Famous Co-Stars Who Didn't Get Along in Real Life (2024)

Jennifer Aniston and Jay Mohr

Aniston was reportedly not thrilled when actor Jay Mohr beat out her then-boyfriend Tate Donovan to be her on-screen love interest in the movie,Picture Perfect(1997).

Mohr says instead of taking her anger out on the studio, Aniston took it out on him instead. In an interview withELLEfrom 2010, he explained how it was one of the worst filming experiences of his life. “Being on the set of a movie where the leading woman was unhappy with my presence and made it clear from day one.”

He continued, “I hadn’t done that many movies, and even though they screen-tested some pretty famous guys, I somehow snaked into the leading role. The actress said, ‘No way! You’ve got to be kidding me!’ Loudly. Between takes. To other actors on set. I would literally go to my mom’s house and cry.”

Harrison Ford and Sean Young

On the set of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic,Blade Runner, Harrison Ford and Sean Young played lovers in a futuristic Los Angeles. However, when the cameras stopped rolling, the two reportedly couldn't stand each other. It got so bad that the film crewnicknamedtheir love scene "the hate scene."

Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando

When filming the romantic comedyA Countess from Hong Kong,Loren detailed in her memoir,Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life, an uncomfortable day on set when her co-star groped her.

“All of a sudden, he put his hands on me. I turned in all tranquility and blew in his face, like a cat stroked the wrong way and said, ‘Don’t you ever dare to do that again. Never again!'"

She continued, “As I pulverized him with my eyes, he seemed small, defenseless, almost a victim of his own notoriety. He never did it again, but it was very difficult working with him after that.”

Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe

You would think when asked what it was like to kiss your co-star, you would say something nice, but Tony Curtis didn't go that route. The actorsaid of hisSome Like It Hotco-star, Marilyn Monroe, "It was like kissing Hitler."

Before filming the famous movie, the pair had actually dated in real life, but the feelings had changed by the time they started shooting. "She'd gone funny, her mind was all over the place," he said. He then spoke about the scene in which the couple kisses on a yacht (pictured here), saying, "It was awful. She nearly choked me to death by deliberately sticking her tongue down my throat into my windpipe."

Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment

The on-screen best friends found it hard to keep up those feelings off screen. In her memoir,Miles to Go, Miley Cyrus shared that she and Emily Osment didn't get along off screen.

"The show felt real to me, and I wanted my relationship with Lilly to feel real too. I knew it didn't have to—show business is show business–but I was disappointed," she wrote. "There were times when I didn't think we could ever be friends. We just couldn't figure out how to get along."

The co-stars ended up working out their feelings and are friends today. They recently had a reunionover Instagramto celebrate 10 years ofHannah Montana.

Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep

On the set ofKramer vs. Kramer, Meryl Streep said Dustin Hoffman wasn't easy to work alongside. Some incidents include the time when Streep got approved to make some changes to a scene by writer-director Robert Benton.

When Hoffman saw the changes, he angrily shouted, perThe Telegraph, "Meryl, why don't you stop carrying the flag for feminism and just act the scene." Streep commented on the film's scene of spousal abuse toThe New York Timesand stated how her co-star went overboard.

Then, of course, there was the scene when Hoffman literally slapped his co-star. "This was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me," she said. "And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping."

Years later, while playing a game of "Marry, Shag, Kill" on Andy Cohen'sWatch What Happens Live,Streep chose "to kill" Hoffman without question.

Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley

During their first five months of filming, Dobrevrevealedon theDirectionally Challengedpodcast that her and Welsey couldn't stand each other. "I respected Paul Wesley, I didn't like Paul Wesley," she said on the show. But don't worry, the blood-sucking co-stars ended up working things out and are friends today.

"But, of everyone [from theVampire Diariescast], I think I probably see him the most and hang out with him the most…We are probably the closest," she said on the podcast. "We hang out a lot. We're really good friends. And I love his wife. It's so funny how time changes everything because I never thought that he would be one of my best friends."

