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Steve McQueen And Yul Brenner Hated Each Other

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They may have played nice with each other on screen, but when cameras stopped rolling, Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner hated each other. According to reports, they were at each other’s throats as soon as the director called, “cut.” Brenner was the bigger star at the time but felt like McQueen was trying to upstage him.

Three years before the film came out Brynner won an Oscar for The King and I. After the film wrapped, McQueen became one of the world’s biggest film stars. His most famous role came as the title character in Bullitt in 1968. Up next, learn how the film avoided using the worst stereotypes for its villains.