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Celebrities said to be difficult to work with

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Nicktendo86 said:
Really? But he seems so cool :(
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When does Bill Murray seem cool? I'm genuinely curious, because I see people say these kinds of things so much, but it never adds up to the Bill Murray I read about in interviews, see on TV, and hear people tell stories about.

It's always the same, someone telling their story of being around Bill Murray, filled with glee because, holy shit, it's Bill Murray! And then they go on the tell an anecdote about Bill Murray being a tremendous ass, which they end with "isn't Bill Murray the best?"

For instance: Harold Ramis. He tells the story of Bill Murray constantly insulting him and making fun of his hair. On a daily basis, Bill needles him, harasses him, and says mean things about his hair. He tells this story with the aforementioned glee, though he says he doesn't like this teasing. He then goes on to the day of his wedding. Everyone knows Bill bothers him about his hair, everyone knows Ramis doesn't like it. In a room full of people that know this history, on what it supposed to be a very special occasion, as Ramis is walking down the isle, Murray shouts "HAROLD, YOUR HAIR IS PERFECT!" Ramis ends this story about Bill Murray being a miserable fuck with laughter. I don't understand it.
 
So most A list celebrities by the looks of it.

Lots of money + fame = being an asshole most of the time

Steve Carell and Tom Hanks are two class acts from what I gather though.
 
Terminator rant aside, I've read that Christian Bale is just nice but quiet/unsociable on set.

I heard Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character during There Will Be Blood even when he was at the dinner table with his kids. He'd bully Paul Dano as well(though Dano was down for it).

Adam Blue said:
Snipes was in the right.
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Wasn't he forced into that movie somehow? I heard he didn't even want to do it.
 
Tim Allen was one I always heard about with his drug problems.
Enco said:
So most A list celebrities by the looks of it.

Lots of money + fame = being an asshole most of the time

Steve Carell and Tom Hanks are two class acts from what I gather though.
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Jeff Bridges is also supposed to be super cool.
 
Dragonzord said:
Tim Allen was one I always heard about with his drug problems.


Jeff Bridges is also supposed to be super cool.
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Jeff Bridges just comes off as nice on screen. It was kind of hard to believe him as Stane in Iron Man.
 
MattKeil said:
The Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski stories are legendary. During the filming of Aguirre, Wrath of God, Kinski repeatedly threatened to walk off the production, until finally Herzog pulled a gun on him and threatened to shoot Kinski and kill himself if Kinski didn't finish the project. Herzog openly says they both publicly and privately wanted to kill each other, and he even had plans of how to do it. Once Herzog snuck into Kinski's house while he slept, planning to set the place on fire and kill him that way, but Kinski's dog attacked him and drove him off.

This is of course not even getting into the (highly plausible) accusations that Kinski was a violent, sexually abusive father, among many other horrible alleged acts. After the premiere of a documentary about Kinski at Cannes, Herzog stated, "Klaus was one of the greatest actors of the century, but he was also a monster and a great pestilence. Every single day I had to think of new ways of domesticating the beast."
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I wouldn't believe this if I had not seen some behind the scenes footage of the two working together. Holy shit, they almost killed each other on that.
 
Look! The Pie! said:
I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt when I hear stuff like this, as it's always possible someone is just having a bad day, but when you get multiple reports of someone being a douche it's hard to ignore.

With that said, I've heard that Natalie Dormer is hated by the Game of Thrones crew, which is a shame if true as I love her as Margaery. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, on the other hand, is said to be a great person to work with.
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Natalie Dormer? Shit, wouldn't have imagined that from her. Do you have a source for this or a story?

kick51 said:
Saoirse Ronan

she throws a kitten into the group of 40 year old men waiting outside her shoots and tells them she won't do the next scene until it's dead
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Bullshit, no way. Calling JaseC to see if this is false.
 
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When does Bill Murray seem cool? I'm genuinely curious, because I see people say these kinds of things so much, but it never adds up to the Bill Murray I read about in interviews, see on TV, and hear people tell stories about.

It's always the same, someone telling their story of being around Bill Murray, filled with glee because, holy shit, it's Bill Murray! And then they go on the tell an anecdote about Bill Murray being a tremendous ass, which they end with "isn't Bill Murray the best?"

For instance: Harold Ramis. He tells the story of Bill Murray constantly insulting him and making fun of his hair. On a daily basis, Bill needles him, harasses him, and says mean things about his hair. He tells this story with the aforementioned glee, though he says he doesn't like this teasing. He then goes on to the day of his wedding. Everyone knows Bill bothers him about his hair, everyone knows Ramis doesn't like it. In a room full of people that know this history, on what it supposed to be a very special occasion, as Ramis is walking down the isle, Murray shouts "HAROLD, YOUR HAIR IS PERFECT!" Ramis ends this story about Bill Murray being a miserable fuck with laughter. I don't understand it.
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This is the genius of bill Murray.

He would have thought of saying the joke "Harold your hair is perfect" in a sarcastic way, which would be sort of funny to him and Harold only, but instead he built the joke up through months of saying how bad his hair is in front of others so everyone can laugh at the joke on his wedding day.

I can imagine he is difficult to work with, only likes to do one take and doesn't like laughing himself.
 
EightBitNate said:
Watching Knocked Up and can't enjoy it because I keep imagining Katherine Heigl being a pain in the ass. I can't enjoy Edward Norton movies for the same reason.

