10 Actors Who Now Hate Their Own TV Shows

[Music] for most actors scoring a major role on a tv show is nothing short of a dream job it usually ensures stable work for the foreseeable future and if you're invited back for subsequent seasons typically brings with it a hefty pair increase each year but not all roles are created equal and despite the obvious appeal of a recurring tv gig many actors have gone on the record to express their frustration and disappointment with a show they worked on burning bridges is obviously a massively unwise move unless you're an untouchable a-lister but these actors had little patience for niceties when detailing what left them less than satisfied about working on these hit tv shows i'm josh from whatculture.com and these are 10 actors that now hate their own tv shows number 10 shannon dogty charmed sharon dougherty has a reputation for being let's say a difficult actress resulting in her tenure on both beverly hills 90210 and charmed being defined by clashes with her fellow cast mates dougherty reportedly didn't get along with her charmed co-star alyssa milano leading to her character prue being killed off at the end of the third season and rose mcgowan being drafted in as her half-sister replacement paige matthews following her departure dougherty said quote there was too much drama on the set and not enough passion for the work you know i'm 30 years old and i don't have time for drama in my life anymore end quote sometime later though dhokhti gave a decidedly less measured assessment of the series as a whole saying quote uncharmed there were a couple of moments where i gave the most brutally honest performance i ever could have given as an actor what you saw came from my gut and when i looked at those moments on the show i knew that they weren't being given their proper jew because they were uncharmed it's a show for 12 year olds number 9 naveen andrews lost naveen andrews played lost saeed for the entirety of the show's six seasons and though several cast members were outspoken about how disappointed they were with various creative decisions throughout the series's run it's clear that andrews above all others viewed lost as just a job after the show's third season end andrews vocally complained about the writing noting a drop in quality even while appreciating how incredibly well paid the role was shortly before the fourth season aired he said quote i'm still proud of the first season around the third i thought they were winging it the writing was poor but i'm definitely doing two more years andrews has also reiterated in numerous interviews that he's only ever watched the pilot episode of the show and had no real investment in it beyond getting the work done number eight blake lively gossip girl hit teen drama show gossip girl propelled star blake lively to fame overnight and though it's better said that she owes her prosperous movie career to the series lively held nothing back when discussing the show in the years following its conclusion scaringly lively said of the show's production process quote if it was about the content they wouldn't hand us our script pages minutes before shooting you're part of this machine this pop culture phenomenon but as an actor the quality of your work is definitely compromised because of that when i finished the last season i didn't feel good at it anymore i didn't feel stimulated it had become muscle memory but not the good muscle memory like bad habit muscle memory end quad lively also expressed relief at no longer having to play the personally compromising socialite serena van der woodsen adding quote you want to be putting a better message out there number seven bradley cooper alias years before he became an oscar-nominated actor and producer bradley cooper starred on the hit spy thriller series alias as journalist will tippin appearing in almost half of the show's 105 episodes though cooper was initially a member of the main cast in the first two seasons his role was gradually reduced much to his frustration he said in a recent interview quote i would only work three days a week and then for the second season i got even more sidelined i was like uh and then the next thing you know i was like i want to kill myself end quote cooper eventually worked up the courage to ask jj abrams to write him out of the show which abrams complied with at the end of season 2. cooper said of the decision abrams probably would have fired me anywhere number six denise crosby star trek the next generation tashi ya was the enterprise's chief of security in the first season of star trek the next generation and was generally well received by fans disappointed they were then when the character was suddenly killed off at the end of the season as a result of denise crosby being dissatisfied with her role on the show saying quote i was miserable i couldn't wait to get off that show i was dying this was not an overnight decision i was grateful to have made that many episodes but i didn't want to spend the next six years going ii captain and standing there in the same uniform in the same position on the bridge it just scared the hell out of me that this was what i was going to be doing for the next x amount of years she also went out to say quote i think you have to take your chances i was really young i didn't have to make house payments i put kids through private school or support people i was free to make those kind of decisions i'd been in acting school really dreaming of playing all kinds of different things and god forbid you go through your life thinking what if crosby has insisted that there was no animosity between her and the show's caster crew but simply that she was frustrated with tashia's creative direction considering how rough the first season of the next generation was it's actually pretty hard to blame her number five mandy patinkit criminal minds crime procedural sure