10 Actors Who Distanced Themselves From What Made Them Great

It's hard to imagine that Marlon Brando ever truly enjoyed the art of acting, as he often seemed to rebel against anything and anyone who crossed paths with him on a film set.

Take your pick from him arriving on set overweight and exuding little professionalism in his role as Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979) to screenwriter Ron Hutchinson claiming that the actor was 'hell-bent on sabotaging' the film he wrote in The Island of Dr Moreau (1996), Brando did what he wanted and seemed to have no issue in lashing out at the projects he had been signed up to.

Yet, you'd imagine that he reserved a small bit of gratitude for the role that shot him into the Hollywood stratosphere to begin with, right?

Yeah...no.

Brando went as far as to state that he 'detested' his breakout performance as Stanely Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and grew to hate the 'sexy outlaw' that the part would go on to represent.

Never one to allow himself to be type-cast, Brando swam against the tide that yearned for him to appear in roles that ask for a similar performance from him and instead defined himself as one of the greatest actors to have ever lived with iconic portrayals in The Godfather (1972) and Last Tango in Paris (also 1972).