5 Famous Actors Who Hate Their Most Iconic Roles

[Raz0r]

Most actors spend their entire lives waiting for that one role that will make them famous -- most never find it, and that's why we don't have to carry our food ourselves in restaurants. But then there are some performers who finally get their lucky break, that magical part that they'll forever be linked to ... and they fucking hate it. Here are five famous actors we probably wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a character they despise.

See the list here: http://www.cracked.com/article_20573_5-famous-actors-who-hate-their-most-iconic-roles.html

[Guest Len B'stard]

Brando didn't hate the role he hated the character.

[Dazey]

Brando didn't hate the role he hated the character.

Brando loved rolls. Bacon mostly.

[Guest Len B'stard]

Brando didn't hate the role he hated the character.

Brando loved rolls. Bacon mostly.

You're actually spot on right there Also:

The Men” (Brando’s first film), says Marlon’s diet at the time consisted of “junk food, take out, and peanut butter”, which he consumed by the jarful. By the mid-fifties, Marlon had become renowned for eating boxes of Mallomars and Cinnamon Buns, and washing his sweet treats down with a quart of milk.

Marlon would go on extreme crash diets in the fifties and sixties, but then would lose his willpower. He would subsequently gorge on huge breakfasts consisting of corn flakes, sausages, eggs, bananas and cream, and a huge stack of pancakes drenched in maple syrup. (One of Brando’s nicknames for himself was “Branflakes”.)

Kark Malden, a close friend, said that during the shooting of “One Eyed Jacks” (1961) Brando would eat “two steaks, potatoes, two apple pies a la mode, and a quart of milk” for dinner. This diet necessitated the constant altering of his costumes during filming. Because of this, at his birthday party that year, the crew gave Marlon a belt as his present with the card, “Hope it fits”. His birthday cake was labeled “Don’t feed the director” (Brando was the director of “One Eyed Jacks”).

His second wife, Movita, actually put a lock on the house refrigerator. But when she awoke one morning, the lock was broken and Marlon’s teeth marks were found on a round of cheese. The house maid told Mrs. Brando that Marlon made nighttime raids on the icebox routinely.

Brando also loved to frequent hot dog stands late at night, particularly the L.A. hot dog joint Pink’s at 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning, where he’d wolf down as many as six hot dogs at a time.

Not surprisingly from these gorge-fests, the costumer on “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1962), James Taylor, claims Brando split 52 pairs of pants during the shooting of the film, due to his wild swings in weight. This necessitated a stretch fabric be used on his wardrobe replacement clothes. He split these pants too. During this time, Marlon was also once observed taking a 5-gallon tub of ice cream and rowing himself out in the lagoon to indulge himself.

On the set of “The Apaloosa” (1966) Marlon’s double once had to be used in long shots simply because Marlon had eaten one of his gorge-fest lunches.

Dick Loving (yes, that really was his name), who married Marlon’s sister, Frannie, said Marlon would eat “two chickens at a sitting and (go) through an entire Pepperidge Farm cookies [package]“.

In what was possibly Marlon’s strangest eating exploit, it was reported that during the filming of “Missouri Breaks” (1976), he fished a frog out of a pond, took a bite out of it, and put it back in the drink… when you’re hungry, you’re hungry I guess.

Before filming “Apocalypse Now” (1979), Marlon devoutly promised to lose weight, but he just couldn’t do it. Subsequently, his character is shown in the shadows for much of the film to hide his Buddha-like belly. A 6′ 5″ double was used in long shots by director Francis Ford Coppola to “give the character more stature”.

By the 1980s, it was reported that one of Brando’s girlfriends had left him because he wouldn’t keep his promise to lose weight. He always seemed to be dieting, but the pounds weren’t coming off much. Unknown to her, he had some of his buddies throw bags of Burger King Whoppers over the gates of his Mulholland Drive estate.

Later in the ’80s, Marlon was routinely spotted at a Beverly Hills ice cream parlor buying five gallon containers of ice cream- which he would eat all himself. Reportedly, one of his favorite “snacks” around this time was a full pound of cooked bacon placed in an entire loaf of bread. During these years, the 5′ 10″ Marlon’s weight would balloon up to an incredible 350 pounds at one point.

[SunnyDRE]

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Edited September 19, 2013 by SunnyDRE

[dalsh327]

I think most actors at some point hate the roles they became famous for, but it's when fans call Sean Penn "Spicoli" or something along those lines where they hate being identified as the character.

I think Alec Guinness hated Obi Wan in a big way because he had done a lot of great films, and the one he liked the least was the one people wanted him to sign autographs for. Heard he got pretty nasty about it.

Connery did "Never Say Never Again" as a favor to an old friend, so I don't think he completely hated the character.

Robert Pattinson's comment about Stephanie Meyer was funny.

Bill Cosby discouraged people from going to see Leonard Part 6, and Brando had put down The Freshman even though it's pretty good.

[Redhead74]

It's funny isn't it, but no one can estimate how big a character can become and before they know it they're typecast forever in that role. No one can seem to envision or wants to see them play any other type of character. Marilyn Monroe suffered the same thing. She was actually a much more talented actress than she is given credit for yet all she got was the 'dumb blonde' roles.

Musicians suffer the same thing too. I remember reading that Jani Lane from Warrant regretted ever writing Cherry Pie. He said it was the biggest piece of shit song he ever wrote and its all he was ever credited as doing. He could never escape it. But he also made a shitload of money from that one piece of shit song, so I don't really know what he was whining about?

[dalsh327]

It's funny isn't it, but no one can estimate how big a character can become and before they know it they're typecast forever in that role. No one can seem to envision or wants to see them play any other type of character. Marilyn Monroe suffered the same thing. She was actually a much more talented actress than she is given credit for yet all she got was the 'dumb blonde' roles.

Musicians suffer the same thing too. I remember reading that Jani Lane from Warrant regretted ever writing Cherry Pie. He said it was the biggest piece of shit song he ever wrote and its all he was ever credited as doing. He could never escape it. But he also made a shitload of money from that one piece of shit song, so I don't really know what he was whining about?

Hit songs pay the bills, and there's always going to be demand somewhere in the world to see them perform. It might be off the beaten path, but there will be a stage and a microphone waiting for them. When it comes to actors, it depends if they were defined by a movie or a TV series, or had enough of a body of work where a successful show wasn't going to hinder them from getting roles in the future. I also think TV actors will do the independent films just so they have something else out there.