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Blake Lively in 'Gossip Girl'
- Blake Lively explained why she didn't like her character, Serena van der Woodsen: "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." Fair enough!
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Sean Connery in 'James Bond'
- Sean Connery, the original James Bond, was fed up with the British spy. According to The Guardian, he once said: "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him." He also told in 1965 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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Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'
- Whether she likes it or not, Kate Winslet will always be remembered as Rose. But Winslet revealed that she wasn't really thrilled about her acting in the movie: "Every single scene, I'm like 'Really, really? You did it like that? Oh my God.'"
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Daniel Radcliffe in 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince'
- '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 Playboy, "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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Shailene Woodley in 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- The actress shared that she felt "stuck" on the series. “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 in 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- Shailene Woodley has previously discussed her issues with the show. She played Amy Juergens on the teen pregnancy drama, and after the show ended she said, "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 in 'Love Actually'
- Andrew Lincoln was unsatisfied with his role as Mark in the British rom-com 'Love Actually.' "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 EW. "I got to be this weird stalker guy."
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Katherine Heigl in 'Grey's Anatomy'
- 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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Allison Williams in 'Girls' - "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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Katherine Heigl in 'Knocked Up'
- When asked about the 2007 film, Heigl told Vanity Fair, “It was a little biased ... 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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Jamie Dornan in '50 Shades Of Grey'
- The '50 Shades Of Grey' actor is nothing like his character, Christian Grey, and Dornan admitted that he's not a fan of the billionaire playboy. "[He’s] not the sort of bloke I’d get along with."
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Johnny Depp in '21 Jump Street'
- Johnny Depp (left) definitely didn't enjoy starring in the show '21 Jump Street' as the undercover cop Tom Hanson. "I tried to be fired because I felt I was in a prison creatively. I was stuck in a box." He eventually quit the show after the fourth season.
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Adam Brody in 'The O.C.'
- Adam Brody, who played Seth on 'The O.C.,' is tired of constantly talking about 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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Zac Efron in 'High School Musical'
- Who didn't have a crush on Troy Bolton? Well, maybe a few people, and certainly not Zac Efron, who told Men's Fitness that he sometimes looks back at himself in that movie and wants to give himself a beating!
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Robert Pattinson in 'Twilight'
- 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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Megan Fox in 'Transformers'
- Fox didn't like the movie or the role she had to play. She told Entertainment Weekly, "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 in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
- Shia LaBeouf played Mutt Williams but didn't like his role at all. He explained: "I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished." He added that you could blame it on the writer or director, but that it's the actor's job to make it come alive, and he didn't do that.
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George Clooney in 'Batman & Robin'
- George Clooney may be one of the most profitable actors in Hollywood, but he certainly doesn't have an ego about it. When asked what he thought about Ben Affleck's Batman, he answered: "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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Viola Davis in 'The Help'
- 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's recently spoken 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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Viola Davis in 'The Help'
- "There's no one who's not entertained by 'The Help,' she said. "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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Daniel Craig in 'James Bond'
- Despite the fact that he's due to play Bond again in the next film, the actor told Time Out that he'd rather "slash [his] wrists" than play 007 one more time.
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Jason Segel in 'How I Met Your Mother'
- 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 in 'Criminal Minds'
- Mandy Patinkin quit the show in its third season because of the violence. In an interview with New York Magazine, he said that the show was his biggest mistake and that he thought it was something else. "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 in 'Two and a Half Men'
- For 10 seasons, Angus T. Jones wore the mantle of Jake Harper in 'Two and a Half Men.' However, in November 2012 he appeared in a video on YouTube in which he called the show "filth" and asked people to stop watching it. "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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Miley Cyrus in 'Hannah Montana'
- It's not so much her role, but rather the negative impact it had on her body image. She told Marie Claire, "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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Penn Badgley in 'You'
- Badgley had to stop all the crushes on his creepy character, Joe Goldberg, on Twitter, and said he can't believe that his fans are obsessed with the fictional stalker.
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Chevy Chase in 'Community'
- Chase accused director Dan Harmon of making his character very unlikable and said: "It’s just a mediocre sitcom! I want people to laugh, and this isn’t funny."
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Evangeline Lilly in 'Lost'
- The actress liked her role as Kate Austen at the beginning, but that didn't last long. "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 in 'Game of Thrones'
- 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 in 'Supergirl'
- David Harewood did not hide his feelings about his on-screen character at all. "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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Shia LaBeouf in 'Transformers: Revenge of the fallen'
- 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. See also: Famous actors who got replaced.
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Blake Lively in 'Gossip Girl'
- Blake Lively explained why she didn't like her character, Serena van der Woodsen: "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." Fair enough!
© NL Beeld
1 / 32 Fotos
Sean Connery in 'James Bond'
- Sean Connery, the original James Bond, was fed up with the British spy. According to The Guardian, he once said: "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him." He also told in 1965 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."
