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Wahlberg reveals DiCaprio dispute: Five famous Hollywood feuds

Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio aren't the only stars to squabble on set.

Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries

Mark Wahlberg has admitted he used to have a beef with his Basketball Diaries co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor revealed that Leo wasn't too keen on his casting.

[The most bitter Hollywood feuds]



"Leonardo was like, 'Over my dead f***ing body. Marky Mark's not going to be in this f***ing movie'," Wahlberg recalls.

"We'd had a thing - I didn't even realize it, [but] I was a bit of a d*** to him at a charity basketball game. So he was like, 'This f***ing asshole is not going to be in this movie.'"

The pair eventually kissed and made up, but they're certainly not the only actors to squabble on set. Here are five of Hollywood's most famous feuds.

Bill Murray vs. Chevy Chase


Ever wondered why Caddyshack's biggest stars only share a single scene on screen? The story goes back to the actors' beginnings on Saturday Night Live. Murray had been Chase's replacement on the show, but when Chevy returned to host the second season, egos and resentments led to a famous behind the scenes brawl according to Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller’s invaluable book Live from New York. Five years later, it took desperate director Harold Ramis to get the pair to work it out and perform together.


David O Russell vs. George Clooney


David O Russell is famous for fighting with his stars - one of the most extreme examples of which happened on the set of 1999 war satire, Three Kings. Clooney had reportedly become so fed up of the director's mistreatment of various crew members that he decided to give Russell a piece of his mind. The foul-mouthed argument resulted in fisticuffs. Five years later, Clooney told Premiere magazine: "Quite honestly, if he comes near me, I'll sock him right in the f***ing mouth."


Christian Bale vs. Shane Hurlbut


Most will remember hearing that 2009 recording of Christian Bale screaming at director of photography Shane Hurlbut on the set of Terminator Salvation. Hurlbut had accidentally interrupted a scene and been punished with a four-minute expletive-filled rant complete with threats of firing and arse-kicking that couldn't even be calmed by the film's assistant director Bruce Franklin. Bale's co-workers defended his behaviour but the actor nonetheless apologised on radio station KROQ, saying: "I was out of order beyond belief."


Charlie Sheen vs. Sean Young


The set of Oliver Stone's 1987 drama Wall Street must've been a strange one. Determined that she should've been cast in Darryl Hannah's role, Sean Young began an on-set campaign for the part even after filming had begun. Lead actor Charlie Sheen eventually became so fed up of Young's behaviour he taped a sign to her back that read: "I am a c***," leaving the actress to wander around the set for hours before noticing the note. Stone also lost patience, and even cut her role and shipped her off to a bus station after wrapping a scene early. The director later admitted Young had been right, but never hired the actress again.


Val Kilmer vs. Joel Schumacher


By the time he arrived on the set of 1995's Batman Forever, Val Kilmer already had a reputation for being difficult - refusing to rehearse, not showing up on set and once even allegedly 'accidentally' burning a cameraman with a lit cigarette. But the actor's rocky relationship with Joel Schumacher actually came to blows after Kilmer was seen speaking down to a crew member. “He was being irrational and ballistic with the first assistant director, the cameraman, the costume people," Schumacher told Entertainment Weekly. "He was rude and inappropriate. He was childish and impossible. I was forced to tell him that this would not be tolerated for one more second. Then we had two weeks where he did not speak to me but it was bliss!" Years later, the director claimed that Kilmer was "the most psychologically troubled human being I've ever worked with," but maintained he was the "best Batman".