These 35 Actors Are Literally Embarrassed By The Roles That Made Them Famous
Hannah Marder
These 35 Actors Are Literally Embarrassed By The Roles That Made Them Famous
In an actor’s career, they’re bound to have good and bad performances. However, with the bad performances, it’s rare that an actor themselves actually admits to faults in their own acting.
Here are 35 times actors have been critical of their past performances, cringed watching them, or were straight-up embarrassed by them.
1. Elizabeth Olsen was not a fan of her performance in the pilot of WandaVision. “We did a live audience for the first episode, and that was the first thing we shot,” Olsen said. “It was very confusing how to play to the camera.”
You can watch her work in the first episode here:
Watch a bit of her performance here:
Watch a bit of her performance here:
“I felt like I was in a period-piece sometimes,” Brosnan continued. “Because I could hear echoes or sensations of Connery or of Roger, which I didn’t try to censor; I’d just allow them to come in.” He also told the Telegraph, “I have no desire to watch myself as James Bond. ‘Cause it’s just never good enough. It’s a horrible feeling.”
Watch a bit of his performance here:
Check out his singing here:
“I practiced and practiced and practiced but the thing with Les Mis is that it was real so that’s what we sounded like. In Sweeney, I had people making me sound better than I am but not for this.” She went on to say, “I would do another singing (film) role if someone else was foolish enough to employ me but I wouldn’t do a stage musical. I don’t have a strong enough voice. Maybe for one night but with singing it’s like any muscle, it doesn’t last.”
Listen to her singing here:
Listen to her singing here:
Listen to her sing here:
Watch the scene here:
Nicole said of the film, “I can’t look at this movie and be proud of what I’ve done. I sat there and I looked at Keith [Urban] and went, ‘Am I any good in this movie?’ … It’s just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all.”
You can watch some of her performance here (there is an animal death in this clip, so be warned!):
When asked if she’d do things differently if she could go back, Silverman said, “Yeah! I’m funnier. I’m so much funnier. The fact that Lorne Michaels saw anything in me at that age and at that time for me where I don’t think I was close to where I would become is impressive for him.”
Watch a clip of her performance here:
Check out Efron’s dancing in “The Boys Are Back” here:
Watch a clip of his performance here:
Watch a clip of his performance here:
You can watch Hunnam reacting to the clip here:
Check out his performance here:
Watch a piece of her performance here:
Watch a piece of Watson’s performance here:
Eddie said, “My character had had his larynx ripped out by this wolf man, and so I made the slightly bold choice — which I thought was right. I won a prize for it for the Worst Performance of the Year. So, yeah, it was a pretty bad performance on my account.”
If you’re wondering what we mean about the accent, check out this video of his performance:
Watch a clip of his performance here:
Check out Bale’s performance here:
Prefacing showing the video by saying she was “a little baby” and that she was a little embarrassed, she went on to say, “You hope that as the years go on, as with any job, that you get better at your craft, so looking back on this as the years go by, I get more mortified and more mortified when I watch it because I just see little me extremely nervous, this being the first big audition I’d ever done.”
You can watch the whole video here:
Watch the opening of the ceremony here:
Watch a scene from the second film here:
Watch scenes with Megan here:
Watch her in the film here:
However, she later said, “I was a little defensive about my season because I thought I hadn’t had a great one. And a lot of that had to do with me and my performances,” suggesting that she wasn’t happy with her own performance that season.
Watch some of her Season 4 scenes here:
Watch some of her performance here:
He stated that he was particularly unhappy with his acting in the sixth film: “I’m just not very good in it. I hate it. My acting is very one-note, and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn’t come across.”
Watch a scene from the film here:
Watch a scene from the film here:
“It’s not the writing’s fault, but it was something that I couldn’t figure out. I knew in the second half of the film, I was playing the gimmick of what was real in the first half — until the last scene — and it bugged the [expletive] out of me.” He ended up winning a Golden Globe for his performance.
Watch some of his performance here:
Watch some of his scenes here:
Watch some of his performance here:
Watch her in the film here:
Watch his scenes here:
Which one surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments below!