Joan Collins and John Forsythe

On Andy Cohen'sWatch What Happens Live, Collins shared the soap opera co-stars didn't talk for an entire season.

"[At] the People's Choice Awards, we won as a whole company, and we were told that when we were being presented with the award, it was going to be given to John,"she said on the late-night talk show."However, they gave it to me. He didn't like that. I said, 'Oh, thank you very much, I'm going to give it to our fearless leader,' and he said, 'She's said enough,' and that was it. And it was very unpleasant, I have to say. It wasn't nice."

Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly

The famous musical,Singin' in the Rain, captured hearts, but it wasn't exactly a joy to make for some of its actors. In Reynolds' memoir,Unsinkable, she recalled her time on set with Kelly, writing, "He came to rehearsals and criticized everything I did and never gave me a word of encouragement."

She also detailed what it was like when their characters kissed. In her memoir she said, "Gene took me tightly in his arms...and shoved his tongue down my throat. 'Eeew! What was that?' I screeched, breaking free of his grasp and spitting. I ran around frantic, yelling for some Coca-Cola to cleanse my mouth. It was the early 1950s, and I was an innocent kid who had never been French-kissed. It felt like an assault. I was stunned that this 39-year-old man would do this to me."

Selma Blair and Charlie Sheen

According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Blair voiced her concerns about Sheen's work ethic while filming two episodes a week that often found him with more than 40 pages of dialogue per script. Sheen then fired Blair by sending her a nasty text in which he called her a "c**t" andthreatened to leave the showif she returned to set. She left the show.

In 2017,during a segmentonWatch What Happens Live,he was asked to rank some previous co-stars from favorite to least favorite to work with. He commented on his former co-star Blair and his formerTwo and a Half Mencostar Jenny McCarthy saying, "I'd like to mash those two together and then kick them to the curb. They deserve each other."

Jerome Flynn and Lena Headey

Despite having ample opportunity (and good plot reasons) to have met in Westeros, Flynn and Headey'sGame of Thronescharacters, Bronn and Cersei, have conspicuously never shared the screen. Why?Sources have saidthat theformer real-life couple aren't on speaking terms and refuse to work together.

"Jerome and Lena aren't on speaking terms anymore and they are never in the same room at the same time," a source toldThe Telegraphin 2014."It's a pity because they appeared to have patched things up for a while, but now the word is they should be kept apart at all costs."

Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson

Though rumors that the actors outright hated each other behind the scenes don't seem to be true (thankfully), Luke and Lorelai's on-screen chemistry didn't translate to an awesome relationship off camera.

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte

The vibe between Roberts and Nolte was so bad that their on-screen romance inI Love Troublewas a hard sell—the chemistry just wasn't there. A 1994 story in theLos Angeles Timesexplored the friction between the actors on set.

"Roberts reportedly wasn't thrilled with Nolte's machismo, so she would deride and insult her co-star," said the publication. "Some on the set claim that he became so annoyed with her attitude that he would do things to agitate her even more. The discord was so intense, the sources say, the two played more to stand-ins than to each other."

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis

Crawford and Davis' feud on the set ofWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?was so infamous that it was the subject of the first season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series,Feud. The drama between the Hollywood legends was said to have started when Crawford married Franchot Tone, who just happened to be the love of Davis' life. "I have never forgiven her for that, and never will," Davis once said of Crawford in aninterviewyears later.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall

Rumors swirledthat the twoSex and the Cityactresses weren't great friends in real life, with claims that Cattrall had become upset when she learned that Parker earned more than her co-stars.In November 2009, Parker publicly denied the feudtellingELLE,"I don't think anybody wants to believe that I love Kim. I adore her. I wouldn't have done the movie without her."

Years later, talks of a thirdSATCmovie in the works were shut down when rumors about Catrall being a diva started circulating; Hollywood gossip insinuated that the film wouldn't happen because she was holding up negotiations with her demands. Catrall took personal offense to the rumors and fired back bythrowing some shadeSJP's way.

"This is really where I take to task the people fromSex and the Cityand specifically Sarah Jessica Parker in that I think she could have been nicer. I really think she could have been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is, I never have.”

Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth

The actresses starred together on the '90s hitBeverly Hills: 90210, but Doherty left the show after season four reportedly due to problems getting along with her cast mates. In a 2014 interview withE! Online, Garth opened up about her own feud with Doherty.

"We were locked in this sound stage for 14–16 hours every day. There were times when we loved each other and there were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out," she explained.

Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano

Doherty faced co-star drama again on the set of her WB series,Charmed. After several reports of behind-the-scenes drama with Alyssa Milano, Doherty left the series after the third season.

Naya Rivera and Lea Michele

In her memoir,Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up, the late Naya Riveraaddressedher long-rumored feud withGleeco-star Lea Michele.

"One of the Glee writers once said that Lea and I were like two sides of the same battery, and that about sums us up," Rivera wrote. "We are both strong-willed and competitive—not just with each other but with everyone—and that's not a good mixture."

Stacy London and Clinton Kelly

One of the best parts of the TLC makeover showWhat Not to Wearwas the natural chemistry between fashion gurus Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, but as it turns out, their friendship wasn't as rocksteady as it appeared. When Kelly released his memoirI Hate Everyone, Except Youin 2017, he hinted that there was some serious tension between the co-stars.

London didn't take kindly to the book and ended up blocking Kelly on social media. "I can’t stop people from the way they behave. I can’t stop them from being angry with me, hurtful to me, or indifferent to me," the fashionista laterwroteon Instagram. "I can block ex-friends and ex-lovers, people I feel wronged by, but to what end? For the most part, these people aren’t even looking at my accounts in the first place and even if they were, why would being able to see this highlight reel of my life matter in the slightest?”

Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj

The pop superstars infamously butted heads when they served as judges together onAmerican Idol.

"Mariah has been saying little things to jab at Nicki from day one of shooting," a source toldPeopleof the feud. "Mariah doesn't think Nicki can sing and doesn't think she should be judging folks. Nicki has been taking all of the jabs, but on this particular day she lost it."

Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel

We first met Tisdale and Grabeel in the 2006 Disney musical phenomenonHigh School Musical, where they starred as fame-hungry twins Sharpay and Ryan Evans. While the two may have seemed as thick as thieves, the actors weren'tactuallyfriends while they were filming theHSMfranchise.

Tisdale spilled the tea on their relationship when they reunited in 2017 on herYouTube channel. "We were not close. We were not good friends—let's be honest. It's been 10 years, so we can talk about it." she laughingly admitted. "We hated each other. Like, I'm not kidding."

"We didn't get off on the best foot," Grabeel chimed in.

America Ferrera and Lindsay Lohan

Of all of the guest appearances on ABC's smash sitcomUgly Betty, Lohan's run on the show might have been the most tumultuous. The actressesreportedlydidn't get along, with a source saying that "America couldn't handle Lindsay stealing her thunder." There were even rumors that Ferrera lobbied to have Lohan's arc cut short.

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny

Fans shippped Mulder and Scully for years, but the stars didn't always get along in real life. "Familiarity breeds contempt," Dochovnyonce explained. "We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other."

Shonda Rhimes and Katherine Heigl

Heigl hasn't headlined many major films or television shows since her departure fromGrey's Anatomy, and many suspect that it's due to a falling out withGrey'screator Shonda Rhimes. When Heigl earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Izzy Stevens in 2008, the actress actually opted out because she wasn't given enough quality material to even be considered for an Emmy. "I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials." Heiglexplainedin a statement that year.

Rhimes kept it professional, but the damage was already done. Even when Heigl publicly expressed a desire to revisit her role on the show, the showrunner coolly declined. "There are no Heigls in this situation," Rhimes said of theScandalcast in a 2014The Hollywood Reporterinterview. "I don't put up with bullsh*t or nasty people. I don't have time for it."

