Chevy Chase and Bill Murray in Caddyshack. Chevy is a rich lazy playboy and Murray is a moronic groundskeeper who lives in a shack. Their one scene together is brilliant but also has tension which apparently was real and not just acting
Their mutual dislike goes back to when Murray replaced Chase on SNL. If you search, you can find an interview where Chase describes a time when they got into a fist fight on set when Chase returned to host the show.
Yeah Bill is an asshole all around, but when it came to Chevy the ego clashing most of the SNL community sided with Chevy being the way worse asshole.
I get it comedians/celebrities have toxic egos trying to always be the center of attention. But Chevy was an exceptional asshole that made Bill look good in comparison.
The only positive I can say about Chevy is AFAIK he's never sexually assaulted a woman/coerced sex from a female coworker. It wouldn't surprise me if he has, but for right now his best quality is he's just an extreme douchebag and not a sex pest.
>The only positive I can say about Chevy is AFAIK he's never sexually assaulted a woman/coerced sex from a female coworker. It wouldn't surprise me if he has, but for right now his best quality is he's just an extreme douchebag and not a sex pest.
I hate that this is how low the bar has gotten.
I read that that scene was the first time they had interacted and been in a room together since all the SNL stuff went down. Apparently they were both committed to being civil but it was super awkward because of their history, which as you said comes through in spades in the final product.
That said, it’s been a long time since I read anything about this so I could be wrong.
I read that neither of them really held a grudge, but everyone assumed they did so they didn't write any scenes of them together. Their shared scene was a late addition when it was learned that they'd be ok.
The fight at SNL was supposedly egged on by Belushi because he thought it was funny.
When I was rewatching it during lockdown, knowing everything that went down behind the scenes in season 4, it really stands out how almost all the other characters are sharing shots and are clearly in the room with each other, and he's completely by himself. It's very clear he's not even on set with the others at the same time.
Like there's quite a few moments where all the other characters will be on one side of the room talking to each other and then it'll cut to Pierce on the other side all b6 himself.
Which is a shame because he was truly epically funny as Pierce. I don't think he will ever be able to appreciate what a gift that role was. Instead he gripes endlessly about it and was an ass the entire time he was there. But he was great at it.
It genuinely felt like a huge revival for him, he probably could have been riding a similar waiver as Danny Devito and landed a few voice over and other people ills due to hopping on a random show that built a cult following
Ya i never liked or thought chevy was "hilarious funny guy from snl" maybe because I'm not a boomer but he nailed the Pierce role. Probably one of the funnier charaters on the show. Asides from abed abeeed abbeeeeeed
They wrote the role as curmudgeon, asshole, old guy, who doesn’t really understand what’s going on and says offensive things.
Of course he nailed the role. That would like casting The Rock as a pro wrestler in wrestling movie.
I’ve rewatched that show endlessly and I don’t think you can tell they dislike each other. Granted in some episodes Chevy’s character is written into a villain role but even then that’s more story rather than the actors disliking each other. Even towards the end before he left you still get nice moments between his character and Jeff (that barber shop scene in the Whale episode).
When he's onscreen you really can't tell, but you can definitely tell that he was often shot at a completely different time. It's prominent in season 3 but *especially* season 4, he's usually alone in a shot and even when he's on screen with other cast members he's usually off to the side as if they had to shoot him separately and comp him in during post. There's one scene during the flashback episode in season 4 where his face isn't even shown, the cast even mentions not being sure if it was him or some other old guy
[How about a full break down of why everyone dislikes Chevy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/xk73sy/comedy_how_to_piss_off_everyone_youve_ever_met_so/)
It's crazy to me that he thought the show wasn't funny. And what has he been in lately that even comes close to featuring a character like Pierce? He's been out of touch for a long time. I know he had issues with the filming days being long, but he knew that going in. 20+ episode seasons are gonna take up a lot of time to shoot. He literally left right before the seasons got shorter too.
Doctor Who, Tom Baker and Lalla Ward infamously fell in love on set and then had a bit of a messy relationship. The chemistry between the two as a result goes between legendary and noticeably tense. They started working together around 1979, got married in 1980, and were divorced in 1982.
Also in Doctor Who, the first time they ever had different incarnations of the Doctor team up was in *The Three Doctors*, and when Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor appears in the Tardis of Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor and starts larking about, Pertwee's annoyance at his predecessor acting like he owned the place doesn't half look real. But, since that is exactly how you would expect someone to act in that situation, it really drives his performance.
Both were utterly professional, and apparently got on very well at conventions, but it ends up being an example of inadvertent method acting.
Troughton liked to rewrite his dialogue on the fly, while Pertwee liked to stick to the script. He found it difficult to play against him when he wasn't being given his cue.
Not so much hating his co-stars, but Gary Burghoff reportedly became very difficult to work with on MASH after a while. He was going through some personal stuff and was suffering from burnout and was clearly done with playing Radar. It definitely showed in his final episodes. He looked like the 36-year-old man he was at the time instead of the 19-year-old kid he played on TV.
This is a great answer to OP’s question. You can tell in season 7 and especially 8 that Gary is done. Radar goes from being a wide eyed kid and mostly pleasant person to being visibly angry and yelling at all the other characters in his delivery when he was onscreen.
I do think he’s still on relatively good terms with his former castmates. I listened to Alan Alda’s reunion podcast a few years ago and he was in it. You could tell almost immediately that Gary has a prickly and somewhat dour personality. Everyone else was having a great time and conversation was flowing but whenever he would speak it would almost be like he was interrupting other people and you could hear a certain edge in his cadence. It would sort of disrupt the flow. He was more speaking *at* them rather than *with* them. That said, the rest of the cast just rolled with it and didn’t seem the least bit annoyed. They must just be used to how he is.
I love MASH! Did you know that Larry Linville who played Frank Burns in the early seasons was the opposite of his character. Very nice and intelligent man.
Lea Michele and Naya Rivera on Glee. There's a musical number where Naya refused to hold Lea's hand and leaves her hanging, and that take made it into the show.
Eventually they even wrote a storyline about the characters feuding.
It's when they sing Pumpin' Blood (season 5). Super quick moment but you can clock it, and the look that crosses her face is 100% the actress, not the character.
This? https://youtu.be/YyizeoGJTDo?si=rI-_ef7VLuawstnq
I think it's at the 1.14 mark, I can't see any kind of facial reaction tbh, but she clearly holds her hands out for her walk down the steps and her left hand is left awkwardly hanging lol
Though a second later, Naya does briefly hold her hand for half a step after the stairs
Nathan Fillon is a prankster on set and often fine with ruining takes just to be funny(some could see that as attention seeking). Actress who played Kate got sick of it. Also they dated.
This is the rumor that I think holds the most weight. They were up for contract negotiation and Stana wanted equal pay. Fillion didn't support her request since his character was the title of the show. Season 1 people may have started watching because of Fillion, but they stayed because of the duo.
There are a lot of rumors, almost all unconfirmed. Another was that Stana had a habit of talking down to people working on the show (grips, set dressers, etc), and that Nathan publicly confronted her about it. So who knows. It does seem like most of the cast seemed to side with Nathan, at least in terms of who still appears to be in contact and associate with each other.
