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September 13, 2023

There are several roles an actor regrets saying “yes” to. Sometimes the regretful role can cause a speed bump in a rising career. But on a few rare occasions, it’s surrounding a role that gets so much acclaim that it becomes the defining part of their entire working life. Even earning awards! All of which brings us to the list below — some of the roles that for good, bad or different reasons, actors regretted taking…

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Game of Thrones

If you didn't like Euron in Game of Thrones, the actor might agree with you. Не says she wishes he could have played him more dark, more mysterious - that's closer to the books, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scarlett Johansson eventually came around N DI SA 2CI CRACKED.COM When she got in trouble for accepting a role as a trans man in 2018, her first response was nothing short of YIKES: As an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal. She later dropped the role and apologized for being insensitive: Our cultural understanding of transgender people continues to advance, and I've learned a lot from the community. — Variety

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MARISA TOMEI REGRETS PLAYING MOM CHARACTERS LIKE AUNT MAY IN THE SPIDER-MAN MOVIES. After playing the mom again in the 2020 movie The King of Staten Island, Tomei said that she regrets going for the mom roles in the first place. I really regret starting down this road and I really regret starting to do that. I was, you know, talked into it - not this, but I mean just that change-and I really always felt like, 'Oh, I could play a lot of things.' CRACKED.COM — Cinemablend

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THE ACTOR: Arnold Schwarzenegger THE ROLE: Kalidor in Red Sonja WHY НЕ Не says the movie is so bad he uses it to punish HATED IT: his kids. They get sent to their rooms to watch it, when they misbehave. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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CRACKED.COM Matthew Broderick hugely regretted being in The Stepford Wives. Не says that there was nothing fun about making it, his role wasn't interesting and he was disappointed with the poor quality of the finished product. — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Drew Barrymore wishes she had never filmed Everyone Says / Love You in 1996. She made it with Woody Allen, and now really regrets working with him - h her opinion changed once she had children, she says. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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CHANNING TATUM HATED G.I. JOE THE RISE OF COBRA Look, I'll be honest. I I f**king hate that movie. I hate that movie, Tatum said in a Howard Stern interview. According to Tatum, he didn't want to be in the movie because the script was bad, but he was forced to do it because he signed a three-picture deal with Paramount beforehand. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Titanic

KATE WINSLET TITANIC CRACKED.COM Fans are weird. Like the jabronis who hand Kate Winslet nude stils from Titanic and ask her to autograph them. I don't sign that . It feels very uncomfortable, she says. It's still haunting me. — Yahoo

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Patty Jenkins wishes Wonder Woman had more small, funny moments. If I had my druthers, the movie would be longer with little tiny jokes and moments that were hard to lose, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jason Alexander embarrassed his children CRACKED.COM Alexander confessed to taking on 2000's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle for the money. No one was more disappointed than his kids: My children are so unimpressed with me that it's pathetic. — 14 Questionable Roles Actors Ended Up Apologizing For

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Kurt Russell

KURT RUSSELL HATEFUL EIGHT CRACKED.COM Russell was totally in character when he grabbed a guitar from Jennifer Jason Leigh and smashed it to bits. No one told him it was an antique Martin from the 1860s worth forty grand. Leigh had fallen in love with the instrument and was heartbroken. Russell nearly cried himself. — Billboard

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THE ACTOR: Shia LaBeouf THE ROLE: Mutt Williams in Indiana Jones IV WHY НЕ The movie was bad, yes, but he says his acting HATED IT: made it worse. I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Emily Ratajkowski says the Blurred Lines video is now the bane of my existence. She really wasn't into the idea at all, and thinks she came off as a bit annoyed in the video. Now, she doesn't particularly even like to talk about it. CRACKED.COM — Harpers Bazaar

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SETH ROGEN WISHES НЕ COULD'VE DONE THE INTERVIEW DIFFERENTLY. Rogen says he regrets not fleshing out some parts of the movie, and that it felt inconsistent at times. Не also said that he doesn't believe the whole North Korea attacking Sony fallout that followed. Honestly, the further I get from it, the less I think North Korea actually did it and the less about me I actually think it all was...I think it was being carried out by disgruntled Sony employees more than anything. CRACKED.COM — Rolling Stones

