Actors Who Admitted Their Performance In A Movie Was Terrible

Actors are known for having enormous egos, but no matter how much you might believe in your own talent, every so often, real life intrudes — as it does in Hollywood when a superstar delivers a performance that's so widely trashed, even they have to step back and admit that their work didn't live up to the standards of the project. From shoddy dialogue to weak storylines, to actors who were more concerned with their social lives than the work they brought to the set, you have to admire a celebrity who's at least humble enough to admit that they may not have delivered the goods in a particular movie role. Let's take a look at the actors who've been brave enough to confess that they might not have deserved their huge paycheck for a movie... as well as some actors who can't stand their own performances, but might just be a little bit too hard on themselves.

Based on the character of DC Comics fame, 2004's Catwoman starred Halle Berry in the title role. Fresh off of her Best Actress win at the 2001 Academy Awards for Monster's Ball, Berry managed to win another big award for Catwoman — the Golden Raspberry Award, or Razzie, for Worst Actress of the year.

They should also have given Berry the award for best sport of the year, because she showed up at the Razzies to accept her trophy and give a spirited speech. Captured here on video, Berry accepts her trophy with tearful elation, and drags her manager out on stage to "thank" him for his contribution to her accomplishment. She then proceeds to call out her co-stars, saying "to give a really bad performance like mine, you need to have really bad actors." Also mentioned: the French director, the one-named Pitof, whom Berry says she could barely understand. Being the class act she is, Berry rounded out the speech by paying tribute to a lesson she learned from her mother, who told her as a child that to be a winner, you also need to be a good loser.

Most fans of Star Wars are aware that Sir Alec Guinness, the original Obi-Wan, wasn't always too thrilled with his association with the blockbuster trilogy. Though he made a few positive comments about the original film upon its release in 1977, saying it had a "wonderful freshness about it," his negative comments about his experience on the set far outnumber the good. In a letter to a dear friend written during filming, Guinness referred to the "rubbish dialogue," adding he'd be thankful for the "lovely bread" that would keep him solvent if an upcoming play turned out to be a flop. In his autobiography, Guinness recalled asking a young boy to never watch the film again after being told he'd seen it 100 times.

"I regret having embarked on the film," Guinness later lamented. "It's not an acting job... and I find myself old and out of touch with the young."

2008's Australia promised to be quite the epic blockbuster. The fictional tale of a local Australian cowboy enlisted to help a British lady traverse the Australian outback, only to stumble into the Japanese bombing of Darwin, it starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. It's hefty $130 million price tag was paid for partly by the Australian Tourism Export Council, who thought the film would do for Australia what Schindler's List had done for Krakow. It didn't.

Poorly received in Australia and a box office bomb in America, the film was also a bomb for Nicole Kidman, who received a good deal of vitriol from the press for her "close to dreadful" and "painfully corny" performance. Daily Mail reported that Kidman herself admitted on Sydney radio that she was squirming in her seat throughout the Australian premiere, asking husband Keith Urban, "am I any good in this movie?" That feeling of discomfort lingered. "I can't look at this movie and be proud of what I've done," she reflected. "It's just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all."

2007's Transformers wasn't Megan Fox's first film, but it was certainly the one that made her a household name. And her subsequent firing from the hit franchise also made household news when word circulated that her comments comparing director Michael Bay to Hitler got her booted from the film.

Fox admitted that she was struggling with some aspects of superstardom when she spoke to Entertainment Weekly in 2009, prior to the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In addition to coping with paparazzi, Fox said she was also worried she wasn't giving her performances her all. "I'm terrible in it," she said of the first Transformers movie. "I just wasn't proud of what I did." While she added that she did try harder on the second film, she insisted that audiences had only seen about "seven percent" of her acting range. "I think one day I could be a good actress," she mused. "But so far, I haven't done anything yet."

Audiences had plenty to complain about when it came to 1997's Batman & Robin. From the corny jokes to the infamous nipple suit, even Uma Thurman's turn as the villainous Poison Ivy couldn't save this film from widely being considered the worst of the Batman movies. One of the bigger disappointments was George Clooney's performance as the guy in the batsuit — casting that had initially seemed ideal, but failed to deliver. And nobody agrees more than Clooney, who has frequently commented on the failure of the film and his turn in the Batmobile.

When asked what he thought of Ben Affleck taking the role for 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Clooney said, "I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terrible destroyed the part." After the part in a quest for commercial success, Clooney has said he keeps a photo of himself in the nipple suit displayed in his office as a reminder to weigh his project choices carefully.