14 Actors On The Career Choices They Regret The Most
![14 Actors On The Career Choices They Regret The Most](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/2/781152_320x180.jpg)
"Can you tell me about your worst regrets?" This is one of the most obvious questions a journalist can ask a performer, but the answer is frequently rather telling.
Even if the premise or role appears to be excellent, poor writing or directing might derail it. An actor's remuneration may be sufficient to persuade them to do a job they aren't particularly enthusiastic about.
We all have disappointments, some major and some minor. Participating in the entertainment business puts you in the spotlight, and the pressure to maintain a certain image can result in tough choices as well as long-term consequences. In reality, almost every artist, no matter how talented they are or how excellent the level of project they generally sign on to, has expressed regret over a performance that didn't turn out as planned.
In retrospect, hindsight can be a tremendous pain in the neck. Just ask these Hollywood icons who wish they could go back in time and change some of their decisions.
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/2/781162.jpg)
![EVAN PETERS REGRETS SOME OF HIS AMERICAN HORROR STORY SCENES. The actor has played some disturbing characters in the series, and says some of it has affected him psychologically. A strange one was when I was Mr. March (in American Horror Story: Hotel). I was doing this butterfly razor cutting of this poor girl while I was having sex with her. It was just horrific and weird and sad. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/0/781160.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/781166.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/7/781167.jpg)
![SETH ROGEN WISHES HE COULD'VE DONE THE INTERVIEW DIFFERENTLY Rogen says he regrets not fleshing out some parts of the movie, and that it felt inconsistent at times. He also said that he doesn't believe the whole North Korea attacking Sony fallout that followed. Honestly, the further I get from it, the less I think North Korea actually did it and the less about me I actually think it all was... think it was being carried out by disgruntled Sony employees more than anything. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/5/781165.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/4/781164.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/7/781157.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/5/781155.jpg)
![AARON ECKHART REGRETS SWEARING IN ANY OF HIS FILMS. The actor says he always tries to remove any cussing from his dialogue, even though sometimes it's not up to him. There's a better way to say it, a more colourful way to say it, or a smarter way to say it than swearing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/8/781158.jpg)
![MICHELLE PFEIFFER HATES GREASE 2. Considered to be her breakout role, Pfeiffer has stated how much she loathed that movie. I hated that film with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was. At the time I was young and didn't know any better. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/3/781163.jpg)
![BEE VANG SAYS HE'S HAUNTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD'S GRAN TORINO. Vang recently criticized the film for mainstreaming anti-Asian racism in America. At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie's slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply 'harmless jokes.' I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, 'Can't you take a joke?' Today, I shudder at the thought of what that meant. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/4/781154.jpg)
![ZOE SALDANA REGRETS PLAYING NINA SIMONE IN THE 2016 BIOPIC, NINA. At first, the actress- who is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent didn't understand the controversy over darkening her skin for the part, but in 2020 she apologized. I should have tried everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/781168.jpg)
![ALISON BRIE REGRETS VOICING VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CHARACTER ON BOJACK HORSEMAN. In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen. I now understand that people of color should always voice people of color. We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese American community accurately and respectfully, and for that I am truly sorry. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/781156.jpg)
![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. He 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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/1/781161.jpg)