Hollywood artists who hate working together: from Julia Roberts to Sophia Loren and Dustin Hoffman

Hollywood is the capital of cinema and stars and also an environment heated by egos and internal disputes between actors, actresses and directors, among others.

There have been several famous scandals in the history of cinema, some public and others under the cloak of open secrecy. There are also well-marked feuds between great characters.

Here is a rundown of some of the rivalries starring Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman and Sofia Loren, Moreover. Many of them not only avoid working together, but can’t even see each other.

Brad Pitt versus Courtney Love

It was recently made public that Kurt Cobain’s ex-girlfriend Courtney Love would star in the role of The Fighting Club which ultimately went to Helena Bonham Carter.

Brad Pitt was also known to have a list of feuds in Hollywood. As revealed by his friend and co-star of High speed trainAaron Taylor-Johnson: ‘You work with a lot of actors and after a while you start taking notes: ‘I will definitely not work with this person again.‘. Even Brad has this list: the “good” list and the bad list.”

Courtney Love, it seems, is firmly on the latter.

As Love herself recently told Marc Maron: ‘This is my role. We did all that table reading; I went to work privately with David [Fincher]”.

So, with Love set to act while Pitt was out having lunch with Gus Van Sant, the duo decided to reach out to her and proposing a future Kurt Cobain film with Pitt taking over the role of the leader of Nirvana.

Love declined the offer and, according to her, later received another phone call: “My phone rang and I got fired from Fight Club.

Meryl Streep versus Dustin Hoffman

Although Kramer versus Kramer won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Leading Actor and Actress for Respectively Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, success has not been easy.

Problems between the leads arose when Streep brought in writer-director Robert Benton approve a last minute change to give the film a more progressive approach.

This alteration reportedly angered Hoffman, who had already prepared for the original scene, and he yelled, “Meryl, why don’t you stop waving the flag of feminism and play the scene?“.

Hoffman then literally crossed the line, as Streep told the New York Times: “It was my first film, and it was my first performance in my first film, and it just slapped me.“.

This famous scene was included in the final cut of the film documenting spousal abuse. streep said: It was an overcoming.”

At that point, Hoffman was getting divorced in real life, who blurred the line of fiction when he came to work to act like a man in the middle of a troubled breakup.

Hoffman later apologized for any misconduct during this time, stating: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible about anything I could have done that you put her in an embarrassing situation. Sorry. It doesn’t reflect who I am.”

Julia Roberts versus Nick Nolte

The actors starred I love trouble (1994), they were tasked with making the classic rom-com of going from hate to love in 90 minutes. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time for the pair to accomplish the same off-screen feat.

Roberts herself put it bluntly. “From the moment I met him, we’ve had a hard time at it and naturally get on each other’s nerves.”

“While Nolte is utterly charming and very likable, he’s also thoroughly unlikeable. He’ll hate me for saying that, but he seems to go out of his way to push people away.”

This led to a rather comical charade in which the actors’ PR teams tried to plug the cracks and help promote the film, while the stars themselves kept saying: “We like each other.”

Sophia Loren versus Marlon Brando

In Sophia Loren’s 1963 memoirs, Yesterday, today, tomorrow: my liferecounts his terrible experience on the set of A countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando, released in 1967.

“Suddenly, he put his hands on me,” she recalls worriedly. “I turned calmly and blew in his face, like an ill-stroked cat, and said, ‘Don’t you dare do it again. Never again‘”.

He continued: “As she looked at him, he looked small, helpless, almost a victim of his own notoriety. He didn’t do it again, but after that he was very difficult to work with.”

Brando would later refrain from commenting on this incident, instead turning his complaint against director Charlie Chaplin, calling him a “terribly cruel man” and a “selfish and miserly tyrant”.

Concluding: “He harassed people when they were late, mercilessly berating them for working faster“. And that “he was probably the most sadistic man I’ve ever met.”