Top 10 On-Set Movie Feuds
These feuds practically brought down the sets. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for real-life battles that turned film sets into boxing rings!
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00:00 "Saying this is looking weird, you know, there's bad stuff going on here, there's bad, um, vibes between people."
00:07 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for real-life battles that turned film sets into boxing rings.
00:13 "You hurt by the memory of that?"
00:15 "I was furious."
00:18 "Here's the thing about it, right, so, we're all adults."
00:26 It's no secret that Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel are not the biggest fans of one another.
00:31 The two appear together in several of the Fast and the Furious movies, and their feud began in 2016 while filming The Fate of the Furious.
00:38 That year, Johnson made an Instagram post where he called out his unnamed co-star's lack of professionalism,
00:44 and even mentioned his blood was boiling in some scenes.
00:47 "Just like in life, you have different philosophies, and people have different philosophies, different fundamental philosophies on how you do things,
00:54 um, and again, the most important thing is just the movie."
00:57 Later, Diesel posted a vid where he said he'd tell fans "everything" relating to Johnson's post.
01:03 However, they did go on to state later that they were, in fact, friends.
01:07 "You ever heard the saying, 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend?'"
01:12 "I don't have friends. I got family."
01:16 On screen in 2004's The Notebook,
01:23 Ryan Gosling's and Rachel McAdams' chemistry was a sight to behold.
01:27 "There was just a feeling there, just everything sort of fit and everything worked, and it was the best audition experience I've ever had."
01:33 One could never guess that behind the scenes, they were at odds.
01:37 According to the film's director, Nick Cassavetes, at one point, Gosling requested another actress be brought in to read with him off-camera because he felt McAdams wasn't giving him, quote, "anything."
01:47 "But Rachel came in and we said, 'Do you want to talk about it?' She's like, 'No.' We're like, 'Nothing? You don't want to?' She's like, 'No, no, no. Just let's do it.'"
01:54 Another time, the two got into a screaming match during a meeting with a producer.
01:58 In a plot twist that no one saw coming, the two eventually went from enemies to lovers and dated for two years after filming.
02:05 "It wasn't over. It still isn't over."
02:16 "Did you witness any beef between Charlize and Tom Hardy on the set of 'Mad Max?'"
02:22 "Huh. Yeah."
02:25 'Mad Max Fury Road' was one of the hottest films of 2015, and it's no wonder, considering tempers on set were blazing hot.
02:33 Co-stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy went head-to-head in what resulted in an explosive feud.
02:46 One day, tired of Hardy's tardiness, arriving to set hours after his call time, Theron called out the Dunkirk actor, which he did not react well to.
02:55 It got so bad that Theron later confessed that she felt, quote, "threatened" and had to request, quote, "protection."
03:01 Eventually, things settled down between the two. Hell hath no fury like two actors scorned.
03:06 "We were either fighting or we were icing each other. I don't know which one is worse. And they had to deal with it in the back. It was horrible."
03:14 Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog's working relationship was the epitome of volatile.
03:22 The hot-headed actor and the stubborn director came to many verbal blows over the five-week shoot of 'Agirre, The Wrath of God.'
03:37 In fact, Kinski was so angered by the noise of cast and crew playing a game of cards that he fired a gun, causing a background actor to lose the top of their finger.
03:46 However, the drama didn't end there.
03:49 Herzog threatened to shoot himself and Kinski after the actor planned to walk off the job because Herzog wouldn't fire a crew member.
04:02 Surprisingly, the two would go on to work together many more times, and Herzog even made a documentary about their complicated relationship.
04:29 "This feels like it could be the first day of the last of my life, you know what I mean? Or the last day of the first of my life or something. I think I'm in trouble."
04:37 Bill Murray's behavior on the action-comedy flick 'Charlie's Angels' was anything but angelic.
04:42 The 'Lost in Translation' actor took his anger out on his co-star Lucy Liu after a rehearsal went sideways.
04:53 According to Liu, Murray was upset over some rewrites and for some odd reason, directed his wrath towards her.
05:00 While appearing on the podcast 'Asian Enough' in 2021, Liu stated that she defended herself against him during the heated spat, referring to his words as quote "inexcusable and unacceptable."