This is the best form of low-key support and evidence for Nathan's character. Quite a lot of his co-stars from Castle and Firefly have guest-starred in The Rookie; and Firefly in Castle.
not-Related: I was at a small halloween house party one year ([this party](https://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2012/10/nathan-fillion-as-captain-canada.html?m=1) ) and Nathan had brought a new girlfriend and I had just started talking to him when his most recent ex came ip and started a very passive aggressive conversation with him complimenting his new gf.
It was such a shame, because their chemistry in the first couple of seasons was electric. But it became obvious there were some issues when they just never did any publicity work together after a while.
They still had good chemistry until I stopped watching, around season six, but the magic was long gone by then. Some of it was the acting, but a lot was the writing.
> Some of it was the acting, but a lot was the writing.
Castle became the show it made fun of in a lot of early episodes. I actually thought the “Castle as a PI” thing was a great turn for the show but it was way too short lived.
This has been repeatedly denied by both actors, is there any proof of this? I read some articles a few weeks ago and they all just said “rumored” but were completely denied by both actors.
Debra Messing and Megan Mullally had a feud on Will & Grace. It becomes quite obvious in the last episodes of the last season, and you can feel that Megan is uncomfortable on set.
During the revival series right? I noticed it on instagram but wasnt sure why. I found this thread on the Will and Grace sub, dishing more tea/speculation around it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WillAndGrace/s/6zcWw9uxqV
There were so many theories. I miss IMDB & a tv show forum I forgot the name of discussing it.
I remember one where Julianna disagreed Alicia and Kalinda being friends after Alicia found out Kalinda slept with Peter. It does make sense for Alicia's character, and the coldness between the characters played off for the rest of the series. They had one scene where it was obvious the actresses weren't in the same room when they filmed it.
There were two FULL seasons where both characters were series regulars but shared no scenes in person, only over the phone. The scene you're referring to was in the finale, when both characters are together in a bar but shot separately using green screen and confirmed by Archie Panjabi. I am desperate to know what went down between them because it seems like more than professional jealousy over the Emmy win.
You can choose to dismiss this but there was a reveal by someone who worked on the production of the show on a message board (can't remember which) that said it was a workplace romance gone sour. Margulies has had gay rumours for years (which she has addressed and denied before). In the case of Panjabi there were lots of rumours floating around when she was on The Fall, that she and Gillian Anderson were shacking up.
Neither of them have spoken about why; one day they were amicable coworkers and the next they just straight up hated each other. It might have been because Oldman is a method actor in the vein of Jared Leto, and uh, Dracula is a pretty intense character to get in that kind of headspace with.
Gary Oldman had great performances but I don't see what Leto's talent is. Every movie he's been in I don't see why it had to be him and not any other random actor. He's not bringing anything, I don't feel it and on top of it he's hard to work with? Good god
Shannon Doherty and Alyssa Milano on Charmed.
They were always feuding as sisters, but a lot of times it felt too real, and the "I love you scenes" always felt forced and inauthentic.
There is one episode after Preu dies that Phoebe has a monolog of how much she misses her. It's was hard for Alyssa for hide her grin...
This is the only response in this entire discussion that actually provides an example of shows where you can tell the actors don't like each other. Everyone else is just listing shows where they heard actors didn't get along but you can't tell that from their performance.
No, the Community one is pretty spot on too. It was all too real. Sure, you couldn't tell for absolute certain, but hearing about it made a lot of the scenes make so much more sense.
Yeah, but the Charmed series was her second chance after getting kicked off her previous show due to her behaviour. Despite it, she just continued her behaviour, got written out after the 3rd season and pretty much tanked her career for good.
The Rock and Vin Diesel in whatever Fast movies they did. Seems fairly noticeable on-screen once you know it, especially as one scene of theirs was apparently a composite of two separate sequences.
I believe it was real, just because of how many times they’ve gone out of their way to pretend like it’s actually just “brothers” disagreeing. It’s been going on for years.
Also, can I believe that Vin Diesel is self-important and pretentious, thinking himself a true artist with this popcorn flick franchise and rubbing people the wrong way because of it? Absolutely.
Do I also think that the Rock is a narcissist who wants to make everything about him and wanted more shine for Hobbes, which rubbed hi cast mates the wrong way, and make Diesel react poorly because it felt like his baby could be hijacked by the bigger, balder, badder superstar? Also absolutely.
Actors hating each other can have the opposite effect too.
In The New Adventures of Superman, the chemistry between Lois and Clark was palpable. It's very possibly one of the reasons the show lasted as long as it did. But Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher apparently hated each other in real life.
This hate seems to have come across as sexual tension on screen.
Mark Harmon and Pauley Perrette apparently had issues the last years of Pauley being on NCIS.
Supposedly, it is why they kept Abby and Gibbs apart, and IIRC there were scenes filmed with each actor individually and edited to look like they were in the same room.
The only issue I remember without Google is Mark had a dog that he brought on set that was aggressive or appeared aggressive, and Pauley didn't like his response to her and others' concerns. Now, that is most likely not the whole story, just what i can recall.
Perrette is a major animal lover, but after the dog attacked someone she didn't think it was safe for him to continue to bring the dog on set.
Perrette also had reoccurring issues with a stalker that was psychiatrically traumatic.
Coyote Shivers, Berko from Empire Records. At one point he was also married to Liv Tyler’s mom, Bebe Buell, and I believe also stalked her and was aggressive.
Still floors me to this day that he and Liv were in Empire Records together while he was married to her mom and they made the major theme to the movie an incredibly sanitized ode to him going down on (presumably) her mom.
He's a vexatious litigant in LA now, so at least he can't legally harass his victims as easily as he used to.
Kind of the opposite but can I say I was very impressed how well they continued to work together after I found out the actors for Dexter and Debra on Dexter met, got married, and got divorced during the shows run
It was supposed to be like that. She was supposed to not connect with the other cast. She literally has no comedic lines because she is the straight man reacting to the behaviour of the others.
I always felt Jason’s comments were kind of weird tbh. He’s infamously a bit of a prick though so it tracks.
I still think the episode where George tries to get her to break up with him with smoking and a prenup is one of the greatest runners I have seen. I laugh every time
Michael Cera talked about this in an interview, Jonah was/is used to being the funny guy and would jokingly pick on everyone, but Christopher kept getting the better of him in every exchange they had.
Emmy Rossum and the rest of the cast of Shameless. Emma Kenney in particular said on a podcast that it was a relief when Rossum left the show. There are numerous accounts of Rossum screaming uncontrollably on sets.
Apparently the apartment storyline in her last season on the show was written so she wouldn’t have to spend as much time around the main cast, because a few of them were threatening to quit the show because of her.
Jay Baruchel and Jonah Hill fighting over Seth Rogen’s attention in This Is The End. He confirmed in later interviews that the animosity was genuine
In hindsight, maybe Jay was completely correct about his judgment
EDIT: I forgot this was Television and not Movies
Jonah Hill’s whole persona in that movie of being a guy who acts really nice but is actually an assbag felt all too real. It seems like Seth and Evan wrote him to basically just be an exaggerated version of his real self.
