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ACTORS WHO HATE THE ROLES THEY'RE KNOWN FOR

We have all seen them on our screens playing some of our favourite movie characters. But, little do we know the character we love so much is not the same for the actors who play them.

Take famous star Kate Winslet, who is wildly known for her role as Rose in the movie Titanic. Kate does not hate the movie, however, she's not too thrilled with her performance as Rose. "Every single scene, I'm like 'Really, really? You did it like that? Oh my God...Even my American accent, I can't listen to it. It's awful. Hopefully it's so much better now. It sounds terribly self-indulgent but actors do tend to be very self-critical. I have a hard time watching any of my performances, but watching Titanic I was just like, 'Oh God, I want to do that again.'"

Another famous series that hit the screens, is known as Gossip Girl. However, Blake Lively was not to thrilled about her part. Lively explained in an interview with Allure that playing such a privileged and troubled character on Gossip Girl was at times "personally compromising", and added that "It's a weird thing when people feel like they know you really well, and they don't."

"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. People loved it, but it always felt a little personally compromising – you want to be putting a better message out there," she said. "The lines become blurred… It doesn't help when everybody is dating who they're dating on the show, and you're also saying to the costume designer, 'Hey, can I take that home?'"

Another Gossip Girl star, Penn Badgley, did not exactly hate his character, however, he did reference the show and its flaws on multiple occasions.  "Lol shit we are *reclining* on New York City. I'm posted up like its a futon. Talk about an image of white privilege. To be proud of something is a really nice feeling...and it’s a new feeling. It’s something that I wanna keep going with."

Famous comedian actor, Jim Carrey, who starred in the 2013 thriller, Kick-Ass 2, revealed that "I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook, and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence."

Shia Labeouf, who played Mutt in the 2008 film, Indiana Jones, was not impressed with his role and how he played a part in the movie. "I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. You get to monkey-swinging and things like that, and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg]. But the actor's job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple."

Shia was also not very impressed with his role in Transformers: revenge of the fallen. He admitted that  "I wasn't impressed with what we did...there were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone. It's just a bunch of fighting robots."

Jason Bateman, played one of the lead characters in Horrible Bosses 2, and it was not what he expected. "The second one was garbage, as far as box office goes. Who knows whether it was on the merits or when they released it, but it did not do any money."

The famous legacy of James Bond has continued for several of years. Daniel Craig, who has played Bond since 2005, is no doubt tired of the 007 series. "Now? I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That's fine. I'm over it at the moment. We're done. All I want to do is move on."


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