The Real Reason These Actors Stormed Off Set

Making movies and TV shows isn't easy; sometimes, the artistic tensions they create can even lead to actors storming off the set. Perhaps the star had been caught on a bad day; perhaps an overbearing director provoked them into walking away angrily; perhaps there are other factors at play. Most of the time the actor eventually returns, apologies are offered, and everyone finishes what they began. After all, film and television are artistic endeavors, and most everyone in Hollywood holds the work itself above all else.

But that doesn't mean the actor didn't have a reason for storming off set, and it doesn't mean those concerns weren't valid. Some of the projects these incidents happened on went on to become notorious boondoggles; others, downright classics. From bad material to bruised egos, here's a breakdown of some well-publicized moments an actor stormed off their set — and whether their complaints were ringing an early alarm, or just creating extra noise.

Lea Michele was not always on the best of terms with her "Glee" co-stars, but one specific incident with the late Naya Rivera led her to storm off the set of the hit series. 

On April 17, 2014, sources close to Rivera reported that Michele's "diva antics" had annoyed most of the cast and crew on the prior Tuesday, specifically when she made everyone wait to shoot a scene while she dealt with "personal matters." Rivera finally went to the producers and warned them that Michele was "pissing off people" — and when Michele learned about that, she left the set. Sources close to Michele contradicted the story, telling TMZ the actress was unaware of any complaints about her and wasn't even shooting scenes with Rivera. Additional rumors Claimed that Rivera was the one who "got tossed off the set." 

In 2016, Rivera published a book entitled "Sorry Not Sorry" in which she admitted that she and Michele did not get along. "Lea and I were like two sides of the same battery," she wrote. "We are both strong willed and competitive — not just with each other but with everyone — and that's not a good mixture." Despite their feuding, when Rivera drowned in 2020, Michele posted a black and white photo of her in apparent tribute to her former co-star.

Landing Sharon Stone for their low-budget Italian film "A Golden Boy" (which came out in 2014) was a huge deal for director Pupi Avati and his producer-brother Antonio Avati, but as they'd soon learn, working with her was quite difficult. Pupi told The Hollywood Reporter on the heels of the film's release that Stone's misbehavior included disappearing during the filming of the final scene, simply because a TV cameraman was on set. 

"She immediately disappeared," explained Pupi Avati. "We looked for her everywhere, but nothing. Then my brother received a phone call from Los Angeles from her manager: she wouldn't come back on the set until the photographers and especially that damned TV cameraman had gone away."

So the brothers Avati did the only thing they could — bow to her demands — and the "Casino" best actress nominee returned to the film about a writer struggling with the decision to publish his late father's autobiography. "We did [as she asked and] so she, like nothing happened, shot the scene," said Pupi. "The thing that I found most absurd is that she had to call to the States and to close herself in a car, instead of coming to ask us directly." Despite his claims of clashing, Pupi Avati followed them up by saying that he would not necessarily turn down working with Stone again.

The fight in "Rocky IV" between Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed and Dolph Lundgren's Ivan Drago was brutal, but what happened behind the scenes was apparently no different. According to "Rocky" series star Sylvester Stallone, Weathers and Lundgren did not get along on set. When the two were in the ring, Lundgren had been too aggressive with Weathers, causing the "Action Jackson" star to storm off set yelling profanities at the 6'5" Swedish tough guy. After four days of no production, Stallone finally convinced Weathers to return, after Lundgren agreed to not be as hostile.

In 2020, Yahoo! Entertainment spoke with Lundgren about his on-set fracas with Weathers. "I like Carl. But I'd worked out with Sly for five months before the picture. So I knew him pretty well," said Lundgren. "And I was a fighter, a karate champion from Europe and I think when Carl showed up, he was like, 'I'm gonna have to fight this guy? He seems like he's the real thing.' I didn't dislike anybody on that set but I think he got a little scared of me. Then I had to kill him, of course." We're pretty sure Lundgren is referring to what his character had to do in the movie — but in retrospect, maybe Weathers was smart to get out of there.

James Cameron's 1989 underwater epic "The Abyss" was legendarily difficult to shoot, and a scene where Ed Harris' Bud Brigman revives Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's Lindsey Brigman pushed the actress to her limit. 