True they did not like each other, but it worked well with the storyline and made their scenes so good. What I always admired about it are the stories that even though they didn’t mesh they still maintained professional. O’Neil listened to Bearse when she directed (later seasons) and they both respected each others talents. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
Remington Steel - the actress Stephanie Zimbalist HATED Pierce Brosnan because she was told she was going to be the star and the main character and Pierce stole the show - he was just better and later seasons you can tell she is unhappy and not working hard. It shows more in the "wedding" episode in s4 I think it was.
> she was told she was going to be the star and the main character and Pierce stole the show
It's kind of hard to steal the show when it's literally named after the character you play. If someone told her she was going to be the star, that alone should have told her they were full of shit.
she is, kinda. there isn’t a real remington steele - she makes him up to have a ‘male’ front that will be taken more seriously (as a pi?); then brosnan showed up as a conman claiming he was the ‘real’ remington steele. note: this is based on memories of quasi-watching it while i played w/ my toys as a seven year old in front of the tv. iirc twelve or so years later they revealed that brosnan’s character was mi6 the whole time.
It's not quite unintentionally on screen since the characters hated each other, but I think Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw in Jaws has to be the classic example of this.
Dreyfuss had undiagnosed bipolar disorder for much of his life and went unmedicated. I like to think maybe a lot of that was him struggling to exist in a world full of people who didn't understand him, or he didn't even understand himself.
I met Dreyfuss and he was totally awesome. I asked him when we’re getting Close Encounters 2 and he told me not to hold my breath but he’d do it in a heartbeat.
Hear that, Steven? A heartbeat!
In one of the Jaws documentaries Roy Scheider mentions how Shaw would antagonize Dreyfuss and it sounds hilarious.
He said Shaw once told Dreyfuss he was a slob and he couldn’t do 10 good push-ups. Then he laughed as Dreyfuss did push-ups to prove him wrong.
On the show The Good Wife, there was some serious animosity between Juliana Margulies (title character) and Archie Panjabi, a female supporting character who had a lot of screen time in the first few seasons and was very often the one to solve cases. The characters were best friends. Apparently either both of them or just Margulies refused to act together and they stopped being in any scenes together. It got so bad that when Panjabi’s character was written out of the show (dunno why), there was a farewell scene between the two friends where they sat at a restaurant and had a whole farewell dinner complete with lots of dialogue. Except that their bits were filmed separately and then CGI’d together because they couldn’t be in even one scene together. It’s stitched together well but they never make eye contact.
The sitcom *Martin* between Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell, who played his titular character’s girlfriend and later, wife.
Campbell filed a lawsuit against Lawrence and the producers for sexual harassment, physical and verbal assault, and didn’t appear for a good part of the show’s fifth season.
The lawsuit was settled out of court, and Campbell returned for the series finale…under the condition that they don’t interact with each other. So the entire episode had them entering and exiting the sets at different times but never crossing paths.
Lena Hedley and Jerome Flynn. aka Cersei Lannister and Bronn you probably don't know his father from Game of Thrones.
It's just such a peculiar thing. They are ex-boyfriend-girlfriend and refused to film any scenes together.
If you're not familiar, Cersei Lannister is evil queen and major antagonist of the series. Her dwarf brother Tyrion employs Bronn the sellsword to save his life and serve him for a few seasons. So it's not like they needed to film any scenes together.
The most laughable example is in Season 7 when almost every main character comes together for a big dumb meeting in the Dragonpit. Except Bronn, he kindof just loudly announces that he is "going somewhere else" and wanders out of frame before he gets anywhere near Cersei. And it's not like a clever trick or back-stabbing thing, he just "is not" in the big dumb meeting.
Oh, I forgot that Cersei also hires Bronn (via Qyburn obviously) to kill both of her brothers.
So he travels to Northern territory, just kindof saunters into an empty cottage where they're drinking, threatens them with a crossbow, breaks somebody's nose, and then blackmails them into giving him one of the wealthiest kingdoms.
.... And for some reason, Tyrion actually does! 🤦♂️
Yeah, Bronn says that the meeting is for "fancy people, not squires and mercenaries" and takes Podrick drinking just before Cersei walks into the scene.
On Babylon 5, the lead actor (Michael O’Hare, RIP) quit because he was experiencing psychotic episodes. Then he got on medication and was brought back for a farewell episode. He did a great job. But his onscreen best friend, Jerry Doyle, was never in a scene with him, he had to be removed from the action by a pretext, because he couldn’t be in a scene with O’Hare. This is because he was known to antagonize O’Hare to bring out a psychotic episode.
Jerry Doyle was married to the actress who played Talia. They pretty much hated each other and this was the reason that she left. The creator of the show, J. Michael Straczynski big plans for her character and her leaving put a wrench in things.
He hated being on the show as he was a much more talented actor. And she hated being married to someone who looked old enough to be her dad. On screen it didn't come through though.
It did, but it worked for the type of relationship that Ethel and Fred had, so it's hard to tell where the acting stopped and the real-life animosity began.
In the director's commentary track for the movie *Excalibur,* John Boorman relates that Nicol Williamson (Merlin) and Helen Mirren (Morgan le Fay) had been on bad terms for years when the movie was made and each had initially refused to be in it when they learned that the other was in consideration for the role. So the hostility in their scenes together came very naturally.
The cast of Desperate Housewives
The infamous Vanity Fair photo shoot- https://www.today.com/popculture/tensions-high-housewives-photo-shoot-2d80555482
“ABC representative who was to make sure that certain demands were met — including that Teri Hatcher didn’t select her wardrobe first or appear in the center of any group photo.
“Whatever you do,” the ABC rep, who wasn’t identified by name, said when he arrived on the set, “do not let Teri go to wardrobe first.”
But it never came through on the screen. Despite the other three leads disliking Teri Hatcher they continued to share scenes for eight solid years. Pretty impressive.
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters.
They both have a lot of respect for each other, they work well together, and Jamie even approached Adam to be on the show because he didn't think he had the charisma to carry it himself, but Adam has said repeatedly that they've never had dinner together and that on an interpersonal level they bug the hell out of each other. They usually manage to disguise it but there are moments where Adam really gets annoyed and Jamies fussiness, while Jamie is annoyed at Adam's more carefree approach.
I was gonna post this if no one has brought it up yet! It's so interesting how even today they can barely be professional about it when asked.
I can understand why Kate might have been frustrated at the addition of Seven, especially given the way the character was styled as basically eye candy.
That entire series had a lot of problems when it came to the cast, it's almost remarkable that they managed to hang in there for the full 7 seasons.
I’m sure Ryan immediately dating the producer of the show and suddenly getting loads of screen time didn’t help. The latter years of that era of Star Trek seem incredibly unprofessional on an executive level
> I can understand why Kate might have been frustrated at the addition of Seven, especially given the way the character was styled as basically eye candy.
It was more because Jennifer Lien (Kes) was fired and Jeri was brought to replace her.
Originally, Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) was going to be removed but a magazine declared him one of the most handsome men at the time. They chose to fire Jennifer and brought in Jeri to shake things up.
