SOME REALLY DO LIKE IT HOT
The annals of Hollywood are full of off-camera tensions. Other prime examples.
Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire
Danes may have been a memorable pair of lovers in 1996's Romeo + Juliet, but privately Danes considered him immature and Leo thought she was uptight. Off-screen, reportedly, they scarcely spoke a word to each other.
The onscreen chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Rachel Mcadams in The Notebook was not matched in real life during filming. The two often screamed at each other between takes, with Gosling at one point demanding that Mcadams be fired. Yet later, ironically, they became a real-life romantic item.
A self-absorbed William Shatner made few lasting friends with other members of the original Star Trek crew. Indeed, near the end of Leonard Nimoy's life, there was even estrangement in his relationship with the colleague who had long been Captain Kirk's closest and most forgiving friend. In addition, Shatner reportedly never got along with James Doohan (Scotty) or Walter Koenig (Chekov), but it was George Takei (Sulu) who became most riled over what he perceived as Shatner's indifference to him during their years working together. Following the huge success of the Nimoy-directed Star Trev lv, Shatner was determined to show his own brilliance as a director with Star Trek V. When Takei heard that Shatner would be at the helm for that movie, he almost quit, but then, out of loyalty to fellow cast members, he came on board.
Some Like It Hot is one of the most sublime comedies in Hollywood history — a triumph for stars Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes of the 1959 movie, Monroe's increasingly unprofessional behaviour was wreaking havoc. Curtis was a major victim, saying afterward that kissing her before the cameras was akin to “kissing Hitler.”
Sliver, Sharon Stone's 1993 attempt to follow her breakout triumph in Basic Instinct with another display of smouldering eroticism, deserves its own place in hell for sheer awfulness. Actor William Baldwin probably feels the same way about co-star Stone who — believing she had signed for a further boost to her sex-queen image only to realize she was trapped in a turkey — apparently sought to amuse herself by tormenting her co-star. That explains why Baldwin couldn't speak for a week after Stone reportedly bit his tongue hard during a kissing scene.
Disney was unable to do any major press for its movie What About Bob? — a dark 1991 comedy about a psychiatric patient, played by Bill Murray, who drives his therapist (Richard Dreyfuss) around the bend. Publicists said it would be dangerous to have the two actors in the same building, let alone the same interview room. The reason for the friction was that Murray went whole hog with his portrayal of a lovable patient who terrorizes his psychiatrist. In brief, he admitted later that he took enormous pleasure in tormenting Dreyfuss anyway he could. That meant ignoring the script and making up whatever annoying bits of business he could think of. Hence, Murray was creating a nightmare situation both for
Dreyfuss's onscreen character and Dreyfuss himself.
For years, Julia Roberts had a testy relationship with the media.
But sometimes that extended to her acting colleagues. She and Nick Nolte loathed each other so much during the filming of 1994's I Love Trouble that they ended up playing more to stand-ins than each other. Roberts told the New York Times that although Nolte could be “completely charming and very nice, he's also completely disgusting. He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems to go out of his way to repel people.” Nolte's response: “It's not nice to call someone `disgusting.' But she's not a nice person. Everyone knows that.”