Yahoo Lifestyle 13 Times Actors Straight-Up Admitted To Seriously Disliking A Costar
When you're an actor, not every costar will be your best friend. Most of the time, actors keep it professional, but sometimes, they dislike a costar so much that they don't care who knows it.
Here are 13 actors who openly admitted to seriously disliking a costar:
1.In 2024, Laura Benanti told That's a Gay Ass Podcast that she "never liked" Zachary Levi, whom she costarred with in a 2016 Broadway run of She Loves Me. She said, "Everyone was like, 'He's so great!' And I was like, 'No, he's not. He's sucking up all the fucking energy in this room.'"
She added that he tried "to mansplain everybody's part to them" and kept trying to host dance parties.
Laura said, "He really sucked everybody in with his dance party energy, like, 'We're doing a dance party at half-hour.' I was like, 'Good luck, have fun.'"
She also called Zachary out for his Instagram Live where he implied that their fellow costar Gavin Creel died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Laura said, "For him to use Gavin's memory — a person he was not friends with — to use his memory for his political agenda and to watch him try to make himself cry until he had one single tear, which he did not wipe away, I was like, 'Fuck you forever.'"
2.On the 2024 debut episode of their podcast Call It What It Is, Grey's Anatomy costars Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington admitted that they were far from friends at first. Jessica said, "I did not like you. I did not, not like you. When I first met you, I had just had a baby and was coming back to work, and I was feeling very insecure about pretty much everything."
She continued, "I might have shown up to set, and people were atwitter about some beautiful new woman coming to the show. I think these things can happen where all of a sudden I was sitting across from this beautiful young woman and not feeling myself, and I was like, ‘Mm I don't know that I'm going to like her.'"
Camila said, "I realized kind of quickly that you didn't like me. Let's call it the burger truck incident of 2012. There was a lovely burger truck, and I snapped a picture of the truck and was like, ‘I'm gonna post it on Twitter, and tag Shonda and say thank you for the burger truck,' which was very polite. Um, someone wasn't a fan of it.
...[In the picture] you were eating a burger like everyone else. And you were like, ‘You need to ask me before you post.' And I was horrified because I'm new and terrified, and this is Jessica Capshaw. And I was like, 'Okay, she full-on hates me because burgergate happened, and the vibes were not good.'"
However, they ended up becoming friends when they invited a bunch of people to get sushi, and everyone but the two of them canceled.
Jessica said, "We really did become friends immediately."
3.In 2015, Gillian Anderson told the Guardian that there were "definitely periods" where she and her The X-Files costar David Duchovny "hated each other." She added, "Hate is too strong a word. We didn't talk for long periods of time. It was intense, and we were both pains in the arse for the other at various times."
She continued, "I'm not going to get into it. I'm not even going to begin to get into that. But we are closer today than we ever have been."
4.In 2016, Diane Kruger told BuzzFeed that her Troy costar Peter O'Toole "wasn't very pleasant" to work with.
She said, "It kind of sucked. He's dead, so I can say that. But he wasn't the most pleasant person."
5.In Leslie Jordan's career, there was only one actor he didn't enjoy working with — his Newhart costar Mary Frann, whom he was "warned" about.
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In 2021, he told Los Angeles magazine, "The set was so loose and relaxed, and we were having such a good time, but then [the] door opened and she came in.
And so I went that afternoon to my agency, Cunningham, Escott, and Depine, who handled me for commercials. And Mr. Escott, T.J. Escott, unbeknownst to me, had been married to Mary Frann. I didn't know that, and I walked in there and said, 'What a bitch!' and everybody in the office was going 'Shhhh!' And then from the office, T.J. said, 'I agree with everything he's saying!'"
6.When The Vampire Diaries first began filming, Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley "despised each other so much that it read as love."
In 2019, Nina told the Directionally Challenged podcast, "We really just didn't get along the first five months of shooting... We ended up getting to a good place, and it was fine. Of everyone, I think I probably see him the most and hang out with him the most. We're probably the closest."
Responding to her comments, Paul told Entertainment Tonight, "We totally clashed. We didn't [get along]. Creatively, it just wasn't in sync. The fans would never have known that. We're basically driving each other insane and then after a few seasons, we developed this absolute mutual love."
7.In 2014, Jennie Garth confirmed longstanding rumors of an on-set feud with her Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Shannen Doherty to E! News. She said, "We were 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 her book Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde, Jennie added, "It was more of just young girls finding their way and finding their individual voices. Shannen and I are both Aries women, we're both very strong, independent women, so we butt heads a lot. Now, as grown women, we happen to get along as well."
8.In a 2017 YouTube video, Ashley Tisdale revealed that she and her High School Musical costar Lucas Grabeel "hated each other" while filming.
She said, "We were not close. We were not good friends... I think we just didn't know each other, and I was definitely, like, a lot like Sharpay... I have to say, after we wrapped, though, I've always had a love for [Lucas]."
9.Patricia Neal was reportedly originally "thrilled" to work with George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's. However, she soon saw that, since the last time she'd seen him, "he had grown so cold and conceited." Eventually, she "hated" him.
In Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson, she said, "On one occasion, Blake[ Edwards, the director] and George almost had a fistfight. We were trying to block a scene, and George wanted to change everything that Blake had planned, and George got so terrible that Blake almost hit him. I got them to stop, but I think George got his way. I hated him from that moment on."
10.In 2014, Freddie Prinze Jr. told ABC News, "I did 24. It was terrible. I hated every moment of it. Kiefer [Sutherland] 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. I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped."
He continued, "I went and worked for Vince McMahon at the WWE, for Christ's sake, and it was a crazier job than working with Kiefer. But, at least, he was cool and tall. I didn't have to take my shoes off to do scenes with him, which they made me do. 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."
11.In his 2014 memoir Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, Neil Patrick Harris reportedly called his Purple People Eater costar Dustin Diamond "one of the more unpleasant people in show business."
He also reportedly said Dustin would go "out of his way to offend pretty much every person he comes across."
12.On a 2023 episode of her podcast Bitch Sesh, Casey Wilson said that her The Santa Clauses costar Tim Allen was "such a bitch" to work with. She also said it was the "worst, truly single worst experience [she's] ever had with a costar ever."
She said, "[In our scene] I'm supposed to throw things at him. He's coming down the chimney, obviously as Santa. And I am woken up thinking there's an intruder — basically like a home invasion scene...I basically hear him — he goes, 'You gotta tell her to stop stepping on my lines.' The producer turns to me with horror on his face and has to walk one foot to me, and he goes, 'Tim would ask that you stopped stepping on his lines.'"
She also alleged he was "so fucking rude" to her post-filming and "never made eye contact, never said anything."
13.And finally, in 1993, Julia Roberts told the New York Times her I Love Trouble costar Nick Nolte could be "completely charming and very nice" but "he's also completely disgusting." She said, "He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems [to] go out of his way to repel people. He's a kick."
She also said, "From the moment I met him, we sort of gave each other a hard time, and naturally, we get on each other's nerves."
In 2022, Nick told Insider that he hadn't reached out to her to bury the hatchet, "though it's buried."
He said, "I mean it was absurd what we went through. It was partly my fault and a little bit of hers. Julia got married at the beginning of that film, and it was one of those things where I just approached it all wrong."
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