Celebrities Who Hated Their Co-Stars

Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio - Romeo + Juliet

They may have played star-crossed lovers on the big screen, but Romeo + Juliet (1996) stars Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly hated working with each other during the production of Baz Luhrmann's Shakespearian epic. The reason: they were just two different types of people. According to The Telegraph, "Danes allegedly became fed up with DiCaprio habit of playing pranks on the cast and crew, while [DiCaprio] in his turn found Danes annoyingly reserved and uptight." Oh well—at least they were able to fake it for the film.

Bea Arthur and Betty White - The Golden Girls

Betty White is so likable and so hilarious that it's hard to imagine anyone not wanting to become her best friend. Unfortunately, White's upbeat personality didn't mesh well with Bea Arthur during the filming of their iconic comedy series The Golden Girls (1985-92). "We were all close, but our personalities were all so different," White revealed during a 2013 panel discussion with The New York Times (via Little Things). "[Bea] found me a pain in the neck sometimes because [of] my positive attitude. I'm happy all the time, and that made Bea mad sometimes."

Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts - I Love Trouble

Rumors that I Love Trouble (1994) stars Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts hated each other began before the movie was even released. According to a July 3, 1994, piece in the Los Angeles Times, "tempers flared early on, peppered with a few Roberts tantrums along the way…The discord was so intense, the sources say, the two played more to stand-ins than to each other." To make matters worse, Roberts and Nolte took their hatred public by dropping one passive-aggressive insult after another in various interviews. With that kind of behavior, it's no wonder the movie bombed at the box office.

Teri Hatcher and the rest of the cast - Desperate Housewives

Teri Hatcher's feud with her Desperate Housewives (2004-12) cast members dates back to the first season, all thanks to a tear-filled cover shoot for Vanity Fair. According to People, ABC had stipulated that Hatcher not get "first shot at wardrobe (lest she picks the best outfits) or be posed in the center of the group" during the shoot, but Hatcher arrived early and did get first dibs on clothes. Co-star Marcia Cross allegedly got mad about being posed next to Hatcher and stormed off the set. This forced ABC to conduct major damage control that continued for the rest of the show's existence. Despite multiple claims that everything was just dandy on set, Hatcher's cast-wide feud was reportedly confirmed when her name was left off the thank you card given to the show's staff by Cross, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, and Vanessa Williams at the series' end. Ouch.

Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine - Terms Of Endearment

Much like the mother-daughter characters they played on-screen, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger reportedly had a very tough time getting along on the set of the Oscar-winning movie Terms of Endearment (1983). Rumors of fighting, both verbally and physically, plagued production. Things eventually got so bad on set that co-star and noted wild man Jack Nicholson, of all people, had to step in and keep the peace. "He was the glue of the production," Winger told People in 1984. MacLaine and Winger's feud continued after the movie was released thanks to a neck-and-neck Oscar race that MacLaine ultimately won. During her acceptance speech, MacLaine seemingly snuck in one last dig at Winger when she declared, "I deserve this!"

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny - The X-Files

In a 2008 interview with UK's Metro, David Duchovny revealed that he didn't always get along with his X-Files (1993) co-star, Gillian Anderson. "Familiarity breeds contempt…" he said. "We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other." Whatever happened, the two have since seemingly kissed and made up—at least enough to star in Fox's 2016 X-Files miniseries reboot.

Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer

Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep's working relationship on the set of the Oscar-winning film Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) played out much like the divorced couple they were playing on the screen. Over the years, Streep has been vocal about the intensity that Hoffman brought to each scene, which often startled and upset her. "In [one] scene, he slapped me," Streep told CBS News in 2011. "When I see the movie [now], I see the imprint of his hand on [my face]—not in the take that they used, but I still see the hand in the previous take…I think [Hoffman is] very, very gifted, [but] it wasn't the most fun I've ever had on film."

James Franco and Tyrese Gibson - Annapolis

Much like Meryl Streep, Tyrese Gibson wasn't happy with the intense physicality that co-star James Franco brought to the set of Annapolis (2006), particularly when it came to shooting the film's big boxing match. "Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me," Gibson revealed to Elle magazine. Franco later apologized for his behavior, telling GQ, "I was probably a jerk. I was not purposely cruel to him, but I was probably so wrapped up in my performance that I was not as friendly as I could have been."