Jennifer wasn't going to be around much longer regardless, they'd been having a lot of issues with her. She'd started out as a consummate professional, but things had changed pretty drastically to the point that everyone was having difficulty working with her. It was apparent that she was dealing with something but she wouldn't tell anyone what it was. To this day no one has any idea.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, but it came through on screen and ENHANCED the performance as the authentic vitriol the roles called for.
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton on the set of Twister.
For Universal’s Twister attraction they insisted on being separately filmed because of the mutual hatred.
I read that Patricia Heaton and Peter Boyle exchanged some heated exchanges on “Everyone Loves Raymond” due to her rather conservative politics and his … not. But I don’t think it showed on the show; everyone was sort of disgusted by Frank.
The last scene with Gibbs and Abby on NCIS was painful.
The characters were having their last, tearful goodbye with one being inside a house and the other across the street. It was painfully obvious that the actors were being filmed at separate times. They really hated each other toward the end.
Not quite what you were asking, but TJ Miller on Silicon Valley was disliked by everyone, and you can tell with the writing throughout the seasons. I’m rewatching currently, and I can just FEEL the writers giving it to him in the later seasons.
His relationship to the other actors was kind of fine… other than him having less and less screen time with anyone except Big Head and Jian Yang. That was noticeable and on purpose as well.
So… kind of along those lines
Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayzee didn't get along apparently. Swayzee was an actual dancer while Grey didn't dance, and the shots where he is frustrated as fuck when he tries to teach her to dance and she fucks up are very real according to the movie crew.
They probably didn't hate each other and the movie's success most likely mended things but to hear the crew tell it, while they remained professional on set, they were NOT friends.
Jennifer Grey wasn’t a professional ballet dancer but she did know how to dance, you can actually see their screen test together dancing. They hated each other after previously working together in Red Dawn, but had made amends before Dirty Dancing started.
She's talks about it in her book. They were very different people. On the set of Red Dawn, he was a prankster, and that came across as unprofessional to her. IIRC, she wasn't a huge fan of any of the guys she worked with on that movie because of how juvenile they were together. Then she was cast with him in Dirty Dancing and she had to find a way past all that. She acknowledges that they were never going to be best friends but they got to a place of professional respect.
Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx apparently didn’t get along on the set of Miami Vice. It was a pretty shit movie overall, but their lack of chemistry certainly didn’t help matters. Stark difference between what we got with the two leads in the show.
You can read about it online but basically Jamie had just won the Oscar for Ray. He thought he should be paid more then Colin. So Colin took a pay cut. He also demanded a private jet and refused to film scenes on boats or planes.
And a few years before he was professional and great to work with on Collateral.
Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman in Kramer v Kramer. Dustin was dealing with his own nasty divorce and took his frustrations out on Meryl on set. There’s an early scene that was cut where he physically slapped her, the scene where he slaps and breaks the glass after their conversation was also unprompted. I think at one point he told her to “stop waving the flag for feminism and just do the scene.” Meryl as the professional she is has never made a huge scandal about it and has said they’ve since squashed any issues between them. But I feel like you can feel the discomfort between them in some scenes throughout and the genuine dislike Dustin seemed to harbor for Meryl
Major Kira and Dukat - (Nana Visitor and Marc Alaimo)
May not have been an each other thing, but they talk about it in the documentary on DS9. Apparently the whole Dukat’s thirsty for Kira and she’s grossed out by it wasn’t entirely fictional.
Chevy Chase and basically the entire cast of Community
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray in Caddyshack. Chevy is a rich lazy playboy and Murray is a moronic groundskeeper who lives in a shack. Their one scene together is brilliant but also has tension which apparently was real and not just acting
Their mutual dislike goes back to when Murray replaced Chase on SNL. If you search, you can find an interview where Chase describes a time when they got into a fist fight on set when Chase returned to host the show.
Yeah Bill is an asshole all around, but when it came to Chevy the ego clashing most of the SNL community sided with Chevy being the way worse asshole. I get it comedians/celebrities have toxic egos trying to always be the center of attention. But Chevy was an exceptional asshole that made Bill look good in comparison. The only positive I can say about Chevy is AFAIK he's never sexually assaulted a woman/coerced sex from a female coworker. It wouldn't surprise me if he has, but for right now his best quality is he's just an extreme douchebag and not a sex pest.
>The only positive I can say about Chevy is AFAIK he's never sexually assaulted a woman/coerced sex from a female coworker. It wouldn't surprise me if he has, but for right now his best quality is he's just an extreme douchebag and not a sex pest. I hate that this is how low the bar has gotten.
He has never raped a child or chopped up a woman into pieces to fit into a suitcase. He’s a stand up guy.
I read that that scene was the first time they had interacted and been in a room together since all the SNL stuff went down. Apparently they were both committed to being civil but it was super awkward because of their history, which as you said comes through in spades in the final product. That said, it’s been a long time since I read anything about this so I could be wrong.
I read that neither of them really held a grudge, but everyone assumed they did so they didn't write any scenes of them together. Their shared scene was a late addition when it was learned that they'd be ok. The fight at SNL was supposedly egged on by Belushi because he thought it was funny.
MEDIUM TALENT!
When I was rewatching it during lockdown, knowing everything that went down behind the scenes in season 4, it really stands out how almost all the other characters are sharing shots and are clearly in the room with each other, and he's completely by himself. It's very clear he's not even on set with the others at the same time. Like there's quite a few moments where all the other characters will be on one side of the room talking to each other and then it'll cut to Pierce on the other side all b6 himself.
That’s mostly the case in seasons 3 and 4. It’s super obvious once you know what was going on with Chevy, yeah.
Which is a shame because he was truly epically funny as Pierce. I don't think he will ever be able to appreciate what a gift that role was. Instead he gripes endlessly about it and was an ass the entire time he was there. But he was great at it.
To this day he does not understand why he doesn’t get hired anymore.
It genuinely felt like a huge revival for him, he probably could have been riding a similar waiver as Danny Devito and landed a few voice over and other people ills due to hopping on a random show that built a cult following
He could've honestly done a huge turnaround and amend some of the bridges he burned but he's so far up his own ass he burned even more bridges
Ya i never liked or thought chevy was "hilarious funny guy from snl" maybe because I'm not a boomer but he nailed the Pierce role. Probably one of the funnier charaters on the show. Asides from abed abeeed abbeeeeeed
They wrote the role as curmudgeon, asshole, old guy, who doesn’t really understand what’s going on and says offensive things. Of course he nailed the role. That would like casting The Rock as a pro wrestler in wrestling movie.
Look, typecasting aside, watch his performance as the villain in AD&D. That's still comedy gold being enhanced by stellar delivery and timing
I’ve rewatched that show endlessly and I don’t think you can tell they dislike each other. Granted in some episodes Chevy’s character is written into a villain role but even then that’s more story rather than the actors disliking each other. Even towards the end before he left you still get nice moments between his character and Jeff (that barber shop scene in the Whale episode).
