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Which stars do people hate working with?
By: E.B., Montreal, Canada
A.B. Replies: Here I am about to give away another irreplaceable nugget of Hollywood secrecy--the myth of the set prankster.
Everybody says they love the A-list set trickster; costars will heave themselves onto Leno's couch and, with a practiced mistiness to the eye, recall that hi-larious moment when the poor local Romanian assistant girl found the half-eaten squid carcass in Gwyneth's trailer. Ho, ho, ho, that'll be one for the ages, Jay.
But let me tell you this: Nobody really likes the prankster. Do I have any specific examples to share at this time? No. Why? No one wants to piss off the A-list jokester who finds himself so hi-larious. Otherwise, the complainer could end up exiled into the shadow world of WB guest appearances. But take this as a general rule: Anyone who likes finding a dead deep-sea creature spilled all over their cot is lying.
People also hate the overheated Method actor. Really. Behold the terrified director: In late January, some papers reported that Wesley Snipes made death threats against director David Goyer on the set of Blade Trinity. "David was scared for his life," a source told the New York Daily News.
Or maybe it was, heh heh, you know, heh, just a big misunderstanding involving a man and his Art. As Goyer's spokeswoman later insisted, "Wesley is a Method actor; there's always a lot of tension on the set." No problems here! Move along now!
Ethan Hawke reportedly had some harrowing days with Denzel Washington on the set of Training Day. Again, the buzz was that Washington was getting a bit too chummy with his corrupt imaginary character. Hawke later chose his words a bit too carefully.
"I had never seen anybody work the way he does," Hawke told a reporter. "He's a very intense individual, very intelligent. He asks a lot of the people who work around him."
But the man who suffers the worst reputation in Hollywood, by far, is Val Kilmer. One director even took out an ad promising never to work with the Wonderland actor again, so demanding and difficult is he. Do a news database search on "actor" and "difficult to work with," and it's like looking at a social register with only one member in it. Lisa Kudrow has defended Kilmer as a fine costar, but square that with Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher, who once told Time magazine that Kilmer is "a deeply troubled man in need of psychiatric help."
Call me cynical, but this B!tch chooses to believe the director.
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