19 Actors And Directors Who You Won't See Together Again

"I learned that I'll never make a film with supermodels again." —John Carney

Whether it is Tim Burton and Johnny Depp or Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, these actor/director duos really bring the best out of each other. They go on to film multiple movies together because of their successful and comfortable pairing. However, there are some who do not always get along.

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Here are 19 actors and directors who would never want to work with each other again.

1. Julia Roberts and Steven Spielberg

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After calling off her engagement with then-fiancé, Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts got a role as Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's Hook. The cast and crew saw Roberts as unhinged and with constant mood swings. She would sit in her trailer for hours and when Spielberg needed her for a scene, she would show up late to set. This caused some friction between the actor and director. “Julia probably went through the most trying times of her life [during filming]," said Spielberg. "And it was simply bad timing for all of us that she happened to start on Hook at that low point.”  

2. George Clooney and David O. Russell

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George Clooney noticed the aggressive behavior of director David O. Russell on the set of Three Kings. When Clooney saw Russell yell at a crew member, it was enough for Clooney to get involved and put a strain on their relationship.     

3. Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith

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Kevin Smith claims that Bruce Willis only saw him as an amateur director and had received no help from the actor on the set of his movie, Cop Out. Smith shared that Bruce once told him "I'm Bruce Willis and I've been doing this for 25 years very successfully. How long have you been Silent *****? Please don't put your loser stink on me."

Willis replied to Smith's comment by saying, “Poor Kevin. He’s just a whiner, you know? We had some personal issues about how we approached work. I don’t have an answer for him. I’m never going to call him out and lay him out in public. Sometimes you just don’t get along.”

4. Edward Norton and Tony Kaye

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Although Edward Norton and director Tony Kaye's relationship was not the best during the filming of American History X, the two further argued when editing the movie. Norton felt that Kaye was cutting too much out of the movie. Norton re-edited the film which angered Kaye. He wanted to have his name removed from the movie and replaced with an alias like "Humpty Dumpty," but Kaye's name remained. 

5. Amy Adams and David O. Russell

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Amy Adams had a rough time on the set of David O. Russell's movie, American Hustle. The director would make Adams cry. “He was hard on me, that’s for sure,” she told GQ. “It was a lot. I was really just devastated on set.”  

6. Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow

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In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2008, Heigl said that Judd Apatow's movie, Knocked Up, showed her character in an unfavorable manner. “It was a little sexist,” she said. “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women?" 

In an interview on The Howard Stern Show in 2009, Apatow gave his reaction to Heigl's comments. "[You'd think] at some point I'll get a call saying, 'Sorry, I was tired ...' and then the call never comes," he said. 

7. Faye Dunaway and Roman Polanski

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Dunaway's time on the set of Chinatown was not her favorite memory or director Roman Polanski's. She claimed that Polanski was misogynistic towards her. They even fought over bathroom breaks. While filming a car scene, Polanski would not let Dunaway go to the bathroom. Supposedly, she filled up a cup with her urine and threw it at his face to which he responded “You cunt, that’s piss!”

8. Björk and Lars von Trier

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Björk and director Lars von Trier had a strain on their relationship since the beginning of filming. In one instance, Björk's way of greeting von Trier was to spit on the ground. She would be late to set and when she arrived, she ignored von Trier. When she was finally ready to talk to him, von Trier was fed up with her behavior. "I took a chair and there was a big monitor right beside her and I just smashed it," said von Trier. "For no reason, or for the reason of the whole thing. And I walked out." Björk did not mince words when talking about the director. “He needs a female to provide his work soul," she shared. "And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming. And hide the evidence."

9. Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher

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Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher grew to dislike Val Kilmer while filming the iconic movie. “He was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate,” Schumacher claimed. “Then we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.” He went on to say, “I’m tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors."