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Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds regrets making the movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Reynolds hated making Boogie Nights with the then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, who the actor described as young and full of himself. Не even turned down the director's next film, Magnolia. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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Game of Thrones

Emilia Clarke wishes she'd had more scenes with Missandei in Game of Thrones. And scenes with Cersei, too - that's what she mentioned when they asked her what she'd change in Season 8. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paul Newman

Paul Newman funeralized his career in Variety TOP GRACKED.COM Newman called his acting debut, The Silver Chalice, the worst film to be made in the entirety of the 1950s. When an LA television station decided to air it a decade later, he took out full-page ads in Variety and the LA Times, styled like an obituary, that said Paul Newman apologizes every night this week- Channel 9. — NPR

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Friends

Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman says she would have changed so much. There are probably a hundred things I would have done differently, she said when asked what she'd do differently looking back. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ryan Reynolds ruined superheroes for everyone CRACKED.COM Before making a remarkable comeback as Deadpool, Reynolds says his 2011 flop Green Lantern made studios skeptical of superhero movies: I represented the death of the superhero for a while. — Mashable

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GWYNETH PALTROW SHALLOW HAL CRACKED.COM Paltrow hates Shallow Hal but the weighty scenes were especially hard. The first day I tried the fat suit on ... it was so disturbing. No one would make eye with me because I was obese. I felt humiliated because people were really dismissive. Sounds like someone needs their crystal-infused water bottle. — NME

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Twilight

THE ACTOR: Robert Pattinson THE ROLE: Edward in Twilight WHY НЕ Pattinson hated Edward from the moment he HATED IT: read the script, so that's how he played him: as a manic-depressive who hates himself. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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GEMMA ARTERTON REGRETS TAKING ROLE IN QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The actress says she got a lot of flak for playing MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, the one who gets seduced by Bond in a hotel room. I was 21, I had a student loan, and you, know, it was a Bond film. But as I got older I realized there was so much wrong with Bond women. Strawberry should have just said no, really, and worn flat shoes. GRACKED COM — The Wrap

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Mark Wahlberg

MARK WAHLBERG ISN'T A FAN OF THE HAPPENING In 2010, Wahlberg finally revealed his thoughts on The Happening. F**k it. It is what it is. F**king trees, man. The plants. F**k it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook. CRACKED.COM — 21 Roles Famous Actors Wish They Could Delete From History

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The Dark Tower director Ron Howard wishes the movie was more grown-up. I think it should've been horror, he said, rather than PG-13 and sort of a boy's adventure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eli Roth apologized to the Cabinet of Iceland CRACKED.COM 2005's Hostel painted lots of nationalities in an array of unflattering tones. While he repeatedly made the (excellent) point that people still went to Texas after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out, he did end up apologizing to Iceland's Minister of Culture and getting a pardon from the President. — DreadCentral

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MARY LOUISE PARKER WEEDS CRACKED.COM Parker fought a bathtub scene she found particularly gratuitious. I didn't think I needed to be naked, and I fought with the director about it, and now I'm bitter. I knew it was going to be on the internet: 'Mary-Louise Parker shows off her big n***les.' I wish I hadn't done that. I was goaded into it. — Nile FM

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THE ACTOR: Will Smith THE ROLE: Cypher Raige in After Earth WHY НЕ Не calls it the most painful failure of my HATED IT: career, and says he stopped working for a year and a half, after it tanked. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Patrick Stewart would never have done TNG if he knew how long it would run. The contract was for six years, but his agent was sure it would actually fizzle out really fast, so Stewart signed on. It ran for seven years. CRACKED.COM — BBC, WAMC

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Hugh Grant

HUGH GRANT REGRETS TAKING so MANY ROMANTIC COMEDY PARTS. The actor-who has ittedly starred in a lot of rom-coms-said he regrets not thinking more carefully before taking on roles and getting typecast because of it. I took everything. The worse it was, the quicker I took it. I should have made interesting decisions and done different stuff. Instead, I repeated myself almost identically about 17 times in a row. CRACKED.COM — Cheat sheet

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