While there was fiery passion on-screen between these movie couples, off-screen there were fireworks of another kind.



Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams – ‘The Notebook’ (2004) Theirs is one of contemporary cinema’s most celebrated romances, complete with that iconic scene of them smooching in the rain. Upsettingly for fans of 'The Notebook’, the relationship between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams was stormy off screen too. Gosling allegedly asked director Nick Cassavetes to replace McAdams with another actress after shooting had begun, and Cassavetes recalls walking into a room to find the pair screaming at each other at the top of their voices. Of course, Ryan and Rachel went on to be one of the cutest couples in Hollywood, which just goes to show how accurate that terrible 'opposites attract’ romcom cliché can be.

Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts – 'I Love Trouble’ (1994) It’s hard to imagine Nick Nolte in any kind of romantic leading man capacity these days, but his unique look was considered hot stuff back in the 90s when he was paired with Julia Roberts in romcom about rival reporters. Roberts did not get on with Nolte one bit and neither party were afraid to admit it. Even years later, they are unable to hide their animosity. Roberts recently called Nolte “a disgusting human being” while Nolte fired back, saying of Roberts, “She is not a nice person.” Mee-ow!

Tony Curtis & Marilyn Monroe – 'Some Like It Hot’ (1959) “It was like kissing Hitler,” said Tony Curtis of his co-star – and an entire generation of men suddenly wondered if screen goddess Marilyn was rocking some lip fuzz. Curtis and Monroe had actually been lovers before shooting 'Some Like It Hot’, but by the time they were cast together in Billy Wilder’s screwball comedy, Curtis said his former paramour had changed: “She’d gone funny, her mind was all over the place.” Discussing the couple’s make-out scene on a yacht, Curtis said of Marilyn, “It was awful. She nearly choked me to death by deliberately sticking her tongue down my throat into my windpipe.” What a way to go.