Actors Who Took Things Too Far On Set

The allegedly awful way in which Dustin Hoffman treated co-star Meryl Streep on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer was well documented in the 2016 biography Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep. According to excerpts obtained by Vanity Fair, Hoffman allegedly tortured Streep during the filming of the movie by slapping her just before a scene, bringing up the death of her former boyfriend, John Cazale, and improvising a scene by smashing a glass against a wall, leaving shards of it in her hair.

Although she didn't participate in the biography, Streep did imply that shooting Kramer vs. Kramer with Hoffman wasn't exactly the best of times in a 2011 interview with CBS News. "Dustin shocked me," Streep said, "Because we were shooting a scene ... My wine glass was sitting there and he just with his hand brushed it so that it whizzed by my nose and broke on the wall and little pieces of glass [shattered].

"And then, in another scene, he slapped me," she continued. "When I see the movie, I see the imprint of his hand—not in the take that he used—but I still see the hand from the previous take. So, that was like a trial by fire. I thought, 'Eww... Maybe this is the Method [acting] or something.' But I think he's very, very gifted. It wasn't the most fun I've ever had on a film." Pissing off Meryl Streep? Oh, Dustin. That's a big no-no.

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