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Viola Davis revealed she feels like she "betrayed" herself by starring in 'The Help.' After once telling The New York Times she "regretted" taking the part, she spoke more on this with Vanity Fair. "Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity," explained Davis. "They're invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it's catering to the white audience. The white audience at the most can sit and get an academic lesson into how we are. Then they leave the movie theater and they talk about what it meant. They're not moved by who we were."

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"There's no one who's not entertained by 'The Help,' she expressed. "But there's a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn't ready to [tell the whole truth]."

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The actress expressed her feeling of being "stuck" in the series. In an interview with Bustle, she revealed, “There were a lot of things that were written into the scripts that not just me, but a lot of the cast, disagreed with,” she told Bustle. “There were belief systems that were pushed that were different than my own. Yet legally I was stuck there.”

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Shailene Woodley has previously expressed her concerns regarding the show. Portraying the character of Amy Juergens on the teen pregnancy drama, she shared her thoughts after the show concluded, stating,"Towards the end, morally, the things that we were preaching on that show weren’t aligned with my own integrity."

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Andrew Lincoln expressed his dissatisfaction with his portrayal of Mark in the British romantic comedy 'Love Actually.' He stated in an interview with EW, "In one of the most romantic movies of all time, I got to play the only guy who doesn't get the girl," he told. "I got to be this weird stalker guy."

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Blake Lively provided insight into her dislike for her character, Serena van der Woodsen, stating, "I would not be proud to be the person who gave someone the cocaine that made them overdose and then shot someone and slept with someone else's boyfriend." A reasonable perspective indeed!

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Badgley was surprised by his fans’ obsession with his creepy character, Joe Goldberg, on Twitter. He mentioned that he had to handle the influx of crushes on Joe and found it hard to believe.

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Robert Pattinson played Edward Cullen in the 'Twilight' saga, but was quite spiteful of his character. "The more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that’s how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he’s a 108-year-old virgin, so he’s obviously got some issues there," he told Empire.

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The actor who played Christian Grey in '50 Shades Of Grey' is different from his character. Dornan honestly admitted that he doesn't like the billionaire. He said, "[He’s] not the sort of bloke I'd get along with."

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According to The Guardian, Sean Connery, known as the original James Bond, expressed his frustration towards the British spy character. He openly stated, "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him." In 1965, during an interview, Connery mentioned that "This Bond image is a problem in a way and a bit of a bore, but one has just got to live with it."

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After winning a Best Supporting Actress Emmy in 2007 for her role as Izzie Stevens in 'Grey's Anatomy,' Heigl refused to submit for a nomination the next year. "That year, I said I’m not going to submit [anything] because there is nothing I feel good about," she said about her character. She was eventually written out of the show in 2010.

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"Marnie would drive me crazy if we were friends in real life," Williams said about her on-screen character in the show 'Girls'. "But I have to put that out of my head in order to play her."

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Kate Winslet will forever be associated with her iconic role as Rose, whether she embraces it or not. However, the actress candidly admitted her lack of enthusiasm towards her performance in the film, expressing her surprise and disbelief at her own acting choices: "Every single scene, I'm like 'Really, really? You did it like that? Oh my God.'"

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Johnny Depp (left) did not have a good experience playing Tom Hanson, the undercover cop, on '21 Jump Street'. "I tried to be fired because I felt I was in a prison creatively. I was stuck in a box." Eventually, he decided to leave the show after the fourth season.

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Adam Brody, known for his role as Seth in 'The O.C.,' confessed that he has grown weary of discussing his character. "I'm proud of the legacy, It gets boring, that's all. The only way it bothers me, it's not that I'm not proud of it, it's that I've exhausted the conversations about it, in my mind, to me."

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Who didn't have a soft spot for Troy Bolton? Many of us did, but Zac Efron definitely did not. In an interview with Men's Fitness, he admitted to occasionally reflecting on his performance in that film and feeling the urge to give himself a beating!

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Fox expressed her dissatisfaction with both the movie and her character's role. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she stated, "People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting." She added, however, that it was fun because she could just be in the moment.

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Shia LaBeouf portrayed Mutt Williams but later expressed dissatisfaction with his character. He revealed, "I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished." LaBeouf acknowledged this is sometimes the fault of the writer or director, but emphasized that it ultimately falls upon the actor to breathe life into the role, which he didn't manage to do.

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George Clooney is widely known for his success as an actor in Hollywood, yet he remains humble. When questioned about Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman, Clooney modestly stated, "I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part."

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The actor expressed to Time Out that he would prefer to "slash [his] wrists" rather than portray 007 once more.

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'Harry Potter' will follow Radcliffe for the rest of his life, but there's one particular film of the series that he isn't proud of. He told "In every movie up to the sixth one, you can see a big step forward in my acting. And then it stopped, or went backward maybe, in the sixth film ... I remember watching it and thinking, 'Wow, there’s been no growth. You’re watching a mistake you made every day for 11 months.'"

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One unfortunate consequence of being a regular on a sitcom is that you're stuck with one character. Jason Segel told GQ in 2010 that, though he's lucky to have worked on the show for eight years, he no longer enjoyed his character Marshall. "I don't really feel like I have that much more to offer with this character," he said.

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Mandy Patinkin departed from the series during its third season due to the violence depicted. In an interview with New York Magazine, he expressed regret, considering the show as a major misjudgment. Patinkin revealed, "I never thought they were going to kill all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality."

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Angus T. Jones portrayed Jake Harper in 'Two and a Half Men' for 10 seasons. In November 2012, he took to YouTube and referred to the show as "filth," urging viewers to cease watching it. Jones stated, "You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like ['Two and a Half Men']. I know I can’t," he added.

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The negative impact on her body image was not caused by her role itself, but rather by the way she was made to look. In an interview with Marie Claire, she shared, "I was made to look like someone that I wasn’t, which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, 'Who am I?'"

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Chase criticized director Dan Harmon, claiming that his character was unlikable and the sitcom lacked humor. "It’s just a mediocre sitcom! I want people to laugh, and this isn’t funny."

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The actress initially enjoyed playing Kate Austen in the show, but her satisfaction didn't last. "I felt like my character went from being autonomous—really having her own story and her own journey and her own agendas—to chasing men around the island." She continued, "I did throw scripts across rooms when I’d read them."

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Stephen Dillane intensely disliked his role as Stannis in 'Game of Thrones,' and admitted that he had no idea what he was doing until they'd finished filming, "and it was too late. The damage had been done. I thought no one would believe in me and I was rather disheartened by the end. I felt I’d built the castle on non-existent foundations," he told The Times.

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David Harewood openly expressed his dissatisfaction with portraying Cyborg Superman on screen. "I don't like playing Cyborg Superman...It's boring. They didn't really flesh it out, they didn't really write for the character. They just gave me this rather cheap-looking mask and no costume, and said, 'OK, you're Cyborg Superman,'" he explained.

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The actor played Sam Witwicky in 'Transformers: Revenge of the fallen,' but admitted that he hated the movie. "There are a lot of people that liked the second one, but I hated it. I just didn't enjoy it," he said.

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When questioned about the movie released in 2007, Heigl expressed to Vanity Fair, “It was a little sexist ... why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? 98 percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”

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While actors are expected to possess the versatility to tackle various roles, it's essential to remember that not every character they play will strike a chord with them. Some roles might align closely with their personalities, while others may stand in stark contrast to their deeply held values and convictions. Moreover, playing the same character again and again can lead to fatigue, while others carry so much importance that it feels impossible to do them justice.

Take a tour through the upcoming gallery to uncover which actors harbored reservations about the on-screen personas they brought to life.