Carrey has distanced himself from Kick-Ass 2 on Twitter. Which other actors have put the boot into one of their own projects?
Kick-Ass 2 should have resurrected Jim Carrey's career. It promised to be the antidote to Carrey's current professional malaise. The public have grown sick of watching him dance with cartoon penguins or conduct wildly age-inappropriate relationships while acting as a weird cinematic representation of Danny Wallace, and he knows it. So signing up for a minor yet indelible role in an edgy ensemble such as Kick-Ass 2 seemed like a masterstroke.
But, now that Carrey has gone out of his way to distance himself from the film on Twitter, who knows what'll happen? However, Carrey is by no means the first actor to besmirch his own projects. Here are some other notable instances.
I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
David Cross v Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
After he was criticised for appearing in the first two Chipmunks films, David Cross attempted to get out of the third. When this failed, he resorted to plan B – badmouthing the film on television as soon as it was released. "It was the most miserable experience I've ever had," he told Conan O'Brien. "I was forced at legal-point to spend a week on a cruiseship ... The scenes that take place on the cruiseship, I am always in a pelican outfit where you cannot see any of my flesh, nor do I have any dialogue", before calling one producer: "The personification of what people think about when they think negatively about Jews."
Megan Fox v Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Everyone probably knows that the Transformers films aren't much cop. However, it's probably not a good idea to say any of this out loud if you're one of the stars of the Transformer films. During an interview with CBS to promote Transformers 2, Megan Fox said: "I'm in the movie, and I read the script, and I watched the movie, and I still didn't know what was happening. If you haven't read the script and you go and understand it, you may be a genius." Shortly afterwards, she compared Michael Bay to Hitler and was dropped from Transformers 3. But Bay had the last laugh. He cast Fox in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, which looks dreadful. The moral here is don't mess with Michael Bay.
Mark Wahlberg v The Happening
In M Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Mark Walhberg played a man who was scared of trees and spoke as if there was a screwdriver lodged deep into his brain. It was terrible, and Walhberg himself came to realise this two years later by describing it during a press conference as "a bad movie that I did ... Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it." But then he made Broken City, so let's not start kidding ourselves that his quality control is back on track.
Wesley Snipes v Blade: Trinity
A year before he was charged with tax fraud, Wesley Snipes attempted to sue the producers of Blade: Trinity for $5m, hinting at strife behind the scenes. Then, last year, his co-star Patton Oswalt decided to explain exactly what happened in an interview with AV Club. After an on-set fight over a T-shirt, Oswalt claims that Snipes tried to strangle the director, prompting the director to hire heavies from a strip club as his security, prompting Snipes to communicate for the rest of the shoot with only Post-it notes signed "From Blade".
Angus T Jones v Two and a Half Men
The greatest-ever example of actor-based self-sabotage, though, comes from Angus T Jones, the half-man from the sitcom Two and a Half Men. At some point in the recent past, Jones discovered religion and used YouTube to work through the conflict between his faith and his job. His job lost spectacularly. Jones didn't just rail against the TV show he worked on, he managed to rail against TV sets themselves, saying: "If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men, and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. People say it's just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you, you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/shortcuts/2013/jun/24/jim-carrey-kick-ass-2
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