At the end of April 2022, longtime 'Fast & Furious' director Justin Lin made the surprising announcement that he was stepping down from the 10th and final film, just days into production. He called it a "difficult decision" and expressed his gratitude and respect for the cast, crew, and studio. A week later, sources say that Lin's exit was due to a major disagreement with the franchises' star, Vin Diesel. It was reported that Lin was unhappy with frequent changes to the script that resulted from the fact that one filming location was unavailable due to the war in Ukraine and one of the villains hadn't been cast yet. Diesel and the studio allegedly continued to push for changes against Lin's wishes. One source said: “Justin finally had enough and said, ‘This movie is not worth my mental health.’”

This wouldn't be the first time Vin Diesel had an alienating conflict with a colleague. He has been involved in a longstanding feud with Dwayne Johnson, who appeared in several films before quitting the franchise due to the difficult relationship with his co-star.

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Diane Kruger opened up about her experience landing the role of Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film 'Inglourious Basterds.' Kruger told the story of how Tarantino initially didn't want to cast her. "He auditioned everyone. He didn't want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in that he didn't like," she explained. "So he didn't believe in me from the get-go. Literally, the only reason he auditioned me is because there was no one left to audition." She added that Tarantino "wouldn't see me in the US" and so she had to pay her own way to Germany just to audition. "So, I had to jump through all these hoops that definitely put my nose out of joint, but I was like, ‘You know what, f—k him. I'm just gonna do that and prove him that I could do it.'" She continued, "Thankfully, it all worked out but sometimes it just seems so unfair, and you've got to change the narrative."

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Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis worked together on the 2010 film 'Cop Out.' Almost a year after the film's release, Smith revealed that the two didn't exactly see eye to eye.

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On an episode of 'WT* with Marc Maron' he said: "It was difficult. I've never been involved in a situation like that where, one component is not in the box at all. It was f---in' soul crushing."

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Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher -

Val Kilmer has a bad reputation when it comes to getting along with directors, and it would seem that his relationship with 'Batman Forever' director Joel Schumacher is no exception.

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Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher -

In 1996 Schumacher revealed: "He was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate. I was forced to tell him that this would not be tolerated for one more second."

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George Clooney and David O. Russell -

Things came to blows between George Clooney and David O. Russell during the filming of 'Three Kings' (1999). Sources suggest the fight was the culmination of rising tensions.

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George Clooney and David O. Russell -

In a 1999 interview with Playboy magazine, Clooney talked about Russell's aggression and described how it was a widespread problem on set.

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Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall -

The feud that developed between Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall during the filming of 'The Shining' (1980) is notorious. Apparently Kubrick made Duvall's life a living hell.

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Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall -

Speaking to critic Roger Ebert after the film was released, Duvall said: "Going through day after day of excruciating work. Almost unbearable."

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Tony Kaye and Edward Norton -

The relationship between Tony Kaye and Edward Norton on 'American History X' was perhaps doomed to fail: apparently Kaye didn't even want to cast Norton in the role.

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Tony Kaye and Edward Norton -

When Norton offered Kaye some notes on the cut, Kaye was apparently so angry that he put his fist through a wall. Kaye has since described Norton as a "narcissistic dilettante."

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Megan Fox and Michael Bay -

Things haven't been great between Megan Fox and Michael Bay since the filming of 'Transformers' in 2007. Following this collaboration Fox famously likened Bay to Hitler.

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Megan Fox and Michael Bay -

Bay responded to the sleight by writing an open letter that called Fox "the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a p*** star." He also fired her from the franchise.

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Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow -

Katherine Heigl starred in Judd Apatow's 2006 film 'Knocked Up.' Following the film's release Heigl criticized Apatow and described the film as "a little sexist."

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Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow -

It would seem Apatow did not take the criticism lightly and on an episode of 'The Howard Stern Show' he called her out for failing to apologize for what she said.

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Bill Murray and Harold Ramis -

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis butted heads on the set of 'Groundhog Day' (1993). Murray's behavior during filming was reportedly less than exemplary and Ramis eventually lost patience.

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Bill Murray and Harold Ramis -

Ramis's daughter told The Daily Mail: "Bill was going through a difficult time in his personal life, and he and my dad were not seeing eye to eye on the tone of the film."

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David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin -

Apparently it wasn't only George Clooney with whom David O. Russell argued on set. Things also turned sour with Lily Tomlin during filming of 'I Heart Huckabees' (2004).

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David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin -

After the film's release, a video appeared of Russell yelling at Tomlin after she complained about his repeated re-writing of lines and scenes.

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Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog -

Klaus Kinski has a reputation for being difficult to work with, and sources suggest he lived up to his reputation on the set of Werner Herzog's 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' (1972).

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Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog -

When Herzog disagreed with Kinski about how he should play his character, Kinski apparently became upset, throwing tantrums and threatening to quit the movie.

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Keira Knightley and John Carney -

After the release of 'Begin Again' (2013) John Carney slammed Keira Knightley in an interview with The Independent and vowed to never work with models again.

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Keira Knightley and John Carney -

Carney's words were: "Keira's thing is to hide who you are and I don't think you can be an actor and do that... being a film actor requires a certain level of honesty and self-analysis that I don't think she's ready for yet."

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Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson -

Sources suggest that the star of Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film 'Boogie Nights' never even watched the film, despite the fact that he won a Golden Globe for his performance.

