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And they're not wrong — Savage and Hyneman have been very open about the fact that they were never actually friends. Savage has said that “the fact that we don’t like each other is actually a strength to our working relationship,” while Hyneman once admitted, “I wouldn’t spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn’t have to.”

Margulies later dismissed feud rumors and suggested Panjabi’s work on The Fall contributed to the scheduling issue — only for Panjabi to publicly contradict her, saying The Fall “was not even in production at that time” and that she had been in New York ready to film. Neither actress has ever actually confirmed what happened between them, but talk about adding fuel to the feud rumors!!

"I found the lack of chemistry awkward from the get-go. When you've seen Fillion in other shows, the chemistry just flows with everyone he interacts with. Not the case with Katic."

That same year, Katic was not asked to return for a potential ninth season, reportedly as a cost-cutting measure, while Fillion was expected to remain. Ultimately, ABC canceled the show altogether just weeks after her departure was announced.

"I think it’s a real testament to their acting skills, as the dislike and animosity between them was never apparent on screen."

"When Sex and the City was shooting the first time around, I was friends with someone who worked on it. The drama between all the cast was almost unbelievable. It was exhausting to hear about. I can’t even imagine what it was like to experience firsthand. I’m shocked they didn’t write Mr. Big out early on."

"I worked there for a while in the mid-2010s on the test kitchen staff. Extremely toxic work environment. It was bizarre."

"Didn’t Blake call her a cage baby in public, 'as a joke?' If that was the joke she was making in public, who knows what sense of humor she had in private..."

—LivingPresent629"Leighton was born while her mother was serving in prison. That's insane of Blake to say."

And in reference to the "cage baby" comment, a resurfaced clip from a 2008 panel discussion shows Blake joking, "Well, some of us started in a cage," gesturing to Leighton — a remark widely interpreted to reference the fact that Leighton's mom was incarcerated when she was born. Ouch. 

"In an old interview, they summed it up as 'Loved Radar, hated Burgoff.'"

"It wasn't so much hate, but he was at times very difficult to work with. He was going through a lot personally while filming M*A*S*H, among them a divorce, but the cast has had several reunions where he has been included."

"They didn’t like each other initially, but grew to like each other later on. It’s mentioned in interviews."

"I had so much fun watching the fans implode over Cumberbatch's wedding. Everyone was convinced that Freeman would be his best man, to the point that some tabloid articles announced it as fact, only for it to later come out that Freeman didn't even attend."

"It was a wild time, y'all. I've never seen 'shipping' get so out of control."

"Apparently, Betty merrily played to the studio audience, and Bea thought this was juvenile. She was quite a serious person."

"Exactly. What I’ve read is that Betty liked to engage the audience, while Bea wanted to focus on finishing the scene. Like, if there was an error in the scene and they cut, Betty would start talking to the audience and joke about what went wrong, etc. Bea didn’t do that. A lot of these mismatches are like that; a difference in approach in how they work. It’s usually not anything more than that."

"They were both to blame there. He was single and very recently a very successful bartender and was just continuing that kind of raucous late-night living, shooting his mouth off, smart-ass kind of New York lifestyle, except now he was in LA and in a totally different industry. Meanwhile, she was never shy about being contemptuous of a co-star."

"He made a joke about who gets to wear the tie when she announced she was getting married, and it hurt her feelings. I remember reading about this and how he apologized to her afterward. He really felt bad about it. I mean, the show, from what I remember, had plenty of gay jokes in it—none were outright mean, but played more into the stereotypical. I think he just made a bad joke, not meant to actually be mean, and it backfired and hurt her. But, I believe they really just didn’t get on because of their respective personalities. She seemed more interested in being behind the camera than in front of it. He also seems to be well-liked by his other gay co-stars and doesn’t have a history of spouting homophobic comments. Lastly, lots of people laughed at the concept of gay marriage back then—even those who now completely support and even embrace it. As a gay man, I’ve heard that same stupid joke from other gay people more than from straight people (which one of you is wearing the dress, ha ha), so I’m willing to bet he was just trying to be funny and failed."

For her part, Bearse has made her feelings pretty clear: when asked about O’Neill in 2018, she said, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

"Maybe he would've been more understanding if he'd been the one dancing in heels.

"Astaire was reportedly less than thrilled to end up paired by default with an actress who didn't have a dancing background. He was much happier with his other co-stars. But he was determined to make it work, and he got the best out of her."

"I read Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born by Evan Ross Katz, and he does an amazing job breaking down how none of the cast really got along or had a good time on set because Whedon specifically pitted everyone against each other and Sarah Michelle Gellar against everyone else. He includes great interviews with most of the cast."

"Joss Whedon actively pitted his actors against each other and created a sort of competition for his approval and friendship. It was a really toxic dynamic on his sets, though it apparently didn’t work on The Avengers, because no one gave a shit about his approval."