"[In the drowning scene I was] screaming at her to come back and wake up, and I was slapping her across the face and I see that they've run out of film in the camera — there's a light on the camera — and nobody had said anything," Harris told Entertainment Weekly in 2016. "And Mary Elizabeth stood up and said, 'We are not animals!' and walked off the set. They were going to let me just keep slapping her around!"

Mastrantonio has since admitted she doesn't have a lot of fond memories of making the film, reportedly saying (per '80s Movie Rewind), "'The Abyss' was a lot of things, fun to make is not one of them." After suffering so much mental and physical pain in one scene alone, Mastrantonio's stance on "The Abyss" seems justified.

1971's "The French Connection" is considered one of the greatest movies ever made, but on-set difficulties between actor and former Marine Gene Hackman and legendarily two-fisted director William Friedkin almost kept the film from coming to fruition. Speaking with future "Mission: Impossible" director Christopher McQuarrie in 2016, Friedkin explained that Hackman grew up disliking authority and as the authority figure on set, Friedkin needed to make Hackman angry. 

"Instead of saying 'cut,' I would say, 'Oh, Jesus Christ. Are you kidding me?' I would say, 'Pal, you better get a day job. Y'know, you better look for something else 'cause this isn't working out,'" said Friedkin. "And he actually quit the film on the second day, and his agent, Sue Mengers, said, 'Well, that's fine, Gene. If you do that, you'll own the picture. Y'know, you will own everything they've spent,' so Gene stuck around and stuck it out." 

As it turns out, Hackman would have missed an Oscar for best actor if he had dropped out of the movie. So returning to set seems like it was a pretty good career move.

Faye Dunaway has long held the reputation of being difficult to work with, but she is not entirely to blame for an incident between her and Roman Polanski on the set of the 1974 classic "Chinatown."

The since-disgraced director apparently plucked a hair from Dunaway's head, causing her to scream, "I don't believe it. That motherf***** pulled my hair out!" before storming off the set. The reaction may have been a bit extreme, but pulling hairs out of a woman's head is also pretty uncalled for.

In 2009, Christopher Bollen of Interview magazine asked Polanski if he ever talked to Dunaway after filming "Chinatown." "Oh, yeah. Of course. Last time I saw her was in Cannes last year. She was also giving a prize," Polanski responded. "We met in the bathroom. I was washing my hands, and some woman was washing her hands, and she said, 'Hi, Roman.' I look up in the mirror, and it was Faye." We're assuming that this time, he knew enough to not touch a single hair on her head.

Ridley Scott's critically acclaimed historical drama "Gladiator," which first hit theaters in the year 2000, went on to receive several Academy Awards including best picture and best actor for Russell Crowe, but the film's star didn't make that journey any easier. 

Time magazine published an article about "Gladiator" when the film was initially released, stating that Crowe had doubts about the movie's evolving script and stormed off the set when he did not receive answers. "Russell was not well behaved," a Dreamworks executive told the magazine. "He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know the big line in the trailer, 'In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance'? At first he absolutely refused to say it. He did a lot of posturing and put the fear of God into some people. Thankfully, Ridley never yelled. He was the voice of reason dealing with many unreasonable factors, not the least of which was his lead."

"Gladiator" producer Douglas Wick told CinemaBlend 20 years later that the reports of Crowe's heavy involvement in the script were "greatly exaggerated" and that "Russell constantly had a strong point of view of what Maximus would do and not do, but there wasn't much improvisation." Even if these allegations aren't true, they continue the old narrative that Crowe has been difficult to work with.

The 2019 sci-fi flick "Ad Astra" cast Brad Pitt as an emotionally distant astronaut searching for his long-lost father — but the actor may have had a similarly distraught mental state behind the scenes. 

In 2017, Hollywood Life reported that Pitt was stressed out over his divorce with Angelina Jolie, and had stormed off the set while shooting a difficult scene. Their source claimed that Pitt, who was attached to wires, had engaged in heated discussions with director James Gray, who he had known for decades, but not in a way that would hurt the production.

Hollywood Life's "insider" added that Pitt is not a bad guy and that his emotions simply got the best of him that day. "Brad is a passionate filmmaker intent on making sure every movie he makes is the best production possible, it was his passions that led to the blowup," said the source. "Brad has been working hard at being his best self. He has been living very clean, and has not been drinking, smoking or vaping and that has been challenging for Brad too. Yesterday all that tension came to a head and things kinda got out of hand just a bit." 

