12 Actors Who Slammed Their Own Movie Before Release
2. Jared Leto - Suicide Squad
Sometimes, from the first second you see a film or a character in a given role, you know it's gonna tank. It worked with the "revamped" Superman in Justice League with that lack-of-a-moustache, and once we got eyes on Leto's Joker having "Damaged" tattooed across his forehead, it was a recipe for disaster.
It came as no surprise, then, that after all this, even Leto himself wasn't pleased with the final product.
Speaking to IGN on the day of the movie, Jared was asked about a lack of Joker scenes in the full movie, only to say,
“Were there any that didn’t get cut? I’m asking you, were there any that didn’t get cut? There were so many scenes that got cut from the movie, I couldn’t even start. I think that the Joker… we did a lot of experimentation on the set, we explored a lot. There’s so much that we shot that’s not in the film.”
Of course, Suicide Squad's godawful hyper-stylisation, hackneyed pacing and terrible everything ensured it was a critical bomb regardless, but the Heath Ledger-successor himself knew that way before the rest of us.