10 Actors Who Hated Working Together
7. Jamie Foxx & LL Cool J - Any Given Sunday
Oliver Stone's 1999 sports drama co-starred Jamie Foxx as "Steamin" Willie Beamen, an egomaniacal football quarterback who clashes with his teammates, including Julian "J-Man" Washington (LL Cool J) - but some of this tension also continued to boil over off-screen.
Foxx and Cool J came to literal blows during filming as, according to numerous sources, Cool J continually physically provoked Foxx on set to the point that a fight broke out. According to co-star Andrew Bryniarski:
"LL Cool J said something disrespectful to Jamie and actually reached over Al Pacino's face and gave him a smack. It wasn't a brutal smack, but it touched him. Jamie came back forward and he said, 'If you want to do this, we can do this.'"
Cinematographer Sal Totino added:
"LL's like, 'I'm improv-ing.' Jamie's like, 'Well, if you're going to improv, let me know if you're going to hit me.' We came back to shoot the reverse. What does LL do? He hits Jamie. What does Jamie do? F**king hits him back. Al Pacino is in the middle of the scene acting, doesn't know that a real fight's going over his head."
Though some of that natural antagonism clearly fed into the film itself, it's hardly ideal conditions for either Foxx or the rest of the cast and crew.