10 Actors Who Knew The Movie Was Doomed On Day 1
5. Jamie Lee Curtis - Virus
Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the straightest shooters you'll ever find in Hollywood and has never been scared to speak her mind about her past projects, success or failure.
But there's one movie in her filmography that she regards as a unique brand of misfire, and that's 1999's sci-fi horror film Virus.
Beyond praise for its visual effects, the film was near-universally panned by critics, and despite Universal splashing out on action figures and video game tie-ins, it failed to recoup even half of its $75 million price tag.
In an interview with WENN back in 2010, Curtis singled out Virus as the only film in her career where she went into it knowing it was a dud and was unable to do anything to change that fact. She said:
"That's a piece of s**t movie. It's an unbelievably bad movie; just bad from the bottom... It was maybe the only time I've known something was just bad and there was nothing I could do about it. I just do the best I can and there have been bad movies that have been wildly successful and great movies that have tanked, so you never know."
Curtis seems to have a sense of humour about its failure, though, telling IGN in 2003 that it's fun to compare terrible movies with her friends in the business:
"That's the only good reason to be in bad movies. Then when your friends have [bad] movies you can say 'Ahhhh, I've got the best one. I'm bringing Virus.'"
Never change, Jamie Lee.