10 actors who were fired due to conflicts on set (11 photos)

Sometimes actors don't get along with each other on set. There have been cases when actors directly asked the management of a film or series to fire their colleagues and replace them with someone else. Let's take a look at a few similar cases in the history of the film industry.





1. In 2013, actor and executive producer Charlie Sheen threatened to quit Anger Management unless producers fired actress Selma Blair. She allegedly questioned his work ethic. Later he fired her himself, writing a message with curse words.



Charlie Sheen later denied reports that he fired her and said the actress was axed because her character was "boring."

2. On the set of The Notebook, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams often argued. Gosling even asked the directors to replace her with another actress



"I probably shouldn't tell this story, but they really didn't get along on set one day. Ryan came up to me while I was filming a big scene with 150 people and said, 'You can take her away from here and cast another actress in the role. . “I can’t do this anymore,” said the film’s director Nick Cassavetes in an interview.

After a heated argument, McAdams and Gosling finally made peace and continued filming. After the film was released, they even had a 2-year romance.

3. Richard Gere originally played the role of Chico in the film The Lords of Flatbush (1974). However, he had many misunderstandings with the leading actor Sylvester Stallone



During an impromptu fight scene in the film, the actors got into an argument and Gere said, "He [Stallone] has a temper and is impossible to deal with." Later that day, while both actors were eating lunch in the back seat of a car, Richard dribbled chicken fat and mustard onto Stallone's pants. This was the last straw.

“The director had to make a choice: one of us had to leave, and the other one had to stay. Richard was given his documents, and he left. He still doesn’t like me to this day,” Stallone once said.

4. On the set of Beverly Hills, 90210, the crew had a difficult relationship with Shannen Doherty. The actors even united to get her fired



Actress Tori Spelling admitted that she called her father, the series' executive producer Aaron Spelling, to do this. Although Tory had a normal relationship with Shannen and they remained friends, Doherty did get fired at that time.

5. Actor John Stamos tried to get the famous twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen fired from the TV series “Full House” (1987 – 1995). He succeeded - they were removed from the show for a while



As the actor said, the whole point was that the twins were constantly crying. They tried to replace them with other children for a while, but then they were returned to filming.

6. When the team offered actress Michelle Pfeiffer the role of Vicki Vale in Batman (1989), leading man Michael Keaton intervened and demanded that she not be cast in the film. She was his ex-girlfriend



Sean Young was originally supposed to play Vicki Vale in 1989's Batman, but she was injured and producer Jon Peters planned to cast Michelle Pfeiffer in the role. But “Batman” Michael Keaton himself asked not to take the actress to the team. Pfeiffer was his ex-girlfriend, and at that time he was just trying to restore his relationship with his ex-wife. In the end, the producers listened to him. The role went to another actress - Kim Basinger.

7. In 2013, Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf were supposed to star together in the Broadway play Orphans, but they often clashed. Because of their confrontations, management fired LaBeouf, deciding to retain the more experienced actor.



The actors clashed from the very beginning - for example, because Shia learned all his lines before rehearsals began, and blamed Baldwin for not doing so. Baldwin once gave the directors an ultimatum: either he or LaBeouf. As a result, the latter was fired.

8. Actress Elizabeth Aldrich, who doubled for Lea Michele in the Broadway production of Ragtime, admitted thatMichelle acted horribly and criticized everyone



“Leah was absolutely terrible towards me and the entire crew. She humiliated the actors and threatened to leave the project if she didn’t like something. I remember crying every night after filming because of her terrible and manipulative behavior,” said Elizabeth Aldrich.

9. Actor Lawrence Tierney, who played in the TV series Seinfeld (1989), was afraid of the entire team. Due to his strange behavior, the actor was only filmed in one episode and was not invited back



According to the crew, everyone had a tense relationship with Tierney. One day he stole a knife from one of his colleagues. They didn’t dare invite him to filming anymore.

10. Kevin Spacey was fired from the film “All the Money in the World” (2017) due to allegations of sexual harassment against the actor, which became public at the time.



The filmmakers decided to preserve the film's reputation and fired Spacey, remaking the film entirely. The role of Spacey was eventually played by Christopher Plummer.