7 On-Screen Couples Who Hated Each Other IRL
On-screen chemistry doesn't necessarily mean off-screen harmony. Indeed some of the ~sexxxiest~ movie partnerships have been between couples who fought their way through the shoot.
Prepare to have your belief in true love completely doused as we catalogue our favorite on-screen couples who really didn't like each other at all. Like, AT ALL.
1. Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling – The Notebook
The whole situation sounds like a meet-cute from a movie anyway: impossibly hot couple make movie that people think is the most heartbreakingly romantic of all time, but fight all the way through it. Then they realize they're actually in love after all. Awwwww.
According to director Nick Cassavetes, the pair shouted and screamed at each other and "were really not getting along" to the point that Gosling asked for a different actress to read McAdams' lines off camera for him to react to.
After that though, they ended up dating for three years. Ain't love grand? And suuuuper weird?
2. Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts – I Love Trouble
It actually feels quite strange that there was ever a world in which Nolte would be a romantic lead to Roberts but that, we suppose, is what happens when leading ladies have to be so much younger than their male partners. Anyhow, the two did not like each other, with Roberts saying to The New York Times that Nolte was "charming and nice – he's also completely disgusting."
Nolte retaliated: "It's not nice to call someone 'disgusting'. But she's not a nice person. Everyone knows that."
We love trouble.
3. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze – Dirty Dancing
Turns out Jennifer didn't in fact have the time of her life on this shoot. According to Swayze in his memoir, "she'd slip into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over... We did have a few moments of friction… She seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticised her."
It's not like she was actually 17 either (the age of her character Baby) – Grey was then 26 and Swayze was 34. Perhaps she was upset because someone put in her in a corner?
4. Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis – Some Like It Hot
Curtis reportedly said kissing her was "like kissing Hitler" (great joke?), and claimed "she'd gone funny, her mind was all over the place" during the shoot. Though he might have been a bit biased – in a kind of anti-Notebook turn of events, the two had previously been lovers, and there's nothing worse than having to work with your ex day in, day out.
5. Anthony Hopkins and Shirley MacLaine – A Change Of Seasons
"She was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with," Hopkins supposedly said of his co-star in this not-very-well-liked romantic drama. They play a married couple, both of whom are having affairs, so on the plus side the uncomfortable tension between the two was at least put to good use.
6. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson – The X-Files
I know. This one is SO disappointing!
They had a long-running will-they-won't-they thing going in the series and the films, eventually culminating in a yes-they-will! relationship, but apparently in real life the two weren't best buds all the time they were filming.
Speaking to Metro in 2008, Duchovny explained: "Familiarity breeds contempt... We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other."
Though in the same interview he also talks about Anderson with a lot of affection and says she's like a sister to him, so they obviously made up after. Besides, they came back at least three times for movies and reboots.
7. Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio – Romeo + Juliet
They were both super young - she was 16 and he was 22 - but the star-crossed lovers rubbed each other up the wrong way, according to reports. Apparently he was a bit of a prankster while she was very reserved, so they didn't really hit it off when the cameras weren't rolling. Since then, Leo's become your bad, bad bad boy boyfriend, while Claire went on to star in Homeland. It all makes a lot of sense when you think about it!
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