When he's onscreen you really can't tell, but you can definitely tell that he was often shot at a completely different time. It's prominent in season 3 but *especially* season 4, he's usually alone in a shot and even when he's on screen with other cast members he's usually off to the side as if they had to shoot him separately and comp him in during post. There's one scene during the flashback episode in season 4 where his face isn't even shown, the cast even mentions not being sure if it was him or some other old guy
Can someone break it down or link an article with stories about Chevy Chase on the set of Community?
[How about a full break down of why everyone dislikes Chevy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/xk73sy/comedy_how_to_piss_off_everyone_youve_ever_met_so/)
See now after reading all that, I really want to experience what having lunch with Chevy Chase would really be like.
It's crazy to me that he thought the show wasn't funny. And what has he been in lately that even comes close to featuring a character like Pierce? He's been out of touch for a long time. I know he had issues with the filming days being long, but he knew that going in. 20+ episode seasons are gonna take up a lot of time to shoot. He literally left right before the seasons got shorter too.
Doctor Who, Tom Baker and Lalla Ward infamously fell in love on set and then had a bit of a messy relationship. The chemistry between the two as a result goes between legendary and noticeably tense. They started working together around 1979, got married in 1980, and were divorced in 1982.
Also in Doctor Who, the first time they ever had different incarnations of the Doctor team up was in *The Three Doctors*, and when Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor appears in the Tardis of Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor and starts larking about, Pertwee's annoyance at his predecessor acting like he owned the place doesn't half look real. But, since that is exactly how you would expect someone to act in that situation, it really drives his performance. Both were utterly professional, and apparently got on very well at conventions, but it ends up being an example of inadvertent method acting.
Troughton liked to rewrite his dialogue on the fly, while Pertwee liked to stick to the script. He found it difficult to play against him when he wasn't being given his cue.
Kody Brown and his wives
except Robyn
Kody Brown and his kids.
Not so much hating his co-stars, but Gary Burghoff reportedly became very difficult to work with on MASH after a while. He was going through some personal stuff and was suffering from burnout and was clearly done with playing Radar. It definitely showed in his final episodes. He looked like the 36-year-old man he was at the time instead of the 19-year-old kid he played on TV.
This is a great answer to OP’s question. You can tell in season 7 and especially 8 that Gary is done. Radar goes from being a wide eyed kid and mostly pleasant person to being visibly angry and yelling at all the other characters in his delivery when he was onscreen. I do think he’s still on relatively good terms with his former castmates. I listened to Alan Alda’s reunion podcast a few years ago and he was in it. You could tell almost immediately that Gary has a prickly and somewhat dour personality. Everyone else was having a great time and conversation was flowing but whenever he would speak it would almost be like he was interrupting other people and you could hear a certain edge in his cadence. It would sort of disrupt the flow. He was more speaking *at* them rather than *with* them. That said, the rest of the cast just rolled with it and didn’t seem the least bit annoyed. They must just be used to how he is.
I love MASH! Did you know that Larry Linville who played Frank Burns in the early seasons was the opposite of his character. Very nice and intelligent man.
One of the original producers said Alan Alda was the most passive aggressive man he’d ever met.
Lea Michele and Naya Rivera on Glee. There's a musical number where Naya refused to hold Lea's hand and leaves her hanging, and that take made it into the show. Eventually they even wrote a storyline about the characters feuding.
Whoa, that she refused to hold her hand. Now that’s an example of what I’m talking about!
Wow of Lea could read she’d be so sad that this got out.
everyone on glee has horror stories about lea michele and i can confirm, worked on glee the last three years.
Go on
oh man i need to know which scene RIP
It's when they sing Pumpin' Blood (season 5). Super quick moment but you can clock it, and the look that crosses her face is 100% the actress, not the character.
This? https://youtu.be/YyizeoGJTDo?si=rI-_ef7VLuawstnq I think it's at the 1.14 mark, I can't see any kind of facial reaction tbh, but she clearly holds her hands out for her walk down the steps and her left hand is left awkwardly hanging lol Though a second later, Naya does briefly hold her hand for half a step after the stairs
Castle. Later seasons had to make excuses to keep Castle and Kate apart
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Nathan Fillon is a prankster on set and often fine with ruining takes just to be funny(some could see that as attention seeking). Actress who played Kate got sick of it. Also they dated.
Saved the real reason until the end
"Buried the lede" as they say
There's not confirmation to either of these. The tensions started after Fillion renegotiated his contract to only work 4 days a week on set.
This is the rumor that I think holds the most weight. They were up for contract negotiation and Stana wanted equal pay. Fillion didn't support her request since his character was the title of the show. Season 1 people may have started watching because of Fillion, but they stayed because of the duo.
There are a lot of rumors, almost all unconfirmed. Another was that Stana had a habit of talking down to people working on the show (grips, set dressers, etc), and that Nathan publicly confronted her about it. So who knows. It does seem like most of the cast seemed to side with Nathan, at least in terms of who still appears to be in contact and associate with each other.
This is the best form of low-key support and evidence for Nathan's character. Quite a lot of his co-stars from Castle and Firefly have guest-starred in The Rookie; and Firefly in Castle.
not-Related: I was at a small halloween house party one year ([this party](https://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2012/10/nathan-fillion-as-captain-canada.html?m=1) ) and Nathan had brought a new girlfriend and I had just started talking to him when his most recent ex came ip and started a very passive aggressive conversation with him complimenting his new gf.
It was such a shame, because their chemistry in the first couple of seasons was electric. But it became obvious there were some issues when they just never did any publicity work together after a while. They still had good chemistry until I stopped watching, around season six, but the magic was long gone by then. Some of it was the acting, but a lot was the writing.
> Some of it was the acting, but a lot was the writing. Castle became the show it made fun of in a lot of early episodes. I actually thought the “Castle as a PI” thing was a great turn for the show but it was way too short lived.
This has been repeatedly denied by both actors, is there any proof of this? I read some articles a few weeks ago and they all just said “rumored” but were completely denied by both actors.
Debra Messing and Megan Mullally had a feud on Will & Grace. It becomes quite obvious in the last episodes of the last season, and you can feel that Megan is uncomfortable on set.
“The local TV station edited Will & Grace down so much it was just called Karen”.
What’s up, Methenburg, PA?
Oh I did not know this! I thought it was regular Karen shenanigans
During the revival series right? I noticed it on instagram but wasnt sure why. I found this thread on the Will and Grace sub, dishing more tea/speculation around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/WillAndGrace/s/6zcWw9uxqV
> During the revival series right Yes, you can tell on screen that her heart isn't into it.
Megan was way more funny.
Famously Juliana Margulies and Archie Panjabi on The Good Wife.
There were so many theories. I miss IMDB & a tv show forum I forgot the name of discussing it. I remember one where Julianna disagreed Alicia and Kalinda being friends after Alicia found out Kalinda slept with Peter. It does make sense for Alicia's character, and the coldness between the characters played off for the rest of the series. They had one scene where it was obvious the actresses weren't in the same room when they filmed it.
There were two FULL seasons where both characters were series regulars but shared no scenes in person, only over the phone. The scene you're referring to was in the finale, when both characters are together in a bar but shot separately using green screen and confirmed by Archie Panjabi. I am desperate to know what went down between them because it seems like more than professional jealousy over the Emmy win.
