27 Career Decisions That Actors and Directors Wish They Could Take Back

Aren’t they rich enough to afford time machines?
27 Career Decisions That Actors and Directors Wish They Could Take Back
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We normies think that time machines are still a thing of the future, and even when we suspect that incredibly wealthy folks might have one or two in their backyards, we see career gaffes like these and our suspicions are squashed. 

Like we do with our current career choice every day, these big time A-listers wish they could get a huge work-related do-over. We’d listen to our parents and become electricians, and these actors or directors would go against, well, whatever idea that caused them to make these very regrettable decisions. 

Wow, we do have something in common with them!

Leonardo DiCaprio

LEO DICAPRIO DON'S PLUM CRACKED.COM DiCaprio and costar Tobey Maguire sued to make sure you never see Don's Plum, largely because of improvised scenes like the one where DiCaprio wears false teeth and licks his own boogers. It's now banned in the US and Canada.

Brad Pitt

BRAD PITT SAYS HIS ROLE IN 12 MONKEYS HAUNTS HIM. Even though he received an Oscar nomination for the movie, Pitt says he can't even watch the second half because he wishes he had done it differently. CRACKED.COM

Viola Davis

VIOLA DAVIS REGRETS HER ROLE IN THE HELP. The actress said that her part in the 2011 film feels like she betrayed herself and her people because the film was created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism. She said that the movie was catering to a white audience only, and didn't show them who Black people really were. CRACKED COM

Rooney Mara

ROONEY MARA REGRETS PLAYING TIGER LILY IN PAN. The movie not only (sorry) panned, but it was also a major talking point in the conversation about Hollywood's trend to whitewash movies. Mara said she felt embarrassed to be part of it. I really hate, hate, hate that I am on that side of the whitewashing conversation. I really do. I don't ever want to be on that side of it again. I can understand why people were upset and frustrated. CRACKED.COM

Marisa Tomei

MARISA TOMEI REGRETS PLAYING MOM CHARACTERS LIKE AUNT MAY IN THE SPIDER-MAN MOVIES. After playing the mom again in the 2020 movie The King of Staten Island, Tomei said that she regrets going for the mom roles in the first place. I really regret starting down this road and I really regret starting to do that. I was, you know, talked into it - not this, but I mean just that change-and I really always felt like, 'Oh, I could play a lot of things.' CRACKED.COM

Halle Berry

Halle Berry would really like to redo Catwoman, with a big change. She'd make the stakes more significant - same as those in movies about male superheroes, she says. CRACKED.COM

Hugh Grant

HUGH GRANT REGRETS TAKING so MANY ROMANTIC COMEDY PARTS. The actor-who has admittedly starred in a lot of rom-coms-said he regrets not thinking more carefully before taking on roles and getting typecast because of it. I took everything. The worse it was, the quicker I took it. I should have made interesting decisions and done different stuff. Instead, I repeated myself almost identically about 17 times in a row. CRACKED.COM

Gemma Arteron

GEMMA ARTERTON REGRETS TAKING ROLE IN QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The actress says she got a lot of flak for playing MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, the one who gets seduced by Bond in a hotel room. I was 21, I had a student loan, and you, know, it was a Bond film. But as I got older I realized there was so much wrong with Bond women. Strawberry should have just said no, really, and worn flat shoes. CRACKED COM

Bob Hoskins

BOB HOSKINS WISHED HE'D NEVER DONE SUPER MARIO BROS. When asked during an interview about the biggest disappointment in his career, the late actor named the 1993 movie. Не said it was the worst movie he's ever done and if he could, he'd go back and just not do it. CRACKED.COM

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow says her 2001 Farrelly brothers movie Shallow Hal was a disaster. That's her least favorite role, she says, and she felt humiliated on the shoot. When she put the fat suit on, the world actively ignored, she says. CRACKED.COM

