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12 Sex Scenes with Actors Who Couldn’t Stand Each Other IRL

By Brett White @brettwhite

Published Oct. 5, 2018, 9:00 p.m. ET

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9 1/2 WEEKS, from left: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger — Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in *9 1/2 Weeks*
Basinger told the New York Times she became estranged from Rourke while filming the erotic drama. "We shot in sequence, and in the beginning, when the character was sweet, he was very sweet, too. Later, when the movie started getting strange, he stayed in character. I am not usually an actress who stays in character. But in this, as it started getting stranger, I found my character staying with me. I couldn't wait to leave her." Rourke and director Adrian Lyne also teamed up to essentially torment Basinger on set, shutting her out of discussions and physically harming her in order to make her emotionally distraught like her character. Then they'd roll cameras.
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KRAMER VS. KRAMER, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep — Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in *Kramer vs. Kramer*
The scene where Hoffman's character slaps Streep? That was all real, even too real. Streep told the New York Times in 2018, "This is tricky because when you're an actor, you're in a scene, you have to feel free. I'm sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes. But there's a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping."
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BLADE RUNNER, Harrison Ford, Sean Young — Harrison Ford and Sean Young in *Blade Runner*
These two were at opposite ends of their careers, with Ford the star of two successful franchises and Young making only her third movie. Of her on-set relationship with Ford, Young has said, "I was young and needy... When you're in your twenties you hope that your leading man will be like, 'That's ok, you'll be fine.'... And Harrison wasn't particularly generous that way." The two were apparently so cold towards each other that crew members dubbed their love scene a "hate scene."
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THE TOURIST, from left: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie — Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in *The Tourist*
This one should have been a hit considering it starred two A-list stars, but those stars apparently did not have chemistry-and it showed onscreen. While *The Tourist* was filming, tabloids reported that Jolie was fed up with Depp's refusal to cut his hair for the role as well as his late night partying and reclusive behavior, and Depp apparently considered Jolie stuck up.
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I LOVE TROUBLE, Nick Nolte (top), Julia Roberts — Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in *I Love Trouble*
In an interview with the New York Times ahead of the film's release, Roberts said of Nolte, "From the moment I met him we sort of gave each other a hard time, and naturally we get on each other's nerves." She said he can be "completely charming and very nice," but that "he's also completely disgusting. He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems go out of his way to repel people. He's a kick." Months later, a report in the LA Times backed up Roberts' claims, detailing the two's on-set fighting and saying they acted opposite stand-ins more than each other.
[Where to stream *I Love Trouble*]Photo: Everett Collection

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, l-r: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan — Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in *Fifty Shades of Grey*
As the stars behind the steamiest trilogy... ever?... it might come as a surprise to learn that Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey didn't get on IRL. Or maybe they did? You can go full conspiracy theory about this one, with most of the evidence coming from the notoriously chilly and downright awkward *Fifty Shades* press tour. The film's director Sam Taylor-Johnson had to chime in to USA Today about her stars' relationship: "It's a movie. It was work. They get along fine."
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SLIVER, William Baldwin, Sharon Stone — William Baldwin and Sharon Stone in *Sliver*
Tales of *Sliver's* tortured production popped up when the film was released, with Entertainment Weekly saying Baldwin joked to a crew member that Stone had "thin lips, okay breath" after a lovemaking scene. That's nowhere near the worst part: apparently during another kissing scene, Stone bit Baldwin's tongue so hard he was left unable to speak afterwards.
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, Richard Gere, Debra Winger — Richard Gere and Debra Winger in *An Officer and a Gentleman*
Oscar-nominated on-screen chemistry be damned, Winger was not shy about her distaste for Gere. She called Gere a "brick wall," labeled the director Taylor Hackford an animal, and she even refused to do press for the movie when it was finished. She told the New York Times in 1986, "I'm not sorry I did the film, because it brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. But the making of it was treacherous. I don't need much when I'm making a movie, but I do need respect, and I didn't get it."
[Where to stream *An Officer and a Gentleman*]Photo: Everett Collection

SOME LIKE IT HOT, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe — Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in *Some Like It Hot*
Back when this classic comedy was released in 1959, Curtis made headlines for claiming that kissing Monroe was "like kissing Hitler." Over the following decades, this wild quote was referenced by everyone from Charlton Heston to Monroe herself, and questions about it popped up in plenty of interviews with Curtis up until his death in 2010. What is known is that the two actually dated a decade before filming Some Like It Hot, although both were married to other people at the time. It's also known that Monroe was frequently late and flubbed lines while shooting the film. Curtis later said he compared his ex to Hitler sarcastically, but that's just one of many explanations.
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DIRTY DANCING, from left: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey — Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in *Dirty Dancing*
The on-set friction between the stars of one of the greatest romances of the '80s didn't come to light until the posthumous release of Swayze's autobiography. Swayze wrote in *Time Of My Life*, "We did have a few moments of friction when we were tired or after a long day of shooting. She seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her. Other times, she slipped into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over again when she'd start laughing." Those laughing fits would lead to multiple takes, which just annoyed Swayze even more. You can actually see one of those laughing fits in the film, as well as Swayze's less-than-enthused reaction. Still, Swayze complimented Grey's performance in his autobiography, and it's hard to find anything negative that Grey has said about her late co-star.
[Where to stream *Dirty Dancing*]Photo: Everett Collection

ROMEO AND JULIET, Leonardo Di Caprio, Claire Danes — Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio in *Romeo + Juliet*
The actors behind the most iconic lovers of all time were way more cross than star-crossed. Apparently the 16-year-old Danes thought her 22-year-old co-star was immature and didn't like his pranks. Leo, not surprisingly, apparently thought Danes was uptight and too reserved. But maybe Danes' expectations for DiCaprio were so high because, as she revealed in 2018, she totally had a secret crush on her Romeo.
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You know that guy from accounting who is way too aggressive? Or that someone from sales that’s crazy manipulative? Or your team member that’s always late to every single meeting? Yeah, now imagine having to stick your tongue down their throat in front of the rest of the office. This, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of, and it’s a work hazard you don’t always think about when you think about the “glamorous” gig of acting. But actors have to grit their teeth and bear it while baring it all. Sometimes this pays off and the movies a massive hit, and sometimes that foul chemistry ends up tanking the entire production. Here are 12 tales of 24 actors that had to put up with way more than they wanted to.

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