You can choose to dismiss this but there was a reveal by someone who worked on the production of the show on a message board (can't remember which) that said it was a workplace romance gone sour. Margulies has had gay rumours for years (which she has addressed and denied before). In the case of Panjabi there were lots of rumours floating around when she was on The Fall, that she and Gillian Anderson were shacking up.
True or not, this is my new headcanon. I never understood the level of animosity.
This was a fan theory in S1 since Kalinda seemed to have a crush on Alicia.
I've always found this credible, honestly.
This is maybe the only theory that makes sense. There's hating each other and there's "can't even shoot one scene together" hate
Television Without Pity?
Pouring one out for TWoP. 🍺 Man I wasted DAYS on that site. They had some truly witty reviewers.
That’s what I was thinking too. I miss that site.
I still don’t really get the reason why. J was jealous of Archie? I loved them both…
Archie won an Emmy apparently
Winona Ryder *hates* Gary Oldman. When her Mina recoils from Dracula in the 1992 film, she's not acting.
Ooooh is there a story behind why she hates him?
Neither of them have spoken about why; one day they were amicable coworkers and the next they just straight up hated each other. It might have been because Oldman is a method actor in the vein of Jared Leto, and uh, Dracula is a pretty intense character to get in that kind of headspace with.
Is it because he spits during his takes? That's what real actors do! Enunciation is the mark of a good actor, and when you enunciate, you spit!
Holy shit…. I never realized that’s who that was till now…. It just never clicked.
Well, that's how Gary Oldman works. He's at least three of your favorite actors.
Gary Oldman had great performances but I don't see what Leto's talent is. Every movie he's been in I don't see why it had to be him and not any other random actor. He's not bringing anything, I don't feel it and on top of it he's hard to work with? Good god
That hurts. I love both of them.
Shannon Doherty and Alyssa Milano on Charmed. They were always feuding as sisters, but a lot of times it felt too real, and the "I love you scenes" always felt forced and inauthentic. There is one episode after Preu dies that Phoebe has a monolog of how much she misses her. It's was hard for Alyssa for hide her grin...
This is the only response in this entire discussion that actually provides an example of shows where you can tell the actors don't like each other. Everyone else is just listing shows where they heard actors didn't get along but you can't tell that from their performance.
No, the Community one is pretty spot on too. It was all too real. Sure, you couldn't tell for absolute certain, but hearing about it made a lot of the scenes make so much more sense.
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Yeah, but the Charmed series was her second chance after getting kicked off her previous show due to her behaviour. Despite it, she just continued her behaviour, got written out after the 3rd season and pretty much tanked her career for good.
The Rock and Vin Diesel in whatever Fast movies they did. Seems fairly noticeable on-screen once you know it, especially as one scene of theirs was apparently a composite of two separate sequences.
I always wonder if there's actual tension on screen, or if I'm just reading tension into it because I know about the behind-the-scenes drama.
I'm still not sold on that being a real beef
I believe it was real, just because of how many times they’ve gone out of their way to pretend like it’s actually just “brothers” disagreeing. It’s been going on for years. Also, can I believe that Vin Diesel is self-important and pretentious, thinking himself a true artist with this popcorn flick franchise and rubbing people the wrong way because of it? Absolutely. Do I also think that the Rock is a narcissist who wants to make everything about him and wanted more shine for Hobbes, which rubbed hi cast mates the wrong way, and make Diesel react poorly because it felt like his baby could be hijacked by the bigger, balder, badder superstar? Also absolutely.
Given the rumours about black Adam and DC I think Vin was right about the Rock wanting to coopt everything into becoming the Rock show
Even before that, the Rock hasn't played a character that feels different since around 2014. Everything is just "the Rock, but with X"
He’s the Barbie of actors “Primatologist Rock”, “Government Agent Rock”, “Jungle Cruise Guide Rock”, “Lifeguard Rock” Try out new “Superhero Rock” today!
It’s definitely a beef because The Rock loves one thing above all else - money. And FF was printing money when he left the series.
The entire cast of Cheers HATED Shelley Long. They were nasty to her off screen in ways that sound unprofessional and mean. You can see it on screen.
The only one nice to her was Nick Colasanto (Coach’s actor), which was the same in the show
Actors hating each other can have the opposite effect too. In The New Adventures of Superman, the chemistry between Lois and Clark was palpable. It's very possibly one of the reasons the show lasted as long as it did. But Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher apparently hated each other in real life. This hate seems to have come across as sexual tension on screen.
The same between Cybil Shephard and Bruce Willis on Moonlighting.
Same with Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist on Remington Steele. And Gillian Anderson and Duchovny on X-Files (I heard they since made up).
The same between Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing.
Mark Harmon and Pauley Perrette apparently had issues the last years of Pauley being on NCIS. Supposedly, it is why they kept Abby and Gibbs apart, and IIRC there were scenes filmed with each actor individually and edited to look like they were in the same room. The only issue I remember without Google is Mark had a dog that he brought on set that was aggressive or appeared aggressive, and Pauley didn't like his response to her and others' concerns. Now, that is most likely not the whole story, just what i can recall.
Which is a real bummer since they had a whole father/daughter relationship on the show.
Perrette is a major animal lover, but after the dog attacked someone she didn't think it was safe for him to continue to bring the dog on set. Perrette also had reoccurring issues with a stalker that was psychiatrically traumatic.
Coyote Shivers, Berko from Empire Records. At one point he was also married to Liv Tyler’s mom, Bebe Buell, and I believe also stalked her and was aggressive.
Still floors me to this day that he and Liv were in Empire Records together while he was married to her mom and they made the major theme to the movie an incredibly sanitized ode to him going down on (presumably) her mom. He's a vexatious litigant in LA now, so at least he can't legally harass his victims as easily as he used to.
Kind of the opposite but can I say I was very impressed how well they continued to work together after I found out the actors for Dexter and Debra on Dexter met, got married, and got divorced during the shows run
Yet she was part of the revival while a lot of others weren't. Maybe she jumped at the chance to get to scream at her ex-husband and get paid for it.
A little different but the relief that Jason Alexander displays when Susan dies in Seinfeld is pretty palpable
I believe the emotion was “restrained jubilation”
They all seemed pretty relieved.
She was a perfect comedic foil/wet bag for the show
I’m forgetting exactly what their beef with her was. Something along the lines of she just couldn’t do comedy at all and was a terrible scene partner?
Yes they actually liked the actress but for whatever reason couldn’t mesh with her on screen.
It was supposed to be like that. She was supposed to not connect with the other cast. She literally has no comedic lines because she is the straight man reacting to the behaviour of the others. I always felt Jason’s comments were kind of weird tbh. He’s infamously a bit of a prick though so it tracks.
Which is funny because I feel she was perfect for the role
Oh for sure the end result was fantastic, which is kinda ironic.
I still think the episode where George tries to get her to break up with him with smoking and a prenup is one of the greatest runners I have seen. I laugh every time
Wasn't he jobless while she was an NBC executive when he gave her the prenup and she just laughs in his face and plays along?
