Megan Fox and Michael Bay. (Photograph by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Photographs)
Creating film magic on the large display screen usually requires quite a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes to drag all of the threads collectively.
Whereas the perfect finish outcome for a film is an leisure seamlessly dropped at life (that additionally makes the individuals concerned some huge cash within the course of), generally issues can get somewhat messy between the individuals making it alongside the best way.
From huge blow ups to lawsuits to disagreement, scroll on to dive into a few of the most infamous feuds between film administrators and stars – and uncover how their relationships grew to become lower than harmonious.
Lengthy earlier than Don’t Fear Darling hit theaters in September 2022, the psychological thriller made headlines for offscreen drama. Thank You! You’ve gotten efficiently subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a legitimate e mail. Subscribe By signing up, I comply with the Phrases and Privateness Coverage and to obtain emails from Us Weekly Deal of the Day […]
Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous
Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous. (Photograph by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photographs)
Rumors swirled that director/actor Justin Baldoni and actress Blake Vigorous weren’t getting along through the promotional tour for It Ends With Us, which was launched in August 2024.
The animosity between the pair was confirmed when Vigorous, 37, sued Baldoni, 40, in December 2024 for sexual harassment and accused the director of making an attempt to tarnish her status with a smear marketing campaign – a declare legal professionals for Baldoni vehemently denied.
Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh
(L-R) Nick Kroll, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler, Harry Types and Gemma Chan. (Photograph by Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs)
Within the case of 2022 launch, Don’t Fear, Darling, many onlookers grew to become extra within the drama behind the scenes than within the movie itself. The film was directed by Olivia Wilde and starred Florence Pugh – and hypothesis was rife there was tension between the pair.
Within the lead as much as Don’t Fear, Darling’s launch Pugh did restricted promotion for the movie, prevented being photographed subsequent to Wilde and skipped or arrived late to press commitments. Whereas neither confirmed the reality behind their relationship, there have been whispers Pugh could have been sad with Wilde’s relationship costar Harry Types.
Megan Fox and Michael Bay
Michael Bay and Megan Fox. (Photograph by Getty)
Throughout her Transformer days, Megan Fox rocked the boat with director Michael Bay when she publicly in contrast him to “Hitler” – which in the end led to her getting fired from the franchise and changed with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
“He’s like Napoleon and he desires to create this insane, notorious mad-man status. He desires to be like Hitler on his units, and he’s,” Fox, 38, informed Wonderland Journal in 2009. “So he’s a nightmare to work for however whenever you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I form of actually get pleasure from his persona as a result of he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward.”
Whereas he ended up reducing her from his movies, Bay informed GQ Journal in 2011 that he wasn’t notably offended.
“I wasn’t damage, as a result of I do know that’s simply Megan. Megan likes to get a response,” Bay, 59, mentioned. “She does it in form of the fallacious approach. I’m sorry, Megan. I’m sorry I made you’re employed 12 hours. I’m sorry that I’m making you present up on time. Motion pictures should not at all times heat and fuzzy.”
Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher
David Fincher and Jake Gyllenhaal. (Photograph by Getty)
Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher didn’t mince phrases when it got here to speaking about their experiences working with each other on 2007 movie Zodiac.
“Fincher paints with individuals,” Gyllenhaal, 44, mentioned of the director in 2007, complaining, “It’s robust to be a color.”
Fincher later had his personal tackle what it was like working with Gyllenhaal – and didn’t maintain again.
“Jake was within the unenviable place of being very younger and having lots of people vie for his consideration, whereas working for somebody who doesn’t help you take a time without work,” Fincher, 62, informed The New York Occasions in 2020. “I believe Jake’s philosophy was knowledgeable by — look, he’d made a bunch of films, whilst a baby, however I don’t assume he’d ever been requested to focus on trivialities, and I believe he was very distracted.”
Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow
(L-R) Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow. (Photograph by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc for Selection Journal)
One other notorious case of a film’s star going face to face with its director was when Katherine Heigl got here out swinging in opposition to the film she was starring in, 2007’s Knocked Up.
Its director Judd Apatow was left lower than impressed when she slammed Knocked Up throughout an interview with Self-importance Truthful in 2008.
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us costars Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. Within the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Occasions, Vigorous accused Baldoni of launching a […]
“It paints the ladies as shrews, as humourless and uptight,” Heigl, 46, mentioned. “It paints the boys as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a tough time with it, on some days. I’m enjoying such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is that this the way you’re portraying girls? Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was a tremendous expertise, nevertheless it was exhausting for me to like the film.”
For his half, Apatow informed radio host Howard Stern in 2009 that he anticipated an apology from Heigl after the disparaging remarks however he by no means received one.
“[You’d think] in some unspecified time in the future I’ll get a name saying ‘Sorry, I used to be drained …’ after which the decision by no means comes,” Apatow, 57, mentioned.
