10 Actors Who Distanced Themselves From What Made Them Great
7. Alec Guinness - Star Wars
The Force was clearly never strong with Sir Alec Guinness and Star Wars fans around the world all know by now that he didn't particularly enjoy his significant connection to the galaxy far, far away.
Being an Academy Award winning actor (for his role as Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957) Guinness was an inspired choice for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas' original trilogy and his part in the first film even landed him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 50th iteration of the Oscars.
Yet, Guinness still didn't feel as though he was a part of anything special, crapping all over the 'rubbish dialogue' on 'wadges of pink paper' that didn't make his character 'clear or even bearable'.
If his time on set wasn't to his liking, the swell of fan support that followed the seismic success of the series made Guinness resent ever taking the role in the first place.
In countless interviews post-Kenobi, Guinness never shied away from his disliking of the experience and admitted that he 'shrivelled up' whenever Star Wars was mentioned to him.
Guinness obviously had a legendary career before he ever stepped foot into the Sci-Fi genre and clearly felt that - even though he had now endeared himself to countless hoards of adoring fanatics - his work before he first donned the Jedi cloak in 1977 had now been masked by the pop culture phenomenon.