10 Movie Actors Who Refused To Talk To Directors On Set
8. Warren Beatty - Ishtar
By all accounts 1987's adventure-comedy dud Ishtar was an absolutely nightmarish shoot, defined by production overruns which almost doubled its budget to a massive $51 million, and squabbling between star Warren Beatty, director Elaine May, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
The Morocco shoot was a disaster - director May was deeply uncomfortable throughout the harsh desert shoot, and suffered from a toothache which she refused to have treated locally.
This surely only exacerbated her disagreements with producer-star Beatty, who she felt sided with DP Storaro during most of the on-set disputes.
Furthermore, May came to blows with female lead Isabelle Adjani, who not-so-coincidentally happened to be Beatty's partner at the time.
According to co-star Dustin Hoffman, for much of the shoot Beatty and May weren't on speaking terms, but settled on an agreement to shoot each disputed scene twice - once his way, once hers.
Ultimately having so much footage to choose from - reportedly 108 hours of dailies - did little to help the end product, which was a critical and commercial failure, in addition to winning May a Worst Director Razzie.