Kate Winslet, Titanic
Kate doesn’t necessarily regret the role as much as she’s embarrassed by seeing herself on screen – and she wants a re-do.
“Every single scene, I’m like ‘Really, really? You did it like that? Oh my God.’ Even my American accent, I can’t listen to it. It’s awful. Hopefully it’s so much better now. It sounds terribly self indulgent but actors do tend to be very self-critical. I have a hard time watching any of my performances, but watching Titanic I was just like ‘Oh God, I want to do that again,’” she confessed to CNN years ago.
Burt Reynolds, Boogie Nights
According to the Washington Post, he was so unhappy with the movie, despite never having seen it, that he fired his agent afterward. He told Conan O’Brien that he had turned down the role seven times. It “just wasn’t my kind of film,” he said, adding it “made me very uncomfortable.”
Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern
Ryan has been vocal about how he felt the movie did not work.
“With Green Lantern, I don’t think anyone ever figured out exactly what it was. It also fell victim to the process in Hollywood which is like poster first, release date second, script last. At the time, it was a huge opportunity for me so I was excited to try and take part in it,” he said in 2016.
“I’ve been there in that position as an actor where you do something that doesn’t quite work. And I really wish someone from a gin company called me right after Green Lantern and was like, ‘Hey, I got something funny you can do as an answer to that!’” he later added to Jimmy Fallon.
Harrison Ford, Blade Runner
Harrison has been very vocal about what ended up happening to the film, as well as his feelings about the movie in general.
He discussed the voice-over that was added the movie: “I contested it mightily at the time. It was not an organic part of the film. When we came to the end of the film, Ridley had been relieved of the reins by the completion-bond company, and I was now working for the completion-bond company. God knows whose fingers were in the soup, but nobody involved in the process was an original member of the team. I was compelled by contract to do this voice-over, which I did in five or six different forms, all of them found wanting.”
“I didn’t like the movie one way or the other, with or without. I played a detective who did not have any detecting to do. In terms of how I related to the material, I found it very difficult. There was stuff that was going on that was really nuts,” he said.