05:21 Unsurprisingly, Murray did not return for the 2003 sequel 'Charlie's Angels' full throttle.
05:26 The tensions on the set of 1974's 'Chinatown' are as legendary as the film itself.
05:36 The picture star Faye Dunaway and director Roman Polanski went head to head on numerous occasions.
05:47 After Polanski plucked a strand of hair from the star's head so he could get his ideal shot, things got heated and Dunaway walked off set.
05:54 Both parties claimed the other was acting out of turn, which resulted in a he-said-she-said situation.
06:00 Things escalated further when Polanski refused to allow Dunaway a washroom break.
06:13 Legend has it that the actress then urinated into a cup and threw it in the controversial director's face.
06:19 This on-set feud was a quadruple threat.
06:35 From the get-go, the island of Dr. Moreau was doomed.
06:39 First of all, director Richard Stanley was fired via a fax after less than a week of filming and replaced by John Frankenheimer.
06:46 The latter didn't know what he was getting himself into, as this was just the beginning of things.
06:59 One of the film's leads, Val Kilmer, was going through a divorce, which resulted in him being hostile and aggressive towards his peers.
07:06 Val was best described by someone as a prep school bully.
07:12 On top of that, he and his co-star Marlon Brando did not get along.
07:16 Brando also acted like a total diva, refusing to learn new material and to leave his trailer.
07:21 In fact, a whole documentary was created about the disaster in 2014.
07:35 #3 George Clooney and David O. Russell - Three Kings
07:38 Director David O. Russell is no stranger to on-set spats.
07:49 While filming the pic Three Kings in the late 90s, O'Russell fostered a toxic work environment, allowing his explosive temper to reign.
07:58 "Whoa! Shit!"
08:00 "What was that?"
08:05 Eventually, star George Clooney had had enough of his antics and confronted him about the way he was treating people.
08:11 Things got so heated that the two men got into a physical altercation.
08:15 Unfortunately, O'Russell didn't learn his lesson and continued to get into fights with his actors, like Lily Tomlin in I Heart Huckabees,
08:23 and also making his performers like Amy Adams in American Hustle cry.
08:27 #2 Shelley Duvall and Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
08:41 The 1980 horror flick The Shining is often regarded as one of the scariest films of all time.
08:51 But for star Shelley Duvall, it was especially horrifying.
08:54 It's been well documented that director Stanley Kubrick was cruel too and harsh on Duvall,
08:59 forcing her to do an unreasonable amount of takes which required her to physically exert herself by screaming, running and crying.
09:07 He'd also praise her co-star Jack Nicholson while never offering her any positive reinforcements,
09:16 even demanding that no one show her quote "sympathy".
09:19 "Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities?
09:25 Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?"
09:28 "Stay away from me."
09:29 The stress of this abuse was so bad that it resulted in Duvall losing her hair and ruining her voice.
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09:54 It's the feud that shook Hollywood.
10:03 Betty Davis and Joan Crawford are icons of the silver screen and their hatred toward each other is legendary.
10:14 "I know isn't it incredible we're forever linked to be made one film. It's funny that remained."
10:20 Things started long ago over petty publicity stunts,
10:23 but they escalated when Crawford became engaged to French Autone, who Davis was in love with.
10:28 From there, the two hated each other, but eventually went on to star in 1962's horror classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane".
10:36 While filming, Davis allegedly actually hit Crawford while performing a fight sequence.
10:40 "You've got to come over right away. Please, before she comes back."
10:44 "I don't quite understand. Is this some kind of emotional disturbance you're talking about?"
10:48 "Yes. Yes, she's emotionally disturbed."
10:52 Then, the latter wore a weighted belt to make it difficult for the former to drag her around during a scene.
10:58 Decades later, their infamous dispute was made into a series by Ryan Murphy starring Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange.
11:04 "Does she have to stand there? She's not the director. Why is she standing there?"
11:09 "If I were the director, I'd tell you to do it again. And again until it was convincing."
11:13 Which feud do you think was the wildest? Let us know in the comments.
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