10 Actors Who Hated Working On Star Wars

10. Terrence Stamp (Supreme Chancellor Valorum)

The Star Wars prequels are absolutely packed with terrific actors who were thoroughly wasted on George Lucas' experimental blockbuster trilogy, and few more egregiously than the brilliant Terrence Stamp.

He makes a brief cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace as Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, who is ultimately booted out of the Senate and replaced with Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).

In an interview with Empire magazine, Stamp didn't have many kind words to say about shooting his small role, nor working with George Lucas:

"We didn't get on at all...I didn't rate him that much as a director, really. I didn't feel like he was a director of actors; he was more interested in stuff and effects. He didn't interest me and I wouldn't think I interested him...I came all the way back from Australia to do it. I didn't want to but my agent leaned on me and I wanted to meet Natalie Portman because I'd seen her in [Leon]. And I did meet her and she was absolutely enchanting.

But on the day I'm supposed to do my scene with her, for which I'd travelled halfway around the world, I said, 'Where's Natalie?' And George says, 'That's Natalie,' and points to a bit of paper on the wall. It was just boring."

In addition to having little chance to flex his acting muscles in the role, Stamp also claimed the pay was poor, and that when he agreed to come back for a day of unpaid reshoots on the condition he receive a gift instead, he ended up getting...a set of Star Wars stencils.