![]() Whenever the topic turned to Super Mario Bros., the Oscar nominee-who passed away in 2014-never made an attempt to hide his ire. (1993)įor anyone who doesn’t understand the cultural differences between Hollywood actors and British ones, behold Bob Hoskins. Calling it “ shite” in a 2006 interview with The Guardian, Paltrow described the movie as "terrible.” 10. The two exceptions, according to the Oscar-winning actress, are Shallow Hal and this flight attendant comedy. She may get a lot of flak for her lifestyle blog, Goop, but when it comes to picking the right roles, Gwyneth Paltrow has made very few missteps. SYLVESTER STALLONE // STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT (1992) In response, Guinness agreed to provide the boy with an autograph on the condition that he promise never to watch the film again. In his autobiography, A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal, Guinness recalled a time he encountered an autograph-seeking fan who boasted to him about having watched Star Wars more than 100 times. I like them well enough, but it's not an acting job, the dialogue-which is lamentable-keeps being changed and only slightly improved, and I find myself old and out of touch with the young." The insane amount of fame he won for the role as the wise old Jedi master took him somewhat by surprise and, ultimately, annoyed him. During production, Guinness is reported to have declared that, "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film. ALEC GUINNESS // STAR WARS (1977)īy the time he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope, Alec Guinness had already appeared in cinematic classics like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Great Expectations, and Lawrence of Arabia. He's a kick.” The film, unsurprisingly, repelled audiences and critics alike. ![]() He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems go out of his way to repel people. ![]() completely charming and very nice, he's also completely disgusting. In a 1993 interview, she told The New York Times, “From the moment I met him we sort of gave each other a hard time and naturally we get on each other's nerves. While her PR team tried to do damage control, Roberts couldn’t keep herself from making some thinly masked digs at her co-star. It wasn’t long before the press got wind of the dueling actors’ on-set antics. The two actors fell way short of Hepburn/Tracy expectations when they teamed up for I Love Trouble, Charles Shyer's tribute to the fast-talking rom-com. Julia Roberts did not earn her “America’s Sweetheart” moniker by being difficult. “I've done really movies or jobs when I was broke, and people go, ‘Why did you do Return of the Killer Tomatoes?’ Because I got the job!” 3. ![]() But his turn as the Caped Crusader has got nothing on his role in this late-’80s camp-fest! At Newsweek’s 2012 Oscar roundtable, Clooney talked about the dangers of acting for money: “As an actor all bets are off if you need money,” he declared. And his occasional jabs at his own movies-most notably Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin-only add to his Everyman persona. George Clooney’s likability factor seems to improve with age. GEORGE CLOONEY // RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES! (1988) It was the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking-if you can even call it that-that I've ever seen.” (Has he not seen Cool World?) 2. To have to make something up as you go along-Jesus, what pressure! It was ridiculous. “Well, we had a great script but it got tossed for various reasons. In February of 1997, eight weeks before The Devil's Own premiered, Brad Pitt shared his disappointment about Alan Pakula’s IRA thriller with Newsweek. Here are 15 actors who weren’t afraid to spray a little venom at the films they’d like to erase from their resumes. And I think it's funny.”īut badmouthing one’s own not-so-stellar oeuvre has become a popular pastime in Hollywood as of late. In 1991, Beatty told Entertainment Weekly that “ Ishtar is a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. Whether the thespian wants to admit it or not is another story: While Ben Kingsley has kept mum on his reasons for playing the flatulence-prone sex guru Tugginmypudha in 2008's rightfully maligned The Love Guru, Warren Beatty has repeatedly gone on the record to defend his legendary 1987 bomb, Ishtar. Every actor-yes, even the most famous and award-winning of them-has a turkey in his or her closet.
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