13 Famous Actors Whose Favorite Roles Aren't What We Expected
![13 Famous Actors Whose Favorite Roles Aren't What We Expected](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/9/815979_320x180.jpg)
Some performers, based on their preferred parts, clearly enjoy it when they have been challenged or given a lot of creative latitude. The actors, on the other hand, aren't always the biggest lovers of the parts that have earned them so much fame and money. From the start of their careers, many of them chose minor roles or gigs.
Despite having illustrious careers and numerous honors, many celebrities despise the prospect of seeing themselves on film. There are, however, a select handful who enjoy seeing themselves on film. Today we'll look at several well-known performers whose favorite roles aren't quite what we'd anticipate...
So search your snack pantry, bring your appetite, keep your spirits up, and keep reading for some truly wild stories.
Sure, you'd assume that renowned actors' favorite roles would have been the ones that have made them famous... but that's not always the case. Here are some examples of what we're talking about:
Laurence Fishburne
![Laurence Fishburne loved playing Jump in King of New York. Не says he loves Jump with all his heart, and to get the role, he dressed up as Jump (including getting a pair of gold fronts made) and went to the director's office in-character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/0/815990.jpg)
Christian Slater
![Christian Slater's all-time favorite role is Mark in Pump up the Volume. That's my favorite movie to this day. Look, I love the character. I think that there is a depth to that movie that still obviously resonates today, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/1/815991.jpg)
Michael Douglas
![One of Michael Douglas' favorite movie roles was 1997's The Game. Не plays a depressed millionaire in the movie, and he said It's a movie I absolutely love. But it was a hard, tough shoot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/6/815986.jpg)
Schwarzenegger
![Schwarzenegger's favorite Schwarzenegger role is not the Terminator. Or even, say, Conan the Barbarian, or anything like that. I think Kindergarten Cop is my favorite, Arnie said in an interview. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/7/815987.jpg)
Anthony Hopkins
![Anthony Hopkins' favorite role isn't Silence or the Lambs or something. Instead, it's his role in The Father, a 2020 movie about an old dad who suffers from dementia. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/9/815989.jpg)
Anna Faris
![Anna Faris really, really likes her mid-2000s movie The House Bunny. She looks back on it with embarrassed pride, she says - she played the lead role, developed the movie, and got an exec producer credit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/4/815984.jpg)
Tom Hanks
![One of Tom Hanks' 3 favorite Tom Hanks films is Cloud Atlas. It's kind of an odd choice, but he said he had a great time making it - apparently, the whole movie was such a deep throw that making it was magical. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/2/815982.jpg)
Chevy Chase
![Chevy Chase's favorite Chevy Chase movie is the 1985 comedy Fletch. It's my favorite, because if anything represented my comic ability and was closest to what I'm really like, that movie is it, he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/5/815985.jpg)
Jennifer Anniston
![Outside of independent dramas, Jennifer Anniston really likes one of her dumb roles. I love Dr. Julia. You know, I love playing the crazy woman in Horrible Bosses, she said when they asked her about the role she's most proud of besides those in dramas. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/3/815983.jpg)
Jason Momoa
![Jason Momoa's favorite role isn't Khal Drogo or Aquaman - it's his See character. It was probably the best script that I've ever read, And all these images kept flying in , and it was just born. It was born in me, is how he described his reaction when he first read the script. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/8/815988.jpg)
Angelina Jolie
![Angelina Jolie's favorite movie role isn't, say, Lara Croft or anything like that. It's the role of Marianne Pearl in A Mighty Heart - she says it's possibly because I loved Marianne, and Brad produced it, and I think it was a well-done film about something that matters. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/0/815980.jpg)
Nicolas Cage
![Nicolas Cage thought he did a pretty good job in the movie Vampire's Kiss. And, he says, he took a lot of what learned from that performance and used it for Face/Off, which you can see if you watch them back to back. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/1/815981.jpg)
Samuel L. Jackson
![Samuel L. Jackson's favorite Jackson movies aren't what you think. It's not, say, a bunch of Tarantino movies - his list of his favorite movies only includes one Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, and movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight from 1996 and The Red Violin from 1998. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/2/815992.jpg)