10. Mike Myers and Penelope Spheeris

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What started as an SNL sketch became a beloved comedy film. Wayne's World was directed by Penelope Spheeris. When Myers was not happy with the final cut of the movie, he wanted to continue editing it without Spheeris. Myers did not want Spheeris back for the sequel. "Because of that, he decided that I couldn’t direct it, and he had the power with the studio, because without Mike, you don’t have a movie," explained Spheeris. "So then I got snubbed there."

11. Gal Gadot and Joss Whedon

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Director Joss Whedon had stepped in for Zack Snyder during reshoots for Justice League. However, the set had not been pleasant for Gal Gadot where she recalled an instance when the director threatened her career. “I was shocked by the way that he spoke to me,” Gadot said. “You’re dizzy because you can’t believe this was just said to you. And if he says it to me, then obviously he says it to many other people.”

12. Keira Knightley and John Carney

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Director John Carney did not have the nicest words for Keira Knightley who starred in his film, Begin Again. "I learned that I'll never make a film with supermodels again," said Carney. "Keira's thing is to hide who you are and I don't think you can be an actor and do that."

13. Robert Downey Jr. and David Fincher

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Director David Fincher is notoriously known for his grueling shooting schedule. After filming the Zodiac, Fincher recalled a comment that Robert Downey Jr. made to him during filming: "[Robert] came up to me and said, 'I can't work like this, I never get to go to my trailer, I can never get my shit together. I'm on my feet 14 hours a day.'" Downey left jars of urine around the set as his way of protesting Fincher's grueling schedule. 

14. Bryan Cranston and Tony Kaye

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When a reporter shared with Bryan Cranston how much they loved his movie Detachment, the actor was surprised. “I felt that Carl Lund, the writer of Detachment, wrote a really beautiful, haunting script. And I didn’t feel that it was honored," said Cranston. “I was upset with that. I really was. And so I didn’t see the movie. Tony Kaye is a very complicated… interesting fellow. I don’t believe that I’ll be working with him again."

15. Christian Bale and McG

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Director McG's Terminator 4 was not as successful as its predecessors. Christian Bale shared how McG was able to land the star for his film. “…he goes, ‘Give me a chance. Everyone needs to evolve, and I need to turn over a new leaf. And please, you must’ve been in this position before yourself, when someone has taken a leap of faith on you,’ — which I have — ‘please do that for me now; I promise you, I’m ready for it,'” Bale said. "I won’t be working with him again, but I wish him very well. Okay?”  

16. Wesley Snipes and David S. Goyer

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Director David S. Goyer described Blade: Trinity as a "tortured production." Wesley Snipes would not participate in saying whatever dialogue was written. He left most of his shots for his stuntman unless it was a close-up shot of his own face. "I don’t think anyone involved in that film had a good experience on that film, certainly I didn’t," said Goyer. "I don’t think anybody involved with that film is happy with the results."   

17. Ed Harris and James Cameron

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Ed Harris recalls a traumatizing scene from shooting director James Cameron's The Abyss. In an underwater scene, Harris revives costar Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio’s character. Harris explained, “We were guinea pigs, in a way, Jim wasn’t quite sure how this was all gonna go down… [in the drowning scene I was] screaming at her to come back and wake up, and I was slapping her across the face and I see that they’ve run out of film in the camera — there’s a light on the camera — and nobody had said anything. And Mary Elizabeth stood up and said, ‘We are not animals!” and walked off the set. They were going to let me just keep slapping her around!"

18. Cher and Steve Antin

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In director Steve Antin's Burlesque, Cher believed that her character could have been written better. "Terrible director! Really terrible director," she said. "And really terrible script. I remember him saying to me, 'I don't care about what you say, I just want to shoot the dance numbers.' Had it been shorter, it would have squeaked by and been a really good popcorn movie."

19. Jessica Alba and Tim Story

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Jessica Alba reprised her role as Sue Storm in director Tim Story's Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Alba recalled a particular scene where she had to be emotional, but Story kept complaining about her acting. "He was like, 'Don't do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in,'" she explained. "And then it all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don't want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work? And so I just said, 'F— it. I don't care about this business anymore.'"