On the twentieth anniversary of The Notebook, director Nick Cassavetes regrets spilling the beans on the Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling feud.

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of The Notebook, the passionate drama which follows two youthful enthusiasts who are threatened by the transform in their respective social courses. In the a lengthy time contemplating the truth that, The Notebook has also create into identified for the substantial feud amongst stars Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, who apparently couldn’t stand just one particular a diverse.

The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes was the just one particular who spilled the beans on the feud ten various years in the previous, and it is an act he now regrets. “The very last time I did an job interview on this detail, I spilled the beans on that,” Cassavetes advised Entertainment Weekly. “I regretted it. Everyone’s like, why are you telling that? I’m like, I actually never know. It caught me on a adverse day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are all more than, I apologize to you guys. I shouldn’t have spilled the beans.“

Cassavetes incredibly initially unveiled that the two stars didn’t get along on set even though speaking with VH1 in 2014. “Maybe I’m not supposed to notify this story, but they were genuinely not acquiring alongside one day on set. Genuinely not,” Cassavetes explained. “Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick occur below.’ He’s performing a scene with Rachel and he claims, ‘Would you acquire her out of here and deliver in another actress to read through off-digital camera with me?’ ‘I said, ‘What?’ He states, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not acquiring anything from this.’” Just following retreating to a non-public space, McAdams and Gosling screamed at a single one more for a when, and elements received improved. “The rest of the film wasn’t clean sailing, but it was smoother sailing,” Cassavetes mentioned.

In spite of the animosity in among the pair, McAdams and Gosling did wind up courting from 2005 to 2007. “They fell in appreciate, and became a fantastic, fantastic fiery couple. I even now assume they received loads of respect and like for each individual other, but in the beginning, it wasn’t like that,” Cassavetes explained to EW, “but they’re equally the greatest actors in the planet, and some of the issues that I asked them to engage in ended up so difficult, and there was incredibly tiny they couldn’t do.“