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36 Creatives Who Wish They Could Take It All Back

January 14, 2024

It sure would be nice to take back the invention of the AK-47, or the modern cigarette, or the entire Harry Potter franchise. Unfortunately, there’s no unringing those bells.

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THE ACTOR: Will Smith THE ROLE: Cypher Raige in After Earth WHY НЕ Не calls it the most painful failure of my HATED IT: career, and says he stopped working for a year and a half, after it tanked. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Zac Efron THE ROLE: Troy in High School Musical Efron is definitely not a WHY НЕ fan. I step back and HATED IT: look at myself and I still want to kick that guy's ass sometimes. Like, f*ck that guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Sting THE ROLE: Feyd Rautha in Dune WHY НЕ Не says he had doubts from the beginning, but HATED IT: thought director David Lynch could pull it off. I should trust my instincts, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Arnold Schwarzenegger THE ROLE: Kalidor in Red Sonja WHY НЕ Не says the movie is so bad he uses it to punish HATED IT: his kids. They get sent to their rooms to watch it, when they misbehave. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Shia LaBeouf THE ROLE: Mutt Williams in Indiana Jones IV WHY НЕ The movie was bad, yes, but he says his acting HATED IT: made it worse. I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Sharon Stone THE ROLE: Catherine in Basic Instinct WHY SHE She didn't consent to the flash scene, and HATED IT: says she'd been told to remove her panties because the white was messing up the shot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Mark Wahlberg THE ROLE: Elliot Moore in The Happening of the Surface ДП would only have left. tically bent, his full extent. elf rance meaning no way of Kno as anybody 1 WHY НЕ F*ck it, he says. It is what it is. F*cking trees, HATED IT: man. The plants. His only consolation? At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Miley Cyrus THE ROLE: Title role in Hannah Montana WHY SHE Cyrus says being in the public eye at such a HATED IT: young age gave her body image issues, and sparked anxiety attacks and hot flashes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Megan Fox THE ROLE: Mikaela in Transformers WHY SHE Fox hated the eye-candy character and despised HATED IT: director Michael Bay. She says, Не wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and so he is. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Robert Pattinson THE ROLE: Edward in Twilight WHY НЕ Pattinson hated Edward from the moment he HATED IT: read the script, so that's how he played him: as a manic-depressive who hates himself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Malcolm McDowell THE ROLE: Alex in A Clockwork Orange WHY НЕ McDowell said he didn't get what people liked HATED IT: about the film, and resented being pigoneholed as that character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Kate Winslet THE ROLE: Rose in Titanic WHY SHE Winslet says she's mortified by her HATED IT: performance in the iconic role. Especially her American accent. Oh my God, I can't listen to it. It's awful. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Ewan McGregor THE ROLE: Frank Churchill in Emma WHY НЕ McGregor took the role to try something HATED IT: different, and regrets it. Не hates his acting in it, and says he had to wear the world's worst wig. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Josh Brolin THE ROLE: Title character in Jonah Нех Brolin hated the shoot, WHY НЕ and doesn't get how a HATED IT: movie with such an insane reshooting schedule still managed to be so terrible. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Jim Carrey THE ROLE: Col. Stars and Stripes in Kick Ass 2 After the 2012 Sandy WHY НЕ Hook school shooting, HATED IT: Carrey denounced the movie, saying he couldn't support all the gratuitous violence. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Carrie Fisher THE ROLE: Leia in the early Star Wars movies WHY SHE Fisher used to say she wouldn't have taken the HATED IT: role, if she'd known how big the franchise would become. She didn't like being famous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Daniel Radcliffe THE ROLE: Harry Potter in Half-Blood Prince WHY НЕ Не says he hates his performance in that one, HATED IT: and says watching it is like watching a mistake you made every day for 11 months. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Ben Affleck THE ROLE: Title role in Daredevil WHY НЕ I hate Daredevil so much, he says. One of HATED IT: the reasons he took the role of Batman was to get a superhero role right, after that one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Alec Guinness THE ROLE: Obi-Wan in Star Wars WHY НЕ Sir Alec famously said the film led to a HATED IT: worldwide taste for a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Cher THE ROLE: Tess in Burlesque WHY SHE She called the movie horrible, and says the HATED IT: director told her, I don't care about what you say, I just want to shoot the dance numbers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Christopher Plummer THE ROLE: Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music WHY НЕ Plummer's most famous role makes him cringe. HATED IT: It was so awful and sentimental and gooey, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: George Clooney THE ROLE: Batman in Batman & Robin WHY НЕ Clooney keeps a photo of himself as Batman in HATED IT: his office to remind himself not to make decisions based on commercial gain. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Channing Tatum THE ROLE: Duke in GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra WHY НЕ Look, l'll be honest, he says. I f*cking hate HATED IT: that movie. Не knew the script was bad but had to do it as part of a three-picture deal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE ACTOR: Jessica Alba THE ROLE: Susan Storm in Fantastic Four WHY SHE The director was like, 'It looks HATED IT: too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM LOUISE MAY ALCOTT THOUGHT LITTLE WOMEN WAS DULL. She returned to her passion of writing suspense tales of liberated women, having tired of providing moral pap for the young. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE FOUNDER OF MOTHER'S DAY WENT DOOR-TO-DOOR WITH PETITIONS TO RESCIND IT. Anna Jarvis was disgusted by how commercialized the holiday had become. She had created the holiday to memorialize her late mother. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE INVENTOR OF THE LABRADOODLE SAYS CREATING THE BREED WAS HIS LIFE'S REGRET. Wally Conron, the first breeder of the labradoodle, has claimed it opened a Pandora's box of unhealthy dog breeding. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 'II' IN SITES IS SORRY. http://w Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, said the said the double slashes after 'http' are unnecessary and that he didn't realize that the slashes would cause so much hassle. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE DEVELOPER OF WEAPONS-GRADE PEPPER SPRAY SPOKE OUT AGAINST ITS USE ON OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTERS. Kamran Loghman, who developed pepper spray with the FBI in the '80s, decries its use on people who have an opinion. — Source

