30 Roles These Actors Would Rather Forget
and Lance Cartelli, for Metacritic – April 25, 2016
Every actor has that one role that they just can’t shake, the would-be blockbuster that seemed like a good idea at the time. Even Academy Award winners have critically panned movies on their resumes, and sometimes, those are the roles we remember the most.
So, enjoy! These are the roles these 30 big-time actors wish they could take back ...
Finally released in a few theaters last Friday (nearly a full two years after it originally debuted at Cannes), this biopic about legendary singer/activist Nina Simone was plagued by production problems and controversy surrounding the decision to cast Zoe Saldana as Simone despite the fact that the actress was a poor fit in age, voice, and appearance. Saldana, unfortunately, does little here to prove the critics wrong, though her performance is just one of numerous problems with the film.