12 stars who hated their biggest role

"Although we worked hard enough to do it interesting, it was a bit like whipping a dead horse."


As glamorous as being aMovie or TV star Maybe from the outside of Hollywood to search many actors, it's really only a job. And during most of them surelylove This work, not all the concerts they get is a passion project - even those who end up beingthe roles they are best known for. In fact, more than some celebrities that have been recorded on the fact that they are not proud or did not like to play their changing career roles - and in some cases they hated them. Read 12 stars attaching their most famous character and why.

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1
Robert Pattinson, Edward Cullen

Robert Pattinson at a Twilight photo call in 2008
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The Batman starRobert Pattinson hated play forever-teen vampire edward cullen in theDusk Series so much that there is no shortage of memes on the subject, despite the fact that the role has propelled it into the Stardom almost instantly. There are enough quotes on her disgust for fantastic-romance franchise to fill a book, but when we talk toVariety On the movies in 2019,He really did not get.

"It's a strange story,Dusk. It's not like that - it's strange how people have responded a lot. I guess the books are very romantic, but at the same time, it's not likeNotebook Romantic, "he says."Notebook is very soft and heartbreaking, butDusk Is about this guy and he finds the only girl he wants to be with, and he also wants to eat it. I mean, do not eat it, but drink your blood or something else. It's not that other people tell them they can not be together, it's his own body telling him that. "

2
George Reeves, Superman

George Reeves in Adventures of Superman in 1954
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George Reeves played the title hero of the seriesSuperman's adventures, which was broadcast from 1952 to 1958. But despite how many actors would like to play a certain iteration of Clark Kent, Reeves was just not there, mainly because it resulted in being typed.

"The only rubbing rubbing in Superman is that I have a hard time finding other roles. Most movie producers feel like Superman, so do not 'Do not use, "Reeves said theAkron Beacon Journal In 1956,via the nearest weekly.

And according to whatGary Grossman, author ofSuperman: Serial to Cereal, said at the exit, the late actor Reeves also said to hisSuperman co-star,Jack Larson, that he did not like to be on a children's show. "If I just knew that I had adult fans, I would feel better. I would be happy," supposedly say.

3
Sean Connery, James Bond

Sean Connery as James Bond in 1968
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ButSean Connery I had a successful career until his death in 2020, many fans always think of him like James Bond. After all, he brought 007 in the first six films of the franchise. As indicated byThe Guardian,Ourselves once said, "I have always hated that [expands] James Bond. I would like to kill him."

It seems that Connery's disgust for the role could have been more on the side of companies to make theObligation Movies on any problem with the character, though.

"It can be done, you see, if there is money at stake. I had been too frozen about other bond images. There is so [expletive] that comes from bad decisions making in high, "he said his exit,according toTo express. "I admire the efficiency, like watching a good race horse or the way Picasso works, where everything works perfectly in its capacity. But talking to some of these bumps about it, it's like trying to describe to someone 'One who has never taken exercise what he likes to feel fit when you exercise. They do not understand. "

4
Christopher Plummer, Captain von Trapp

Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music in 1965
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To play Captain Dashing von Trapp in 1965The sound of music,Christopher Plummer ToldThe Boston Globe in 2010 that he did not like doing the creation of film-minus with the legendaryJulie Andrews.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I was a little bored with the character," Plummer, who died in February 2021, "said at the time. "Although we were working hard enough to make it interesting, it was a bit like lightning a dead horse. And the subject is not mine. I mean it can not appeal to every person in the world. is not my cup of tea. ''

5
Animated Blake, Serena van der Woodsen

Blake Lively in Gossip Girl in 2009
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Living blake is one of Hollywood's most famous women today but when it was launched in the original version of the soap of adolescenceGossip Girl, which was created in 2007, she still had to start her career. As big as playing in Serena van der Woodsen, however, felt that the role was "personally compromising".

"You want to put a better message out there," she saysSeduce In 2015,Going throughHarper Bazaar. "It's a strange thing when people feel like you are really good, and they would not be proud to be the person who gave someone cocaine that made them overdose and Then slaughtered someone and slept with someone else's boyfriend. "

6
Halle Berry, Catwoman

Halle Berry at 'Catwoman' Event in 2004
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Halle Berry Has been hot Hollywood since the 1990s and even has an Oscar. But his candidacy to direct a major cartoon franchise has been started and finished with the FLOP 2004,Catwoman. In spite of himself, Berry was quick to join the enemies to make fun of the badly received movie, even appearingin person to accept the Razzie For a worst actress of the year and encourage the public to "read the script" before taking a project in his speech.

