15 Big-Name Actors Who Hate Their Famous Roles
![15 Big-Name Actors Who Hate Their Famous Roles](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/789505_320x180.jpg)
Sometimes success isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Getting to the top is a tough, long climb and for many actors and stars, once they reach the summit they find out they're tethered to what got them there or something they did and were loved for wasn't as near and dear to their hearts as it was everybody else's.
Take Pierce Brosnan - you would think that playing James Bond was a career highlight - but far from it, actually. And Hugo Weaving was not thrilled to reprise his role as The Red Skull. You could have fooled us - he seemed positively ecstatic to be on Vormir, no?
But it doesn't stop there. Take Rowan Atkinson's iconic character: he doesn’t find it fun or liberating to play Mr. Bean -- it’s actually “stressful and exhausting” for him. Sure doesn't show. Here’s the full story on those, plus 11 others:
![Yaphet Kotto just couldn't stand his character in Live and Let Die. I had to dig deep in my soul and brain and come up with a level of reality that would offset the sea of stereotype crap that they wrote for him, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/789513.jpg)
Source: Google Books
![Uma Thurman just hated her yellow tracksuit in Kill Bill, said Tarantino. Apparently, she thought it made her look like a banana popsicle. She finally sort of came around when he showed her Bruce Lee in Game of Death CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/789516.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![Hugo Weaving really didn't want to play Red Skull in the MCU again. He was glad to do it once, and says it was good to do it and try it out, but to be honest, it's not the sort of film I seek out and really am excited by. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/789509.jpg)
Source: Collider
![For Rowan Atkinson, playing Mr Bean (in live action) is a total slog. The weight of responsibility is not pleasant. I find it stressful and exhausting and I look forward to the end of it, is how he described it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/789519.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![James McAvoy really hated playing one particular personality in Split. It was Patricia, and the reason is simple - he had to wear high heels that turned out to be really uncomfortable (unlike what they told him). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/789511.jpg)
Source: CinemaBlend
![Idris Elba loathed playing a superhero in Thor: The Dark World. He says that in between takes I was stuck , fake hair stuck on to my head with glue ... And I'm thinking: '24 hours ago, I was Mandela. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/789512.jpg)
Source: CinemaBlend
![David Prowse, who was in the Darth Vader suit, hated playing Vader. 00000 His only fond memory from making Star Wars was when his first paycheck from the movie showed up, he said about the experience later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/789510.jpg)
Source: News.com.au
![The Batsuit ruined the experience of playing Batman for Val Kilmer. Whatever boyhood excitement I had was crushed by the reality of the Batsuit, he said - it was super hard to move in it, and he needed help all the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/789515.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![Lisa Kudrow hated playing her on-screen sister, Ursula, in Friends. Apparently, she wasn't into acting with a double - and the double was her real-life sister, which might have made things more complicated. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/789514.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![Ian McKellen was miserable filming Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy. Having to film in front of green screens all the time ground him down unlike for Lord of the Rings, where everything was shot on location. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/789508.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![Sally Field hated playing Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man. She says you can't put ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag no matter how much she worked, she couldn't create a rounded, interesting character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/789506.jpg)
Source: CinemaBlend
![When asked about Jonah Hex, Josh Brolin says he hated it. Hated it. It would have been better to shoot a movie about the making of it, he says they had to reshoot 66 pages in 12 days, which apparently didn't give a great result. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/789520.jpg)
Source: Collider
![Pierce Brosnan absolutely never wants to watch himself as James Bond. He says he's never good enough. It's a horrible feeling. He's grateful he got the role because of all the opportunities it created for him, though. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/789507.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
![Amanda Seyfried would love to be able to totally redo Les Miserables. She regrets it and says I still have nightmares about it - and it's purely because of the live singing she had to do for the role. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/789517.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![Kevin Bacon is basically sick of signing Friday the 13th autographs. Fans always want him to sign the shot of him dead, and at this point he's thinking You're like, really, do I have to sign another picture of me dead? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/789518.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant