20 Movies and TV Shows That Made Actors QUIT Genres

Being a movie star is a dream job for many for plenty of reasons, one of which is - on paper - the creative freedom that comes with it. Want to build a name in one specific genre? Great. Want to branch out and try as many different types of roles as possible? Also great.

Different actors can take vastly different approaches to this on both the big screen and the little. Some leave roles behind, often after one outing, often after years or possibly even decades, but there are also those situations that see actors swear off entire genres altogether.

It's not hard to imagine serious actors having no interest in making silly comedies, those that can't sing wanting to stay away from musicals, or some not being drawn towards horror films simply because they don't enjoy watching them. However, plenty of actors have dipped their toes or spent many years in certain styles of films or TV series and have refused to go back after a particular project.

Whether because of a bad experience, a fear of being typecast, or because a job was so enjoyable and so perfect that to try and recreate it with something similar would only end in disappointment, these actors all left certain genres in the end.

Jennifer Lawrence has just about done it all. She has starred in multiple blockbuster franchises, she has done sci-fi, comedy, drama, a spy thriller, and of course took home an Academy Award for her role in The Silver Linings Playbook at just 22 years old.

As well as all of this, she has dipped a toe into the world of horror. This came with the likes of The House at the End of the Street, and most notably Mother! The latter was one of the most divisive films in recent memory, with Lawrence being just as horrified as many of those who watched it.

Daren Aronofsky's 2013 effort is incredibly creepy, in which a cult overtakes the house of Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem's characters. The latter seemed happy enough, while the former understandably took exception. Things escalate throughout the film, until Lawrence's character has a child, who is swiftly passed around by the cult living in her house, killed, and eaten.

Lawrence herself once said that filming that scene was the worst feeling of her life, and that she didn't know if she would ever make such a movie again. In fairness, there aren't too many quite like Mother!, but regardless, she has stayed away from horror ever since.