Dozens of Hollywood stars have been in your shoes and can empathize with the predicament you are now going through if you have ever had a lousy employer. Reading lines from a screenplay is not the only aspect of acting that may be explored in a movie. It is an emotional rollercoaster with an overdrive button ready to be pressed if the director has a propensity to drive the cast to fatigue in their performances.
Oliver Stone was told that he talked to his crew like
"talk to a pig," Alfred Hitchcock was pointed out that he had sexually abusive actions toward actresses in the crew. The following are the nine directors who have been the most challenging to deal with in history.
1. Oliver Stone
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Sean Penn's experience working with Oliver Stone on U-Turn was unpleasant. The actor compared chatting to the director to "talking to a pig." Stone irked more than one Oscar-winning actor. he told
Jamie Foxx,
“you’re just not good at all, are you?” James Woods departed Salvador at Stone's antics. Blake Lively knows that making an Oliver Stone film isn't simple. After Savages, she got the team's 'I Survived Oliver Stone' t-shirts.
2. David Fincher
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Even David Fincher acknowledges he's challenging to work with. Robert Downey Jr. urinated in mason jars on the Zodiac set because the director doesn't allow restroom breaks. Jake Gyllenhaal was mentally fatigued by Fincher's frequent retakes and deletions throughout the same movie shoot. After hours of labor were lost, the actor cried.
3. Riddley Scott
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Ridley Scott is one of the greatest directors of his generation, but that doesn't mean actors want to work with him. The director and star of Blade Runner fought over artistic differences during filming. Scott shot Robin Hood one-on-one with Russell Crowe.
4. Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog, known for dangerous productions, once filmed on erupting volcanoes and had his crew hand drag a 320-ton ship over the hill. Christian Bale may be his worst casualty. The actor was pulled behind a buffalo, tortured, and fed real maggots while filming Rescue Dawn. His best pal Klaus Kinski Herzog isn't saved from his madness. The director threatened to shoot Kinski if he fled the set of Aguirre, Wrath of God.
5. Roman Polański
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Faye Dunaway's role in Chinatown wasn't easy. When she asked for motivation, Roman Polaski said,
“Say the f—ing words, your salary is your motivation.” The filmmaker plucked Dunaway's hair when he feared it might distract viewers. Dunaway tossed a cup of pee on Polaski because he denied her a toilet break. Jack Nicholson quips,
“Roman’s an irritating person whether he’s making a movie or not making a movie.”6. David O. Russell
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David O. Russell is known for yelling at extras, production personnel, and performers. The director deadlocked Christopher Nolan so Jude Law could star in I Heart Huckabees. Russell fought George Clooney on the set of Three Kings over headlocks. Clooney intervened as the director yelled at a crew member. The two brawled on set.
7. Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock was a prankster and often pranked his employees. He sent a horse to Gerald du Maurier's dressing room and two tons of coal to a cameraman who boasted about his electric kitchen. Hitchcock also had a dark side. If #MeToo existed in Hollywood's Golden Age, the director would have been No. 1. Tippi Hedren said Hitchcock sexually assaulted her and other The Birds actresses. Sexual harassment wasn't the only issue. Hitchcock also terrified the actress by using real birds in a scene with mechanical ones.
8. James Cameron
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James Cameron is a crazed boss who nails team members' cell phones to the wall. Ed Harris and Kate Winslet nearly died while filming Abyss and Titanic. Cameron's dominance extended to his then-girlfriend (now ex-wife) Linda Hamilton. He made her diet for a year and trained with a former Mossad agent to play Sarah Connor in Terminator.
9. Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick shot scenes exactly how he envisioned them. That meant retakes until he got it right. The director shot dozens of takes for every scene, long or short. Shelley Duvall's crying, the bat-swinging sequence in The Shining, was shot 127 times. The actress started losing her hair on set because the director overstressed her. Even simple scenes were reshot many times.
Tom Cruise walked through a door 95 times for Eyes Wide Shut. Stars who worked with Kubrick knew they were in for a hard experience because he was a skilled but challenging director.