The Cast and Crew of 'Grey's Anatomy'

Heigl wasn't the onlyGrey'sstar involved in beef. Many of her castmates were also dealing with their own in-house feuds. Most famously, Isaiah Washington wasfiredfrom the ABC medical drama after it was revealed that he used a hom*ophobic slur towards T.R. Knight during an intense argument with Patrick Dempsey. Washington issued several public apologies following the incident, but was only able to return to the show for a guest appearance years later, much to the ire of some of the cast and fans.

In 2015, creator Shonda Rhimesconfessedto killing off characters on her show because she didn't like them, and fans immediately began speculating that she was referring to Dempsey. Known for being somewhat of a diva, it's likely that his character Derek Shepherd was written off the show because he didn't get along well with the showrunner.

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester

Sorry,Gossip Girlfans—your favorite Upper East Siders aren't really as close as you thought they were. Lively and Meesterreportedly had a strained relationship behind the scenes, whichsourcesattributed to long working days on set.OneGossip Girlsource spelled out the actresses' issues with each other plainly: "Leighton thinks Blake is an egomaniac who views her time on the TV set as slumming. And Blake feels stifled. She’s just ignoring her co-star because she knows bigger things are in store."

In response to the drama, Lively's publicist didn't even really try to spin the rumors. "Blake and Leighton have never been best friends, and never professed to be,” the statementclarified. "Blake goes to work, does her job, and goes home."

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp

The high-profile actors reportedly didn't hit it off on the set of their 2010 film,The Tourist."Their chemistry was supposed to fly off the charts, but in private, they're not getting along," sourcessaid. "She was disappointed that he didn't get in better shape for the role and that he didn't want to cut his hair. Johnny retreats to his own trailer until he's called out again. He think she's really full of herself."

George Takei and William Shatner

Diehard Trekkies were obsessed with the camaraderie on the USS Enterprise, but as it turns out not everyone aboard the starship was on good terms. Most notably, Shatner and Takei spent much of their tenure on Star Trek giving each other the cold shoulder, and the bad blood only grew over time. In his 1994 autobiography,To the Stars, Takei claimed that Shatner was self-centered and egotistical; he also appeared on many television shows to roast his former castmate.

Shatner didn't pull any punches either. In aninterview, the actor behind Captain Kirk wentinon his co-star. "There’s such a sickness there, it’s so painfully obvious that there’s a psychosis there," he said. "There must be something else inside George that is festering, and it makes him so unhappy that he takes it out on me, in effect a total stranger."

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn

The actors' differing work styles reportedly caused tension on the set of their holiday movie,Four Christmases.Sources said Witherspoon wanted to rehearse extensively while Vaughn preferred a more improvisational approach.

"Vince rolls onto set in the morning looking like he just came in from a night out, while Reese will arrive early looking camera-ready," reported theDaily News. "Then Reese tries to force Vince into blocking out each scene and running through their lines as Vince tries to convince her that he's an ad-libber and wants to play around and see where the scene goes."

Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad

Though it was ultimately revealed that much of the MTV reality show was scripted, Conrad and Montag's relationship onThe Hillsdid actually come to an end. The former friends and co-stars started beefing when Montag's husband, Spencer Pratt, spread a rumor about Conrad making a sex tape with her boyfriend. To this day, their relationship has been icy, despite efforts from Montag to make amends.

"Lauren just holds grudges a little bit," Montag said on a 2018 episode of the#NoFilter podcastwith Zack Peter. "I’d be willing to move forward and put things behind us. We would never be the way that we were again, but it would be fun to maybe catch up one day and be mature and be like, 'Hey that was crazy, I wish you the best,' type-of-thing. But I don’t think she would ever be ready for that."

Will Smith and Janet Hubert

Will Smith and hisFresh Prince of Bel-Airco-star Janet Hubert had an infamously strained working relationship, which ultimately led to her character being recast in season four. Hubert hassaidshe would never reprise the role for a reunion show, claiming that the Hollywood icon is an "egomaniac."

Smith maintains that he never purposely offended her. In 1993, he offered an Atlanta radio station some insight into thebad bloodbetween them. "[Hubert] said once, 'I've been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.' No matter what, to her I'm just the Anti-Christ."

Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush

In the case ofOne Tree Hillco-stars Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush, love came first andthencame the on-set awkwardness. The co-stars married in April 2005 and separated just a few months later in September 2005. They both continued as series regulars through 2009. Awkward.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Tyrese Gibson

When Johnson joined theFast and Furiousfranchise in 2011, fans across the world rejoiced. However, as the former wrestler-turned-action-star's success mounted, so did tensions between him and his castmates, particularly Gibson. Gibson, who had been part of franchise since its inception, took special offense to the news that Johnson had been selected to star in his own spinoff film,Hobbs & Shaw. He took his complaints to the internet, blasting his co-star for putting himself before theFast and Furiousfamily. "If you move forward with that #Hobbs Movie you will have purposely ignored the heart to heart moment we had in my sprinter," the singerwroteout on Instagram. "I don’t wanna hear from you until you remember what we talked about."

Johnson was unbothered. In an appearance onWatch What Happens Live, headdressedthe situation for the first and last time. "I always feel like a beef requires two people to actually jump in it, and it was really one-sided, and he had voiced his opinion a lot on social media...We haven't talked, and I don't see where we would, and, to me, there's no need to have a conversation."

Betty White and Bea Arthur

Apparently those barbs Dorothy spat at Rose onGolden Girlsweren't just acting. In 2011, White admitted that Arthur didn't care for her behind the scenes. "Bea had a reserve. She was not that fond of me," shesaid. "She found me a pain in the neck sometimes. It was my positive attitude—and that made Bea mad sometimes. Sometimes if I was happy, she'd be furious!"

Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice

When their Nickelodeon show,Victorious, was cancelled, Grande took to social media to subtly point blame at her former co-star.

"Sweetheart, the only reasonVictoriousended is because 1 girl didn't want to do it," Grandewrote."She chose to do a solo tour instead of a cast tour. If we had done a cast tour Nickelodeon would have ordered another season ofVictoriouswhileSam and Catfilmed simultaneously but she chose otherwise. I'm sick of this bs."

Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross

Teri Hatcher reportedly didn't get along with herDesperate Housewivesco-stars (Eva Longoriacalledher a "loner"), but things were especially tense with Cross. Longoria said that she and "Marcia [Cross] and Felicity [Huffman] were a lot closer because we are just girlie girls who like to be in each other's company. Teri didn't."

Heather McDonald and Chelsea Handler

Though things were all smiles on set ofThe Chelsea Lately Show, the energy was anything but easy between McDonald and her boss. "I lived in fear, 100 percent lived in fear,” the comedienneadmitted. “I enjoyed my time there, I was happy, but I mean something would happen and my heart would be beating and I would be like, ‘Is this it?’—you know? And then somehow I just managed to keep surviving.”

Handler wasn't very sympathetic, however. In a 2016 interview with Howard Stern, she fired back: "I could have fired her. I did not fire her. She had a job for four more years. I never hung out with her personally again. So I hope she was living in fear."

Michael Bay and Megan Fox

After starring in the first twoTransformersfilms, Fox was fired from the franchise when she spoke up about the personality of her director, Michael Bay.

"He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation,” Foxsaid. “He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it’s endearing to watch him.”

The backlash was almost immediate—Fox was swiftly replaced (at the request of executive producer Steven Spielberg!) by another actress and never mentioned in the franchise again.

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger

TheTerms of Endearmentactresses were reportedly at each other's throats while they filmed the Oscar-winning drama, and even got into numerous physical altercations. When MacLaine won the Oscar in the Best Actress category for her role inTerms of Endearment, the feud worsened because Winger was in that same category.

Ever outspoken, Winger didn't bother refuting the rumors. "I can't deny that we fought,'' she toldThe New York Timesin 1986. ''We challenged ourselves, and when we got tired of challenging ourselves, we challenged each other."

Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion

BeforeCastlecame to an end, the off-camera relationship of its leads was notoriously tense."Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion completely despise each other," a sourcetoldUs Weekly. "They will not speak when they are off set, and this has been going on for seasons now."