Will Smith has admitted he “made the set very tough” for costar Janet Hubert in The Recent Prince of Bel-Air.
We love listening to about close-knit casts on our favourite TV exhibits and films, however sadly, that is not at all times the case.
Typically, there is a feud between costars — and typically, there’s one star who simply doesn’t get together with their castmates or feels excluded.
Listed below are 14 actors who did not fairly slot in with their castmates:
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Oliva Munn felt she was “shunned” by the director of The Predator, Shane Black, and her costars after asking that actor Steven Wilder Striegel be faraway from the movie as a result of his standing as a registered intercourse offender.
Striegel’s scene was taken out, however when Munn attended a forged interview with the Hollywood Reporter on the Toronto Movie Pageant to advertise the movie, solely certainly one of her costars confirmed up — 11-year-old Jacob Tremblay — even supposing different costars have been imagined to be there.
“It’s a really lonely feeling to be sitting right here on my own after I must be sitting right here with the remainder of the forged,” she stated. “We’re making films. We’re not within the mafia. I haven’t spoken towards the household. This man isn’t in our film anymore. I attempt to do the proper factor and that’s all I can do.” She additionally advised Vainness Honest, “I type of really feel like I’m the one going to jail. I didn’t go to jail, I didn’t put this man on our set. I had this scene deleted.”
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One actor who did not essentially really feel actively shunned or neglected by his castmates, however nonetheless felt like an outsider, was Keanu Reeves within the movie 47 Ronin.
As the one non-Japanese forged member and the one one who could not converse Japanese, Keanu stated he felt much like his character, Kai, who was additionally an outcast. “Regardless that everybody was very nice to me and we bought alongside nice and it developed nice, I nonetheless could not hang around and converse Japanese, so in a approach I used to be at all times Kai. I might say ‘Good morning’ and ‘Good to satisfy you’ and all that, however I could not hang around.”
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In distinction, Matt Damon in Saving Personal Ryan was deliberately excluded from his costars. Director Steven Spielberg wished to construct a way of camaraderie among the many different forged members, and even had them attend a grueling boot camp collectively — all apart from Damon.
“These guys are mendacity face down within the mud, and I’m, you recognize, in a bubble tub in America,” Damon stated. “Once I confirmed up on set, plenty of that resentment simply translated proper onto the display.”
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Followers have been devastated when feminine lead Marissa Cooper died within the Season 3 finale of 2000s teen drama The O.C.
Effectively, final yr, Mischa Barton — who performed Marissa — revealed what went down behind the scenes that made her need to depart. She stated that bullying from the lads on set felt “actually shitty” and that issues bought worse when costar Rachel Bilson was promoted to the primary forged in Season 2. Barton was later given the choice to have her character depart the present or be killed off, and she or he selected the latter.
“I look again on it fairly fondly, however there’s stuff I feel individuals did incorrect and the best way they dealt with it,” Barton stated of her time on the present. “So, I simply did not really feel I might maintain going. … It simply felt prefer it was the most effective factor for me and my well being and simply by way of not likely feeling protected by my forged and crew at that time.”
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Not precisely a star, however a recurring costar who did not really feel like she slot in on set was Kathleen Turner, who performed Chandler’s father on Pals.
“I didn’t really feel very welcomed by the forged,” she advised Vulture. “The Pals actors have been such a clique — however I don’t suppose my expertise with them was distinctive. I feel it was merely that they have been such a good little group that no person from the surface mattered.”
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One other visitor star who did not really feel welcomed was Samantha Ware in Glee — particularly when it got here to star Lea Michele. “I knew from day one after I tried to introduce myself. There was nothing gradual about it. As quickly as she determined that she didn’t like me, it was very evident,” Ware advised Selection. “It was after I did my first efficiency, that’s when it began — the silent therapy, the stare-downs, the appears to be like, the feedback beneath her breath, the bizarre passive aggressiveness. All of it constructed up.”
This declare was supported by costars Alex Newell and Heather Morris. Costar Amber Riley stated she was glad Ware had spoken up and that Glee was “not probably the most snug atmosphere” to work in.
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There have been studies that Judy Garland felt shunned by forged members on the set of The Wizard of Oz. In accordance with ex-husband Sid Luft’s posthumous memoir, she was constantly harassed by the actors taking part in the munchkins. Suft stated the actors would put their palms beneath Garland’s gown.
Garland was additionally the bottom paid out of the primary forged members — she made $500 per week, whereas the actors taking part in the tin man, the scarecrow, and the lion made $2500–3000.
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Janet Hubert, who performed Aunt Viv on The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, was infamously changed within the present’s fourth season — which Hubert had lengthy blamed costar Will Smith for. The 2 lastly reunited in 2020, with Smith admitting he “made the set very tough” throughout the present’s third season, throughout which Hubert was pregnant.
For her half, Hubert acknowledged she wasn’t in place then, which triggered friction on set, however stated she wasn’t unprofessional. “I simply stopped speaking to everyone as a result of I did not know who to belief as a result of I had been banished, they usually stated it was you who banished me. … It was exhausting.”
