Don’t be fooled by his boyish looks: Tobey Maguire is a big ol’ jerk! According to one casting agent, Tobey is “the worst little monster you’ve ever met”, and clearly the word has been passed along, because when was the last time you saw him in a movie?
On film sets, Tobey has been reported to ordering everyone not to look him in the eyes, and even weirdly insisted multiple times – on set and off – that people call him “Tugboat Maguire” or “Tugboat Tobey”.
Seriously.
Apparently, Tobey has insisted on the name because he is “small but strong”, and got into such a tizzy about it that he threw a fit at the Teen Choice Awards and was forcibly removed by security! Then, in a Vanity Fair interview in 2013, Tobey refused to answer any questions until the interviewer called him by his ‘proper name’, and even fired his publicist mid-interview for apparently not informing the reporter of this requirement! No wonder his wife left him!