Robert Pattinson + 8 Other Actors Who Hated Their Own Movie Characters
If you’re an actor, it doesn’t mean that you will always play the characters you love and only in the movies you want. It is much more complicated than this, that is why sometimes actors end up hating their own characters.
Nexter.org prepared you a list of 8 actors who didn’t like their roles.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Tom in (500) Days of Summer
Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Gordon-Levitt doesn’t like his character because he thinks he’s selfish and he is concerned about girls who think he is a good guy. Joseph thinks that Tom has an unhealthy obsession with the girl who already stated her position but he keeps projecting his personal expectations on her.
Jennifer Garner — Elektra in Elektra
Source: Twentieth Century Fox
Jennifer Garner agreed to play Elektra only because it was in her contract as a Daredevil spinoff. According to her friend Michael Vartan, she thought that the movie “awful.”
Blake Lively — Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl
Source: CBS Paramount Network Television
Blake Lively doesn’t like her character because they are too different, Serena isn’t someone girls should look up to and Lively herself wouldn’t be proud to be someone like Serena.
Megan Fox — Mikaela Banes in Transformers
Source: Paramount Pictures
It is not that Megan hates the character she played she just says that this role wasn’t about acting at all. She states that the character was sexualized and pretty much the only instruction she had during filming was “Be hot.”
Halle Berry — Catwoman in Catwoman
Source: Warner Bros.
Halle Berry truly hates her role the most. She won the Golden Raspberry Awards and came to pick it up herself to have a chance to thank Warner Bros. for putting her into this “awful” movie.
Robert Pattinson — Edward Cullen in Twilight
Source: Summit Entertainment
Many people hated Edward Cullen and Robert Pattinson is not an exception. He thinks he is a ridiculous character and the more he read the script the more he hated him. Moreover, he said that it felt like he stopped progressing while he was in this movie.
Alec Guinness — Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Source: Lucasfilm
Guinness never liked these movies, he thought they are more like “fairy-tale rubbish.“Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film,” — he wrote in his diary while shooting the saga our whole world is obsessed with.
George Clooney — Batman in Batman & Robin
Source: Warner Bros.
George Clooney doesn’t only regret playing Batman but he even thinks that he ruined the whole franchise and still apologizes for it every time.
Katherine Heigl — Alison Scott in Knocked Up
Source: Universal Pictures
Heigl didn’t like the movie because she hated the way women were portrayed in it. Men were shown as funny and loveable and women — as uptight and humorless. Her character Heigl called a “killjoy.”
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