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Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson -

Reynolds spoke to GQ about how he and Anderson fell out, "mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]."

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Adrian Lyne and Kim Basinger -

In 1986 actress Kim Basinger spoke to The New York Times about how director Adrian Lyne had bullied her on the set of '9 1/2 Weeks' (1986).

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Adrian Lyne and Kim Basinger -

Apparently Lyne instructed Basinger's co-star Mickey Rourke to completely ignore her off-camera so as to increase their intensity on-screen.

Sources: (Insider) (EW)

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Vin Diesel and Justin Lin -

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Diane Kruger and Quentin Tarantino -

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Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis -

Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis worked together on the 2010 film 'Cop Out.' Almost a year after the film's release, Smith revealed that the two didn't exactly see eye to eye.

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Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis -

On an episode of 'WT* with Marc Maron' he said: "It was difficult. I've never been involved in a situation like that where, one component is not in the box at all. It was f---in' soul crushing."

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Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher -

Val Kilmer has a bad reputation when it comes to getting along with directors, and it would seem that his relationship with 'Batman Forever' director Joel Schumacher is no exception.

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Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher -

In 1996 Schumacher revealed: "He was badly behaved, he was rude and inappropriate. I was forced to tell him that this would not be tolerated for one more second."

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George Clooney and David O. Russell -

Things came to blows between George Clooney and David O. Russell during the filming of 'Three Kings' (1999). Sources suggest the fight was the culmination of rising tensions.

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George Clooney and David O. Russell -

In a 1999 interview with Playboy magazine, Clooney talked about Russell's aggression and described how it was a widespread problem on set.

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Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall -

The feud that developed between Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall during the filming of 'The Shining' (1980) is notorious. Apparently Kubrick made Duvall's life a living hell.

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Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall -

Speaking to critic Roger Ebert after the film was released, Duvall said: "Going through day after day of excruciating work. Almost unbearable."

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Tony Kaye and Edward Norton -

The relationship between Tony Kaye and Edward Norton on 'American History X' was perhaps doomed to fail: apparently Kaye didn't even want to cast Norton in the role.

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Tony Kaye and Edward Norton -

When Norton offered Kaye some notes on the cut, Kaye was apparently so angry that he put his fist through a wall. Kaye has since described Norton as a "narcissistic dilettante."

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Megan Fox and Michael Bay -

Things haven't been great between Megan Fox and Michael Bay since the filming of 'Transformers' in 2007. Following this collaboration Fox famously likened Bay to Hitler.

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Megan Fox and Michael Bay -

Bay responded to the sleight by writing an open letter that called Fox "the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a p*** star." He also fired her from the franchise.

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Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow -

Katherine Heigl starred in Judd Apatow's 2006 film 'Knocked Up.' Following the film's release Heigl criticized Apatow and described the film as "a little sexist."

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Katherine Heigl and Judd Apatow -

It would seem Apatow did not take the criticism lightly and on an episode of 'The Howard Stern Show' he called her out for failing to apologize for what she said.

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Bill Murray and Harold Ramis -

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis butted heads on the set of 'Groundhog Day' (1993). Murray's behavior during filming was reportedly less than exemplary and Ramis eventually lost patience.

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Bill Murray and Harold Ramis -

Ramis's daughter told The Daily Mail: "Bill was going through a difficult time in his personal life, and he and my dad were not seeing eye to eye on the tone of the film."

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David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin -

Apparently it wasn't only George Clooney with whom David O. Russell argued on set. Things also turned sour with Lily Tomlin during filming of 'I Heart Huckabees' (2004).

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David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin -

After the film's release, a video appeared of Russell yelling at Tomlin after she complained about his repeated re-writing of lines and scenes.

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Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog -

Klaus Kinski has a reputation for being difficult to work with, and sources suggest he lived up to his reputation on the set of Werner Herzog's 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' (1972).

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Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog -

When Herzog disagreed with Kinski about how he should play his character, Kinski apparently became upset, throwing tantrums and threatening to quit the movie.

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Keira Knightley and John Carney -

After the release of 'Begin Again' (2013) John Carney slammed Keira Knightley in an interview with The Independent and vowed to never work with models again.

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Keira Knightley and John Carney -

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Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson -

Sources suggest that the star of Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film 'Boogie Nights' never even watched the film, despite the fact that he won a Golden Globe for his performance.

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Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson -

Reynolds spoke to GQ about how he and Anderson fell out, "mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]."

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Adrian Lyne and Kim Basinger -

In 1986 actress Kim Basinger spoke to The New York Times about how director Adrian Lyne had bullied her on the set of '9 1/2 Weeks' (1986).

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Adrian Lyne and Kim Basinger -

Apparently Lyne instructed Basinger's co-star Mickey Rourke to completely ignore her off-camera so as to increase their intensity on-screen.

Sources: (Insider) (EW)

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Most notorious actor and director feuds

Some of the biggest Hollywood spats

21/08/24 | StarsInsider

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Tensions in the workplace are common. For most of us it's a daily reality that the people we work with are not necessarily the same people we'd choose as friends.

Hollywood film sets are no exception. In fact, one could argue that as hotbeds of creative energy, film sets are the perfect environment for professional disagreement.

Check out this gallery for some of the most notorious feuds between actors and directors.