Taylor and Burton’s palpable on-screen chemistry led to their passionate off-screen romance. Their affair quickly became known, not just to their respective spouses, Eddie Fisher and Sybil Burton, but to Cleopatra’s entire cast and crew. When his on-set shouts of “Cut! Cut! Cut!” went unheeded by Taylor and Burton during the filming of a particular love scene, Mankiewicz joked, “I feel as if I’m intruding.”