45 Film Crew Members Reveal Which Stars Were Absolute Nightmares On Set

Friend of mine works in the biz. She and several of her coworkers have said multiple things about the entitled behavior of Benedict Cumberbatch. Talks down to people, acts superior to everyone around him, and they won’t give him a female personal assistant cuz he always tries to “break them.”.

Klaus Klinski was legendary for on set tantrums, Werner Hertzog threatened to shoot him once whilst on set haha.

My girlfriend worked for a production company in California. In the 3 years she worked out there she said Guy Fieri was 100% the worst. Very demanding and rude. She had to rush and pick him up from the airport in a Jeep and he lost it on her. Said’ I’m suppose to have a limo driver, who the hell are you?’ She snapped right back and told him she can put a hat on to make him feel better or he could just get the hell in the car because he was already running late for filming. He also complained about the water bottles in his dressing room. He wanted Fiji and they had smartwater or something stupid. Flavor town jerk.

No actual experience with it but I've heard Chevy Chase was one of the worst regarding this.

A handful of stufents stayed after a talk neil degrasse tyson gave and while he did stop and talk with us his first reaction was “youre the only ones? there aren’t more people?” and then he made weird backhanded compliments to a few of the women in regards to them being science majors.

Not a movie star but Maynard from Tool is an entitled jerk backstage.

Billy Bob Thornton. Creepy and smelly in a bad way.

I have worked many Hollywood sets from lighting In the 90’s to assistant director with Cameron the Coen brothers and a handful of MCU movies. Of the many actors I have meet the one that was the most difficult to work with the Emma Watson when I worked with her in wall flower. She was constantly late (which isn’t a big deal of you can you land your lines) but clearly didn’t take anytime to learn the script. Scenes took hours because she as I quote “I prefer to improve this one” time and again. Anyway time to make a new account. I like being incognito.

Not actors, but my neice worked in concert promotion in Australia and had an issue with Michael Buble, who didn't get some food he wanted and asked for her to be fired!

On the other hand, she also worked looking after the Foo Fighters, and thought they were the BEST!

She also went to school with Lorde, and ended up going on the town with her and Taylor Swift after Swifts Australian concert, and had a fantastic night!

My wife has insane luck and has run into many celebrities. She sees Bruce Willis on the Metro in DC, clearly trying not to be noticed, but they keep making eye contact occasionally. She’s trying to make out if it’s actually him and he’s prolly getting a little freaked out (more in that in a second). When she gets off the train, she says “I loved you in *Death Becomes Her*.” and he smiles slightly and nods.

My mom’s bf played an extra in lots of movies and he was a cop so he could get cop-like roles like coo, security guard, etc. pretty easily. He was on the set of *Unbreakable* and set Bruce Willis had an extra removed because he didn’t like how he was staring at him. I assume he’s had bad experiences in the past.

Beyoncé seems to get a lot flack here on reddit, but when I worked with her she seemed pretty friendly. Never spoke to her, but she would walk around set while we’d clean up and get ready for the next shot. Never acted entitled, so I guess this is the opposite of the post lol. Just thought I’d share.

Also I’ve never been a fan or into her music at all, but she sang with her own voice while we were filming and it was probably the best I’ve heard in person.

I met Ken Jeong in the airport in Florida a few years ago. He was with his wife and kid so didn't take photos but shook our hands and was happy to chat for a bit. Seemed like such a nice guy.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is every bit as arrogant and self important as he seems on TV. He was nice enough to talk to everyone at least once, we paid to see him, but he really doesn't want to talk to you if you're not actively in science or a kid who maybe wants to do science. There was just something rude about him.

And when you consider how much he hangs with Bill Nye and how much Bill Nye gets massacred in threads like these for being a raging jerk to people who bump into him on the street.

Tommy Lee Jones and Tim Allen. Knobs.

Friend of mine worked on a Travis Scott music video and said the dude torpedoed his own shoot. Showed up late. Disrespected the crew. Refused to listen to the director. Brought a ton of people he insist be used in the video. All around jerk.

I did not interact with him, but with the crew on the set of Pillars of the Earth. Ian McShane was supposed to be there at x time and was a little late. He didn't get a cab, nor was he in his hotel room so everyone was kinda panicking.

The dude showed up in shorts and a Tesco bag, he took the bus to enjoy the scenery. Looked like the average pensioner around here.

I've met Giancarlo Esposito, and he was the nicest, calmest dude. Very interested in everyone around him. He drove a Volvo v70 and actually lives in Albuquerque, which i thought was hilarious.

It’s not a secret that Thomas Wiseau is a huge jerk but my friend was a huge fan and got to work with him at his live room viewing parties. It totally turned him off that movie. He was the biggest fan of the room I knew and he was super excited to work with Tommy even knowing how he was. That first night he worked with him was his last. He came back from the theater so defeated and quit the next day because Tommy was so awful to everyone.

I don't work on a movie set, but in college I worked at the college bookstore. Collin Farrell was filming that bad "New World" movie nearby (this was in the Williamsburg/Jamestown Virginia area). He used to come into the store after the day's filming and buy a shitload of magazines. He'd complain about how expensive magazines were, then paid with crisp new $100 bills.

I worked on a shoot with Louis Gossett Jr. and that man he was incredibly kind and truly went out of his way to say hi to fans, make everyone feel comfortable, and was the personification of grace. And he didn't have to be. He was the center of attention and he had the opportunity to use his position to make everyone around him feel elevated or not, and he went out of his way to make it happen.