6 On-Screen Duos Who Couldn't Stand Each Other In Real Life

In the movies and on TV, everything seems picture-perfect but what happens when the camera stops spinning can be a completely different story. While some actors treat their co-stars like family, sometimes, their relationships are not so simple. Indeed, it might be difficult for actors to get along when they spend their whole day on set for weeks at a time. Especially when they are required to re-shoot continuously, tensions can rise.
After all, actors are human, and some of them can't get along with everyone. For example, in "Gossip Girl", while Serena and Blair may have had "similar personalities, interests, and lifestyles [that] brought them together and made them like sisters," actresses Blake Lively and Leighton Meester aren't exactly close off-screen. Thankfully, these former feuds have since been settled but it took a lot of time after filming wrapped.
So, scroll down to discover 12 actors who may have chemistry onscreen but don't get along behind the scenes!

#1 Leighton Meester and Blake Lively

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In the hit series, "Gossip Girl", Leighton Meester and Blake Lively portrayed best friends but in real life, their personalities didn't mesh well. "Blake and Leighton were not friends," executive producer, Joshua Safran, told Vanity Fair. "They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair. Yet the second they'd be on set together, it's as if they were." He continued, "You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, 'I'm doing this thing tonight. Have you been to this restaurant?" Meester on the opposite end "was very removed and very quiet, and, after her scenes were done, she would wander the stage." According to New York Daily News, "Leighton Meester and Blake Lively avoid each other like the plague while castmates choose sides." Harper's Bazaar also reported that Meester thought Lively was an "egomaniac" and that Lively was upset that Meester had a hire wardrobe budget.

#2 Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley

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Although Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley played a happy couple in the series "Vampire Diaries", it wasn't quite like that on set—at least in the beginning. On the podcast Directionally Challenged, Dobrev told about her time on the set of "Vampire Diaries" and her tumultuous relationship with Wesley. "Paul and I didn't get along at the beginning of the show. I respected Paul Wesley, I didn't like Paul Wesley," she said. "We despised each other so much, that it read as love. We really just didn't get along the first maybe five months of shooting." Fortunately, it's all behind the scenes now as they are really close friends and visit each other.

#3 Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall

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Although "Sex and the City" included a lot of drama onscreen, one of the most famous disputes to date occurs offscreen. Two of the leading ladies, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, have had rumors swirling about their relationship for years but it was not until 2018 that the public had more authentic information about their relationship.
After the tragic death of Cattrall's brother, Parker contacted the actress via Instagram to express her sympathies. Fans of "Sex and the City" were immediately enraged at Cattralls' answer. She wrote in an Instagram post, "I don't need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker." She then proceeded to write in the caption, "Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven't already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I'm writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your 'nice girl' persona."
But the feud didn't end there. According to USA Today, when asked why Cattrall was not part of the "Sex and the City" reboot, Parker said, "We did not ask her to be part of this ('And Just Like That…') because she made it clear that that wasn't something she wanted to pursue, and it no longer felt comfortable for us." She goes on to say, "That's not 'slamming' her, it's just learning. You've got to listen to somebody, and if they're publicly talking about something and it doesn't suggest it's someplace they want to be, or a person they want to play, or an environment in which they want to be, you get to an age where you're like, 'Well, we hear that.'"

#4 Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray

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Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray met and fell in love on the set of the first season of "One Tree Hill". A year and a half later, they even got married. Sadly, the couple broke up after less than 5 months of being together. But they had to continue working together on "One Tree Hill" for another four years until it finished after season nine.
In the "Clothes Over Bros" episode of the Drama Queens podcast, Bush and her "One Tree Hill" co-stars Bethany Joy Lenz and Hilarie Burton discussed this difficult period in Bush's life. "You were going through a breakup with the person that you were playing a romance opposite of," Lenz said to Bush. "And regardless of what all those circumstances were, that's incredibly difficult—emotionally to be able to be vulnerable and be there in that moment," Bush replied, "People can call it whatever they want. They can say it's strength, they can say it's pride, they can say its professionalism. You can put a positive or a negative skew on it." She then goes on "But I was always going to put Brooke Davis ahead of everybody and everything else. Nothing mattered to me but being honest for her."

#5 Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey

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In the movie "Dirty Dancing", Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey had some steamy chemistry, but this wasn't the case in real life. While most of us would be flirted with by Swayze, Gray would not. "The same way Baby and Johnny were not supposed to be together … a natural match, right? And we weren't a natural match," Grey told PEOPLE. "And the fact that we needed to be a natural match created tension. Because normally when someone's not natural, both people move on, but we were forced to be together. And our being forced to be together created a kind of synergy, or like friction."
In 2009, Swayze died of pancreatic cancer. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Grey wrote about the things she wished she could have said to him in her memoir, Out of the Corner. She wrote, "I would say, 'I'm so sorry that I couldn't just appreciate and luxuriate in who you were, instead of me wishing you were more like what I wanted you to be."

#6 Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling

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Although Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were one of the most famous couples onscreen, their real-life relationship is passionate in the worst way. Director Nick Cassavetes of "The Notebook" said in an interview that would have screaming matches between Gosling and McAdams on the set. "Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not," said Cassevetes. "Ryan came to me, and there are 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, 'Nick come here. 'And he's doing a scene with Rachel and he says, 'Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?'" Cassevetes continued, "I said, 'What?' Then he says, 'I can't. I can't do it with her. I'm just not getting anything from this.'"
Ironically, after filming, McAdams and Gosling dated for four and a half years but spilt for good in 2008.