Comedy legend Chevy Chase played outlandish millionaire Pierce Hawthorne in the cult sitcom "Community," but he did not always have the best time on set. In February 2012, Chase reportedly walked off the set of the show on the last day of shooting without filming one of his scenes, which had been intended to close out the Season 3 finale. This incident led to a bitter feud between Chase and series creator Dan Harmon.

The following August, Harmon shed some light on why Chase stormed off set in one of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" sessions (via The A.V. Club). Writer-producer Adam Countee pitched a "tag" for the Season 3 finale, which would reportedly serve as an emotional ending for the season. Chase, however, refused to shoot the scene because he didn't think it was funny. 

When the actor had walked off set in the past, the crew would pick up his shots later in the week, but since they were filming the season finale, the sets came down after Chase went home. The scene was never shot, and Harmon was not happy about it. Chase left the show in November of that year but would return for a cameo in Season 5.

Dame Diana Rigg received much acclaim for portraying the quick-witted Lady Olenna Tyrell on the blockbuster series "Game of Thrones." She did walk off the set while filming, but she didn't do it out of spite. Shortly after Rigg passed away in 2020, her co-star Jessica Henwick told EW how Rigg shortened her duties to perform a brief scene in Season 6. 

"She walked onto the set, and she went, 'I'm ready now!'" Henwick recalled to the magazine. "A cameraman came over and went, 'Well, okay, but we haven't finished setting up.' She interrupted him and said, 'Roll the cameras!' And she just started doing her lines. She did two takes, and then the guy came over and was like, 'Great, now we're going to do a close-up.' And she just stood up and she went, 'I'm done!'" 

"Now, she can't walk fast. She has to be helped," Henwick added. "So basically we just sat there and watched as Diana Rigg effectively did her own version of storming off the set, but it was at 0.1 miles per hour. She cracked me up. I loved her." 

Joaquin Phoenix has earned a reputation for intensely committed performances in films like "Beau Is Afraid," "Walk the Line," and "The Master." And it appears that his ability to immerse himself in the often complicated psychological terrain of his characters can, on occasion, be too much to bear. Case in point, his Oscar-winning turn in "Joker," which spurred Phoenix to walk off the set in the middle of several scenes.

In a profile of Phoenix for The New York Times, "Joker" director Todd Phillips explained that the actor often startled his co-stars with his abrupt exits. "The poor other actor thinks it's them, and it was never them — it was always him, and he just wasn't feeling it," said Phillips. But as the filmmaker noted, Phoenix always used his exits to regain his focus, recalling that the actor told him, "We'll take a walk and we'll come back and do it."

His "Joker" co-star Robert De Niro – no stranger to intense performances himself — understood Phoenix's need to exit. "Joaquin was very intense in what he was doing, as it should be, as he should be," he said. "There's nothing to talk about, personally, on the side, 'Let's have coffee.' Let's just do the stuff."

Jennifer Aniston came together with her "Friends" castmates in 2021 for the HBO special "Friends: The Reunion," and was surprised that the event proved so emotional. "I think we were just so naive walking into it, thinking, 'How fun is this going to be?'" she told the Hollywood Reporter. "Then you get there and it's like, 'Oh right, I hadn't thought about what was going on the last time I was actually here.'"

Aniston told the publication that on several occasions, the collision of past and present caused by the reunion forced her to walk off the set in order to regain her composure. "I don't know how they cut around it," she said. The emotional flood was a sort of 20/20 hindsight: Aniston and her co-stars were immediately reminded of where they were in their lives when the show ended in 2004, and where they would go in the decade-plus that followed.

"It was like, 'Hi, past, remember me? Remember how that sucked? You thought everything was in front of you and life was going to be just gorgeous and then you went through maybe the hardest time in your life?'" she said. "It was all very jarring and, of course, you've got cameras everywhere and I'm already a little emotionally accessible, I guess you could say, so I had to walk out at certain points."

Actor Alec Baldwin was the primary focus of the media attention that swirled around the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming on the Western "Rust." But another name was frequently featured in the coverage: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was the film's armorer and in charge of overseeing the prop weapons, including the gun that killed Hutchins. According to The Wrap, Gutierrez-Reed ran into trouble as an armorer on another Western, "The Old Way," where her apparent inexperience reportedly angered star Nicolas Cage enough for him to walk off the set.

