Yahoo Movies 7 TV scenes so dodgy the stars refused to film them
Much like viewers, stars don't always agree with what happens to their characters in TV shows. The difference is that they can do something about it.
Here are seven times when TV stars have refused to do a scene – or even an entire storyline – and ended up getting their way.
1. Matthew Perry – Friends' strip joint
Friends hasn't really aged that well in terms of its targets for jokes, so it might be a good thing that Matthew Perry stopped one plot from being made.
"There was a story line on Friends where Chandler went to a male strip joint because he really liked the sandwiches," Perry explained. "And I called up and I said, 'Let's not do this one'."
2. Joseph Fiennes – The Handmaid's Tale rape
You can't accuse The Handmaid's Tale of pulling its punches, but season two would have been even bleaker if it weren't for Joseph Fiennes.
He revealed that there was a moment where his character Fred would have raped his wife Serena – until Fiennes said no. "It just didn't track for me. I had to go out on a limb and refuse to do it," he recalled, with Serena actress Yvonne Strahovski later agreeing with him.
3. Evangeline Lilly – Lost nudity
After feeling "basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked" and later failing to "control" an undressing scene, Evangeline Lilly committed to never doing another scene like it again on Lost.
"I said, 'That's it – no more... I will never take my clothes off on this show again' – and I didn't," she noted, with the producers later apologising for her experience on set. "No person should ever feel unsafe at work. Period," their statement read.
4. Everyone – Seinfeld gun gags
One episode in season two of Seinfeld was set to revolve around Elaine buying a gun, until the cast decided against it. "I went back to the stage and the actors looked at me and said, 'We don't want to do this episode'," revealed director Tom Cherones.
"The people around us thought it wasn't the right episode at the right time," added writer Larry Charles, noting that maybe if the episode was suggested later in the show's run it could have happened.
5. David Tennant – The Doctor meets JK Rowling
Before Christmas special 'The Next Doctor' happened, former Doctor Who chief Russell T Davies was apparently thinking about a magical 2008 Christmas special featuring Harry Potter author JK Rowling instead.
It would have seen Rowling – playing herself – teaming up with the Doctor to battle wizards and witches, but David Tennant wasn't keen on the idea, feeling that it sounded more like a spoof than an actual episode. According to Steven Moffat though, the idea "exists on a hard drive somewhere", so maybe we'll see it one day...
6. Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev – The Vampire Diaries' wet snog
Delena fans got everything they hoped for when Damon and Elena shared a kiss in the rain in The Vampire Diaries season six during a flashback scene. However, they had to make the most of it as both of the stars involved said they'd never do something like it again.
"First of all, it's really cold in Georgia, so I don't think that's such a good idea," said Ian Somerhalder, with Nina Dobrev adding that she "got really sick" after shooting the scene. "You write another rain kiss and I quit," Somerhalder joked (we think) to executive producer Julie Plec.
7. Danielle Panabaker – The Flash romance
If you thought that Ralph Dibny and Caitlin Snow would strike up a relationship in The Flash season five then think again, as Danielle Panabaker has turned down the chance of it ever happening.
"People always thought it was going to be a romance, because every year Caitlin dates the new white guy on the show," reflected Hartley Sawyer. "Immediately all of us talked about that. And we're like, 'No' – she [Panabaker] put the kibosh on it quicker than anybody. She was like, 'No, I'm not doing that'."
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