Unlike in the movies, the shootings of the series are much longer and more intense. They could resemble school courses in which, after the holidays, you may not necessarily want to meet up with your classmates.
And it is even less appealing if other concerns such as egos, the weight of the character in the plot, minutes on screen or difference in salaries enter the game. There, war may already break out.
Just that has happened in these fictions: the cast has met a colleague (let’s say, ‘complicated’) with whom it has been impossible to work. Because in almost all teams there is usually someone who makes the work of others difficult and, if you cannot find it in yours, it may be you.
Kim Catrall will not return to ‘Sex and the City’
At the beginning of the year it was announced that HBO Max prepare a new batch of chapters of Sex in New York but Kim Catrall (Samantha) was falling off the project. There was no need to ask why, the answer had been clear for many years: Kim and Sarah Jessica Parker are not supported.
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The success of the first season of the series, in 1998, was such that, facing the second, the leading actress also became an executive producer … with the salary increase that this entails.
Kim, knowing that his character was the most popular, claimed the same and it was never granted. The result? Years without speaking to Sarah Jessica or the rest of her classmates, who did not take her side.
In 2018 Catrall’s brother passed away, and Parker made an attempt to bury the hatchet by sending him (publicly) his condolences. The blonde’s response, also in full view, was immediate:
Shannen Doherty, The Bad Apple (twice)
After being fired from her two best-known series, Shannen Doherty he has earned that bad reputation …
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First it was in Feeling of living, when his constant rudeness to the technical team made Aaron Spelling (the producer of the series and father of Tori, another of the protagonists) decided to send Brenda far away. And he did it literally, because at the end of season four, Shannen’s character was going to live in London.
Of course, the actress went through the big door: shortly before she was fired she starred with Jennie Garth (Kelly in the series) a fight in which they came to blows.
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Years later, Aaron Spelling wanted to redeem himself and give Shannen Doherty another chance. He signed her up for Charmed but here it lasted even a season less.
Although the series was losing interest after the unexpected departure of Shannen Doherty (left) at the end of the third season, it managed to last five more seasons.
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His enmity with Alyssa Milano, her sister in the series, and again accusations by the team of hindering the work of others made Spelling regret having decided to have her. Only this time they made up her dismissal as a “voluntary departure”, in which they even allowed her to be the director of the chapter in which she died.
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Teri Hatcher and Nicolette Sheridan made Wisteria Lane explode
The set of Desperate women it was for years a true powder keg. Although there are issues that have not yet been clarified, then all the accusing fingers pointed to two culprits: Teri Hatcher and Nicolette Sheridan, two of the leading actresses.
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The problems with Teri came when, apparently, she decided to renegotiate her salary on her own, without counting on her companions (the main cast pocketed approximately half a million dollars per episode). That was the trigger for the internal problems that until then the actresses handled in private, came to the fore.
Such were the quarrels between Teri and the rest of the protagonists that, when they had to do promotional photoshoots, they even had to establish by contract who chose clothes first and who couldn’t get next to whom.
Nicolette Sheridan, for her part, ended up taking Mark Cherri, the creator of the series due to disagreements with the evolution of his character: when Sheridan found out that he was going to die in fiction, he asked that the script be revised. He had a great fight with Cherry, they even came to blows. The result? Nicolette’s character was effectively eliminated and she took the showrunner to court for assault.
Janet Hubert-Whitten and the mysterious case of the changeable actress
To the first of the two actresses who gave life to Vivian Banks in The prince of Bel Air the fight of egos that he had with Will Smith.
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Apparently, Janet Hubert-Whitten, who already had a long career as a dancer and theater actress, did not take at all well that all the attention of the series was taken by Will, going so far as to affirm that the actor demanded to change the scripts so that everything revolved around his character.
But it was an outrage from Smith that dynamited the relationship between them forever: “when I told Will to raise his voice with the rest of the team for our salaries, he did not,” the actress revealed on one occasion.
After three seasons plagued with tough confrontations between them, Janet was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid as if nothing had happened.
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The bad relationship between them has lasted for years … specifically until 2020. In November of last year, Will published a beautiful reunion with Janet, with whom he had finally signed peace.
Christopher Abbott left ‘Girls’ over disagreements with Lena Dunham
The actor who gave life to Girls Charlie, Marnie’s boyfriend (Alison Williams), He unilaterally decided to get off the project when his character began to take on a nuance with which he did not agree.
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At that time, the series of Lena Dunham she was the pretty girl of HBO And any rumor could get them bad press, so everyone was extremely polite about the actor’s departure.
Dunham hastened to declare the success of Girls She was not dependent on any male character and Alison Williams, as charming as ever, declared “sure there are great things written for Marnie from now on.”
The protagonists of ‘Gossip Girl’ stopped talking when the cameras were turned off
For six seasons, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester They co-starred in this hit series, set on New York’s Upper East Side, but despite sharing thousands of scenes all those years, the off-stage actresses didn’t have a good relationship.
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In fact, from there, although both have coincided in events, they have not spoken to each other. Between them there was no clash that triggered their friendship, rather it was a question of character: Blake was more outgoing and felt more comfortable in show business, and Leighton has always been a more shy and reserved girl.
The future of ‘Homeland’ was in danger due to the fights between its protagonists
Few series actors have had more chemistry on camera than Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, or what is the same, the officer Mathison and the sergeant Brody. But in real life things were very different. So much so that the British man couldn’t take it any longer and withdrew from the project after finishing the filming of the third season.
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The reason could have been the change in attitude of the actress after having been a mother: since Claire had her baby, she only wanted to go on set, complete the scheduled scenes and go home with her little one, something that Damian, with a more relaxed personality , he was not wearing too well.
“Damian keeps joking around with the team and he can’t stand Claire being so professional. That is creating a lot of conflicts between them, “a source close to the actors told The Enquirer at the time.
It was never known if the real cause of Lewis leaving the series was that or there was something else, but it is true that the protagonists of Homeland They started out as great friends and ended up working together without hardly speaking to each other.
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