15 Actors Who Trashed Their Own Movies
11. Charlize Theron - Reindeer Games (2000)
Films are incredibly complex productions with too many moving parts for all to go swimmingly every time. Sometimes a project attracts the actor, and sometimes it’s the captain of the ship that draws in the top talent.
Such was the case for Charlize Theron when filming Reindeer Games, the 2000 flop she has noted as a low point in her film career taken almost exclusively to work with a certain director, per People:
“Reindeer Games. That was a bad, bad, bad movie. But even though the movie might suck, I got to work with [director] John Frankenheimer. I wasn’t lying to myself – that’s why I did it.”
A far cry from his peak in 1962 with the Manchurian Candidate and Birdman of Alcatraz, Frankenheimer failed to hit the mark with Reindeer Games, to the point where even one of its two lead stars and a major fan can’t defend it.