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Film and TV sets are a workplace unlike any other, but they are still fundamentally a workplace. Actors are colleagues, and like all colleagues, some get on worse than others. While some sets boast casts that are the best of friends, with actors as close as the characters they portray, this isn’t always the case. Actors can fail to get along, whether it’s due to differing acting styles, clashing personalities, or early mistakes.
Just because two actors don’t get along does not mean the same is true of their characters. Chemistry can spark between actors even in the absence of affection, and some of the closest friendships or relationships in film and television have been portrayed by actors who didn’t like each other.
10 Fox Mulder & Dana Scully Bickered Just As Much In Real Life
The two lead characters of The X-Files famously irritated each other—one a skeptic and one a rampant conspiracy theorist—but the arguing sparked into a romance beloved by fans of the show. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, however, never reached the second stage.
Neither actor can give a reason for why their off-camera relationship was so fractious and unstable, other than spending so much time together each day. Starting off as friends, they became known for their eye-rolls and periods of not seeing each other off-set. Nonetheless, the dynamic between the two was always compelling.
9 Patrick Swayze Wanted To Put Baby In The Corner
The tension between Patrick Swayze, who played Johnny in Dirty Dancing, and Jennifer Grey, who played Baby, did not start on that film. Rather it began on an earlier film the two co-starred in, Red Dawn. Their different acting styles led to conflict, and Swayze tried to oppose Grey’s casting in Dirty Dancing.
The two mostly worked out their tension before filming began, but some remained. If anything, it added to the performance, with Johnny’s frustration with Baby doubtlessly drawing from that. This didn’t stop them from portraying the two falling in love with electric chemistry.
8 Captain Jack Liked The Ninth Doctor More Than John Barrowman Liked Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston’s one-season run on Doctor Who as the titular time traveler was highly rated by viewers, but the actor wasn’t always comfortable on-set. The light-hearted series was a change for him, used to doing darker and more serious series. John Barrowman was one castmate who disliked Eccleston’s acting style, saying that the intensity of Eccleston was “miserable,” and describing him as “grumpy.”
This didn’t carry across to their on-camera dynamic. Jack Harkness and the Ninth Doctor had a fun tension as two men used to leading clashed and learned to work together, alongside a casual flirtation.
7 Charlize Theron & Tom Hardy Had Friction, Much Like Max & Furiosa
Sometimes it’s minor things, coupled with the tense environment when making a movie, that lead to actors falling out. While filming Mad Max: Fury Road, Tom Hardy staying in-character between takes and talking to himself annoyed Charlize Theron, sparking tension between the two.
Neither seems to hold it against the other, and they’ve both spoken frankly in interviews since. For many fans, the tension between the two complemented their initially unwary, suspicious relationship in the film perfectly.
6 Ashley Tisdale & Lucas Grabeel Were Not An Inseparable Team Like Sharpay & Ryan
As strange as it may be, the actors behind one of the closest relationships in the High School Musical series did not like each other at all whilst filming the first movie. The two, both young adults, developed friction as soon as they auditioned together. Ashley Tisdale tried to give Lucas Grabeel notes on how to audition.
He didn’t appreciate this, and the two, in their own words, “hated” each other on-set. They played loving siblings very well, becoming one of the most popular pairings in the series. This eventually bled through to real life, as the two are now close friends.
5 Willow & Buffy Remained Friends When Their Actresses Did Not
It’s come out in recent months that Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and sister show Angel, both had trouble on the set, primarily due to showrunner Joss Whedon. The cast usually remained on good terms with one another, with only a few causing disagreements. By the end of the seventh season, however, Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar weren’t on speaking terms with one another despite once being close.
Part of it has been attributed to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s fatigue of working on the show as soon as the third season, and part of it due to the show ending on Gellar’s terms. Nonetheless, even when their real-life friendship frayed, the actors portrayed two of the closest people in Sunnydale perfectly.
4 There Wasn’t Music At First Between Captain von Trapp & Maria
Sometimes the tensions off-set mimic the relationships in front of the camera. When Christopher Plummer first began working on The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, he did not take a liking to her. Plummer, not fond of the film, was not charmed by Andrews and could be cruel to her, giving her the nickname ‘Miss Disney’ to mock her.
Much as in the movie, the dislike gave way to affection, and Plummer and Andrews ended the film as friends. Their chemistry remains consistent throughout the film, regardless of the relationship between the two actors.
3 Ryan Gosling Tried To Have Rachel MacAdams Fired From The Notebook
In The Notebook, Ryan Gosling and Rachel MacAdams beautifully play a deeply in-love couple, and after working together on the film, they went as far as to date on-and-off in real life for four years.
Things didn’t start off this way, however. Contrary to the opinions of critics and viewers, Gosling believed that he lacked chemistry with MacAdams. He went so far as to pull the director, Nick Cassavetes, to find him a new co-star. Cassavetes refused and the result was a sleeper hit.
2 Sherlock & Watson Are Famously Close Friends, Cumberbatch & Freeman Are Not
The chemistry between Martin Freeman’s John Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes, in BBC’s Sherlock, is legendary among fans. For many viewers, the two carried the show on their backs, and their relationship was one of the central plot points throughout.
When the cameras were off, however, there was nothing so intense a relationship. While neither Freeman nor Cumberbatch has said they dislike the other, they’ve both commented on a ‘cool’ relationship. Due to different personalities, the two have never bonded, and they don’t spend time together outside of shooting, although they remained professional throughout the show’s run.
1 Kathy Selden & Don Lockwood Were Closer Than Debbie Reynolds & Gene Kelly
Singin’ In The Rain is a musical romantic comedy beloved by fans, showing the blistering movie star romance between Gene Kelly’s Donald Lockwood and Debbie Reynolds’s Kathy Selden. From a hostile meeting, they become closer, and eventually fall in love, with a romance that viewers found compelling, with chemistry to match.
Kelly, in contrast, was something of a taskmaster to Reynolds on-set, forcing her to do take after take of the film’s dances until she bled through her shoes. He also disparaged her throughout, and the mixture of his attitude and Reynold’s overwork led her to break down more than once and even landed her in the hospital.
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