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James Spader got here into the very finish of the third to final season of The Workplace as the brand new Dunder Mifflin CEO, however left earlier than the ninth and ultimate season.
Whereas it wasn’t like his costars disliked him, Spader reportedly didn’t slot in with the forged and their appearing types. He wished to rehearse the script, which the forged hadn’t achieved in seasons. He was additionally thrown off by improvisation, and Rainn Wilson, who performed Dwight, stated he was an amazing character actor, however that his vitality simply “did not match.”
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Now, we won’t affirm that Jay Mohr was speaking about Jennifer Aniston, however when Elle journal requested him about his most awkward encounter with a feminine celeb, he replied, “Being on the set of a film the place the main girl was sad with my presence and made it clear from day one. I hadn’t achieved many films, and regardless that they screen-tested some fairly well-known guys, I in some way snaked into the main function.”
When the interviewer urged “the one movie that would presumably match this description is 1997’s Image Excellent, with Jennifer Aniston,” Mohr replied “I’ll by no means, ever reply that.” So…you resolve who he was speaking about.
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It is unclear whether or not Shannen Doherty was “shunned” by the forged of Beverly Hills, 90210, however she positively wasn’t pleased there, in line with former government producer Charles Rosin. “Her lateness was appalling, and she or he had a callous perspective and an indifference. She was clearly not very pleased on this present anymore.” Doherty denied that she was late excessively, however did admit she was sad.
Producer Aaron Spelling stated, “It wasn’t like she ruined the present or something. It simply upset the forged members tremendously,” he stated. “I keep in mind them calling me and saying, ‘Please, can’t you get her right here on time?’” Someday, her lateness triggered costar Jason Priestley, who performed Brandon Walsh, her character’s brother, to say “I’ve had it.”
He wasn’t the one costar annoyed with Doherty. In accordance with Tori Spelling, Doherty and costar Jennie Garth bodily fought. Doherty admitted there was “plenty of petty jealousies on that present,” and Spelling added that Doherty “thought it was time to go. And the forged did too.” In the end, the forged united to get her fired, with Tori calling her father, who did find yourself firing Doherty.
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Doherty was additionally on the middle of a distinct present’s on-set drama — Charmed. Nonetheless, this time she wasn’t the “outcast.” When the present started, Doherty and one other of the three stars, Holly Marie Combs, have been already good pals. The third star, Alyssa Milano, appeared to get together with them at first — however there have been rumors of on-set rigidity and Doherty ended up leaving the present after the third season.
Milano addressed the drama on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen. “I do not know if she bought fired; we by no means actually discovered what occurred. I can let you know that we have been on the air along with her for 3 years and there have been positively some tough days. Holly and Shannen have been greatest pals for like 10 years earlier than the present began, so it was very a lot type of like highschool. I’d hope that in our 30s it would not really feel like that anymore,” she stated, which urged that she did not precisely really feel included or like she slot in.
Combs and Doherty refuted this, saying the set was nothing like highschool. Combs stated, “We have been all pals and at occasions we weren’t,” and Doherty famous, “while you work that carefully collectively, there’s at all times going to be occasions which might be tough.” Two years later, Milano stated they’d made amends and she or he was now cordial with Doherty and took “accountability for lots of our rigidity that we had.”
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It appeared clear Kim Cattrall wasn’t a fan of the Intercourse and the Metropolis forged, and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker, when she did not be part of the reboot, however there had been rumors of feuds lengthy earlier than that. After Parker bought a better wage for being an government producer in Season 2 of the unique present, Cattrall negotiated for a better wage. Crew members and her principal castmates have been reportedly sad about this and “would not even sit with [Cattrall] at mealtimes.”
Cattrall additionally sat other than the opposite principal forged members on the 2004 Emmys, saying they weren’t “greatest pals.” By the point the second movie was taking pictures, Cattrall and Parker’s feud appeared to have escalated they usually apparently weren’t talking. They continued to disclaim rumors of a feud, however in 2017, Cattrall stated she was by no means pals along with her costars and that Parker “might’ve been nicer.” An article that yr claimed the opposite forged members had fashioned a buddy group and neglected Cattrall years earlier.
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And at last, Isaiah Washington made headlines when he was fired from Gray’s Anatomy after utilizing an anti-gay slur. Nonetheless, he claimed his firing “was an agenda to cowl up for the poisonous and dangerous conduct of a lot of my former castmates on that present.” He alleged that he wasn’t wished on the present from the beginning and was provided cash to not audition.
On the desk learn, Washington claimed that producer and director Peter Horton stated, “I believed we removed you” and that Dempsey threw “up his palms, like, ‘What’s he doing right here?'” He claimed Dempsey later stated, “Isaiah, have you learnt that white males are the masters of the universe?” This, in line with Washington, led to plenty of on-set combating between the 2.
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