Anymore celebs like this?
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First two I thought of. Lol. Knocked Up was on TV today.

I'd figure maybe Topher Grace was difficult to work with on That '70s Show. Thank you, E! True Hollywood Story!

Oh! What about Charlie Sheen? That must've been hell going through that shit a couple of years back on Two and a Half Men. Ah, that was mentioned already too.

Well, what about Suzanne Somers? That's right, I'm taking it back to Three's Company. I read that she wanted a lot more money than John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt got and they just fired her. There was other stuff too but that was the biggie.
 
chicko1983 said:
This is the genius of bill Murray.

He would have thought of saying the joke "Harold your hair is perfect" in a sarcastic way, which would be sort of funny to him and Harold only, but instead he built the joke up through months of saying how bad his hair is in front of others so everyone can laugh at the joke on his wedding day.

I can imagine he is difficult to work with, only likes to do one take and doesn't like laughing himself.
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Not months of this, years of this. The ways Ramis described it, Murray was just constantly being a bully. But for some reason, Ramis looks back on that bullying fondly. Murray then chose to bring up those years of bullying right before Ramis was to take his wedding vows. I can't understand how that's funny or great. Maybe I just don't get the joke.
 
Thought of another one: I read multiple times in the past that Cameron Diaz is a complete bitch offscreen. Sure, onscreen she's bubbly and funny and the guy's girl but offscreen: bitch.
 
BrassDragon said:
Holy shit, why did I not know this? This is a goldmine!

Actor Patton Olswalt on working with Snipes during Blade Trinity:
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Then I remember one day on the set—they let everyone pick their own clothes—there was one black actor who was also kind of a club kid. And he wore this shirt with the word “Garbage” on it in big stylish letters. It was his shirt. And Wesley came down to the set, which he only did for close-ups. Everything else was done by his stand-in. I only did one scene with him. But he comes on and goes, “There’s only one other black guy in the movie, and you make him wear a shirt that says ‘Garbage?’ You racist motherfucker!”
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hahahahahhahha
 
Mike Myers is known for being really eccentric and freaking out on crew members at times.

On the other side though Chris Pratt seems like a super chill/easy to work with actor.
 
Don Johnson behind the scenes of Nash Bridges was pretty legendary for being difficult. When he bothered to show up on set at least. When Damon Lindelof was asked what he learned working on Nash Bridges he said "Don't name the series after a character cause then you can't fire them."
 
Juan29.zapata said:
Natalie Dormer? Shit, wouldn't have imagined that from her. Do you have a source for this or a story?
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Just friend-of-a-friend hearsay, and also from something I remember reading in a trashy celebrity gossip mailout. Could well be bullshit, so I definitely wouldn't take it as gospel. I don't want to believe it either!
 
-Stanley Kubrick
-David Fincher (openly bitches production crew out on DVD extras!)
-James Cameron (Just read up on The Abyss,
forgive me Sculli
)
-Lars Von Trier (Allegedly an absurd perfectionist and thinks extremely highly of his artistic merit)

-Leonardo DiCaprio (Had a set freakout on Django during the hammer scene)
-Christian Bale (Yeah, it's been mentioned to death. Apparently he's mellowed out a lot since The Fighter)
-Edward Norton (such a dick they ditched him for Mark Ruffalo for the Hulk)
-William Shatner (Allegedly a massive coke fiend back in the Star Trek days)
-Bob Hoskins (drunk asshole for most of Roger Rabbit and Super Mario Bros.)

Also, this upswell against Bill Murray seems odd all of a sudden. A close lady friend of mine who works as a waitress in Austin received a $200 tip from him during SXSW this year.
 
ArkhamFantasy said:
Bale is my favorite actor but if i heard him go off like that and i were the director i would have told him to calm down or leave.
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When you are far gone into a movie production you can't just stop things. You are running on a schedule and you have to complete it.
 
John Kowalski said:
Norton seems to be the sort of person who would be very hard to work with primarily because of how deeply he invests himself in his work and how much he depends on doing a good job, and how difficult it must be to him to be with people whose investment is lacking.
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Although I imagine this is an accurate representation of how he thinks about it, since every one is the protagonist i their own personal story, this statement reminded me of a quote:

"If you meet one asshole during your morning, you've met an asshole. If you constantly meet assholes throughout your day, you're the asshole."
 
Aurongel said:
-Leonardo DiCaprio (Had a set freakout on Django during the hammer scene)
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...What? He mistakenly smashed his hand into a glass ash tray and continued to act through it. That's not difficult to work with. That's him doing his job to a greater extent than most.
 
News Bot said:
...What? He mistakenly smashed his hand into a glass ash tray and continued to act through it. That's not difficult to work with. That's him doing his job to a greater extent than most.
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Yeah in that scene, the blood is actually real, Leo really cut his hand and he didn't skip a beat, stayed in character completely.

Dude doesn't get enough credit, he's got some serious acting chops.
 
Sobriquet said:
Official word from the set: the DP deserved it. Did he go to far? Yeah.
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The DP was altering the lighting of the scene while they were in the middle of shooting (something a DP typically doesn't do).

Apparently, Bale had worked himself up for the scene and became infuriated by the distraction.

He went too far, yes, and owned up to it.
 
Grizzo said:
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Shannen Doherty

(repeatedly walked out of the set of Beverly Hills and Charmed)
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just need to stay on her good side
 
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