Nicol Williamson(1936-2011)

He disliked actress Helen Mirren, with whom he had had an affair when the two had appeared in a Royal Shakespeare Co. production of Macbeth (1983) in Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Trevor Nunn in the 1974-1975 season. The feeling was mutual. John Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981), purposefully cast them as rivals "Merlin" and "Morgana", against both of their protests, because he thought their real-life disdain for each other would generate more tension on screen.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.