Stu Brumbaugh, a key grip on "The Old Way," told The Wrap that Gutierrez-Reed was so inexperienced at her job that she fired live ammunition from weapons near cast and crew on two occasions during the shoot. This reportedly angered Cage, who, according to Brumbaugh, yelled, "Make an announcement, you just blew my f***ing eardrums out!" before storming off the set. Brumbaugh said that he recommended her dismissal to the assistant director, noting, "We were moving too fast. She's a rookie."

However, a producer on "The Old Way" told The Wrap that they had no recollection of such an event during filming. "The details on some of these accounts specifically when it pertains to 'The Old Way' have been blown out of proportion," they said.

Patrick Stewart's transition from celebrated stage and television actor in his native England to movie and television star in America was not without its rocky moments. In a 1994 interview with TV Guide, Stewart acknowledged that the long hours and emotional challenge of playing Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" occasionally resulted in tense moments. "It just became overwhelming," he said. "I did my fair quota of yelling, that's true."

Stewart's intensity also caused him to walk off the "Next Generation" set on one occasion. The departure was due to a set visit by "Good Morning America," which Stewart perceived as being disrespectful. "I thought that it was disrespectful. They were doing shtick in our costumes, and I thought it was demeaning to the show," he explained. Stewart added that he regretted his move but also noted, "I'm at my least diplomatic when there's a lack of respect. And I'm not speaking only of me, but when I see anyone or any group of people being treated disrespectfully. That's when I'm inclined to lose it."

Among the many celebrities who faced the apocalypse in the 2013 comedy "This Is the End" is "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson, who in one scene faces off against a cannibalistic Danny McBride leading Channing Tatum on a leash. Rumors have swirled for years that Watson walked off the set because of the scene's content. In an interview with British GQ, Seth Rogen — who co-directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in "This is the End" — attempted to set the record straight.

"I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life it doesn't seem to be what you thought it was," Rogen said. "But it was not some terrible ending to our relationship." Rogen added that Watson not only came back the next day but also helped to promote the film. "She was probably right," he concluded about her decision to leave the set during the shoot.

Rogen later doubled down on the Watson issue on his X (formerly Twitter) account, where he wrote that the story didn't paint an accurate depiction of the event. Most notably, Watson did not "storm off the set," as was frequently reported. "The scene was not what was originally scripted, it was getting improvised, changed drastically, and was not what she agreed to." Rogen went on to effusively compliment Watson and concluded by writing, "I am very sorry and disappointed it happened, and I wish I had done more to prevent it."

What happens when two notorious tough guys clash over a movie? In the case of the movie "Accidental Love," the answer is ... they both abandon the project. Hardcase No. 1: James Caan, who walked off the set of "Love" — which was originally titled "Nailed" — after director David O. Russell asked him to both cough and choke during a scene in which his character, a U.S. senator, asphyxiated on a cookie. Caan quit the film, and his role was recast with James Brolin.

The other immovable object was, of course, Russell, who has a long history of butting heads (literally and figuratively) with his actors, including George Clooney and Lily Tomlin. "Nailed" was a very troubled production from its start in 2008, due largely to budgetary problems that caused numerous shutdowns and difficulties stemming from Russell's own temperament. After two years of such issues, Russell abandoned the film in 2010; it was eventually released to a chorus of negative reviews as "Accidental Love," which listed the pseudonym "Stephen Greene" as its helmer.

The '80s cult comedy "ALF" was no picnic for the cast and crew. The series, which ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990, featured a cast of actors interacting with the title creature, an eccentric alien portrayed by a puppet operated by series co-creator Paul Fusco. To accommodate the 4-foot-3-inch puppet, the soundstage was built off the ground and riddled with holes through which Fusco manipulated the creature. The arrangement required long hours, which were exacerbated by the fact that ALF was the star of the series and the humans were his second bananas. "It was hard work and very grim," said actor Max Wright, who played family head Willie Tanner.

Actress Anne Schedeen, who played Willie's wife, Kate, told People magazine that Wright's frustrations with the series came to a head during the filming of its final episode. "There was one take, and Max walked off the set, went to his dressing room, got his bags, went to his car and disappeared," she explained. "Nobody had to say 'Wrap,' and there were no goodbyes." Wright had a change of heart about his co-star before his death in 2019. "It doesn't matter what I felt or what the days were like," he said. "'ALF' brought people a lot of joy."

