The Notebook has become a classic screen romance, yet those who watched the film likely had no idea that the actors at the center of the iconic love story didn't get along. In fact, the tension between stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams once escalated to the point that Gosling refused to work with her. 

"Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set," The Notebook's director, Nick Cassavetes, revealed to VH1. "Really not." Gosling, Cassavetes explained, was in the midst of a scene with McAdams when he told the director, "Would you take [McAdams] out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?"... I can't. I can't do it with her. I'm just not getting anything from this."

Cassavetes pulled the actors into a room with a producer so they could "[have] it out," with the co-stars "screaming and yelling at each other." Cassavetes stepped out of the room to smoke a cigarette. When he returned, "everybody came out like, 'All right let's do this.' And it got better after that." The remainder of the filming, Cassavetes admitted, "wasn't smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing."

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