15 Actors Who Were Forced, Tricked, Or Bamboozled Into Doing Movies They Hated

For legal reasons, he also had to wait until a year after the movie’s release to talk about his frustrations with the production publicly. 

He told Entertainment Weekly, “I just said, ‘I’ll do it, but it’s the wrong version. Deadpool isn’t correct in it.’”

The movie was shot during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, so he also had to write all of his lines himself.

In her countersuit, Goldberg claimed that she never agreed to do the film, but producer Richard Abramson found a recording of a conversation in which she said she was “100% committed” to it on his answering machine.

After several mediations, they met out of court, and Goldberg agreed to do the movie for $7 million instead of the initial offer of $5 million. She also banned Abramson from set.

Costar Amy Hill told the AV Club that Myers was a “diva” on set. She said, “I don’t think he got to know anybody. He’d just be with his people and walk away. People would come and then he’d stand there. There was a guy who held his chocolates in a little Tupperware. Whenever he needed chocolate, he’d come running over and give him a chocolate.”

Initially, Portman was excited to join the film because, with Jenkins at its helm, it would’ve been the first superhero film to be directed by a woman. 

Jenkins was replaced by Alan Taylor, but she still went on to become the first woman to direct a superhero film with Wonder Woman. 

She told The Howard Stern Show, “It was a bit of a heartbreaker for me. I take such pride in the decisions that I make, and they mean so much to me, the films that I do.”

The production also hit continuous delays. In a Reddit AMA, Murray said, “It was sort of like Fantastic Mr. Fox without the joy or the fun.”

The studio paid Scheider four times more for the sequel than they paid him for the original Jaws.

She told Movie Web, “It’s such a shame, honestly, because once Kevin [Feige] took over [Marvel Studios], everything there was elevated: the writing, the direction, the comedy inside of the stories they were telling. And I did not have that experience.”

Decades later, however, he begged to be included in Top Gun: Maverick. 

In his memoir, he wrote, “I’d not only contacted the producers but created heartrending scenes with Iceman…The producers went for it. [Tom] Cruise went for it.”

His attorneys alleged that he felt “that he was betrayed and lied to by Paramount executives.”

Bettany told the Guardian, “I found it a peculiarly unsatisfying experience because [director Lars von Trier] has no interest in you being any part of the cerebral process with him. You’re absolutely his puppet.”

While he’s purposefully never watched the film himself, he clarified that the director “is extraordinary and he is a sensation.”

Screenwriter Tony Gilroy negotiated a deal to only turn in one draft of the script with no notes or rewrites for “an exorbitant amount of money.”

Damon told GQ, “It’s really the studio’s fault for putting themselves in that position. … He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left.”

Stallone described the movie as “one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen.”

It earned him his fourth Razzie for Worst Actor.