6 Movie Roles That Got People Fired

Generally, having a role in a movie is something that gets you the good things in life - recognition and adoration from strangers, a nice chunk of cash, and if you're lucky even some awards.

But this doesn't always mean a film role is definitely a good thing, as for some cast members it can actually lead to work lost later down the line, for a multitude of reasons.

Due to internal conflicts, contract violations, or the sheer "objectionable" content of the film itself, sometimes a person's role in a specific piece of work only sabotages their future endeavours, as unfortunate as that is.

This is most common for those to whom acting isn't a full-time job, where an uncomfortable tension between their day-job and their acting side-hustle can, in extreme cases, cause them to lose their primary source of income.

Because everything even a bit-part actor does is written in ink online these days, you can end up fired from a job literally decades and decades after you appeared in a movie.

While in some cases everything worked out for the best in the end, you can't not feel immense sympathy for these actors whose movie role choices had an unexpected impact on their wider career paths...

We begin with what might be the most blatantly ridiculous and unfair of all the firings on this list.

Back in 2014, 73-year-old drama teacher Jacqueline Laurent-Auger was fired from her post at an elite Montreal school after students discovered she'd starred in a number of erotic dramas in the 1970s.

Most notably, Laurent-Auger appeared nude in 1973's sexy thriller Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac, and once word spread about her prior career, her bosses made the decision to fire her.

Laurent-Auger was incensed, naturally, that an acting role she'd accepted four decades earlier - which, again, was an actual dramatic film, not porn - was impacting her current work prospects. She said:

"I did it as a young actress to make a little money... The idea of throwing someone out the door for something they did almost 50 years ago is idiotic. It makes me angry."

Despite public outrage, the college held firm that the revelation made her position at the institution untenable, because the knowledge of her films affected the "atmosphere" of her classrooms. Awful.