37 Actors Who Criticized Their Movies And TV Shows

June 27, 2023 by Owen

37 Actors Who Criticized Their Films And TV Reveals

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Chris Hemsworth lately stated that the fourth Thor movie (Thor: Love and Thunder) was “too foolish.” The truth is, he stated he heard from his son’s mates that the movie “had an excessive amount of humor, the motion was cool however the VFX weren’t nearly as good.” However this was laborious to see whereas making it, Hemsworth claimed: “It’s all the time laborious being within the middle of it and having any actual perspective.” In the long run, he says he thinks they simply had “an excessive amount of enjoyable” with it.

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Jennifer Lawrence additionally lately admitted that her 2016 space-flick Passengers made her rethink her selections as an actor. She stated of her followers’ response: “I used to be like, ‘Oh no, you guys are right here as a result of I’m right here, and I’m right here since you’re right here. Wait, who determined that this was film?’” She additionally revealed Adele informed her to not star within the movie as a result of “area films are the brand new vampire films” and needs she had listened to her. “I used to be not pumping out the standard that I ought to have,” Lawrence had beforehand stated about that point in her profession.

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Wednesday star Jenna Ortega wasn’t a fan of most of the authentic scripts for Season 1 of her Netflix hit — significantly the romance points. “Her being in a love triangle made no sense,” she informed Dax Shepard on his podcast. “Every thing that [Wednesday] does, all the things that I needed to play, doesn’t make sense for her character in any respect.” She ended up “placing her foot down” and altering strains from the script, saying she grew protecting of the character and did not need her to be a lead with no emotional arc.

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Alexis Bledel was upset with Rory’s ending on Gilmore Women: A 12 months within the Life. The revival ended on a cliffhanger, with Rory — who’s 32, single, and unemployed — revealing to Lorelai that she’s pregnant (almost certainly with Logan’s child). “It definitely wasn’t the ending I anticipated,” Bledel stated. “I had informed [creator] Amy [Sherman-Palladino] that I hoped Rory would finish on a excessive be aware in spite of everything of her laborious work. I needed to see her succeed and be thriving. So, it was a tough factor for me to digest.”

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Equally, Harold Perrineau criticized the choice to sideline his character Michael in Misplaced. Perrineau initially joined the drama as a result of he felt the story “was actually equitable” and allowed all of the characters to shine. Nevertheless, because the present went on, he started to really feel that the white characters have been getting extra display screen time and meatier storylines, and that he was there to be the token Black character. Particularly, he criticized a Season 2 storyline the place Walt (Michael’s son) is kidnapped and Michael solely asks about him as soon as. The script ended up being modified, however Perrineau felt his relationship with the showrunners bitter, and so they really ended up letting him go on the finish of the season.

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Additionally on Misplaced — whereas Evangeline Lilly was initially pleased with the writing for her character Kate, she turned dissatisfied because the present went on. “I felt like she turned increasingly predictable and obnoxious. I felt like my character went from being autonomous — actually having her personal story and her personal journey and her personal agendas — to chasing two males across the island. And that irritated the shit out of me,” she stated on The Misplaced Boys podcast. She even admitted to throwing scripts throughout the room.

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Robert Pattinson has fairly famously ragged on the Twilight collection on a number of events. He stated that if he hadn’t been within the collection, he’d in all probability “mindlessly hate it with out having seen something.” He additionally spoke about how unusual the hype, followers, and collection have been, and when reflecting on photoshoots, he stated it was bizarre “form of representing one thing you don’t significantly like.” He additionally joked that the one factor he’d stolen from the set was his dignity.

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Ian Harding appeared to counsel he was not a fan of the best way Fairly Little Liars offered his character Ezra’s relationship along with his pupil, 16-year-old Aria. He as soon as known as Ezra “America’s most beloved pedophile,” although he stated he tried to play it as a love story. However when an advertiser dropped out early on, Harding believed it was due to his character’s unlawful relationship — solely to seek out out it was really Emily’s lesbian relationship. “So, I may very well be seen as a statutory rapist, and persons are like, ‘I do know, however love is aware of no bounds, so long as there’s a penis and a vagina concerned,’” he stated dryly.

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Isaac Hempstead Wright was rather less apparent, however he threw a little bit of shade on the Recreation of Thrones writers after the disastrous final season, which ended along with his character, Bran, changing into king. “I genuinely thought it was a joke script and that [showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss] despatched to everybody a script with their very own character [ending] up on the Iron Throne,” he stated. “‘Yeah, good one, guys. Oh s–t, it is really actual?'”

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Alec Guinness has very overtly criticized his character Obi Wan’s dialogue in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope. He even reportedly begged George Lucas to kill him off. ”I simply couldn’t go on talking these bloody terrible strains. I’d had sufficient of the mumbo jumbo,” he stated. He additionally has recounted a narrative the place a younger boy who had seen Star Wars dozens of occasions requested for his autograph. Guinness stated he’d give it on the situation that the boy by no means watched Star Wars once more.

