14 Actor Pairings That Actually Hated Working Together And Have Sworn To Never Be Seen On The Same Screen Ever Again

The chance of them sharing a screen again is close to none.

Sophia

• Published in Film & TV
• June 17, 2022

When casting actors for movies, it is important that they have budding chemistry to make their scenes a lot more special and intriguing. Some actor duos just exude a natural vibe that roots in their real-life friendship or connection, and it truly shows in their work—making their film a lot more successful and iconic to the audience.

Take Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, for example; they work so beautifully as a pair that they got cast in another movie in 2008 called Revolutionary Road together, after their classic roles as Jack and Rose in Titanic. The same goes for Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan, who have worked in a total of three movies together because they are just that good as an acting duo.

The same can't be said for other actor pairings, though. Well, actors are still humans, and certain feelings of negative emotions may come along the way, especially when their personalities just do not mix well together.

There will always be people that we just won't get along with, no matter how hard we try, and sometimes, they are the ones who make it even harder to like them. Someone's personality is just one of the basic reasons to dislike them, but if they actively bully you and other people around, that's when people just turn their backs and conclude that someone is generally just a bad person.

This particular feeling is no different from actors who are, at the end of the day, workers. There are a lot of these entertainers that have outspokenly expressed their discomfort and hatred for someone they once worked with for a movie or a show, and of course, it didn't bode well for the receiver of the complaints.

That being said, here are some actor pairings that had such a difficult time working together, that it's highly unlikely for us to see them again together on screen:

1. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte

Julia once said that her I Love Trouble costar was "completely disgusting." The two had a difficult time working together so some of their scenes were filled with stand-ins.

"He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems to go out of his way to repel people," Roberts said to the New York Times.

2. George Takei and William Shatner

Takei actually refused to join the cast of Star Trek at first because he wasn't keen on working with William Shatner as the director.

3. Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailon

 "[Adrienne] didn't come to my dad's funeral or call me when he died. ... You can say what you want about me and how you felt about me, but you can't ever say that I didn't fucking ride for Adrienne."

4. Will Smith and Janet Hubert.

Will Smith said Janet Hubert "wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air show," and she reportedly said he "probably is responsible for [her] firing."

5. Tina Fey and Paris Hilton

On the Howard Stern Show, Fey expressed dismay over Paris Hilton when she reportedly refused to perform a sketch about her video leak, in which Hilton locked herself in the dressing room. Hilton never returned to SNL after that.

6. Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis

Kevin Smith called Bruce Willis "the unhappiest, most bitter, and meanest emo-bitch I’ve ever met at any job I’ve held down" in his book. This was after they worked on Cop Out.

7. Bill Murray and Lucy Liu

Murray's role was recast for the second movie of Charlie's Angels due to a conflict with Lucy Liu. It was reportedly said that Murray used "inexcusable and unacceptable" insults to Liu.

Liu "would not stand down, and nor should [she] have."

8. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland

Freddie had to take a break from acting after he worked together with Kiefer on 24, saying that "Kiefer [Sutherland] was the most unprofessional dude in the world."

"That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face," he told ABC News. "I think everyone that's worked with him has said that."

9. Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine

And finally, while filming Terms of Endearment, Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine made no effort to hide their hatred for one another after filming Terms of Endearment. The conflict between the two became apparent when they were both up for a nomination for the Best Actress category at the Academy Awards.

In 2017, she said, "It made for great ink. I didn’t have to do interviews. I did one and it lasted for 10 years."

10. Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere

Gere was fired from The Lords of Flatbush after getting into a physical fight when Gere spilled some mustard on Stallone's pants.

In a fan Q&A, Stallone reported, "Richard was given his walking papers and to this day seriously dislikes me." 

11. Archie Panjabi and Julianna Margulies

The two had to film their final scene separately. Panjabi left The Good Wife in between rumors that they weren't on good terms.

12. Rose McGowan and Alyssa Milano

McGowan exposed Alyssa Milano on Twitter, saying that the latter made the set of Charmed "toxic AF," just 14 years after the show ended.

"Hurt people hurt people. Commenting any further doesn't align with my wellness plan," Milano said to E! News.

13. Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey

Tommy Lee Jones said to Jim Carrey that he hates him because he "cannot sanction [his] buffoonery," while they were working on Batman Forever.

14. Samantha Ware and Lea Michele

Samantha Ware wasn't the lone complainant for Lea Michele's behavior on the set of Glee. But she was the one who called Michele out for her "tragic microaggressions" that made her question her worth as an actress because the singer made her "first television gig a living hell."

Her claims were then backed up by Heather Morris and Alex Newell.

Samantha Ware called out Glee costar Lea Michele for committing "tragic microaggressions" that made her question her acting career and made her "first television gig a living hell," and her claims were backed up by fellow castmates like Alex Newell and Heather Morris.

Life in Hollywood isn't all glitz and glamor—people here have to deal with different personalities each and every single day, and there won't always be an assurance that these personalities would mix well when joined together. Conflict is something that's quite common in Hollywood, but at least we get some ideas about who is truly a good person or not behind the screen!

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Sophia