10 Famous Actors Who Are Notoriously Difficult To Work With

9. Edward Norton

Edward Norton takes himself very seriously, which is probably both good and bad when it comes to the Hollywood machine, given that - ultimately - the nature of your profession is kind of ridiculous (pretending to be other people). Still, Norton has earned himself a reputation for doing what Bruce Willis likes to do - "shadow directing."

Though that probably just means that Norton wants to ensure the best movie possible, it's also going to be super-annoying for the person who has actually being assigned to do that as their job. That's to say, Norton clashed with director Louis Letterier on The Incredible Hulk over creative differences, and even ended up cutting the final version of American History X in the editing room, 'cause he didn't trust Tony Kaye to do a proper job (to be fair, even lovely Bryan Cranston has talked about how difficult Kaye was to work with).

If you want to be a director, though, Ed, just be a director. The fact that Norton has built up a reputation for being difficult has limited the parts he gets nowadays, and he's barely in anything good as a result. Oops.