{"id":195596,"date":"2025-12-20T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:42:08","slug":"37-actors-who-admit-they-regret-their-most-famous-roles-alec-guinness-ben-affleck-burt-reynolds-channing-tatum-christopher-plummer-colin-farrell-eddie-redmayne-eg-evergreen-george-clooney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195596\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Actors Who Admit They Regret Their Most Famous Roles | Alec Guinness, Ben Affleck, burt reynolds, Channing Tatum, Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Eddie Redmayne, EG, evergreen, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Idris Elba, James Franco, Jessica Alba, Jim Carrey, Katherine Heigl, Kristen Stewart, Longform, Mark Wahlberg, Megan Fox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Paul Newman, Ryan Reynolds, Sally Field, Sean Connery, Shia LaBeouf, Slideshow, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos | Just Jared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ben-regret.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Affleck\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ben-affleck\/\" title=\"Ben Affleck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>, Daredevil<\/p>\n<p>Ben said that Daredevil is the only movie he regrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only movie I actually regret is Daredevil. It just kills me. I love that story, that character, and the fact that it got f\u2014d up the way it did stays with me. Maybe that\u2019s part of the motivation to do Batman,\u201d he explained to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/magazine\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/magazine&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Playboy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/viola-regret.jpg\" alt=\"Viola Davis\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/viola-davis\/\" title=\"Viola Davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viola Davis<\/a>, The Help<\/p>\n<p>Viola looked back on the role and reconsidered the film\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave I ever done roles that I\u2019ve regretted? I have, and The Help is on that list. I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/11\/movies\/viola-davis-interview-widows-toronto-film-festival.html\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/11\/movies\/viola-davis-interview-widows-toronto-film-festival.html&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no one who\u2019s not entertained by The Help, but there\u2019s a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn\u2019t ready to [tell the whole truth],\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2020\/07\/cover-story-viola-davis\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2020\/07\/cover-story-viola-davis&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she added.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/katherine-regret.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Heigl\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/katherine-heigl\/\" title=\"Katherine Heigl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Heigl<\/a>, Knocked Up<\/p>\n<p>Katherine looked back on the film and took issue with its presentation of women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I\u2019m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you\u2019re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2008\/01\/heigl200801\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2008\/01\/heigl200801&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sylvester-regret.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvester Stallone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sylvester-stallone\/\" title=\"Sylvester Stallone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a>, Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot<\/p>\n<p>Sylvester has very harsh feelings about the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst film I\u2019ve ever made by far\u2026maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we\u2019ve never seen\u2026a flatworm could write a better script,\u201d he hilariously said to <a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.aintitcool.com\/node\/30869\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;http:\/\/legacy.aintitcool.com\/node\/30869&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck, Daredevil Ben said that Daredevil is the only movie he regrets. \u201cThe only movie I actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-195596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}