Megan Fox and Michael Bay.
(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)Creating movie magic on the big screen often requires a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes to pull all the threads together.
While the ideal end result for a movie is seamless, lively entertainment (which also makes people involved a lot of money in the process), sometimes things can get a little messy between the people who make it along the way.
From big blowups to lawsuits to war of words, scroll on to dive into some of the most famous feuds between movie directors and stars—and discover how their relationship turned less than harmonious.
Long before Don’t Worry Honey hits theaters in September 2022, the psychological thriller made headlines as an off-screen drama. Thank you! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By signing up I accept the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from us Weekly offer of the day (…)
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
(Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)Rumors swirled about this director/actor Justin Baldoni and an actress Blake Lively they didn’t get along during the promotional tour for It ends with uswhich was released in August 2024.
The feud between the pair was confirmed when Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 40, in December 2024. for sexual harassment and accused the director of trying to tarnish her reputation with a smear campaign, a claim Baldoni’s lawyers have vehemently denied.
Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh
(L-R) Nick Kroll, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Sidney Chandler, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan.
(Photo by Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)In the event of a 2022 release. don’t worry baby many viewers became more interested in the behind-the-scenes drama than the film itself. The film is directed by Olivia Wilde and with a star Florence Pugh – and there was speculation tension between the couple.
At the beginning of Don’t worry, honeyPugh’s release did limited promotion for the film, avoided being photographed next to Wilde, and missed or arrived late to make commitments. Although no one has confirmed the truth behind their relationship, there have been rumors that Pugh may have been unhappy with Wilde’s relationship Harry Styles.
Megan Fox and Michael Bay
Michael Bay and Megan Fox.
(Photo by Getty)During it Transformer days, Megan Fox rock the boat with a director Michael Bay when she publicly compared him to “Hitler”—which ultimately led to her being fired from the franchise and replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
“He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this crazy, outrageous reputation as a crazy man. He wants to be like Hitler on set, and he is,” Fox, 38, said Wonderland Magazine in 2009 “So he’s a nightmare to work with, but when you take him away from the set and he’s not in director mode, I really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward.”
While he ended up cutting her out of his movies, Bay said GQ Magazine in 2011 that he was not particularly offended.
“I wasn’t hurt because I know it’s just Megan. Meghan likes to get a response,” Bey, 59, said. “She’s doing it the wrong way. I’m sorry, Megan. I’m sorry I made you work 12 hours. Sorry to make you show up on time. Movies aren’t always warm and fuzzy.”
Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher
David Fincher and Jake Gyllenhaal.
(Photo by Getty)Jake Gyllenhaal and David Fincher didn’t mince words when it came to talking about their experience working with each other on the 2007 film Zodiac.
“Fincher paints with people,” Gyllenhaal, 44, said of the director in 2007, complaining, “It’s hard to be a color.”
Fincher later had his own take on what it was like to work with Gyllenhaal — and he didn’t hold back.
“Jake was in the unenviable position of being very young and having a lot of people vying for his attention while working for someone who wouldn’t let you take a day off,” Fincher, 62, told New York Times in 2020 “I think Jake’s philosophy was informed by … look, he had made a bunch of movies, even as a kid, but I don’t think he was ever asked to concentrate on the minutiae, and I think he was very distracted.”
Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow
(L-R) Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.
(Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc for Variety Magazine)Another infamous case of a movie star clashing with the director was when Katherine Heigl came out against the film in which he starred since 2007 Knocked.
His director Judd Apatow was less than impressed when she crashed Knocked during an interview with Vanity Fair in 2008
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after being reported by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of starting (…)
“It paints women as sassy, humorless and uptight,” Heigl, 46, said. “It paints men as attractive, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters and I had a hard time with that some days. I play such a bitch; why is she such a killer? Why do you describe women like that? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but I had a hard time loving the movie.”
For her part, Apatow told the radio host Howard Stern in 2009 that he expected an apology from Heigl after the disparaging remarks, but never received one.
“(One would think) at some point I’d get a call saying, ‘I’m sorry, I was tired …’ and then the call never comes,” said Apatow, 57.
