Why Do Actors Bad-Mouth Their Own Movies?

KATHERINE HEIGL | KNOCKED UP (2007)
“It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. 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? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”

Why is her character such a killjoy? Maybe it’s because she was accidentally impregnated by a doughy pothead stranger with zero ambition — that would make pretty much anyone something of a killjoy.

MARK WAHLBERG | THE HAPPENING (2008)
“I was such a huge fan of Amy Adams. We’d actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. I don’t want to tell you what movie. All right, The Happening. Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it. You can’t blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher.”

Huh? You wanted to play a science teacher, so that’s why you agreed to do a terrible movie about a science teacher who’s running away from trees? Or whatever? If nothing else, we credit him for playing an intelligent man who’s a role model for children, since it’s so against type.