Though some of these actors and directors' collaborations resulted in their finest works, they infamously had hostile relationships on set that sometimes led to severed ties between them.
- June 28, 2020
AceShowbiz - Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog's feud was apparently so vicious that it's worth a whole documentary dedicated to it. In "My Best Fiend" which he made a decade after Kinski's death, the German director detailed their prickly relationship, which spanned over the years they worked on five films together. In Les Blank's "Burden of Dreams", both men were said to be driven mad by the difficulties of shooting "Fitzcarraldo" in the rain forests of South America.
At one point, Kinski threatened to quit the film to which the director responded by threatening to shoot him dead if he did. Kinski claimed Herzog wielded a pistol when he made the threat, but the latter vehemently denied it. Herzog reportedly also planned to burn Kinski's house down. In his autobiography, Kinski called Herzog a "nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep," though the director claimed that the actor wrote that to sell books, and that he helped his old frenemy write the line.
