10 Actors Who Tried To Get Co-Stars Fired

8. Ryan Gosling Refused To Shoot Scenes With Rachel McAdams On The Notebook

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For both Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, 2004's The Notebook is largely viewed as the launching pad that threw the couple up to the upper echelons of Hollywood. Prior to the Nick Cassavetes-helmed picture, Gosling was best known for Young Hercules and being a young darling of Disney, while McAdams' biggest role was starring opposite Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls.

While The Notebook did wonders for their respective careers, the film wasn't a particularly positive experience for either actor - mainly because Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams hated each other's guts.

On-screen, Gosling and McAdams had fantastic chemistry and made for a beautiful couple. Behind the camera, though, the two were constantly bickering; to the point that Gosling refused to act alongside his co-star and would regularly request a stand-in for any scenes where the pair's Noah and Allie were featured together.

Having seen enough, the film's producers called a meeting with the pair. There, the story is that Ryan Gosling tried to get his castmate kicked off the film. After a heated argument, the relationship between Messrs Gosling and McAdams took a major upswing - so much so, the two actually became a real-life couple from 2005 to 2007.

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