It's been 10 years since The Notebook became a monster hit.
But
only now is the film's director Nick Cassavetes revealing one of the
biggest secrets from behind the scenes: stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel
McAdams, who had intense chemistry on-screen, actually hated each other
during the shoot.
And
even more shocking is the 33-year-old Canadian hunk wanted his pretty
35-year-old costar - who he ended up dating on and off for four years
after filming concluded - kicked off the film.
One would never have guessed: Ryan Gosling (left, in May at Cannes)
disliked his Notebook co-star Rachel McAdams (right, at the Met Gala,
also in May) so much he wanted her kicked off the set one day
A beloved movie that's now 10 years old: The romantic tale hit the big screen in 2004
Gosling, who played hopeless
romantic Noah Calhoun in the movie, asked director Nick Cassavetes to
find someone else to play his love-interest Allie Hamilton.
The
blonde looker complained that he didn't have any 'chemistry' with the
redhead who was only 25-years-old when the film was made.
Cassavetes told VH-1, 'Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not.'
He continued, 'Ryan came to me, and there's 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, "Nick come here."
'And
he's doing a scene with Rachel and he says, "Would you take her out of
here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?"
The
director was shocked. 'I said, "What?" Then he says, "I can't. I can't
do it with her. I'm just not getting anything from this."'
The Notebook is often cited as one of the films with the most intense chemistry between two actors.
They hid it well: Ryan and Rachel seemed to be happy with each other
on-screen; the story was based on a Nicholas Sparks bestseller
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