Angus Jones (Two and a Half Men)
Angus
T. Jones became a household name, thanks to his role as Jake Harper on ‘Two and
a Half Men’.When he turned 17, he signed on to earn a record-breaking $7.8
million over two seasons.In 2012, though, Jones released an infamous YouTube
video in which he blasted his role and the show. “Jake from ‘Two and a
Half Men’ means nothing. He is a non-existent character. If you watch ‘Two and
a Half Men’, please stop watching [the series]. I’m on ‘Two and a Half Men’ and
I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with
filth,” he said. He continued in the role for two more years and appeared
in the series finale. It is to be noted that the show’s protagonist Charlie
Sheen (who was axed from the show) also regretted how things went down between
him and the show’s creator Chuck Lorre with whom he had publicly insulted in
2011 and had seemingly publicly threatened Lorre in 2015.
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Shailene Woodley
Before
she was Jane Chapman in ‘Big Little Lies’, Shailene Woodley was Amy Juergens in
‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’. Playing a 15-year-old who finds out
she is pregnant, Amy was Woodley’s break-out role. The show ran for four years,
but Woodley was not impressed with the direction the writers took in the later
seasons. She told ‘Flaunt’ magazine in 2013: “I didn’t like it because if it
started to change, I had no control over it. It’s like anything in life, whether
you’re an actor or you work in an insurance office, if you want to be able to
leave your job, it’s nice to be able to leave your job. But when you’re in a
contract, unfortunately, you can’t do that.” She also admitted that the show’s
morals clashed with her own.
Chevy Chase (Community)
Chevy
Chase is undoubtedly one of the most famous comedy actors of all time, but he
appears to be rather miserable and hostile in real life. ‘Community’ isn’t the
first production he’s been in to receive his total ire and disdain. In a leaked
phone message to series creator, Dan Harmon, Chase didn’t hold back in his
lashing assessment of the show in which he portrayed Pierce Hawthorne.
“It’s just a [expletive] mediocre sitcom! I want people to laugh and this
isn’t funny… It ain’t funny to me because I’m 67 years old and I’ve been doing
this a long time. I’ve been making a lot of people laugh – a lot better than
this,” he said.
Janet (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
When
you look back at ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’, it’s difficult to imagine any
turmoil or hostility on set since it came across as a family-centric cast. Not
for Janet Hubert, who played Aunt Viv until 1993. Hubert blames series star,
Will Smith, for her firing and let rip to ‘TMZ’ in 2011. “There will never
be a reunion as I will never do anything with an [expletive] like Will Smith.
He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will
never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn’t
know the word,” she said. Hubert’s stance has since softened and she’s
called for everyone to apologize to each other.
Elle Macpherson (Friends)
Elle
Macpherson isn’t renowned for her acting skills, so you’d think she’d be happy
with whatever part came her way. That’s not the case, though, as she revealed
she wasn’t too fond of her role as Janine LaCroix on ‘Friends’. Speaking to
Australian magazine ‘TV Week’, Macpherson said: “If I’d known how
important it was in the US, or how long it would be shown on TV, I may not have
chosen to do it. It was a lot of pressure, if you look at in the way that it’ll
be around for 20 or 30 years.”As it turns out, she was meant to have a
bigger role on the show, but she was unable to as she was living in London at
the time.
Billy Ray Cyrus(Hannah Montana)
Billy
Ray Cyrus hasn’t exactly had a stellar acting career. Known more for his music,
his most recognizable acting role was as Robby Stewart in ‘Hannah Montana’. It
was a flagship show for his daughter Miley and her start to superstardom.
Speaking to ‘GQ’, Cyrus blasted the show for ruining his family and several
relationships. “It destroyed my family. I’ll tell you right now – the damn
show destroyed my family. It’s all sad,” he said. “I’d take it back
in a second. For my family to be here and just be everybody okay, safe and
sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I’d erase it
all in a second if I could,” Cyrus stated. It is to be noted that the
show’s protagonist Miley Cyrus has also admitted that she didn’t realize the
long-term effect Hannah Montana would have on her and that it was hard for her
to balancing everything.”
Hank Azaria (The Simpsons)
Since
the release of Indian comedian Hari Kondabolu’s documentary ‘The Problem with
Apu’, there has been an ongoing debate over whether the depiction of beloved
Simpsons’ character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is racist. Actor Hank Azaria who has
been voicing the role since 1990, indicated regret over his part in the drama
,during an appearance on the ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’. The actor
said: “I have given this a lot of thought, and as I say, my eyes have been
opened. And I think the most important thing is we have to listen to South
Asian people, Indian people, in this country, when they talk about what they
feel and how they think about this character, and what their American
experience of it has been. And, as you know, in television terms, listening to
voices means inclusion in the writers’ room. I really want to see Indian, South
Asian writers in the room – not in a token way – genuinely informing whatever
new direction this character take, including how it is voiced or not voiced.
I’m perfectly willing to step aside or help transition it into something new.”
Issac Hayes (South Park)
South Park is
known for pulling no punches when it comes to, well, everything. That includes
sensitive topics like religion. That’s why it was so surprising that after 10
years voicing Chef on the show, Issac Hayes upped and quit after an episode
insulted Scientology. In the episode “Trapped in the Closet”, Stan is portrayed
as the long-awaited reincarnation of the church’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. The
actor said in a statement: “There is a place in this world for satire, but
there is a time when satire ends, and intolerance and bigotry towards religious
beliefs of others begins. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years I
cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.” – Agencies
