Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte reportedly did not get along throughout filming. Nolte would go on to say that this was the worst movie he had ever done while Roberts later said that Nolte was the worst actor she had ever worked with.
Julia Roberts described Nick Nolte as "disgusting" whereas Nolte said of her as "not a nice person." Roberts disliked Nolte's macho act, and was not shy or polite about letting him know. He, in turn, began deliberately engaging in it to piss her off during filming.
Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts refused to shoot their later scenes together, necessitating some quick rewriting and clever editing and camera tricks. By some accounts they did more scenes with stand-ins than with each other.
Some accounts from the set, though, suggest that Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts did occasionally get along-when they were both fed up with Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer insisting on things like endless improvisations on a single line.
Nick Nolte says his attitude on the set was a result of only doing it for the money, that he was selling his soul by doing it and that it's his worst film.