8 Star Wars Co-Stars Who Can't Stand Each Other (12 Who Became Close IRL)

Publish date: 2024-04-22

The Star Wars films aren’t simply entertaining motion pictures that you just watch here or there – for some other folks, it’s a whole LIFESTYLE that their global revolves around. And it’s not simply the Star Wars fan base that tends to change into obsessed. It happens to the forged as neatly – whether or not they adore it or now not. With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in theaters now, everyone seems to be on edge on the closing of this generation’s trilogy and while not everyone is of the same opinion with the way it ends, it’s the end of an generation for a gaggle of stars.

But whilst we've our favourite on-screen friendships and love interests, now not EVERYONE got along at the back of the scenes - in the meantime, others became lifelong highest buddies.

Here are 8 off-screen Star Wars feuds that carried over for years, and 12 friendships we're nonetheless swooning over.

20 Can't Stand: Anthony Daniels (R2-D2) and Kenny Baker (C-3PO)

One of the most important and most identified feuds within the Star Wars universe used to be the hostility between Anthony Daniels who performed R2-D2 and Kenny Baker, who played C-3PO. Apparently, the word is they didn’t get along AT ALL onset (because of them already being uncomfortable in the ones overheated droid suits) and continuously talked smack about each other.

19 Can't Stand: Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo)…But Only For A Little Bit?

Usually, within the aftermath of an affair between an overly married older guy and a tender star on the rise, issues can get messy. This was once the case between Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford after they had a three-month affair all the way through filming. Carrie revealed the details and the heart-shattering fallout in her memoir The Princess Diarist

18 Can't Stand: Director Richard Marquand and Carrie Fisher

Things didn’t in point of fact go Carrie Fisher’s means all over filming, and being so young, it had a unfavourable effect on the rest of her existence. For one, she and Return of the Jedi director Richard Marquand couldn’t stand each other. “I hated him,” she said in an interview with the Daily Beast. “He fell far and wide Harrison, however he would yell at me continuously.”

17 Can't Stand: George Lucas and Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker)

George Lucas isn’t the easiest guy to work with, according to a majority of his stars on his most famous franchise up to now. Hayden Christensen being certainly one of them. Hayden was an older Anakin Skywalker and felt that the director verbally abused him on the set such a lot so that he regretted taking the famous phase.

16 Can't Stand: David Prowse (who bodily played Darth Vader) and George Lucas

The first individual that comes to mind when considering of Darth Vader is James Earl Jones since he used to be the famous voice. But there used to be a man at the back of the mask itself, and that guy used to be David Prowse. Prowse famously got indignant at Lucas over him now not the use of Prowse’s personal voice for the character. It didn’t assist that he also let some spoilers slip.

15 Can't Stand: Alec Guinness and the Entire Franchise

It just simple sucks whilst you hate the franchise you’re principally related to all your being, however that’s what came about with Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi. Apparently, Guinness hated the nature and the flicks such a lot that he begged Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan. “I simply couldn’t move on talking the ones bloody terrible traces,” he said to Entertainment Weekly.

14 Can't Stand: Terence Stamp and George Lucas

Terence Stamp, who played Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace, didn’t come back for Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Jedi because of his bickering with George Lucas. He in reality had a few choice words for the director/producer/author in Empire Magazine: he stated he leaned too much on CGI and referred to as the filmmaker’s procedure “dull”.

13 Can't Stand: Harrison Ford and George Lucas

During that period of time where Harrison Ford’s career was once setting out, he and George Lucas would get into heated arguments at the set (Harrison even once attempted to hack apart the Millennium Falcon however used to be stopped through Mark Hamill) and once even said to Lucas “You can write this s***, however I positive as h*** can’t say it.”

12 Friends: Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker)

Mark Hamill had the purist friendship with the overdue Carrie Fisher, such a lot so that it rocked him to his very core when she passed on to the great beyond in 2016. Hamill said that Fisher “was once able to make you are feeling such as you have been crucial thing in her lifestyles.” Hamill had by no means been shy about opening up about his friendship with his on-screen sister.