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CRACKED.COM STEVE JOBS DIDN'T ALLOW THE IPAD IN HIS HOME. The founder of Apple thought they were too addictive for his children. — Source

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CRACKED COM GROA UNTAIN THE CREATOR - LA OF et THE K-CUP FEELS BAD Lte THAT НЕ MADE IT. Gloria Jean's COPFEES HAZELNUT ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED MEDIUM ROAST COFFEE KEURIO FRANCIA Original SH The ONUT The K-cups disposable, are bad for non-recyclable the BOLD OFFEE environment. John Sylan has tried to offer improvements to Keurig after he sold his company. LK — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE INVENTOR OF THE AK-47 SAID I WISH I'D MADE A LAWNMOWER. Although Mikhail Kalashnikov died saying he was proud of his invention, he said he wished he had made something that could have helped farmers instead. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE DEVELOPER OF FLAPPY BIRD DELETED IT FROM THE APP STORE BECAUSE IT RUINED HIS SIMPLE LIFE. Dong Nguyen didn't like the attention, criticism, and the addiction the game caused. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE CREATOR OF COMIC SANS DOESN'T LIKE TS ITS USE AS A TYPEFACE. TUITION CUTDA UEID arning pport Learning and Support Ge ntre 208 Vincent Connare created the font specifically for Microsoft Bob, a widely-despised 1995 interface that was meant to TUITIO make Windows more REVISIO user-friendly, and for use in TRA NIN MEETIN apps for kids. ROOMS — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MODERN CIGARETTES DIDN'T SMOKE THEM. James Buchanan Duke strictly smoked cigars. Ironically, cigarettes were supposed to be a healthier option to cigars, even though they are considered to be the deadliest artifact of history. — Source

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