Actors Who Were Totally Repulsed By Their Co-Stars

Some of Hollywood's most beloved movies and TV shows were fraught with drama behind the scenes. We've pulled together a few of the most shocking co-star battles, from catty cover shoots to Oscar-winning dramas.

Betty White is so likable and so hilarious that it's hard to imagine anyone not wanting to become her best friend. Unfortunately, White's upbeat personality didn't mesh well with Bea Arthur during the filming of their iconic comedy series The Golden Girls (1985-92). "We were all close, but our personalities were all so different," White revealed during a 2013 panel discussion with The New York Times (via Little Things). "[Bea] found me a pain in the neck sometimes because [of] my positive attitude. I'm happy all the time, and that made Bea mad sometimes."

Teri Hatcher's feud with her Desperate Housewives (2004-12) cast members dates back to the first season, all thanks to a tear-filled cover shoot for Vanity Fair. According to People, ABC had stipulated that Hatcher not get "first shot at wardrobe (lest she pick the best outfits) or be posed in the center of the group" during the shoot, but Hatcher arrived early and did get first dibs on clothes. Co-star Marcia Cross allegedly got mad about being posed next to Hatcher and stormed off the set. This forced ABC to conduct major damage control that continued for the rest of the show's existence. Despite multiple claims that everything was just dandy on set, Hatcher's cast-wide feud was reportedly confirmed when her name was left off the thank you card given to the show's staff by Cross, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, and Vanessa Williams at the series' end. Ouch.

In a 2008 interview with UK's Metro, David Duchovny revealed that he didn't always get along with his X-Files (1993) co-star, Gillian Anderson. "Familiarity breeds contempt..." he said. "We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other." Whatever happened, the two have since seemingly kissed and made up—at least enough to star in Fox's 2016 X-Files miniseries reboot.

Much like Meryl Streep, Tyrese Gibson wasn't happy with the intense physicality that co-star James Franco brought to the set of Annapolis (2006), particularly when it came to shooting the film's big boxing match. "Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me," Gibson revealed to Elle magazine. Franco later apologized for his behavior, telling GQ, "I was probably a jerk. I was not purposely cruel to him, but I was probably so wrapped up in my performance that I was not as friendly as I could have been."

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy had a hate-love (yes, backwards) relationship on the set of George Miller's 2015 dystopian epic, Mad Max: Fury Road. The Oscar-winning actress revealed to Esquire that she and Hardy "f***ing went at it" on the set and that he also maintained a cantankerous relationship with the director.

Theron blamed the brutal set conditions for his dismay over the shoot, explaining, "It was the isolation, and the fact that we were stuck in a rig for the entire shoot. We shot a war movie on a moving truck—there's very little green screen. It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes. And it's material that's really frightening—we didn't have a script. Tom and I are actors who take our jobs seriously." She also added that even though the actors "drove each other crazy," they still had an immense amount of respect for one another and Hardy even left her a semi-sentimental note after it was done, which read, "You are an absolute nightmare, BUT you are also f***ing awesome. I'll kind of miss you. Love, Tommy."

Life was not a song on the set of Fox's Glee (2009-2015) when it came to these two co-stars' constant bickering. In her book Sorry not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up (via TV Line), Naya Rivera revealed that the rumors about her on-set feud with actress Lea Michele were true, albeit a little exaggerated by gossipers.

She wrote about their tiffs, "If I'd complained about anyone or anything, she'd assumed I was b****ing about her...Soon, she started to ignore me, and eventually it got to the point where she didn't say a word to me for all of Season 6. Lea and I definitely weren't the best of friends, and I doubt we'll ever sit on her couch and eat kale together again." She also hinted that art imitated life when it came to on-screen stickler personality Rachel Berry and Michele's real-life attitude: "I think Rachel—erm, I mean Lea—didn't like sharing the spotlight."

Jack Bauer might have made Kiefer Sutherland a fan-favorite superstar of the small screen, but co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. absolutely despised working with the actor on the set of 24 (2001-2010). He revealed to ABC News that he "hated every moment of" working on the hit action series because "Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face, I think everyone that's worked with him has said that." Prinze's dislike for Sutherland extended so far that he said he even considered quitting show business after working with him.

Among the reasons Prinze was so bothered by Sutherland: Prinze had to take his shoes off to do scenes with him for the show. "Just put the guy on an apple box or don't hire me next time. You know I'm 6 feet and he's 5'4," he said. Sutherland, however, denied any hard feelings between the actors. His reps told E! that he "enjoyed" working with Prinze on the show and that he hadn't previously known about the ire.

These teen TV queens were on top of the world when they shared the screen in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), but Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty had a very hard time getting along with each other (and, at times, co-star Tori Spelling) on the set.