11 Friends: John Boyega (Finn) and Daisy Ridley (Rey)

If you mission over to Instagram and check out either John Boyega’s timeline or Daisy Ridley’s, you’ll to find that they are principally “friendship goals” for besties. They’re repeatedly lifting each other up, which while sure, it does seem on display with Rey and Finn, it’s simply so much higher to peer that they’re that close in real life.

10 Friends: Oscar Isaac (Poe) and Carrie Fisher’s Dog Gary (who additionally starred in the franchise)

Everyone who ever interacted with Carrie Fisher later in her existence additionally almost certainly interacted together with her famous dog Gary, who even starred in the films within the background. She took him EVERYWHERE with her (and daughter Billie Lourd followed him after her mom’s demise) and naturally, Oscar Isaac fell in love with him.

9 Friends: Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams (Lando)

Everyone knows that actually handiest very best buds can break out with pulling pranks on each other. One time, Billy Dee Williams controlled to drag the ultimate prank on Hamill when the cast of Star Wars met Princess Margaret in 1980. Williams told Hamill that it used to be “unlawful to appear royalty within the eye” and it used to be a punishable offense. This resulted in picture gold.

8 Friends: Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac

Of course, you simply know that the cast of the newest Star Wars motion pictures are all simply as close as they may be able to be, they usually prove it every day on Instagram. Now that the movie has been released, they’re allowed to publish pics of each other goofing round. Daisy and Oscar are clearly close in actual life (and sure, she adores Gary too).

7 Friends: John Boyega and Harrison Ford

John Boyega at all times turns out like he’s totally starstruck through Harrison Ford (“he smells like cherries” the younger actor once stated of Ford in an interview) and likes to poke amusing at that comradeship every time they do joint interviews together. The younger actor is ALWAYS utterly fascinated with the veteran and he’s not afraid to show it.

6 Friends: Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill

Apparently, Mark Hamill was once the only particular person on set who could make Harrison Ford snort, so he used to be insanely irreplaceable, particularly on every occasion Ford would have a meltdown at the set throughout the unique movies. “I like Harrison,” Hamill said to Empire. “I got to forestall him because I will make him snigger when he will get in reality, actually mad.”

5 Friends: John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran (Rose)

Kelly Marie Tran was the sufferer of harassment brought on by online trolls who didn’t like her character in the franchise. And while a lot of her co-stars got here to her defense, it was John Boyega who used to be the most vocal out of her friends. Unfortunately, Boyega “badly worded” a comment directed at her and he apologized profusely to her.

4 Friends: Lupita Nyong’o and JJ Abrams (director)

Like every considered one of her co-stars within the franchise, Lupita Nyong’o ADORED everybody on set, particularly The Last Jedi director JJ Abrams, who she became extraordinarily close with. Abrams even supported the actress in other tasks, together with when she starred in a play and he was there on opening night to peer her carry out.

3 Friends: John Boyega and Oscar Isaac

Plenty of fanatics (including each John Boyega and Oscar Isaac) had been disillusioned to learn that their characters weren’t intended to be a “couple” in the films and in the last movie, however that doesn’t imply they may be able to’t be close in real life. Both of those two enjoy goofing off with one every other in entrance of the camera and whilst they’re touring.

2 Friends: Lupita Nyong’o and John Boyega

Sometimes, while you star in a film in combination and you have amazing chemistry, you'll form a life-long friendship off-screen. This happened to be the case with Lupita Nyong’o and John Boyega, who enjoy posing together up to possible (particularly after they’re all on planes together, as pointed out by Buzzfeed).

1 Friends: And, after all, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford (You Knew They Couldn’t Stay Mad At Each Other)

While Carrie Fisher admitted later in life that her affair with Harrison modified her entire international in a way she could have by no means imagined, she nonetheless loves him very dearly and that he holds a unique place in her heart. “I’ll always feel one thing for him,” she said all the way through an interview. And she did proper up to her tragic passing.

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