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One other Star Wars one — whereas Mark Hamill definitely did not hate starring within the authentic trilogy, he was sad with the model of Luke that The Final Jedi launched, even telling director Rian Johnson, “I hate what you’ve completed with my character.” He stated after the movie was launched that this model of Luke was so completely different from the unique trilogy that he had to consider Luke as one other character: “Perhaps he’s Jake Skywalker. He’s not my Luke Skywalker.” He later apologized for these feedback.

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Shailene Woodley was not a fan of the writing for her character on Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager. She did not say the standard was dangerous, however she did not just like the messages it gave: “Towards the tip, morally, the issues that we have been preaching on that present weren’t actually aligned with my very own integrity. So, that was a bit laborious to indicate as much as work day-after-day understanding that we have been going to challenge all of those themes to hundreds — thousands and thousands — of younger adults throughout the nation, when, in truth, they weren’t what I want to be sending out,” she stated after her time on the present was completed.

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Angus T. Jones equally did not just like the ethical content material of his present Two and a Half Males. “It was troublesome for me to be on the present and be a part of one thing that was making gentle of subjects in our world the place there are actually issues for lots of people,” he stated. “I used to be a paid hypocrite as a result of I wasn’t OK with it and I used to be nonetheless doing it.” A yr earlier than, he had stated his character “means nothing” and in contrast watching the present to “filling your head with filth.”

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George Clooney panned Batman & Robin, although he did take numerous the blame, saying it “bodily hurts” to look at his efficiency. He additionally known as the screenplay “horrible.” He even revealed he will not let his spouse or youngsters watch the movie as a result of “There are specific movies I simply go, ‘I would like my spouse to have some respect for me,’” and “It’s dangerous when your 4-year-old child goes, ‘This sucks.’ That may very well be painful.”

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Seems there are many superhero actors who’ve criticized their movies. Like Ben Affleck, who starred as Marvel superhero Matt Murdock in Daredevil, and later stated the film “didn’t work in any respect.” “If I needed to go viral, I might be much less well mannered,” he continued. “That was earlier than folks realized you may make these films and make them effectively. There was a cynical sense of ‘Put a crimson leather-based outfit on a man, have him run round, hunt some dangerous guys, and money the test.’” He later known as the movie the one one he regrets, saying it “killed” him that “it obtained f–ked up the best way it did.”

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Katherine Heigl subtly shaded Gray’s Anatomy over the writing selections, saying she wasn’t an enormous fan of the storyline the place her character, Izzie, sleeps with ghost-Denny. She additionally fairly famously withdrew herself from Emmy consideration in 2008, saying, “I didn’t really feel I used to be given the fabric this season to warrant a nomination,” though she’s since expressed remorse over this, saying that it was between her and the writers, and numerous it was about her personal efficiency.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar had a tough time along with her character’s trajectory in Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “I’ve all the time stated that Season 6 was not my favourite. I felt it betrayed who she was,” Gellar stated. The season notably featured her character getting into a sexual relationship with the soulless vampire Spike. “It was robust for me to see these conditions and suppose, However Buffy would not do that…,” Gellar stated at a fan conference. “And I felt stress from the power of the followers.”

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And Denise Crosby, who performed Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, was additionally not keen on what her character was given to do. “I used to be battling not having the ability to do a lot with the character. I had all these concepts and could not do them. I used to be simply stage dressing. I selected to go away as a substitute of simply being happy with that,” she stated. Her character was killed off on the finish of the primary season to accommodate her. “I could not wait to get off that present,” she stated in one other interview. “I didn’t need to spend the subsequent six years going, ‘Aye, aye, Captain,’ and standing there, in the identical uniform, in the identical place on the bridge.”

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Christopher Plummer by no means favored The Sound of Music. “It was so terrible and mawkish and gooey,” he informed the Hollywood Reporter. Plummer additionally known as it his most difficult function, as “You needed to work terribly laborious to try to infuse some miniscule little bit of humor into it.” He additionally stated he was tired of the character: “Though we labored laborious sufficient to make him fascinating, it was a bit like flogging a useless horse. And the subject material isn’t mine. I imply it may’t attraction to each individual on the earth. It is not my cup of tea.”

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And at last, Eddie Murphy principally admitted that every one the films he made within the 2000s have been “shitty.” The truth is, it was appearing in these movies that triggered him to take an prolonged hiatus from appearing. “I used to be like, ‘This shit ain’t enjoyable. They’re giving me Razzies.’ … Motherfuckers gave me the ‘Worst actor ever’ Razzie. Perhaps it is time to take a break,” he stated. Fortunately, he is come again with a vengeance, profitable the Razzies’ comeback award for Dolemite Is My Title.

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