Though he eventually redeemed his career and reputation to a degree with "CSI: Miami," David Caruso initially demolished his rocket rise to stardom with "NYPD Blue" by walking away from the show after one season. Caruso earned an Emmy nomination for his turn on the controversial cop drama but also the enmity of series co-creators Steven Bochco and David Milch through a combination of volatile and uncooperative on-set attitudes. In his 2016 memoir (via The Hollywood Reporter), "Truth Is a Total Defense," Bochco wrote, "Caruso's behavior was, simply put, cancerous."

Caruso reportedly wanted to leave the series to work in movies, and Bochco eventually brokered a deal whereby the actor would film the first four episodes of Season 2 of "NYPD Blue" so he could be properly written out of the show. After filming his final scene, Caruso reportedly walked off the set and never looked back. "When he had shot his last scene of the fourth episode, he turned without a word and left the set, the stage and the lot," Bochco wrote. "He didn't say a single word of thanks or a goodbye to his castmates — nothing."

The 1967 James Bond spoof "Casino Royale" was already a convoluted project, featuring a vast international cast led by Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, David Niven, and Orson Welles, as well as five directors, including John Huston, before Peter Sellers complicated matters almost beyond repair. The notoriously mercurial comic actor, who was cast as a baccarat champ hired by James Bond (Niven) to impersonate him during a game against Welles' SMERSH agent, was plagued by mood swings and insecurities throughout the shoot: He fought, both verbally and physically, with longtime friend and collaborator Joe McGrath, who directed his scenes, and refused to appear in scenes opposite Welles, which required them to be shot at separate times.

Eventually, Sellers walked off the film altogether, which forced producer Charles Feldman to scramble in order to save the picture from collapse. The solution was to rewrite the script so that half of the cast, including Andress, Barbara Bouchet's Miss Moneypenny, and Australian actor Terence Cooper, was also impersonating Bond. The ruse didn't clarify the script or win over critics, who were unkind to the film, but audiences were apparently delighted with the hijinks and made it one of the most profitable films of 1967.

"Big Bang Theory" and "Call Me Kat" actress Mayim Bialik departed the set of her other job as host of "Jeopardy!" in May 2023. However, her walk-out wasn't spurred by any personal beef with the show; rather, Bialik left the long-running game show to stand in solidarity with the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America. "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings, who alternated hosting duties with Bialik, took over Bialik's role as host for "Celebrity Jeopardy" and eventually all "Jeopardy!" properties when Bialik was dismissed from the franchise at the end of 2023.

Bialik's gesture was echoed a month later by "Scream VI" star Dermot Mulroney, who walked off the set of "The View" in June while promoting the Disney+ series "Secret Invasion." The actor was participating in a pre-taped interview for the daytime talk series when he announced to the hosts that he would "symbolically walk off in support of the writers." In a statement issued after the taping, Mulroney said, "I find it incredibly important to continue to support the union."

The Walt Disney Company's bitter war of words with Florida governor Ron DeSantis spurred a walk-out by employees of the media giant in 2022 to protest a controversial state education bill. Actress Raven-Symoné, a member of the LGBTQ+ community and star of the Disney Channel series "Raven's Home," participated in the protest with her co-stars, walking off the series' set to decry House Bill 1557, the notorious "Don't Say Gay" bill, which prohibits discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms "that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students."

The actress posted a video with her castmates on her Instagram account that solidified her stance on the bill. "In today's world it is imperative that we take stands, show support and move forward not backwards," she wrote. "Every family every person and every child deserves to be recognized no matter their race, gender, or sexual orientation." Employees from many Disney companies, including Marvel Studios, LucasFilm, and 20th Century Fox, also participated in the protest.

According to the legendary and fearless director Werner Herzog, actor Klaus Kinski had reportedly walked out on 35 films in five years, and while making "Aguirre: The Wrath of God," it appeared that he would abandon his 36th feature. But in an interview with Roger Ebert in 2005, Herzog said that he not only managed to stand up to the notoriously combustive Kinski but did so in an entirely Herzog-esque way.

