19 Actors Who Made Shady Comments About Their TV Shows

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Whereas Evangeline Lilly was initially proud of the writing for her character, Kate, on Misplaced, she grew to become dissatisfied because the present went on. “I felt like she grew to become increasingly predictable and obnoxious. I felt like my character went from being autonomous — actually having her personal story and her personal journey and her personal agendas — to chasing two males across the island. And that irritated the shit out of me,” she stated on The Misplaced Boys podcast. She even admitted to throwing scripts throughout the room.

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Sam Witwer solely performed a minor character on Riverdale (his character died after inexplicably leaping out a window…it is defined a lot later, lengthy after Witwer left the present), however that did not cease him from having some sturdy emotions concerning the writing on the present. “As for why that character jumps out a window, I do not know. However I learn the script and laughed. I used to be like, ‘Proper, after all. After all he does,'” Witwer stated. “I’d like to say I had deep ideas about the entire thing, however I don’t assume that’s actually the way in which they work over there.”

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A number of different members of the Riverdale forged have made some shady feedback as effectively — notably Cole Sprouse, who performs Jughead. Specifically, he disliked his notorious “I am a weirdo” scene. “Jughead positively has his cringe-boy moments,” he advised BuzzFeed. “Juggy deserves the flak. Glad that scene resonated with the viewers the identical approach it resonated with me because the actor studying these traces.”

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Shailene Woodley was not a fan of the writing for her character on Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager. She did not say the standard was unhealthy, however she did not just like the messages it gave: “In the direction of the tip, morally, the issues that we had been preaching on that present weren’t actually aligned with my very own integrity. In order that was a bit laborious to point out as much as work daily realizing that we had been going to undertaking all of those themes to 1000’s — hundreds of thousands — of younger adults throughout the nation, when, in reality, they weren’t what I wish to be sending out,” she stated after her time on the present was executed.

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Angus T. Jones equally did not just like the ethical content material of his present Two and a Half Males. “It was troublesome for me to be on the present and be a part of one thing that was making mild of matters in our world the place there are actually issues for lots of people,” he stated. “I used to be a paid hypocrite as a result of I wasn’t OK with it and I used to be nonetheless doing it.” A 12 months earlier than, he had stated his character “means nothing” and in contrast watching the present to “filling your head with filth.”

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Ian Harding additionally appeared to counsel he was not a fan of the way in which Fairly Little Liars introduced his character Ezra’s relationship along with his scholar, 16-year-old Aria. He as soon as referred to as Ezra “America’s most beloved pedophile,” although he stated he tried to play it as a love story. However when an advertiser dropped out early on, Harding believed it was due to his character’s unlawful relationship — solely to search out out it was really Emily’s lesbian relationship. “So I may very well be seen as a statutory rapist, and persons are like, ‘I do know, however love is aware of no bounds, so long as there’s a penis and a vagina concerned,’” he stated dryly.

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Penn Badgley was fairly essential of the writers’ choice to make his character, Dan, Gossip Lady within the collection finale of the eponymous present. “It would not make sense in any respect. It would not have made sense for anyone. Gossip Lady would not make sense!”

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Isaac Hempstead Wright was rather less apparent, however he threw a little bit of shade on the Recreation of Thrones writers after the disastrous final season, which ended along with his character, Bran, turning into king. “I genuinely thought it was a joke script and that [showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss] despatched to everybody a script with their very own character [ending] up on the Iron Throne,” he stated. “‘Yeah, good one, guys. Oh s–t, it is really actual?'”

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Katherine Heigl additionally subtly shaded Gray’s Anatomy over the writing choices, saying she wasn’t an enormous fan of the storyline the place her character, Izzie, sleeps with ghost-Denny. She additionally fairly famously withdrew herself from Emmy consideration in 2008, saying, “I didn’t really feel I used to be given the fabric this season to warrant a nomination,” though she’s since expressed remorse over this, saying that it was between her and the writers, and a variety of it was about her personal efficiency.

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Ed Harris, like Heigl with Gray’s, was not a fan of a selected storyline on Westworld. Particularly, he disliked Season 3. “You do what you gotta do. I imply, I signed on to play the Man in Black. I didn’t signal on to play the Man in White. So it wasn’t probably the most joyous season for me, I gotta say.” He additionally did not like how he did not know the place his character’s arc was heading.

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And Sarah Michelle Gellar had a tough time along with her character’s trajectory in Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “I’ve all the time stated that Season 6 was not my favourite. I felt it betrayed who she was,” Gellar stated. The season notably featured her character getting into a sexual relationship with the soulless vampire Spike.

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Alexander Siddig was additionally upset with a later model of his character when he performed Dr. Bassir on Star Trek: Deep House 9. When his character was revealed to be genetically modified, Siddig actively rebelled in opposition to appearing “Information-esque,” because the producers wished him to, messing up traces on function till ultimately they modified the character again a bit. He additionally distanced himself from the Star Trek universe after the present was over.

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And Denise Crosby, who performed Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, was additionally not keen on what her character was given to do. “I used to be battling not having the ability to do a lot with the character. I had all these concepts and could not do them. I used to be simply stage dressing. I selected to go away as an alternative of simply being happy with that,” she stated. Her character was killed off on the finish of the primary season to accommodate her. “I could not wait to get off that present,” she stated in one other interview. “I didn’t wish to spend the subsequent six years going, ‘Aye, aye, Captain,’ and standing there, in the identical uniform, in the identical place on the bridge.”

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Johnny Depp in contrast starring on his present 21 Soar Road in later years to being “in a jail creatively,” saying, “It began to get slightly showboat-y, you recognize what I imply? It simply began to turn into false. It began to turn into this action-packed can of soup, you recognize? You simply promote it and ship it out.”

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Nick Jonas did not technically name the scripts for his present Jonas L.A. unhealthy, however he did say he regretted doing the second season. “We shouldn’t have executed that. It actually stunted our development, you recognize? I really feel prefer it was only a unhealthy transfer,” Jonas admitted. “It was simply not the time. Actually, we couldn’t evolve due to it.”

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His brother and costar Joe Jonas additionally referred to as the present “not good,” and Kevin Jonas agreed that the second season particularly was not a match for them, saying it fed into folks seeing them as a joke.

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Jennette McCurdy equally referred to as her time on iCarly and Sam & Cat “tacky [and] embarrassing” and stated she was ashamed.

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Jean Yoon had points with among the storylines on Kim’s Comfort and stated that they had been “overtly racist.” She says the forged got here collectively to specific their issues, and many of the racist jokes and scenes had been taken out. She additionally felt that her character getting a number of sclerosis was unrealistic, and stated she was advised she “would not perceive comedy” when she expressed issues.

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Glee’s Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale expressed on a YouTube present that among the forged hated being on the collection, although they did not title names. For his or her half, they did say that they hit a breaking level with the present once they carried out “What Does the Fox Say,” and that Season 5 was tough. Ushkowitz additionally exhibited clear discomfort with having to do the rap in “Gangnam Type,” and each Ushkowitz and McHale agreed with the interviewer’s sentiment about how insensitive the present may very well be.