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10 Famous Co-Stars Who Hated Working With Each Other

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Some of the best on-screen chemistry in Hollywood was faked through gritted teeth.

Audiences fell for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook, for Will Smith’s easy rapport with his TV aunt on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and for the four-way friendship at the center of Sex and the City. Behind the cameras, several of those pairings barely spoke to each other, and in at least one case a director had to physically separate two stars mid-scene. What actually happened on those sets, once the reporting caught up to the finished product, tells a very different story than the one on screen.

• Director Nick Cassavetes revealed in 2014 that Ryan Gosling stopped a scene with 150 extras on The Notebook to demand Rachel McAdams be replaced, then locked the two in a trailer until they screamed it out.
• Sarah Jessica Parker’s promotion to executive producer and a bigger paycheck starting in Sex and the City season two set off a rift with Kim Cattrall that resurfaced during season six negotiations and lingered through the 2008 and 2010 films.
• Janet Hubert was dismissed from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air after season three in 1993 amid a feud with Will Smith over billing, pay, and who resented whom on set.

The Notebook’s Trailer Blowup

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams sold one of the most quoted romances of the 2000s, but according to director Nick Cassavetes, getting there required an actual intervention. Cassavetes said the tension on the 2004 set became so severe that Gosling halted production in front of 150 extras and told the crew he wanted McAdams replaced. Rather than shut down the shoot, Cassavetes forced both actors into a private trailer and let them scream at each other until the air cleared enough to keep filming.

Gosling stopped a 150-extra scene to demand McAdams be recast — then the two ended up dating once the cameras stopped rolling.

The irony, of course, is that Gosling and McAdams began a real relationship after the film wrapped, which only made the trailer story more irresistible to reporters once Cassavetes went public with it a decade later. It’s the kind of reversal that shows up again and again in stories about celebs who started out friends and ended up enemies — except here it ran in the opposite direction.

Sex And The City’s Pay Gap Feud

Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall spent six seasons and two feature films playing best friends on HBO’s Sex and the City, but the offscreen relationship never matched it. Industry reporting has consistently traced the rift back to money: Parker was given an executive producer credit and a raise starting in season two, a disparity Cattrall pushed back on hard during her season six contract negotiations. The friction never fully went away, resurfacing through production of the 2008 and 2010 films despite Parker’s public insistence that the two got along fine.

Will Smith and Janet Hubert Feud

Janet Hubert played Vivian Banks, Will Smith’s on-screen aunt, for the first three seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air before being written off the show in 1993. Smith later said in a radio interview that Hubert resented sharing a set with a newcomer whose name carried the show’s title. Hubert told a very different version, maintaining that Smith engaged in retaliatory behavior behind the scenes and blocked her attempts to renegotiate cast pay. Both accounts have circulated for years, and neither side has fully backed down. Fans still hunting for details on the show’s early years can find more in the rundown of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air stars from that same era.

More Sets Where The Chemistry Was Fake

The Gosling-McAdams and Parker-Cattrall stories aren’t the only ones with staying power. Production on 2000’s Charlie’s Angels reportedly halted temporarily after Bill Murray insulted Lucy Liu’s acting ability on set, a clash that escalated into a physical confrontation between the two. On The Good Wife, Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi famously avoided filming in the same room together for close to three seasons, a workaround the show’s crew had to build entire shooting schedules around. And Shannen Doherty left both Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed under contentious circumstances, cementing her reputation as one of the more combustible co-stars of her era.

Stories like these keep surfacing because the pattern repeats: two actors sell a friendship or a romance flawlessly on camera, then go home to separate green rooms and separate grudges. Anyone digging through the wider catalog of actors who treat their co-stars like trash will recognize most of these names before the second paragraph.