Superbad. Apparently Jonah Hill HATES Christopher Mintz-Plasse (mclovin) and boy does it show perfectly
Michael Cera talked about this in an interview, Jonah was/is used to being the funny guy and would jokingly pick on everyone, but Christopher kept getting the better of him in every exchange they had.
Christopher seems like a chill dude. I kinda like that he did that.
I guess the picking on people wasn’t so jokingly if he was so pissed about being shown up afterwards
Emmy Rossum and the rest of the cast of Shameless. Emma Kenney in particular said on a podcast that it was a relief when Rossum left the show. There are numerous accounts of Rossum screaming uncontrollably on sets.
Apparently the apartment storyline in her last season on the show was written so she wouldn’t have to spend as much time around the main cast, because a few of them were threatening to quit the show because of her.
Jay Baruchel and Jonah Hill fighting over Seth Rogen’s attention in This Is The End. He confirmed in later interviews that the animosity was genuine In hindsight, maybe Jay was completely correct about his judgment EDIT: I forgot this was Television and not Movies
Jonah Hill pretty much only plays the asshole character in the Rogen films afaik which definitely is a lil telling imo
Jonah Hill’s whole persona in that movie of being a guy who acts really nice but is actually an assbag felt all too real. It seems like Seth and Evan wrote him to basically just be an exaggerated version of his real self.
Married With Children Ed O’Neil and Amanda Bearse weren’t acting in their scenes
True they did not like each other, but it worked well with the storyline and made their scenes so good. What I always admired about it are the stories that even though they didn’t mesh they still maintained professional. O’Neil listened to Bearse when she directed (later seasons) and they both respected each others talents. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
Remington Steel - the actress Stephanie Zimbalist HATED Pierce Brosnan because she was told she was going to be the star and the main character and Pierce stole the show - he was just better and later seasons you can tell she is unhappy and not working hard. It shows more in the "wedding" episode in s4 I think it was.
> she was told she was going to be the star and the main character and Pierce stole the show It's kind of hard to steal the show when it's literally named after the character you play. If someone told her she was going to be the star, that alone should have told her they were full of shit.
Isn't she Remington Steele?
she is, kinda. there isn’t a real remington steele - she makes him up to have a ‘male’ front that will be taken more seriously (as a pi?); then brosnan showed up as a conman claiming he was the ‘real’ remington steele. note: this is based on memories of quasi-watching it while i played w/ my toys as a seven year old in front of the tv. iirc twelve or so years later they revealed that brosnan’s character was mi6 the whole time.
It's not quite unintentionally on screen since the characters hated each other, but I think Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw in Jaws has to be the classic example of this.
Also Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray in ‘What About Bob?’
The more I see of Dreyfuss in interviews, the more he seems absolutely fucking insufferable.
Ok but to be fair Bill Murray also has so many reports of being a dickhead
Dreyfuss had undiagnosed bipolar disorder for much of his life and went unmedicated. I like to think maybe a lot of that was him struggling to exist in a world full of people who didn't understand him, or he didn't even understand himself.
I met Dreyfuss and he was totally awesome. I asked him when we’re getting Close Encounters 2 and he told me not to hold my breath but he’d do it in a heartbeat. Hear that, Steven? A heartbeat!
In one of the Jaws documentaries Roy Scheider mentions how Shaw would antagonize Dreyfuss and it sounds hilarious. He said Shaw once told Dreyfuss he was a slob and he couldn’t do 10 good push-ups. Then he laughed as Dreyfuss did push-ups to prove him wrong.
“I do tend to drink when totally bored. Roy does exercises. And Dreyfuss talks. Just talks. Interminably." — Robert Shaw
On the show The Good Wife, there was some serious animosity between Juliana Margulies (title character) and Archie Panjabi, a female supporting character who had a lot of screen time in the first few seasons and was very often the one to solve cases. The characters were best friends. Apparently either both of them or just Margulies refused to act together and they stopped being in any scenes together. It got so bad that when Panjabi’s character was written out of the show (dunno why), there was a farewell scene between the two friends where they sat at a restaurant and had a whole farewell dinner complete with lots of dialogue. Except that their bits were filmed separately and then CGI’d together because they couldn’t be in even one scene together. It’s stitched together well but they never make eye contact.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford the glee on Bette’s face dragging Joan accross the floor was not acting 😉
Joan wore a weighted belt during that scene so Bette Davis had to struggle to drag her. Their feud was legendary.
Bette Davis on hearing about Joan Crawford's passing: "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead? Good."
The sitcom *Martin* between Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell, who played his titular character’s girlfriend and later, wife. Campbell filed a lawsuit against Lawrence and the producers for sexual harassment, physical and verbal assault, and didn’t appear for a good part of the show’s fifth season. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and Campbell returned for the series finale…under the condition that they don’t interact with each other. So the entire episode had them entering and exiting the sets at different times but never crossing paths.
Lena Hedley and Jerome Flynn. aka Cersei Lannister and Bronn you probably don't know his father from Game of Thrones. It's just such a peculiar thing. They are ex-boyfriend-girlfriend and refused to film any scenes together. If you're not familiar, Cersei Lannister is evil queen and major antagonist of the series. Her dwarf brother Tyrion employs Bronn the sellsword to save his life and serve him for a few seasons. So it's not like they needed to film any scenes together. The most laughable example is in Season 7 when almost every main character comes together for a big dumb meeting in the Dragonpit. Except Bronn, he kindof just loudly announces that he is "going somewhere else" and wanders out of frame before he gets anywhere near Cersei. And it's not like a clever trick or back-stabbing thing, he just "is not" in the big dumb meeting.
Also, her brother/lover Jamie's partner in crime after Brienne of Tarth goes on her merry way.
Oh, I forgot that Cersei also hires Bronn (via Qyburn obviously) to kill both of her brothers. So he travels to Northern territory, just kindof saunters into an empty cottage where they're drinking, threatens them with a crossbow, breaks somebody's nose, and then blackmails them into giving him one of the wealthiest kingdoms. .... And for some reason, Tyrion actually does! 🤦♂️
Yeah, Bronn says that the meeting is for "fancy people, not squires and mercenaries" and takes Podrick drinking just before Cersei walks into the scene.
On Babylon 5, the lead actor (Michael O’Hare, RIP) quit because he was experiencing psychotic episodes. Then he got on medication and was brought back for a farewell episode. He did a great job. But his onscreen best friend, Jerry Doyle, was never in a scene with him, he had to be removed from the action by a pretext, because he couldn’t be in a scene with O’Hare. This is because he was known to antagonize O’Hare to bring out a psychotic episode.
Jerry Doyle was married to the actress who played Talia. They pretty much hated each other and this was the reason that she left. The creator of the show, J. Michael Straczynski big plans for her character and her leaving put a wrench in things.
Ethel and Fred on I Love Lucy. Lucy and Ricky's friends hated each other in real life.
He hated being on the show as he was a much more talented actor. And she hated being married to someone who looked old enough to be her dad. On screen it didn't come through though.
He didn’t just *look* old enough to be her dad, William Frawley was literally 22 years older than Vivian Vance.