Bill Murray and Lucy Liu - Charlie's Angels

If rumors are to be believed, Lucy Liu physically went after Bill Murray on the set of Charlie's Angels (2000) after he allegedly told her she couldn't act. Though he never confirmed that particular incident, Murray did confirm rumors of a feud in a 2009 interview he gave to the London Times (via Entertainment Weekly). "Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me…" he said. "When our relationship is professional, and you're not getting that done, forget it." In the end, it's hard to tell who exactly came out of this feud on top. Murray may have been replaced by Bernie Mac in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)—but Liu still had to star in the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy - Mad Max: Fury Road

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy had a hate-love (yes, backward) relationship on the set of George Miller's 2015 dystopian epic, Mad Max: Fury Road. The Oscar-winning actress revealed to Esquire that she and Hardy "f***ing went at it" on the set and that he also maintained a cantankerous relationship with the director.

Theron blamed the brutal set conditions for his dismay over the shoot, explaining, "It was the isolation and the fact that we were stuck in a rig for the entire shoot. We shot a war movie on a moving truck—there's very little green screen. It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes. And it's material that's really frightening—we didn't have a script. Tom and I are actors who take our jobs seriously." She also added that even though the actors "drove each other crazy," they still had an immense amount of respect for one another and Hardy even left her a semi-sentimental note after it was done, which read, "You are an absolute nightmare, BUT you are also f***ing awesome. I'll kind of miss you. Love, Tommy."

Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf - Lawless

Hardy's history of beefing with co-stars didn't start with Theron. He also reportedly engaged in a physical confrontation with his co-star from 2012's Lawless, Shia LaBeouf, which didn't end well for him. LaBeouf boasted about winning the tussle by telling Details that after the two came to blows, "He never did that roughhouse stuff with me again." Hardy himself later admitted that LaBeouf "knocked me out sparko. Out cold" after LaBeouf got into some moonshine.

LaBeouf later claimed the spirits had nothing to do with his aggression toward Hardy, insisting he was merely fueled by brotherly love…and constant teasing. He told MTV their on-set battle "wasn't moonshine related at all" and was instead "straight love." LaBeouf added that their mutual aggression towards one another was merely life imitating art while they worked together. "We were playing brothers. There was a constant finger-in-the-ear [teasing] thing going on for a while…it was all love. I love the dude like a brother, straight up."

Lea Michele and Naya Rivera - Glee

Life was not a song on the set of Fox's Glee (2009-2015) when it came to these two co-stars' constant bickering. In her book Sorry not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up (via TV Line), Naya Rivera revealed that the rumors about her on-set feud with actress Lea Michele were true, albeit a little exaggerated by gossipers.

She wrote about their tiffs, "If I'd complained about anyone or anything, she'd assumed I was b****ing about her…Soon, she started to ignore me, and eventually, it got to the point where she didn't say a word to me for all of Season 6. Lea and I definitely weren't the best of friends, and I doubt we'll ever sit on her couch and eat kale together again." She also hinted that art imitated life when it came to on-screen stickler personality Rachel Berry and Michele's real-life attitude: "I think Rachel—erm, I mean Lea—didn't like sharing the spotlight."

Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush - One Tree Hill

Co-stars dating and breaking up while working together can be tricky enough, but when they go so far as to get married and then divorced and still have to work together onscreen, that's an extra level of awkwardness. That's exactly what happened to Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray on the set of their WB teen drama One Tree Hill (2003-2012).

Bush recalled in a 2014 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, "We were two stupid kids who had no business being in a relationship in the first place." She added that the pair managed to keep their off-screen acrimony away from the set because they were still "grown-ups" and "when you have to work with somebody for another half a decade, you kind of have to deal with it." Bush and Murray had been dating since 2003 and married in April 2005, but separated just five months later, with Bush attempting to annul the marriage on the basis of fraud. Her petition was declined, but it did reveal that the reason for their immediate breakup was that "Sophia went into the marriage believing in the sanctity of marriage…and Chad simply did not share that vision."

Before their divorce was even finalized, Murray got engaged to crew member Kenzie Dalton, who was a high school student at the time. He never actually married Dalton, though they were engaged for seven years, Bush still doesn't talk to Murray because, as she revealed on WWHL, "my mother once said to me that if you don't have anything nice to say, not to say anything at all."

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland - 24

Jack Bauer might have made Kiefer Sutherland a fan-favorite superstar of the small screen, but co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. absolutely despised working with the actor on the set of 24 (2001-2010). He revealed to ABC News that he "hated every moment of" working on the hit action series because "Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face, I think everyone that's worked with him has said that." Prinze's dislike for Sutherland extended so far that he said he even considered quitting show business after working with him.

