 1996 that Jones had a bad attitude on the set “Jim Carrey was a gentleman, and he intimidated Tommy Lee. I’m done supporting performers who are overpaid and overprivileged.”

Jones and Carrey met in a restaurant the evening before they shot a scene together. Carrey didn’t receive the exact welcome he anticipated when he went over to Jones’ table to say hi. “I hate you, he muttered as he hugged me after standing up somewhat shaken. I genuinely dislike you,” “Carrey said to Howard Stern. “And I thought, “Wow. What’s happening, man?” I cannot approve of your buffoonery, he added.” The phrase will be kept in reserve for the next time we need to ask some youngsters to leave our yard.

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte co-starred in the romantic comedy I Love Trouble in 1994. The two didn’t get along well on set, and their lack of chemistry is evident in the final product. According to rumors, their incessant fighting grew so terrible that the film’s director, Charles Shyer, had to split up some of their sequences to keep them apart as much as possible.

Roberts stated to the New York Times that Nolte is “absolutely filthy” and “seems to go out of his way to reject people” when filming I Love Trouble. Later, Nolte said, “While it’s impolite to describe someone as “disgusting,” she isn’t a good person. Everyone is aware of that.” When Roberts made an appearance on The Late Show in 2009 and impersonated a previous co-star who turned out to be Nolte with a profanity-filled monologue, the on-screen conflict wasn’t forgotten.

James Franco and Tyrese Gibson

The U.S. Naval Academy recruits and officers’ upcoming boxing match is at the heart of the military drama Annapolis from 2006. But when lead actor James Franco went too far with his method acting, things between him and co-star Tyrese Gibson quickly became tense. Gibson said that as they were acting out the boxing scenes, Franco would really hit his targets. Gibson told Elle, “The guy was really pounding me.”

“James, lighten up, man, I used to say. We’re only practicing,” he said without ever smiling.” Franco, on the other hand, claims he never hit Gibson, but he did confess to GQ that “I was certainly a jerk.” Gibson told Playboy in 2007 that the admission was insufficient “I’m certain he feels the same way as I do about never wanting to deal with him again. That was incredibly intimate. That was a mess.”

Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone

Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone have appeared to be at odds for a number of years. During a 2006 Q&A session with Ain’t It Cool News, Stallone eventually provided an explanation for the conflict between the actors, stating that Gere had initially been chosen to play the lead role of Chico in the 1974 coming-of-age movie The Lords of Flatbush. Regrettably, Gere was replaced by Perry King after an instant fight between Stallone and Gere while in production.

According to Stallone, Gere was a total jerk on the set, acting out inappropriately during fight scenes and smearing greasy food all over Stallone’s clothing “One of us had to go, and one of us had to stay, so the director had to decide. Richard received his termination notice and still has a strong aversion to me. He even believes that I am the source of the gerbil myth. While untrue, that is the rumor.”

Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard

Robert Downey Jr.’s co-star in Iron Man, Terrence Howard, had a falling out. Howard claimed in 2013 on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live that the studio initially signed him to a three-movie deal, but that “they came to me with the second and said Look, we will pay you one-eighth of what we contractually had for you, because we think the second one will be successful with or without you.”

He continued by placing full responsibility on Downey: “I phoned my guy, who I assisted in getting the first job, and he didn’t call me back for three months.” It would take two more three years, during the 2016 wedding of director Brian Grazer, for them to finally work things out.

Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis

While Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith worked well together on the Live Free or Die Hard set, their collaboration on the 2010 cop comedy Cop Out, in which Willis starred and Smith directed, was quite tense. Smith had a great deal of admiration for the Die Hard actor before their collaboration on the unimpressive buddy-cop movie and even took a significant pay reduction to work with Willis. Superstars can have huge egos, which is unfortunate.

Smith subsequently referred to directing Willis in Cop Out as “soul-crushing,” and he attributes Tracy Morgan, who plays Willis’ co-star in the film, with keeping him alive during production: “Were it not for Tracy, I might’ve murdered myself or someone else in the making of that movie.” Smith provides further information in his 2012 autobiography Tough Sh*t, claiming Willis “came out to be the most miserable, acrimonious, and cruel emo-b*tch I’ve ever encountered in any job I’ve ever held. And yes, I have experience working for Domino’s Pizza.” Ouch.

Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer

Tom Sizemore’s career in Hollywood soared in the 1990s, thanks in large part to his parts in outstanding dramas like 1995’s Heat with Val Kilmer. Nevertheless, things weren’t quite rosy when Kilmer and Sizemore got back together on the set of Red Planet five years later. When Kilmer discovered that the company had paid to send Sizemore’s workout equipment to Australia, where filming was taking place, he reportedly became angry.

A yelling fight broke out, and according to Sizemore’s autobiography By Some Miracle, I Got It Out of There, Tom threw a 50-pound weight at Kilmer (he missed). Then, a producer instructed Sizemore to refrain from striking Kilmer in the face during their subsequent knock-down, drag-out altercation. Kilmer was properly struck in the chest by Tom, who then sternly warned him, “I’m never traveling to another planet with you again.” But, time cures all wounds, and by 2014, the two former co-stars had put their feud behind them.

Julianna Margulies & Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi and Julianna Margulies’ ongoing beef on The Good Wife’s set led to tension for years before Panjabi left the program. The two actresses were not friends, despite the fact that the characters they played were once close friends. For a whopping 51 episodes, the two were not actually filmed together, and the majority of their on-screen interactions took place over the phone.

Margulies and Panjabi ultimately shared a moment after Panjabi departed the show, which was pieced together using the green screen and CGI after the two actresses shot their individual portions of the sequence separately. It might be time to take Panjabi’s advice and look for a new job if you can’t even stand to be in the same room as a coworker.

Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe

Although Some Like it Hot is now regarded as one of the greatest comedies of all time, the actors, especially Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis, found the filming to be everything but amusing. According to rumors, Monroe was renowned for causing problems on the set and wasting production time and money due to her unpredictable conduct.

After having to reshoot a kissing sequence, Curtis reportedly hit his breaking point. When Curtis was asked what it was like to kiss Monroe during an early screening of the movie for the cast and crew, Tony sarcastically said, “[it was] like kissing Hitler!”