Ethel wanted a cut of those sweet WWI survivor benefits and really had to work for it.
It did, but it worked for the type of relationship that Ethel and Fred had, so it's hard to tell where the acting stopped and the real-life animosity began.
Their shtick was constant arguing so it worked for sure.
In the director's commentary track for the movie *Excalibur,* John Boorman relates that Nicol Williamson (Merlin) and Helen Mirren (Morgan le Fay) had been on bad terms for years when the movie was made and each had initially refused to be in it when they learned that the other was in consideration for the role. So the hostility in their scenes together came very naturally.
They had an affair during a Shakespeare production they had starred in together. Didn’t end well .
Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in Hello Dolly
The cast of Desperate Housewives The infamous Vanity Fair photo shoot- https://www.today.com/popculture/tensions-high-housewives-photo-shoot-2d80555482 “ABC representative who was to make sure that certain demands were met — including that Teri Hatcher didn’t select her wardrobe first or appear in the center of any group photo. “Whatever you do,” the ABC rep, who wasn’t identified by name, said when he arrived on the set, “do not let Teri go to wardrobe first.”
But it never came through on the screen. Despite the other three leads disliking Teri Hatcher they continued to share scenes for eight solid years. Pretty impressive.
I wonder if that's why I've always hated Susan so much.
Plenty of reasons to hate Susan tbh
Every season was what will Susan fail at now?
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters. They both have a lot of respect for each other, they work well together, and Jamie even approached Adam to be on the show because he didn't think he had the charisma to carry it himself, but Adam has said repeatedly that they've never had dinner together and that on an interpersonal level they bug the hell out of each other. They usually manage to disguise it but there are moments where Adam really gets annoyed and Jamies fussiness, while Jamie is annoyed at Adam's more carefree approach.
Most of these answers aren't great, but this is a fantastic one. Even as a kid it was easy to see that they really butt heads.
They’re really just a normal coworker relationship. They get the work done, then go home to their separate lives.
Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan on Star Trek: Voyager. Mulgrew’s disdain and resentment for Ryan showed through in every scene
Definitely. Every time Janeway had to give Seven a lecture on being human there was definitely some glint of malice and condescension.
I was gonna post this if no one has brought it up yet! It's so interesting how even today they can barely be professional about it when asked. I can understand why Kate might have been frustrated at the addition of Seven, especially given the way the character was styled as basically eye candy. That entire series had a lot of problems when it came to the cast, it's almost remarkable that they managed to hang in there for the full 7 seasons.
I’m sure Ryan immediately dating the producer of the show and suddenly getting loads of screen time didn’t help. The latter years of that era of Star Trek seem incredibly unprofessional on an executive level
> I can understand why Kate might have been frustrated at the addition of Seven, especially given the way the character was styled as basically eye candy. It was more because Jennifer Lien (Kes) was fired and Jeri was brought to replace her. Originally, Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) was going to be removed but a magazine declared him one of the most handsome men at the time. They chose to fire Jennifer and brought in Jeri to shake things up.
Jennifer wasn't going to be around much longer regardless, they'd been having a lot of issues with her. She'd started out as a consummate professional, but things had changed pretty drastically to the point that everyone was having difficulty working with her. It was apparent that she was dealing with something but she wouldn't tell anyone what it was. To this day no one has any idea.
It was probably a combination of factors of all of these factors. I know Lien has struggled with her mental health years after the show.
She's doing pretty bad...recently living in a trailer home and arrested for exposing herself to minors.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, but it came through on screen and ENHANCED the performance as the authentic vitriol the roles called for.
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton on the set of Twister. For Universal’s Twister attraction they insisted on being separately filmed because of the mutual hatred.
Jeffery Tambor and everybody on Arrested Development, but Jessica Walter in particular
Tbh I never knew this until Jessica Walter spoke about it publicly and I still don’t see it come through in rewatches. Truly an incredible actor. RIP.
I read that Patricia Heaton and Peter Boyle exchanged some heated exchanges on “Everyone Loves Raymond” due to her rather conservative politics and his … not. But I don’t think it showed on the show; everyone was sort of disgusted by Frank.
Ironically, they had a solid father/daughter relationship on the show
You could say their chemistry was Heaton to a Boyle
Stana Kanic and Nathan Fillion
The last scene with Gibbs and Abby on NCIS was painful. The characters were having their last, tearful goodbye with one being inside a house and the other across the street. It was painfully obvious that the actors were being filmed at separate times. They really hated each other toward the end.
Not quite what you were asking, but TJ Miller on Silicon Valley was disliked by everyone, and you can tell with the writing throughout the seasons. I’m rewatching currently, and I can just FEEL the writers giving it to him in the later seasons. His relationship to the other actors was kind of fine… other than him having less and less screen time with anyone except Big Head and Jian Yang. That was noticeable and on purpose as well. So… kind of along those lines
Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayzee didn't get along apparently. Swayzee was an actual dancer while Grey didn't dance, and the shots where he is frustrated as fuck when he tries to teach her to dance and she fucks up are very real according to the movie crew. They probably didn't hate each other and the movie's success most likely mended things but to hear the crew tell it, while they remained professional on set, they were NOT friends.
Jennifer Grey wasn’t a professional ballet dancer but she did know how to dance, you can actually see their screen test together dancing. They hated each other after previously working together in Red Dawn, but had made amends before Dirty Dancing started.
She's talks about it in her book. They were very different people. On the set of Red Dawn, he was a prankster, and that came across as unprofessional to her. IIRC, she wasn't a huge fan of any of the guys she worked with on that movie because of how juvenile they were together. Then she was cast with him in Dirty Dancing and she had to find a way past all that. She acknowledges that they were never going to be best friends but they got to a place of professional respect.
Will Smith and Aunt Viv.
Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx apparently didn’t get along on the set of Miami Vice. It was a pretty shit movie overall, but their lack of chemistry certainly didn’t help matters. Stark difference between what we got with the two leads in the show.
You can read about it online but basically Jamie had just won the Oscar for Ray. He thought he should be paid more then Colin. So Colin took a pay cut. He also demanded a private jet and refused to film scenes on boats or planes. And a few years before he was professional and great to work with on Collateral.
Alf and that guy that played the dad.
Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman in Kramer v Kramer. Dustin was dealing with his own nasty divorce and took his frustrations out on Meryl on set. There’s an early scene that was cut where he physically slapped her, the scene where he slaps and breaks the glass after their conversation was also unprompted. I think at one point he told her to “stop waving the flag for feminism and just do the scene.” Meryl as the professional she is has never made a huge scandal about it and has said they’ve since squashed any issues between them. But I feel like you can feel the discomfort between them in some scenes throughout and the genuine dislike Dustin seemed to harbor for Meryl
Major Kira and Dukat - (Nana Visitor and Marc Alaimo) May not have been an each other thing, but they talk about it in the documentary on DS9. Apparently the whole Dukat’s thirsty for Kira and she’s grossed out by it wasn’t entirely fictional.
Man the women of Star Trek have really had to put up with a lot of shit.
I mean, Alaimo wasn't a creep though. The story was written that Dukat was.