10 Actors Who Hated Their Own Movies

Similarly to Paul Newman back in the mid-1950s, it didn't matter that Elizabeth Taylor earned herself an award for her performance in 1960's drama BUtterfield 8 - an Academy Award for Best Actress, no less - she still detested the movie she starred in.

Taylor actually didn't want to show up in that picture, and only agreed to make the movie to fulfil a contractual obligation to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that would mean she could then leave to work with 20th Century Fox and make a film you may have heard of called Cleopatra.

Along with noting how "it stinks" after watching the Daniel Mann movie for the first time, it was later shown during the 2024 documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes just how much she hated everything about BUtterfield 8, with the star saying:

"I hated it so much. I thought, "f**k them!" - they made me do the film. I didn't want to. I did it with a pistol at my head. The lines were so diabolical. It was such a piece of sh*t. And it made me angry. And out of the anger, it kind of gave me an incentive. It was done out of anger."

Even with all of that anger and frustration over playing call girl Gloria Wandrous in this film she was forced to do, the icon still managed to produce an Oscar-winning performance. Though she did actually note how she felt she only won the award because she'd ended up in hospital due to pneumonia around that time (via AARP):

"I won the award for my tracheotomy. It must have been some kind of sympathy thing because the movie was so embarrassing. It’s just dreadful."