10 Actors You Didn't Realise Hated Each Other

You'd be forgiven for not knowing that Hollywood legends Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando ever worked together, but indeed, they collaborated on the 1967 rom-com A Countess from Hong Kong, with Brando starring while Chaplin served as writer-director.

The two mega-stars didn't play well together, by their own accounts. Chaplin originally wanted Cary Grant or Rex Harrison to play the lead, and grew frustrated with Brando regularly turning up late to set.

Conversely, Brando found Chaplin's hands-on direction insulting, and wrote in his 1994 memoir that he perceived the director as a "cruel" man:

"Comic genius or not, when I went to London to work with him late in his life, Chaplin was a fearsomely cruel man. He was probably the most sadistic man I'd ever met... He was an egotistical tyrant and a penny pincher. He harassed people when they were late, and scolded them unmercifully to work faster... The greatest genius that the medium has ever produced… [was] a mixed bag, just like all of us."

It didn't help that Chaplin berated Brando's son Sydney - who had a supporting role in the film - on set and called Brando unprofessional in front of the crew, prompting Brando to insist upon an apology while threatening to quit the film. To save the picture, Chaplin reportedly complied.