The actors who hated their roles –

George Clooney couldn’t stand Batman & Robin

There are very, very few interpretations of major, beloved characters in film history that have been more wrong, or more laughed at, than when old man Clooney took on the role of Batman in Schumacher’s ultra-rare 1997 mockery of the world’s greatest detective. Clooney hated wearing the suit during filming, thought the script was embarrassingly bad and was adamant for years that he would ruin Batman forever. “Let me say that I actually thought I had destroyed the franchise until someone else brought it back years later and changed it.”

Ben Affleck has regrets about Daredevil

Affleck only picked up the role of Marvel’s blind vigilante because childhood friend and comic book symbol Kevin Smith said he would run over him with his van if he didn’t, and as we all know, this tacky mess turned into one of the worst comic book adaptations of all time. Ben has expressed regret on several occasions for accepting the role in the first place, and has also said the following about the film itself: “I hate Daredevil so much.”

Matt Damon loathed The Bourne Ultimatum

As incredibly timelessly iconic as the first film in this beloved sequel is, the third film in the series is just as problematic, at least if you ask lead actor Matt Damon who loathed this film and hated working on Tony Gilroy’s script. “I don’t blame Tony Gilroy for taking a boatload of money and turning in what he turned in. It’s just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. It’s terrible. It’s really embarrassing. He took his money and left.”

Sally Field hated The Amazing Spiderman

The experienced, award-winning Sally Field accepted the role of Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man purely for the sake of the hefty paycheck, something she has cursed in several recent interviews. “It’s really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it, and you work on it as much as you can, but you can’t put 10 pounds of shit in a five-pound bag.”

Emilia Clarke was not a fan of Terminator Genisys

This was an incredibly pointless movie, but it was based on a pretty good idea. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the cast had a very dull time at work during the 16 weeks of filming that apparently went into it, and lead actress Emilia Clarke has said on several occasions that she thanked the gods for the fact that it flopped, meaning she didn’t have to return to make the sequels that were originally planned. “Alan Taylor was eaten up and chewed up on Terminator. He wasn’t the director I remembered. He wasn’t having a good time. Nobody was having a good time.”

Daniel Craig hated working on Skyfall

By the time it was time for Craig to reprise the role of Agent 007 for the third time in Skyfall, the actor was already deadly bored with the role itself. In several interviews after filming, he told the film press that he would rather “slit his wrists” than play James Bond again, which (according to his signed contract) he did anyway. “I’d rather break this glass and slit my wrists than do another Bond movie, sorry. The best acting is when you don’t worry about the surface. And Bond is the opposite of that.”

Robert Pattinson can’t stand Twilight

Our current Batman, as we all know, broke through (loud, big, wide) in the role of the extremely old-fashioned vampire Edward in the Twilight films, something he says he regrets today. In an interview with British film magazine Empire, he said the following about his role: “The more I read the script, the more I hated this man, so that’s how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Also, he’s a 108-year-old virgin, so he obviously has some problems there.”

Colin Farrell had trouble with Miami Vice

When Michael Mann returned to his hard-boiled police Crocket & Tubbs in 2006, he did so with confidence and delivered a dark and extraordinarily hard-boiled police thriller steeped in atmosphere, but lead actor Farrell had problems with the script during filming and has subsequently said he doesn’t like how the film turned out. “I didn’t like it that much. I thought it was style over substance.”

Channing Tatum loathes G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra

Super-cute hunkabunka king Tatum, who danced his way into the hearts of all the elated women with Soderberg’s striptease film Magic Mike, has made a few films that, in retrospect, he really can’t stand. One is 2009’s Rise of Cobra. In a high-profile interview in 2020, Tatum said he really “hates” the film. “I fucking hate that movie. I was forced to do it. The script was no good.”