9 More Insane Demands That Famous Actors Made For Movies

6. Steve McQueen Demands Equality

It doesn't matter if you're the King Of Cool if you have a complex about working with another legendary actor, which seems to have been the case for Steve McQueen when he worked with Paul Newman on The Towering Inferno in 1974.

The story goes that the pair had issues, to say the least, and they manifested in a fight over top billing on the disaster epic, with McQueen insisting on top billing AND the exact same pay and number of lines as Newman. Which must have been a nightmare for the writers and editors.

A compromise on their conflict was reached with the poster, on which McQueen's name is first, but Newman's is positioned slightly higher. The things studios have to do for egos.