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29 Famous Roles Actors Regret With All Their Hearts

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

September 21, 2023

29 Famous Roles Actors Regret With All Their Hearts

You’re probably used to famous actors defending their movies no matter how bad the movies are or how much they hated working on them. However, not all actors are afraid to speak their minds. Here are 29 actors who openly talked smack about some of their most famous roles…

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Ed Skrein bowed out after actually reading the source material CRACKED.COM Skrein was set to play Major Ben Daimio in 2019's Hellboy, but dropped out after reading the comics and noticing that Daimio is Asian: I have decided to step down SO the role can be cast appropriately. — Instagram

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TAYLOR LAUTNER TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CRACKED.COM Look, he's a werewolf. And when werewolves transform, shirts rip open so there's your motivation. Still, I don't want to become known as just a body. If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that's not very realistic. — MTV

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THE ACTOR: Sting THE ROLE: Feyd Rautha in Dune WHY НЕ Не says he had doubts from the beginning, but HATED IT: thought director David Lynch could pull it off. I should trust my instincts, he says. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Dev Patel says he can't relate to himself on-screen in The Last Airbender at all: It was a big-budget production, and he was totally overwhelmed -- watching it later, he says he saw a stranger on the screen that I couldn't relate to. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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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 — Looper

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Jerry Seinfeld would redo a bunch of Seinfeld episodes, if he could. Не doesn't believe in regret, he says, but if you forced me or you gave me a time machine, yeah, there's a few - I would fix some things. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mahershala Ali apologized directly to Don Shirley's family CRACKED.COM The family of legendary pianist Don Shirley have called his portrayal in 2018's Green Book rather jarring and a symphony of lies. Ali was shocked to find that there were close relatives with whom I could have consulted over the role, and made contact to apologize and help set the record straight. — Shadow And Act

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MARTIN SHEEN APOCALYPSE NOW CRACKED.COM In a scene where a drunk Captain Williard trashes his hotel room, Sheen was actually plastered. Не couldn't believe the bloody mess the next day and confessed to Francis Ford Coppola that he refuses to rewatch the scene. — YouTube

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THE ACTOR: Zac Efron THE ROLE: Troy in High School Musical Efron is definitely not a WHY НЕ fan. I step back and HATED IT: look at myself and I still want to kick that guy's ass sometimes. Like, f*ck that guy. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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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 — The Guardian

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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 — Inquisitr

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GRACKED.COM Deep Throat made Linda Lovelace a household name, but her experience making the film was horrific. In her autobiography Ordeal she revealed that she was imprisoned and forced into porn by her then-husband and terrorized while on set, frequently threatened with violence and death. GERARD DAMIANO'S DEEP Every time someone THROAT watches that film, they HOW FAR DOES A GIRL HAVE TO GO are watching me being TO UNTANGLE HER TINGLE? raped. - Linda Lovelace EASTMANCOLOR x ADULTS ONLY Card - - — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies would change some details about Rose. There's a bunch of things he doesn't like in the show's first episode - including the fact that Rose's bedroom is, well, so very pink. CRACKED.COM — Source

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William Shatner is sorry... that the studio f*ed him over!!! CRACKED.COM 1989's Star Trek V bombed, and it's hard to place blame anywhere but on director and star William Shatner. And yet, he tried! In an impressive hybrid apology/buck-passing, he said it's Paramount's fault that he couldn't deliver earth-breaking granite monsters spewing rocks and fire. Instead, I had a few pebbles in my hand that I threw at the camera. — EW

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THE ACTOR: Kate Winslet THE ROLE: Rose in Titanic WHY SHE Winslet says she's mortified by her HATED IT: performance in the iconic role. Especially her American accent. Oh my God, I can't listen to it. It's awful. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Mandy Patinkin hated acting in Criminal Minds SO much, he abruptly quit the show. Signing up for it was his biggest public mistake, he says -- the rape and murder on the show were very destructive to my soul and my personality. CRACKED.COM — New York Magazine

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ELLIOT PAGE REGRETS A SCENE IN JUNO. There's a line in the film where his character rejects the name Madison for the baby because it's a little gay. Page has regretted that line since, and even omitted it during a table read years later. It wasn't something I totally registered at the time, but, of course, now that I'm older I do. So many movies I loved as a kid are just rampant with homophobia and transphobia and biphobia, and I'm not excusing it by any means. CRACKED.COM — Looper

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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. — Decider

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THE ACTOR: Carrie Fisher THE ROLE: Leia in the early Star Wars movies WHY SHE Fisher used to say she wouldn't have taken the HATED IT: role, if she'd known how big the franchise would become. She didn't like being famous. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Alison Brie regrets voicing a Vietnamese-American on Bojack Horseman. In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen, she said. Her thinking at the time was that the world of animation is different. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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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 — Entertainment Tonight

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JIM CARREY DENOUNCED KICK ASS 2 After the Sandy Hook shootings in 2012, Carrey tweeted that he cannot in good conscience support a movie with that level of AAR violence: CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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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 — Source

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Zoe Saldana apologized for her prosthetic nose SINGER ACTIVIST SURVIVOR LEGEND CRACKED.COM Saldana wore a fake nose and dark makeup to play Nina Simone in 2016. By 2020, she realized she'd made the wrong move: I should have done everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman. — CNN

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NICOLE KIDMAN BIG LITTLE LIES CRACKED.COM Domestic abuse scenes took a real-life toll on Kidman. I remember lying on the floor, being in my underwear and having just been really thrown around. I just lay on the floor. I couldn't get up. I was just like...I just felt completely humiliated and devastated. And angry inside. — Glamour

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THE ACTOR: Sharon Stone THE ROLE: Catherine in Basic Instinct WHY SHE She didn't consent to the flash scene, and HATED IT: says she'd been told to remove her panties because the white was messing up the shot. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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After Earth was the most painful failure in his entire career, Will Smith said. It was even worse than Wild Wild West, because his son was in it. But, he says, at least the failure of the movie reinvigorated him. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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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 — EW

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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 — Source

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