"First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers to put me in a piece of [expand], Film Godawfull," said Berry to the Razzies. "It was just what my career needed! I was at the top, thenCatwoman I have just flourished at the bottom. To like! It's hard to be on the top. It's much better to be downstairs. "

In an interview with 2021 withVanity fair, Berry revealed that sheturn on fire as a way to go from disappointment.

7
Kate Winslet, Bukater from Rose Dewitt

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic
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Kate Winslet had already won rave critics for previous roles, but nothing could compare itself to the attention she received for the 1997 record-breaking blockbusterTitanicAnd his role like a richeted ripped pink daughter dawn dewitt bukater. Looking back, the star can not prevent some of its own choice of actors.

"Every scene, I'm like", really, really? Did you do it like that? "She told CNN in 2012. "Let's hope it's so much better now. It seems terribly self-indulgent, but the actors tend to be very self-spoken. I have trouble looking at one of my performances, but looking atTitanicI was just like: 'Oh my God, I want to do that again. "

8
Jason Segel, Marshall Eriksen

Jason Segel at An Evening With 'How I Met Your Mother' in 2009
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how I Met Your Mother Fans found easy to fall in love with Ted Mosby Marshall Eriksen's best friend.Jason SegelI initially likes to celebrate too, but in an interview with 2010 withGq, he admitted that, although he felt like "the luckiest guy in the world" being launched, he felt that the story hadrun. The show would work for four more seasons after making these comments.

"When your idol isPeter sellers, Play a character for eight years is not what you are trying to do. I do not really feel like having much more to offer with this character, "said the actor at the time.

9
Viola Davis, Aibileen Clark

Viola Davis at the World Premiere of 'The Help' in 2011.
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Ugly was a great moment of the quarry of Viola Davis. While she had found success as a scene actor before that, the movie 2011 launched it in Stardom's big screen and even landed the nomination of actress Oscar. But the film, based on the novel of the same name on Black Maids and White Housewives in the 60s, Mississippi, is not considered in a positive light by everyone - and this includes his star. Davis saidVanity fair In 2020She regrets taking the role Because the film was "created in the filter and the Cesspool of systemic racism".

"There is no one who is not entertained byUgly, "she says." But there is a part of me who feels that I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that was not ready to speak the whole truth]. "

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10
George Clooney, Batman

George Clooney with a Batman Model in 1997
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Put on the batman hood could be a dream job for many actors, but the bubble bursts forGeorge ClooneyAfter the exit of 1997Batman & Robin. On several occasions, the star has openly misinterpreted its unique performance and made like Bruce Wayne.

"The only way you can honestly speak of things is to include yourself and your gaps in these things"he saidGq 2020. "Like, when I sayBatman & Robin'S A terrible film, I'm still going, "I was terrible." Because I was number one. But also because it allows you to say that it told you that I was afraid that it was not sucked that none of these other elements worked, nor. You know? Lines like 'freeze, freeze!' "

11
Penn Badgley, Joe Goldberg

Penn Badgley at the Build Series to Promote 'You' in 2020
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It can not be easy or comfortable to enter the mindset of a character who is a stalker and a killer, but that's exactly whatPenn Badgley Must do to play Joe Goldberg in the Netflix seriesYou. However, it is not always happy with this, and it is more than eager to remind fans who crush Joe that he is, in almost every sense of speech, a monster.

"There are many things I do not like him. To be honest, I do not like everything about him",He told Digital Spy in 2019adding that it always tries to "humanize" the character as much as possible.

12
Jamie Dornan, Christian gray

Jamie Dornan at 'Fifty Shades Freed' Premiere in Paris in 2018
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Jamie Dornan's Gray Christian Representation-A businessman with some spicy chamber conclusions - in the50 gray shades Movies, define a lot of pumping hearts. The actor was not one of them. theBELFASTStar admitted to BritishGq thatHe was "relieved" have originally lost the role ofCharlie Hunnam. But when Hunam left the project, the responsibility to fulfill what readers in the book series had in the head fallen to Dornan anyway.

"I was very reluctant. I'm always reluctant. I did not say no. I am auditioned for that and then descended the way to that, then someone else had it," A-T -It declared in 2021. "I was like". Expletive], it's great, what nightmare for this guy [hunnam]. He will have all this review. Before anyone who heard him do anything, he will be really hated. And so many people are rising against the casting of it. Anyway, he dropped it and then I fulfilled myself and I felt this hate anger. "

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