Daniel Craig has been told by movie executives to "shut up" after saying he'd rather slit his wrists than play Bond again.
Daniel Craig has been told by movie executives to "shut up" after saying he'd rather slit his wrists than play Bond again.
Daniel Craig was told to shut up by Sony executives after he said he'd rather slash his wrists than star in another Bond film. Here are five other times stars have hated their own work.
1. Robert Pattinson: Twilight
Pattinson's open hatred of the movie trilogy that made him a star is the gift that keeps on giving. His clear disdain for the movies has produced many entertaining moments in interviews over the years, including the time he told an interviewer he would "just mindlesslyhate" the franchise if he hadn't been involved in it.
Robert Pattinson and co-star Kristen Stewart in a scene from the movie Twilight.
Another time he ridiculed strange parts of the plot. "There's a lot of stuff in the Twilight world that doesn't make sense. It's like, 'Why are they still going to high school?' It doesn't ... they're 100 years old."
Fox starred in Michael Bay's first two Transformers movies, but in 2009 she marred their relationship for good after comparing Bay to one of history's worst dictators.
Megan Fox starred in the Transformers movies.
"He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all."
Fox also slammed the quality of Bay's movies, saying Transformers was more focused on special effects than good acting.
3. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan: 50 Shades of Grey
Far from the steamy relationship the pair appear to share on screen, Johnson and Dornan's off-screen chemistry was so dire and their dislike of one another so obvious, one interviewer dubbed their press tour "50 Shades of Sigh".
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star in the film 50 Shades of Grey.
Johnson went so far as to ask fans not to see the movie, saying she didn't want her family to see it before casting the net wider. "I don't want my family to see [the movie], because it's inappropriate. Or my brothers' friends, who I grew up with. I think they'd be like, 'Blegh.' Also there's part of me that's like, I don't want anyone to see this movie."
Dornan worried his role as the domineering Christian Grey was going to be a career killer, comparing the popularity of the books that inspired the movie to ... you guessed it ... Hitler.
"Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good. Think of Hitler," he said.
4. Katherine Heigl: Knocked Up
Heigl copped a lot of flak following a 2008 Vanity Fair interview where she called Knocked Up, the movie that made her a big screen star, "a little sexist".
"It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys," she said.
Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen star in the film Knocked Up.
"It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it on some days. I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you're portraying women?"
Although Heigl was making a fair point and even qualified her statements, saying it was an amazing experience "98 per cent of the time," the backlash was unforgiving.
Co-star Seth Rogen called Heigl "batshit crazy" in a subsequent radio interview and director Judd Apatow said she owed him an apology.
5. Christopher Plummer: Sound of Music
The beloved classic is usually considered a timeless crowdpleaser, but Plummer, who starred in the film as Captain von Trapp, is not among its fans and has been known to refer to the film as 'The Sound of Mucus'.
Veteran actor Christopher Plummer has often criticised the movie The Sound of Music
Now in his 80s, the actor has long been open about his dislike of the movie, which he accuses of being overly sentimental and "gooey".
