Are there any actors who have turned down a role due to the presence of another actor

Robert Downey Jr. And Terrence Howard There's a moment in the first Iron Man movie where the likeable Rhodey (Terrence Howard) sees a shiny silver Iron Man suit hung up. He considers putting it on for a moment, but instead says “Next time, baby” and walks away. However, as anyone with even the slightest passing knowledge of the MCU will know, that time never came for Howard, who was unceremoniously dumped from the franchise and replaced with Don Cheadle in the sequel. We don't know all the details about Howard's departure from the series, but according to the actor, RDJ may have had something to do with it, indirectly at the very least. He was originally signed to do three films, but Marvel offered a dramatic cut in salary in order to bankroll RDJ's hefty pay increase for Iron Man 2. Howard balked at the offer, and Don Cheadle was brought in to suit up instead. There's been no real comment on the issue from Downey Jr., but Howard still seems bitter about how things went down, and it's unlikely that they'll be teaming up for any future projects. Jim Carrey And Tommy Lee Jones On paper, you probably couldn't get much more differing personalities than Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones. While most people regard Joel Schumacher's neon nightmare Batman Forever as a low point for the Caped Crusader, it at least appeared that the actors were having fun, even if audiences weren't. The Riddler and Two-Face may have become BFFs in an attempt to defeat the Dark Knight in the movie, but off-screen was a different story altogether. When Jim Carrey appeared on The Howard Stern Show, he recounted one time he went into the same restaurant as Jones during filming. As the pair were shooting the big Riddler lair sequence the next day, Carrey went over to say hi. To quote Carrey “the blood drained from his face in such a way that I realized that I had become the face of his pain or something. And he got kind of shaking and hugged me and said, 'I hate you. I really don't like you.' And I was like, 'Wow, okay, what's going on, man?' And he said, 'I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'" Ouch. Bette Davis And Joan Crawford We couldn't have a Hollywood feud list without talking about one of the most legendary rivalries to ever hit Tinseltown. In case you weren't aware of this epic grudge match, both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were two of Hollywood's most glamorous leading ladies in the 1930s and '40s. They socialized in the same circles and ended up fighting over actor Franchot Tote, whom Davis had worked with on a movie called Dangerous and fallen for. Crawford knew this and seduced Tote, and the pair ended up married for several years. Sylvester Stallone And Richard Gere Richard Gere and Sly Stallone were originally slated to appear in 1974 movie The Lords of Flatbush together, but apparently disliked each other so much that Gere was fired from the production several weeks into shooting. According to an interview with Ain't It Cool News in 2006, their beef actually started over some chicken. LL Cool J And Jamie Foxx This one stands out, as it's the only one in which the police had to be called. LL Cool J and Jamie Foxx worked together on Oliver Stone's football drama Any Given Sunday. While they were meant to play rivals, things soon went spectacularly off script. Reports vary, but apparently, LL Cool J punched Foxx in his helmeted face without warning and struck him on the back of the head when he starting walking away. Foxx then turned around and socked him square in the face in retaliation. Local law enforcement was called, but no charges were filed. James Franco And Tyrese Gibson To prepare for his role as a junkie in City By The Sea, James Franco went full method and slept on the streets to get him in the required mindset. He brought his process to Annapolis, but by his own admission, probably went too far with it. In the movie, Franco plays a new naval recruit who is entered in a midshipman boxing tournament called The Brigades, where he eventually faces his commanding officer Matthew Cole (Tyrese Gibson). Both men got into fighting shape, but Franco apparently overstepped the line. Nick Nolte And Julia Roberts To put in mildly, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts didn't see eye-to-eye while working on the romcom I Love Trouble. Things got so bad, production was apparently affected by the co-stars' hatred for each other, with rumors of the two actors insisting on filming their scenes separately and using stand-ins for their scenes together.

Are there any actors who have turned down a role due to the presence of another actor