© NL Beeld
2 / 32 Fotos
Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'
- Whether she likes it or not, Kate Winslet will always be remembered as Rose. But Winslet revealed that she wasn't really thrilled about her acting in the movie: "Every single scene, I'm like 'Really, really? You did it like that? Oh my God.'"
© NL Beeld
3 / 32 Fotos
Daniel Radcliffe in 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince'
- '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 Playboy, "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.'"
© NL Beeld
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Shailene Woodley in 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- The actress shared that she felt "stuck" on the series. “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 in 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- Shailene Woodley has previously discussed her issues with the show. She played Amy Juergens on the teen pregnancy drama, and after the show ended she said, "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 in 'Love Actually'
- Andrew Lincoln was unsatisfied with his role as Mark in the British rom-com 'Love Actually.' "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 EW. "I got to be this weird stalker guy."
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Katherine Heigl in 'Grey's Anatomy'
- 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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Allison Williams in 'Girls' - "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."
© NL Beeld
9 / 32 Fotos
Katherine Heigl in 'Knocked Up'
- When asked about the 2007 film, Heigl told Vanity Fair, “It was a little biased ... 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.”
© NL Beeld
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Jamie Dornan in '50 Shades Of Grey'
- The '50 Shades Of Grey' actor is nothing like his character, Christian Grey, and Dornan admitted that he's not a fan of the billionaire playboy. "[He’s] not the sort of bloke I’d get along with."
© NL Beeld
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Johnny Depp in '21 Jump Street'
- Johnny Depp (left) definitely didn't enjoy starring in the show '21 Jump Street' as the undercover cop Tom Hanson. "I tried to be fired because I felt I was in a prison creatively. I was stuck in a box." He eventually quit the show after the fourth season.
© NL Beeld
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Adam Brody in 'The O.C.'
- Adam Brody, who played Seth on 'The O.C.,' is tired of constantly talking about 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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Zac Efron in 'High School Musical'
- Who didn't have a crush on Troy Bolton? Well, maybe a few people, and certainly not Zac Efron, who told Men's Fitness that he sometimes looks back at himself in that movie and wants to give himself a beating!
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Robert Pattinson in 'Twilight'
- 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.
© NL Beeld
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Megan Fox in 'Transformers'
- Fox didn't like the movie or the role she had to play. She told Entertainment Weekly, "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 in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
- Shia LaBeouf played Mutt Williams but didn't like his role at all. He explained: "I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished." He added that you could blame it on the writer or director, but that it's the actor's job to make it come alive, and he didn't do that.
© NL Beeld
17 / 32 Fotos
George Clooney in 'Batman & Robin'
- George Clooney may be one of the most profitable actors in Hollywood, but he certainly doesn't have an ego about it. When asked what he thought about Ben Affleck's Batman, he answered: "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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Viola Davis in 'The Help'
- 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's recently spoken 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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Viola Davis in 'The Help'
- "There's no one who's not entertained by 'The Help,' she said. "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]."
© NL Beeld
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Daniel Craig in 'James Bond'
- Despite the fact that he's due to play Bond again in the next film, the actor told Time Out that he'd rather "slash [his] wrists" than play 007 one more time.
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Jason Segel in 'How I Met Your Mother'
- 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 in 'Criminal Minds'
- Mandy Patinkin quit the show in its third season because of the violence. In an interview with New York Magazine, he said that the show was his biggest mistake and that he thought it was something else. "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 in 'Two and a Half Men'
- For 10 seasons, Angus T. Jones wore the mantle of Jake Harper in 'Two and a Half Men.' However, in November 2012 he appeared in a video on YouTube in which he called the show "filth" and asked people to stop watching it. "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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Miley Cyrus in 'Hannah Montana'
- It's not so much her role, but rather the negative impact it had on her body image. She told Marie Claire, "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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Penn Badgley in 'You'
- Badgley had to stop all the crushes on his creepy character, Joe Goldberg, on Twitter, and said he can't believe that his fans are obsessed with the fictional stalker.
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Chevy Chase in 'Community'
- Chase accused director Dan Harmon of making his character very unlikable and said: "It’s just a mediocre sitcom! I want people to laugh, and this isn’t funny."
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Evangeline Lilly in 'Lost'
- The actress liked her role as Kate Austen at the beginning, but that didn't last long. "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 in 'Game of Thrones'
- 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 in 'Supergirl'
- David Harewood did not hide his feelings about his on-screen character at all. "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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Shia LaBeouf in 'Transformers: Revenge of the fallen'
- 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. See also: Famous actors who got replaced.
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Actors who hated their on-screen character
They were usually the most cherished by the audience
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Although actors are supposed to be able to play any role, that doesn't mean they will be fond of them all. While some characters may be closer to their real-life personalities, others can be the polar opposite of their values and beliefs. Plus, actors can get tired of these roles, or frustrated that they didn't portray them properly.
Click through the following gallery to find out which actors disliked the characters they portrayed on-screen.
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