8 Actors Who Walked Out On Famous Movies

8. Kenpachirô Satsuma - Godzilla

At this point it feels like pretty low hanging fruit to hurl stones at the wholly disappointing attempt to revitalise a beloved big screen lizard that was 1998's Godzilla. But long before the film had gone on to be one of the major duds of its time, a star who actually wasn't attached to the project in any real way foreshadowed the eventual backlash heading its way.

Kenpachirô Satsuma had been invited to Roland Emmerich's disaster of a movie due to his previous work as the titanic reptile, donning the suit of the famous King of the Monsters during a bunch of Toho's Japanese Godzilla movies from 1984 - 1995. With this level of connection to the role, it didn't take long for Satsuma to pick a number of holes in the then-latest depiction of his beloved creature. And in the end, Satsuma thought to hell with it and left the theatre early, claiming, "It’s not Godzilla, it doesn’t have the spirit."

Again, it's not difficult to see where the star was coming from, with Emmerich's Godzilla getting universally panned and being classed as largely forgettable by those fans who rocked up to see their gigantic guy strut his stuff.