{"id":194023,"date":"2025-12-20T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194023\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:43:08","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\/nz\/194023\/","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":"

\"Michelle<\/p>\n

Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a>, Grease 2<\/p>\n

Michelle got blunt about her feelings about the sequel to Grease.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hated that film (Grease 2) with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was. At the time, was young and didn\u2019t know better\u2026 I hear it\u2019s a cult movie now,\u201d she told Hollywood.com<\/a> back in 2007.<\/p>\n

\"Sally<\/p>\n

Sally Field<\/a>, The Amazing Spider-Man<\/p>\n

Sally said that she was \u201cnot especially\u201d a fan of her role in the Spider-Man movies, adding \u201cit\u2019s not my kind of movie\u201d to Howard Stern.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The motivation was all because of a friend, who was sadly dying: \u201cMy friend Laura Ziskin was the producer, and we knew it would be her last film, and she was my first producing partner, and she was a spectacular human.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it, and you work it as much as you can, but you can\u2019t put ten pounds of s\u2013t in a five-pound bag,\u201d she added of the role.<\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/p>\n

George Clooney<\/a>, Batman & Robin<\/p>\n

George has famously poked fun at his role in the superhero film over the years in interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith hindsight it\u2019s easy to look back at this and go \u2018Woah, that was really s\u2013t and I was really bad in it.\u2019 It was a difficult film to be good in. I don\u2019t know what I could have done differently. But if I am going to be Batman in the film Batman & Robin, I can\u2019t say it didn\u2019t work and then not take some of the blame for that,\u201d he told Total Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,\u201d he later told Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lawrence<\/a>, Passengers<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh no, you guys are here because I\u2019m here, and I\u2019m here because you\u2019re here. Wait, who decided that this was a good movie?\u2019\u201d Jennifer said of disappointing her fanbase<\/a> by taking on the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdele told me not to do it! She was like, \u2018I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.\u2019 I should have listened to her,\u201d she revealed. The movie currently has a 30% Rotten Tomatoes score.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

Sandra Bullock<\/a>, Speed 2<\/p>\n

\u201cI have one no one came around to and I\u2019m still embarrassed I was in. It\u2019s called Speed 2. I\u2019ve been very vocal about it. Makes no sense. Slow boat. Slowly going towards an island,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one I wished I hadn\u2019t done and no fans came around, that I know of, except for you,\u201d she said to Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> in an interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

Eddie Redmayne<\/a>, The Danish Girl<\/p>\n

Eddie Redmayne<\/a> would not reprise his role in The Danish Girl, in which he played a transgender woman, Lili Elbe.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake. The bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don\u2019t have a chair at the table. There must be a levelling, otherwise we are going to carry on having these debates,\u201d he recently said.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shia<\/p>\n

Shia LaBeouf<\/a>, Indiana Jones & The Crystal Skull<\/p>\n

Shia LaBeouf didn\u2019t like Indiana Jones, or any collaboration with Steven Spielberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up with this idea, if you got to Spielberg, that\u2019s where it is. [Then] you get there, and you realize you\u2019re not meeting the Spielberg you dream of. You\u2019re meeting a different Spielberg, who is in a different stage in his career. He\u2019s less a director than he is a f\u2013king company\u2026the only movie I liked that we made together was Transformers 1,\u201d he told Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added that he felt he<\/a> \u201cdropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Pfeiffer, Grease 2 Michelle got blunt about her feelings about the sequel to Grease. \u201cI hated that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-194023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}