10 Actors Who Instantly Regretted Movie Roles

7. Bill Murray Figured Out Too Late It Was The Wrong Coen - Garfield

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Sometimes the news of a certain esteemed creative from within the moviemaking sphere being attached to a project is enough to convince even the most high-profile of acting sensation to sign on to appear in a flick without so much as proof reading a contract.

However, in the case of the unmistakable voice of Garfield himself Bill Murray, a knee-jerk reaction to the sight of an apparent Coen being the person responsible for bringing the words of the iconic cat into being for this 2004 animated adventure ultimately came back to haunt him.

As Murray would reveal in a conversation with GQ, after reading off his scripted lines upon recording the voice of the well-known feline for the flick and regularly finding himself thinking "That's the line? Well, I can't say that," the star eventually demanded to see the rest of the flick to discover "what we're dealing with."

It was here, whilst regularly declaring "What the f**k was Coen thinking?", that Murray was informed that "It wasn't written by that Joel Coen."

There and then, the Groundhog Day superstar knew he'd made a catastrophic error, very much reinforcing his instantly iconic Zombieland utterance of "Well, maybe Garfield" when asked if his fictional Murray had any regrets.

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