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci now wishes he'd never directed his second movie, The Impostors. TUCCI PLATT Campbell sony Alfred The TAYLOR SHALHOUB SCOTT MOLINA IMPOSTORS Whenever someone tells him The Impostors is their favorite movie ever, Tucci says he accuses them of escaping from an asylum. CRACKED.COM

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh wishes he hadn't made Che, saying It took a long time to shake off. Everybody got scarred by a little bit, he said. For a year after filming ended, he'd wake up and he'd think, Thank God I'm not shooting that film. CRACKED.COM

Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig has been trying to get out of playing Bond from the very start. But they won't let me go, he said, and he sounded like he might even want his films to be failures so he could get released from his contract. CRACKED.COM

Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore wishes she had never filmed Everyone Says / Love You in 1996. She made it with Woody Allen, and now really regrets working with him - h her opinion changed once she had children, she says. CRACKED.COM

Francis Lawrence

The I Am Legend director wishes he hadn't made such a Hollywood-y movie. In retrospect, he says, he wishes he'd just made a more straightforward adaption of the novella, with all its weirdness. CRACKED.COM

Ron Howard

The Dark Tower director Ron Howard wishes the movie was more grown-up. I think it should've been horror, he said, rather than PG-13 and sort of a boy's adventure. CRACKED.COM

Jim Carrey

THE ACTOR: Jim Carrey THE ROLE: Col. Stars and Stripes in Kick Ass 2 After the 2012 Sandy WHY НЕ Hook school shooting, HATED IT: Carrey denounced the movie, saying he couldn't support all the gratuitous violence. CRACKED.COM

Ewan McGregor

THE ACTOR: Ewan McGregor THE ROLE: Frank Churchill in Emma WHY НЕ McGregor took the role to try something HATED IT: different, and regrets it. Не hates his acting in it, and says he had to wear the world's worst wig. CRACKED.COM

George Clooney

THE ACTOR: George Clooney THE ROLE: Batman in Batman & Robin WHY НЕ Clooney keeps a photo of himself as Batman in HATED IT: his office to remind himself not to make decisions based on commercial gain. CRACKED.COM

Cher

THE ACTOR: Cher THE ROLE: Tess in Burlesque WHY SHE She called the movie horrible, and says the HATED IT: director told her, I don't care about what you say, I just want to shoot the dance numbers. CRACKED.COM

Alec Guinness

THE ACTOR: Alec Guinness THE ROLE: Obi-Wan in Star Wars WHY НЕ Sir Alec famously said the film led to a HATED IT: worldwide taste for a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities. CRACKED.COM

Ben Affleck

THE ACTOR: Ben Affleck THE ROLE: Title role in Daredevil WHY НЕ I hate Daredevil so much, he says. One of HATED IT: the reasons he took the role of Batman was to get a superhero role right, after that one. CRACKED.COM

Matthew Broderick

CRACKED.COM Matthew Broderick hugely regretted being in The Stepford Wives. Не says that there was nothing fun about making it, his role wasn't interesting and he was disappointed with the poor quality of the finished product.

Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander embarrassed his children CRACKED.COM Alexander confessed to taking on 2000's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle for the money. No one was more disappointed than his kids: My children are so unimpressed with me that it's pathetic.

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds regrets making the movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Reynolds hated making Boogie Nights with the then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, who the actor described as young and full of himself. Не even turned down the director's next film, Magnolia. CRACKED.COM

Paul Newman

Paul Newman funeralized his career in Variety TOP CRACKED.COM Newman called his acting debut, The Silver Chalice, the worst film to be made in the entirety of the 1950s. When an LA television station decided to air it a decade later, he took out full-page ads in Variety and the LA Times, styled like an obituary, that said Paul Newman apologizes every night this week- Channel 9.

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds ruined superheroes for everyone CRACKED.COM Before making a remarkable comeback as Deadpool, Reynolds says his 2011 flop Green Lantern made studios skeptical of superhero movies: I represented the death of the superhero for a while.

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