10 Actors Who Hated Their Own Movies

Five years before he'd earn the first of 10 Oscar nominations (he'd eventually win the Best Actor statue in 1987 for The Color of Money), Paul Newman made his big screen debut in a movie adaptation of Thomas B. Costain's The Silver Chalice.

Even though he'd eventually go on to pick up a Golden Globe (New Star of the Year) for his work as Basil in that movie, the actor wasn't exactly the biggest fan of the film Victor Saville had directed. In fact, he went as far as to call it "the worst motion picture produced during the 1950s," as seen in the book, Paul Newman: A Life (via ByTheGods). There was even a point there when Newman went out of his way to apologise to people who would see the movie on a local Los Angeles TV station in 1963.

The actor coughed up $1,200 for adverts in the two daily newspapers found in the city, with Newman trying to stop people from having to sit through the work he thought was terrible. Instead of listening to his advice, though, folks tuned in to see if it was really as bad as he said it was, leading to some pretty good ratings.

Proving just how much he hated his debut film, Newman also reportedly told his eventual co-star Liev Schreiber, four decades after he made The Silver Chalice, that "when they ask you to do The Silver Chalice 2, don't do it!"

In other words, this chalice left quite the bitter taste in the late star's mouth.