Question: Which actors who can’t stand each other have been able to set their differences aside long enough to work together on a movie that became very successful?
Oddly many of these answers used pairings from projects that were NOT successful.
Anyway….
Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood did NOT like one another at all during the making of the 1970 Western Two Mules For Sister Sara. She was a little too “brassy” for his tastes; and she wasn’t interested in him banging her, which was par for the course for Eastwood and his female costars. Also MacLaine was give first billing over Eastwood (ironically the last time that ever happened in Eastwood’s career) and although he was an international star at the time, they received the same amount of compensation. On top all this, the director of the film, Don Siegel and old friend of Eastwood from his television days, HATED MacLaine and that just spiced things up on the film set.
The film was shot in Mexico, the entire crew came down with food poisoning and apparently MacLaine complained about nearly everything. Eastwood was distracted by the fact that he had done five films in the 18 months before this one, that he was in negotiations to do four more (including The Beguiled, Play Mist For Me and what became Dirty Harry) and because, again, he couldn’t engage in coitus with Ms. MacLaine. The two managed to get their lines out and they had some chemistry; however they never worked together again and Siegel (the director) swore that he’d never work with MacLaine, which was a vow he kept as he died in 1991.
The film was a success and from there Eastwood began his climb to the top of Hollywood’s A-list where he remained for nearly two decades. While MacLaine worked and even won an Oscar, her film career tapered off in the early 1990s and she’s now more known for her dabbling in the occult than her film appearances.