Movies where the lead star is visibly embarrassed or made it known that he or she didn’t want to be in it

Dakota Johnson thought “Madame Web” was part of the MCU. When she realized that it was part of the godawful live-action Spider-Verse with no relation to the MCU or even Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, it was too late. So she pretty much slept through the whole movie, speaking in a monotone voice that actually made her performance unintentionally hilarious and added into its status as a modern campy cult film.

Rooney Mara hated doing the Nightmare on Elm Street remake so much that she bragged about giving a bad performance on purpose. She still hates that movie with the force of a thousand suns.

Whoopi Goldberg tried to get away from making “Theodore Rex”, so much so she ended up getting sued for not doing her job, so she asked for a hefty paycheck, and did the movie in a black leather cat suit and a permanent grouch in her face.

Elizabeth Taylor didn’t want to do Butterfield 8. She was grieving Mike Todd and ended up being forced to do it because she was under contract. She had to say lines like “I’m the Slut of All time” in the movie and it got released during the Eddie Fisher scandal which made it worse. Even winning the Oscar didn’t change Taylor’s mind, she thought she only won because she nearly died of pneumonia and threw the Oscar into the trash.