30 Actors With Huge Regrets About Their Famous Roles
George Clooney wasn’t a huge fan of Bat-nipples
![30 Actors With Huge Regrets About Their Famous Roles](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/1/809751_320x180.jpg)
We’re all flawed, and we’ve committed mistakes that we regret. But whether it’s professional or personal, our apologies aren’t shown to the entire world on enormous screens. Regretfully, this isn’t the case for these actors who have voiced regret for a few of their most well-known roles…
![Tim Roth apologized for making pro-FIFA propaganda CRACKED.COM Roth played the president of FIFA in 2015's United Passions, a flattering film that was almost entirely funded by FIFA. When the real president was forced to resign over corruption charges, days before the film came out, Roth apologized for never questioning the script, and said this is a role that will have my father turning in his grave.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/1/809781.jpg)
![HUGH JACKMAN MOVIE 43 CRACKED.COM How does Jackman feel about a scene where he has a pair of gonads dangling from his chin? Не posted an online video to his younger self: When they come to you with an idea of putting testicles around your neck... you could do without doing it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/0/809780.jpg)
![THE ACTOR: Malcolm McDowell THE ROLE: Alex in A Clockwork Orange WHY НЕ McDowell said he didn't get what people liked HATED IT: about the film, and resented being pigoneholed as that character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/2/809782.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. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/9/809779.jpg)
![Christopher Plummer hates his iconic role in The Sound of Music. It was so awful and sentimental and gooey. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/8/809778.jpg)
![The execproducer on The Flash has one major regret about Season 3. Todd Helbing wishes that they'd revealed Savitar a little bit earlier, he says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/3/809783.jpg)
![Zack Snyder wishes that his DC movies treated the characters differently. Specifically, he wishes he had really pushed for a Cyborg movie, since Cyborg was ready for a solo movie after Justice League, he says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/7/809777.jpg)
![Carol Burnett apologized to an entire airplane GRACKED.COM After her film The Front Page played on her flight, attendants let her take over the PA: this is Carol Burnett, and I want to take this opportunity to apologize to each and every one of you for my performance in the film you just saw.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/6/809776.jpg)
![ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HERCULES IN NEW YORK CRACKED.COM In his first movie, he plays Arnold Strong with a dubbed voice to hide his evolving accent. In one scene, it's me wrestling a bear and it was a guy with this coat thrown over him. It was done so cheap. It was just so stupid.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/5/809775.jpg)
![THE ACTOR: Megan Fox THE ROLE: Mikaela in Transformers WHY SHE Fox hated the eye-candy character and despised HATED IT: director Michael Bay. She says, Не wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and so he is. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/4/809774.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/7/6/8/809768.jpg)
![JOSH BROLIN HATES JONAH НЕХ. Jonah Нех, hated it. Hated it. The experience of making it - that would have been a better movie based on what we did. As opposed to what ended up happening to it. Brolin thought the movie should have been made on a much smaller budget. Не was also frustrated with massive re-shoots that occurred in a span of a couple of days. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/9/809769.jpg)
![There's an important detail JJ Abrams would change in The Force Awakens. When Rey and Chewie come back after Han's death, Abrams says Chewie shouldn't have just walked past Leia (who embraced Rey). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/3/809773.jpg)
![Emma Stone apologized, loudly, during the Golden Globes CRACKED.COM Emma Stone took a lot of flack after taking the role of a part-Chinese woman in 2015's Aloha. Sandra Oh brought it up again at the 2019 Golden Globes, and Stone can be heard yelling I'm sorry!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/1/809771.jpg)
![GEORGE REEVES SUPERMAN SCHOOL CRACKED.COM Bullets bounced off Superman's chest on the 1950s TV series, prompting a young fan to show up at an event with a loaded gun to test George Reeves' invulnerability. That was his last public appearance in the Superman suit, and Reeves instituted safety tours to teach kids that no human was actually bulletproof.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/0/809770.jpg)
![THE ACTOR: Miley Cyrus THE ROLE: Title role in Hannah Montana WHY SHE Cyrus says being in the public eye at such a HATED IT: young age gave her body image issues, and sparked anxiety attacks and hot flashes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/2/809772.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. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/6/809766.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/7/809767.jpg)
![Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is Sylvester Stallone's most hated film. In a 2010 interview with The Sun, he said: If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/3/809763.jpg)
![Henry Cavill wishes he'd smiled differently when he filmed Man of Steel. Talking about a scene with Martha at the end, he said I would've smiled differently. Every time I see it I'm like, 'That's an irritating smile.'. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/5/809765.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/4/809764.jpg)
![Chris Columbus kind of regrets that he didn't get Harry Potter's scar right. That's the one detail, an important detail, that I wish I could go back and tweak, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/9/809759.jpg)
![THE ACTOR: Jessica Alba THE ROLE: Susan Storm in Fantastic Four WHY SHE The director was like, 'It looks HATED IT: too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/8/809758.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. 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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/7/809757.jpg)
![Playboy asked Sting if the script for 1984's 'Dune' was any good. Не just laughed. I REALLY WANTED TO WORK WITH DAVID LYNCH. I HAD GREAT DOUBTS ABOUT 'DUNE' FROM THE FIRST TIME | READ THE SCRIPT, THOUGH. BUT I THOUGHT THAT IF ANYONE COULD PULL IT OFF, LYNCH WAS THE ONE. I SHOULD TRUST MY INSTINCTS. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/2/809762.jpg)
![Michelle Trachtenberg wanted to make an off-set change on Buffy. When they asked her if she has any regrets about the show, she just said she wishes she'd stolen more things from the set. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/0/809760.jpg)
![FANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO HATE BATMAN AND ROBIN. George Clooney also thinks the movie was a disaster, and he says he apologizes for it every chance he gets. Не only took the role because he thought it would further his career. Не even keeps a picture of himself as Batman in his office, to remind him of what happens when you make movies purely for commercial reasons. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/5/809755.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/1/809761.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/7/5/4/809754.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/6/809756.jpg)