7. Romeo & Juliet
“Two star-crossed lovers. Both alike in dignity” apparently didn’t care too much for each other off set, no matter how it looked when they were on. “What light through yonder window break? It is the East, and Juliet is…” nowhere to be seen, or at least nowhere near to DiCaprio’s Romeo, unless they were shooting a scene. Claire Danes was in no way a fan of Leo’s antics at work. He was apparently very “immature”, and she couldn’t stand to be around him. The young, whiny couple did make it big at the box office however, but never took it upon themselves to work together again. Even fifteen years after the fact, Claire Danes was up for the role of Helen Gandy in the film J. Edgar, alongside DiCaprio’s J. Edgar Hoover, but she instead opted for a long-term investment in the hit TV show, Homeland, which, to her credit, has been much more lucrative than J. Edgar would likely have been for her, and she wouldn’t have to take orders from the goofy, antic-laden Leonardo DiCaprio.
6. Sliver
The sweet, sultry, seductive, sexy Sharon Stone was apparently not always loved on her film sets. Which is shocking… said no one ever. The interesting thing is that she was not only unloved but, in many cases, reviled by cast and crew. In a gritty, tell-all book, filmmaker Joe Eszterhas commented on how one cast member once urinated in a bathtub that was soon to be used by Stone in a scene. Eszterhas himself even attributed Stone’s power of seduction on screen to her experiences of literally whoring herself to the industry. In addition to that hatred towards her, Stone offered some villainy in the direction of Billy Baldwin on the set of Sliver. Her dislike and disgust of Baldwin (perhaps thinking that they had hired the wrong brother) was so intense that she even took to biting his tongue (not lightly) during a scene, and immediately using mouth wash after every take that had a kiss in it. That being said… Billy is still a lucky man.
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