Kinski's breaking point reportedly came at the end of the difficult shoot, which took place in the Peruvian rainforest and in many cases, on rafts floating down tributaries of the Amazon River. Kinski lost his temper after seeing a set photographer smile while he was performing in a scene and demanded that Herzog dismiss them; when the director balked, Kinski gathered his belongings and got into a speedboat for a typically dramatic departure.

The director debunked stories that he forced Kinski to act at gunpoint and said that his words were enough to halt the actor's rampage. "I said to him, 'I do have a rifle,' very calmly," Herzog told Ebert. "He could try to take the boat and he might reach the next bend of the river but he would have eight bullets through his head." When told that he had nine bullets, Herzog said that he replied, "Guess who gets the last one?" Though still hostile, Kinski completed the film, which is regarded as one of Herzog's greatest titles.

Before she became an in-demand comic actress in films like "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," Teri Garr was a hard-working dancer and actress looking for her first big break in Hollywood. One appeared to present itself in the form of "Assignment: Earth," a Season 2 episode of "Star Trek: The Original Series," which was intended as a backdoor pilot for a proposed series that never came to pass. Garr described her role in her episode in her 2005 autobiography, "Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood," as a "dippy secretary in a pink and orange costume and a very short skirt." That skirt did more than define Garr's character in the episode: It also contributed to a dustup on the set that left the actress with a lasting distaste for "Star Trek" and science fiction.

According to "The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Times of Gene Roddenberry," author Lance Parkin noted that the "Star Trek" creator was adamant that Garr's short skirt get even shorter for the episode. Garr herself was so appalled by the demand that she reportedly walked off the set before returning to finish the episode. The experience appeared to still carry some resonance for Garr decades later; in a 1990 interview for Starlog magazine (via StarTrek.com), she refused to talk about the series, and described "Star Trek" fans as "the same people who go to swap meets."

Fox's reality competition series "The Masked Singer" prides itself on its lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek tone, but the revelation of a particular contestant injected an uncomfortably serious note during Episode 7 of its seventh season in 2022. In the episode, the masked celebrity hammering his way through a tone-deaf rendition of George Thorogood and the Destroyers' "Bad to the Bone" was revealed to be Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and lawyer whose association with former President Donald Trump has resulted in the decline of his professional career, including multiple indictments for alleged participation in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

When Giuliani was revealed inside the Jack in the Box costume, three of the judges — Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke — responded with various degrees of surprise. But fourth judge Ken Jeong responded with stone-faced silence and crossed arms until Giuliani reprised his song; at that point, Jeong said, "I'm done," and exited the set. Thicke also left the set, though his departure was not shown on camera. Fox Entertainment's Rob Wade, president of alternative entertainment and specials, stood by the casting after the episode aired.

Adam Sandler's critically reviled comedy "The Ridiculous 6" found itself at the center of controversy when reports surfaced that several Native American actors walked off the set of the Netflix production in 2015 to protest what they perceived as racially insensitive jokes and disrespectful treatment by the film's producers. The Indian Country Today Media Network reported (via Variety) that a dozen actors walked out after speaking to unnamed producers. "They just treated us as if we should just be on the side," said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked. Film student Allison Young, who also left the set, said that producers labeled them as over-sensitive. "We talked to the producers about our concerns," she said. "They just told us, 'If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.'"

However, the New York Daily News quoted Native American actor Ricky Lee, who said that only four actors left the set but many others remained. "Believe me, if everyone was really offended, there would be a much bigger uproar," said Lee. He also noted that Sandler spoke to several Native American actors about the walkouts before the film's wrap party. "The last thing that he said before he got up was that the thing that made him feel the worst is that four people got their feelings hurt," said Lee.

The team-up of Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in the 2021 Netflix blockbuster "Red Notice" seemed at first glance to be a dream collaboration for action and comedy fans, but reports from behind the scenes indicate that the movie was anything but a bromance between its two leads. Johnson allegedly bolted from the set after he was called out by Reynolds for being five hours late for the start of filming that day — behavior which has apparently dogged several productions in which The Rock was involved.

But Reynolds wasn't having it, leading to a major falling-out between the "Fast and Furious" star and the "Deadpool" icon that carried through the rest of the shoot and lasted a couple of years after that, until the two actors eventually repaired the breach in their friendship. Whether Reynolds and Johnson still secretly hate each other remains unknown: the two actors went out of their way to praise each other while making the press rounds for "Red Notice" — although a sequel doesn't seem to be getting underway any time soon.