Among the reasons Prinze was so bothered by Sutherland: Prinze had to take his shoes off to do scenes with him for the show. "Just put the guy on an apple box or don't hire me next time. You know I'm 6 feet and he's 5'4," he said. Sutherland, however, denied any hard feelings between the actors. His reps told E! that he "enjoyed" working with Prinze on the show and that he hadn't previously known about the ire.

Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty - Beverly Hills, 90210

These teen TV queens were on top of the world when they shared the screen in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), but Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty had a very hard time getting along with each other (and, at times, co-star Tori Spelling) on the set.

In her 2014 tell-all book Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde (via E! News), Garth wrote, "I don't know why it is, but there is a universal truth that when you put three teenage girls together, some serious s**t is going to go down…Poor Tori, the youngest of the three of us was, inevitably, often caught in the middle and she was always trying to smooth things over, trying to get Shan and me off each other's backs and get along, but her efforts usually failed." Garth told E! News the source of their rancor came from being "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."

In 2012, Doherty revealed that whatever rivalry had developed between the pair (and Spelling) had since subsided, and they developed a great working relationship, telling Glamour: "I happen to watch Tori's show. And I think it's incredibly charming and endearing and I can't wait to see Jennie's show. I did the new 90210 with Jennie and there was something very different about our friendship. We were able to look at each other as grown women and really acknowledge that we liked who the other person was now as adults."

Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer - Magic Mike

Of all the hip-thrusters who graced the stage again in Magic Mike XXL (2015), the first film's leading star, Alex Pettyfer was not among them. Why? Well, in short, Channing Tatum, the actor-creative whose pre-Hollywood life the movie depicted, apparently didn't like Pettyfer one bit. Yes, as hard as it might be to imagine Tatum disliking anybody, Pettyfer revealed in 2015 that not only did Tatum loathe him, but it was Pettyfer's own fault.

The ditched dancer appeared on Bret Easton Ellis' B.E.E. podcast (via The Hollywood Reporter) and admitted to having a standoffish demeanor on the set of the film. "I sat in the corner and listened to music because I'd been told that anything I do was wrong by my reps and I was very insecure as a human being. That also gave me a bad rep because they said, 'Oh Alex thinks he's f***ing better than everybody else because he doesn't speak to anyone.' And that's not true. I was genuinely nervous and scared to be myself," he said.

Problems carried on well after the movie shoot. Pettyfer admitted that he'd rented an apartment from one of Tatum's friends and neglected to pay his rent, at which time he received a scathing email from Tatum warning him not to "be a clown" and to pay what he owed…even though he never did.

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey - Dirty Dancing

Patrick Swayze might have had "Hungry Eyes" for his Dirty Dancing (1987) co-star Jennifer Grey on-screen, but in real life, their relationship was a little less groovy. In his autobiography The Time of My Life (via the New York Daily News), Swayze revealed that Grey was too much of a baby at times for his liking. "We did have a few moments of friction when we were tired or after a long day of shooting," he wrote, adding that she "seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her…Other times, she slipped into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over again when she'd start laughing."

Swayze added that he got especially annoyed by those little outbursts because he was so busy working on other exhausting aspects of the film, like his character's dance scenes, and, of course, he was doing all the heavy lifting during their shared scenes, which involved him picking her up repeatedly. About the film's lake scene, Swayze wrote, "It was horrifyingly, hypothermically cold in that lake, and we filmed that scene over and over. And despite the fact that Jennifer was very light when you're lifting someone in water, even the skinniest little girl can feel like 500 pounds."

The Rock and Vin Diesel - The Fate of the Furious

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shocked everyone in April 2017 when he posted a blistering rant to social media calling out some of his male co-stars for their poor work ethic on the set of The Fate of the Furious (2017). "Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't," Johnson said (via TMZ). "The ones that don't are too chicken s**t to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses."

Of course, it didn't take TMZ very long to figure out that Johnson was allegedly talking smack on Vin Diesel, launching a whole bunch of he said, he said reports. In one particular case, sources for TMZ alleged Johnson had grown tired of Diesel's attitude on set and his penchant for showing up late. Other sources alleged the beef was over the film's "real estate."

Although their very public feud made for an awkward press tour, Diesel and Johnson reportedly buried the hatchet within days of the film's theatrical release and will both continue to appear in the franchise.

Good luck with that!