criminal minds was fronted by homeland actor mandy patinkin for its first two seasons after which he opted not to return having been disturbed by the show's salicious content he said quote i thought it was something very different i never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night every day week after week year after year it was very destructive to my soul and my personality and after that i didn't think i would get to work in television again end quote he also called it the biggest public mistake he has ever made much like denise crosby though patinkin harbored no ill will against his fellow cast members and even left letters of apology to them explaining his departure and wishing that look from season three onwards potinkin's fbi agent jason gideon was replaced by special agent david rossi and gideon was later murdered by a serial killer in the show's 10th season number 4 john reese davies sliders sci-fi fantasy series sliders ended up running for five seasons from 1995 to 2000 though main cast member john ruiz davies who played professor maximilian arturo left after the third season amid disputes about the quality of the show's writing devis famously called the scripts incomprehensible gibberish and added quote it's hard to rewrite on the hoof when you've got a network that wants you to say the words in the script i would go to the writers and complain but they would say john why don't you just say the words as written and i'd say i'll tell you what i will actually say the words as written when you can actually write intelligent sentences end quote despite praising the show's concept and cast he called it the single biggest missed opportunity of his life and expressed regret that sliders couldn't achieve its full potential as in his own words the best show on television reports differ on whether davies was actually fired or quit but he's since held back nothing in disparaging the show's subpar creative leads however more recently he did consider himself open to a revival number three catherine heigl grey's anatomy catherine heigl was one of grey's anatomy's breakout stars playing fan favorite character dr izzy stevens however heigl's reputation for not being a team player landed her in hot water several times throughout the tenure on the shore infamously she declined to submit her work for emmy consideration in 2008 having been unhappy with how izzy was written during the show's fourth season she said quote i did not feel that i was given the material this season to warrant an emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization i withdrew my name from contention end quote this unsurprisingly put her at loggerheads with the show's creator shonda rhimes who later implied that she thought the actress was an though she was initially supposed to appear in the final episodes of season six heiler requested to be released from her contract 18 months early to spend more time with her family resulting in the character departing prematurely in the middle of the season number 2 ed harris westworld the brilliant ed harris has starred in hbo's hit sci-fi show west world as the shadowy veteran guest known as the man in black however season 3 saw a major reinvention of harris's role on the show as in the late season episode d coherence he finds himself trapped in a mental institution decked out in a white straitjacket in a recent interview harris was candid about his dislike for the sudden character change adding quote i signed on to play the man in black i didn't sign on to play the man in white so it wasn't the most joyous season for me i gotta say the grueling nature of the character's time in the institution likely couldn't have made harris any happier about ditching his dark dudes either though the actor is at least philosophical enough to appreciate the nature of his work he said quote i'm just playing a character i'm doing what the script tells me to do at the best of my ability number one robert beltran star trek voyager robert beltran played first officer chokote on star trek voyager and was so dismissive of the show's creative direction that a popular myth and jew is to this day that he was actively trying to get himself fired in his own words court i risked being fired because i wasn't happy creatively i felt like i was telling the truth and if people can't take the truth that's fine with me but i'm not going to be stifled by the prospect of being fired end quote beltram became especially vocal about his misgivings with the writing following the introduction of seven of nine in season four feeling that chikode was one of the several characters who had their role reduced as a result in a more recent interview beltran compared working on voyager to the grind of working at a car factory saying quote if i was working in a car factory and putting on tyres the only difference would be the size of the tires i was working on from week to week if it wasn't real satisfying to me creatively except with the occasional scene that i really liked doing then it was a day at the factory and i always did my work and i always did my best end quote the actor has nevertheless spoken positively about the lifestyle lucrative job afforded him and praised many of his fellow cast members even if it's clear that he was sticking it out for the pair rather than his love of the craft so that's our list once and you guys think down in the comments below are there any actors who hate their own tv shows that i missed off here and have these revelations made you view some of your favorites in a completely different light either way while you're down there can you give us a like share subscribe and head over to whatculture.com for more lists and news like this every single day even if you don't know i've been josh thank you for watching and i'll see you soon [Music]

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Published: Sat May 30 2020