Celebrity feuds: The co-stars who didn't get along
Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel appeared to reignite his well-documented feud with Fast and Furious co-star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson during his on-stage appearance at the 2025 Golden Globes ceremony this week – or at the least, made light of it in an awkward moment.
Despite previously claiming to have buried the hatchet, he took to the stage in Los Angeles to present and called out the WWE star before saying his script lines.
After spotting the WWE star in the crowd, Diesel said, "Hey Dwayne," while laughing.
The A-list crowd started laughing and the cameras panned to The Rock, who took it well and just smiled and waited for Diesel to continue presenting.
"This could have been another Chris Rock-Will Smith situation," one viewer commented on X, referring to the infamous Chris Rock slapping incident.
"I screamed low key," another added underneath a video of the moment going viral online.
"Tension you could cut with a knife!" another added in part of a comment on X.
In 2023, Johnson shared a video saying his character "Hobbs is back" after Fast X came out that same year.
He said he would be "returning" to the hit film franchise for FASTX: Part II.
"Last summer Vin and I put all the past behind us. We'll lead with brotherhood and resolve - and always take care of the franchise, characters & FANS that we love," he said in his tweet.
He also congratulated his "Fast Family".
The pair have been co-stars since their first onscreen appearance together in 2011's Fast Five.
Playing on-screen enemies, their relationship in real life quickly became similar.
Whether the duo ever got along is unclear, but from 2016, we knew they weren't chummy.
In a since-deleted Instagram post, Johnson made a dig at an unnamed member of the franchise cast.
"Some [male co-stars] conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't," Johnson wrote, starting the public feud.
"The ones that don't are too chicken s—t to do anything about it anyway.
"Candy asses. When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling – you're right."
Per US Weekly, Johnson also posted a follow-up post to Instagram.
"Family is gonna have differences of opinion and fundamental core beliefs," he wrote.
"To me, conflict can be a good thing, when it's followed by great resolution. I was raised on healthy conflict and welcome it. And like any family, we get better from it."
Years passed between the pair sharing swipes and compliments back and forth, though the general consensus is that their feud has been settled.
You can read all the details here.
Thankfully, the beef seemed to subside, with Johnson telling the Los Angeles Times that while his disagreement with his co-star wasn't ideal, it bolstered the film franchise.
"I've been in the game a long time," he said of the conflict. "Would Universal have preferred that didn't happen? Sure, we talked about it. The irony is after that and as they do their tracking and all their analysis, the interest shot through the roof to a whole other level," Johnson said.
Diesel then told USA Today the situation had been blown out of proportion, and the duo were friends off-screen.
"I don't think the world really realises how close we are, in a weird way," Diesel explained ahead of The Fate of the Furious' release.
"I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don't think that was his intention. I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise. In my house, he's Uncle Dwayne."
The duo later appeared together at The Fate of the Furious' premiere in April 2017, with Diesel telling Entertainment Tonight: "We still love each other, that's my boy. When I was making that difficult decision, should there be an 8 or not, I called [Johnson] and he said, 'Brother, I will be there shoulder to shoulder with you to make sure it's the best movie in history.' And he delivered."
Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day: Bill Murray and Harold Ramis
The word is out. Bill Murray and his late Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day collaborator Harold Ramis were not quite the chummiest of chums.
At least not after the latter, that is.
Groundhog Day's producer, Trevor Albert, revealed in 2023 how the two maintained a conflict during the making of the film, which ultimately led them to not speak a word to each other for 21 years.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Albert admitted "[Groundhog Day] was a tense shoot for a number of reasons," going on to cite multiple conflicts between the pair.
Murray and Ramis had starred together in Ghostbusters almost 10 years prior, and collaborated on their hit film Caddyshack, which is why Murray was one of the first names the director thought of to take the lead in his comedy.
But at the time of filming, Murray was not in the best way, which led him to slip professionally. Per an explosive 2004 interview with Ramis in The New Yorker, the director revealed: "At times, Bill was just really irrationally mean and unavailable; he was constantly late on set."
"What I'd want to say to him is just what we tell our children: 'You don't have to throw tantrums to get what you want. Just say what you want.'"
Tensions grew, and so filming became like scraping nails on a chalkboard.
"It was unfortunate and probably made the movie considerably less fun to make," Albert said. "But you can still make a very good movie when people are not in perfect harmony."
After their falling out on Groundhog Day, an icy rift developed between Murray and Ramis, who, indeed, did not speak to each other for 21 years.
Friends of both stars claim their falling out was due to Murray growing tired of the claim that Ramis was responsible for his career.
Sadly, it was illness that brought to two together, after Ramis' struggle with Autoimmune Inflammatory Vasculitis disease turned dire.
Murray was reportedly pushed by his brother to visit Ramis in the hospital, and the two finally spoke.
When Ramis died on February 24, 2014, Murray released a short tribute: "Harold Ramis and I together did the National Lampoon Show off Broadway, Meatballs, Stripes, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him."
The actor later made another sweet, improvised tribute to Ramis before presenting the award for Best Cinematography in a Major Motion Picture at the 2014 Oscars.
In a 2009 interview with The AV Club, Ramis reflected on his relationship with Murray.
"I could help him be the best funny Bill Murray he could be, and I think he appreciated that then. And I don't know where that went, but it's there on film. So whatever happens between us in the future, at least we have those expressions."
Thirteen: Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed
Actress Nikki Reed has spoken openly about her years-long feud with Thirteen co-star Evan Rachel Wood.
The pair starred in the controversial coming-of-age movie in 2003, and years later Reed shared her thoughts about what transpired on set.
Speaking on the Story + Rain Talks podcast, she said she and Wood would have had no issues had it not been for the studio encouraging them to be competitive.
The film, which also starred Holly Hunter, followed the lives of Evie (Reed) and Tracy (Wood) as they experimented with drugs and explored their sexuality.
"We were too young to realise this at the time, but there were a lot of people that were kind of pitting us against each other, and making it a competitive atmosphere," Reed said of the movie, which they filmed when they were both 15.
"Now, in hindsight, I'm like, 'Of course, because isn't that the recipe for how [to] treat all young women in this industry?'"
Moonlighting: Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd
Everyone who has watched Moonlighting knows David Addison (Bruce Willis) and Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) were the OG will-they-won't-they TV couple. Everyone wanted them to get together.
But in real life, Willis and Shepherd hated each other.
Crew members had to "measure the distance between their two trailer doors to the stage entrance, so one actor wouldn't have to walk even a foot farther than the other," according to a colleague.
The show may have ended in 1989, but Willis and Shepherd's feud has endured through the decades since.
Moonlighting: Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd
In 2022, Shepherd opened up about her first impressions of Willis following his family's announcement he would be retiring from acting due to his aphasia diagnosis.
"I just have to say one thing about Bruce," she told Extra in May 2022.
"No one else was ever considered for the part when he walked in the room. My temperature went up 10 degrees.
"That meant two things to me: one, I was very attracted to him, two, I would never act on it, 'cause we were both very attracted to each other."
Shepherd then shared that she "will always love Bruce."
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