In her 2014 tell-all book Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde (via E! News), Garth wrote, "I don't know why it is, but there is a universal truth that when you put three teenage girls together, some serious s**t is going to go down...Poor Tori, the youngest of the three of us was, inevitably, often caught in the middle and she was always trying to smooth things over, trying to get Shan and me off each other's backs and get along, but her efforts usually failed." Garth told E! News the source of their rancor came from being "locked in this sound stage for 14-16 hours every day...there were times when we loved each other and there were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out."

In 2012, Doherty revealed that whatever rivalry had developed between the pair (and Spelling) had since subsided, and they developed a great working relationship, telling Glamour: "I happen to watch Tori's show. And I think it's incredibly charming and endearing and I can't wait to see Jennie's show. I did the new 90210 with Jennie and there was something very different about our friendship. We were able to look at each other as grown women and really acknowledge that we liked who the other person was now as adults."

Patrick Swayze might have had "Hungry Eyes" for his Dirty Dancing (1987) co-star Jennifer Grey on-screen, but in real life, their relationship was a little less groovy. In his autobiography The Time of My Life (via the New York Daily News), Swayze revealed that Grey was too much of a baby for his liking. "We did have a few moments of friction when we were tired or after a long day of shooting," he wrote, adding that she "seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her...Other times, she slipped into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over again when she'd start laughing."

Swayze added that he got especially annoyed by those little outbursts because he was so busy working on other exhausting aspects of the film, like his character's dance scenes, and, of course, he was doing all the heavy lifting during their shared scenes, which involved him picking her up repeatedly. About the film's lake scene, Swayze wrote, "It was horrifyingly, hypothermically cold in that lake, and we filmed that scene over and over. And despite the fact that Jennifer was very light, when you're lifting someone in water, even the skinniest little girl can feel like 500 pounds."

Much like the characters they played, actors Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss did not get along during much of the shooting of Jaws (1975). In fact, Shaw often taunted Dreyfuss in between takes.

What caused the feud? According to co-star Roy Scheider, Shaw—a legendary theater actor—initially took issue with Dreyfuss' pompous attitude about filming a movie. "Dreyfuss would say, 'What am I doing on this island? Why am I here? I should be signing autographs in Sardi's. I should be feted all over New York City... " Scheider recalled in the Biography Channel documentary, Jaws: The Inside Story. "[Shaw] really thought Dreyfuss needed a slapping down, [that he was a] young punk with no stage experience."

Things only got worse from there. Eventually, their feud reached a boiling point when Dreyfuss supposedly threw a glass of bourbon that Shaw had been drinking out the window. "That was the shot heard around the world. It got ugly," Director Steven Spielberg recalled in the documentary. "But it was also Quint and Hooper living out that relationship as Shaw and Dreyfuss."

According to In the Teeth of Jaws, the duo eventually made amends during the filming of Quint's famous USS Indianapolis speech—again, much like their characters.

Castle (2009-16) fans were horrified in April 2016 when news broke that Stana Katic had been let go from the show after eight seasons. Why did the series get rid of its female lead so abruptly? If sources for Us Weekly are to be believed, it may have been catalyzed by a seasons-long feud between Katic and co-star Nathan Fillion.

"Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion completely despise each other," a source told Us Weekly at the time of her firing. "They will not speak when they are off set, and this has been going on for seasons now... This season, it got so out of hand they made Stana and Nathan go to couples counseling together."

A second insider added, "Stana would go in her dressing room and cry. A lot of people who work on the show don't like Nathan. It's not just her. The friction was very evident. Nathan has been nasty to Stana for a long time. Stana was a pro, just wanted to get in there and do her job."

Others adamantly denied friction between the co-stars. Deadline alleged Katic was being let go for "budgetary reasons."

Regardless, someone at ABC must have realized that moving the show forward without Katic was a ridiculous idea. By May of that year, the series was canceled altogether.

Speaking on Norm Macdonald Live in October 2017, actor Jim Carrey confessed that his Batman Forever (1995) co-star Tommy Lee Jones disliked him so much that he actually admitted it straight to his face.

According to Carrey, the incident occurred right before they had their "biggest scene together," when Carrey unknowingly showed up to the same restaurant where Jones was dining. "The maitre said, 'Oh, I hear you're working with Tommy Lee Jones. He's over in the corner having dinner,'" Carrey recalled (via The Hollywood Reporter). "I went over and I said, 'Hey Tommy, how are you doing?' and the blood just drained from his face. And he got up shaking—he must have been in mid kill me fantasy or something like that. And he went to hug me and he said, 'I hate you. I really don't like you.' And I said, 'What's the problem?' and pulled up a chair, which probably wasn't smart. And he said, 'I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'"

Yikes. At least he was honest?