The epic rivalry between Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine still makes news 35 years after they crafted a cherished Hollywood classic.

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger collaborated on the film Terms of Endearment (1983), which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. They made an excellent mother-daughter team onscreen, but behind the scenes, the two ladies weren’t exactly friends.

James L. Brooks, who is also known for “Taxi,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” and “As Good as It Gets,” wrote, directed, and produced the picture.

Winger, 63, deflected a question about her connection with 84-year-old MacLaine, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as her mother in 1983’s Terms of Endearment, from Bravo presenter Andy Cohen on Tuesday night.

“No! I didn’t write about her. She wrote about me,” Winger corrected Cohen after he claimed the actress revealed details about her co-star in her 2008 book Undiscovered.

“Let’s try to get something straight. I mean, c’mon. It’s hard out here for a chimp,” she said.

“I wrote a book, but I didn’t write about Shirley.”

When MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984, she was up against Winger for the award. “I deserve this!” MacLaine said after winning.

During the filming of the film, there were various allegations that the two actresses did not get along. Debra ultimately addressed the rumors in 1986, confirming that she and MacLaine, who is 21 years Winger’s senior, were not friends:

“I can’t deny that we fought. We’re not having lunch together today. We challenged ourselves, and when we got tired of challenging ourselves, we challenged each other. But I think there was always a respect between the two of us.”

In 1995, MacLaine published My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, in which she revealed what happened on set between her and Winger:

“She turned around, walked away from me, lifted her skirt slightly, looked over her shoulder, bent over, and farted in my face.”

When MacLaine and Winger first met to work on the film based on Larry McMurtry’s heartfelt bestseller, they didn’t get along. Winger was a rising star after starring in 1980’s Urban Cowboy, while MacLaine was a Hollywood veteran with three Oscar nominations.

They had nothing in common but talent.

“Debra Winger? I didn’t know the name,” MacLaine told PEOPLE in a 1984 interview. “I didn’t know who she was.”

When they were first introduced, “we were all nervous,” recalled director-screenwriter James L. Brooks.

“To see how my character would feel I was wearing all my leftover movie-star fur coats,” MacLaine said. “There was Debra dressed in combat boots and a miniskirt… I thought, ‘Oh my goodness.’”

The tone for the pair’s on-scene squabbles was set. MacLaine was restrained, but Winger was defiant and provocative.

“No one can get a fix on the relationship,” said Brooks. “Not even the participants.”

Onscreen, the upshot was a bracingly complicated mother-daughter relationship, though not a very enjoyable set.

“We knew what we were doing a lot of the time, sparring back and forth,” Winger said. “It was a very gritty way of working. People at Paramount thought we were crazy.”

Winger wasn’t the only one who had concerns with MacLaine. She admitted to The Guardian in 2002 that she and Richard Gere had a strained relationship during filming the 1982 romance drama “An Officer and a Gentleman.” She claimed, “The only remarks that ever made print were those that ruffled a few feathers. I run into Richard Gere quite a lot and he half jokes: ‘Are you still saying terrible things about me?’ We had a moment in our life which was not good, but everyone has to get it into perspective.”