After production wraps, A-listers are usually obliged to use their star power and social media following to ensure people know about their latest projects.
Contractually, the actor needs to promote their movie whether they like the finish project or enjoyed making the movie. Hollywood stars are usually paid to attend red carpet events, post trailers on their social media, go on chat shows and talk to the press.
Not all stars want to promote their movies. Sometimes it is because they hate the final cut, other times it's because they had a bad experience on set, or they might just hate the whole experience.
Whatever the reason, these eight actors didn't want to promote their movie.
8 Jonah Hill Will Never Promote A Film Again
Jonah Hill announced last summer that he will stop promoting his films to protect his mental health. The Wolf Of Wall Street star has said that he had suffered from anxiety attacks for 20 years, which were "exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events"
It came as he announced that he would not being doing any promotion for his documentary, Stutz, which is about his relationship with a therapist. "I am so grateful that the film will make its world premiere at a prestigious film festival... and I can't wait to share it with audiences around the world in the hope that it will help those struggling."
"However, you won't see me out there promoting this film, or any of my upcoming films, while I take this important step to protect myself."
7 Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz and Dream House
Jim Sheridan directed My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father, plus had six Oscar nominations under his belt when he started working on Dream House.
Sheridan and James G. Robinson, head of Morgan Creek Productions, fought throughout the production, rowed about re-shooting extra scenes and disagreed about the script. The final cut of the film was so bad, the director tried to have his name removed!
Neither Weisz nor Craig gave promotional interviews for Dream House, in protest at Jim Sheridan having the final cut of the film taken away from him by the producers. The in real life couple, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz played a husband and wife who moved their family into a murder house. Although the film was badly received, the couple did find love and have been together since!
6 Jim Carrey In Kick Ass 2
Jim Carrey took to Twitter to declare that he would not be promoting Kick Ass 2. “I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to others involved with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.”
Scottish comic-book writer and the movie's executive producer Mark Millar, that baffled by Carrey's decision.
"[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay 18 months ago," he wrote on his blog, "Yes, the body count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us Hit Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much..."
5 Why Making The Abyss Was So Hard For Ed Harris
Ed Harris had a terrible time filming The Abyss with James Cameron. It was such a bad experience for the actor that Harris never wanted to discuss it again. According to reports, making The Abyss was so hard on Harris that he sobbed while driving home from the set.
A huge amount of the film's principal photography took place underwater and during filming, Ed allegedly almost drowned. "Asking me how I was treated on ‘The Abyss’ is like asking a soldier how he was treated in Vietnam," Ed said on one of the rare occasions he did speak about the 1989 movie. "We were guinea pigs, in a way, Jim wasn't quite sure how this was all gonna go down… [in the drowning scene I was] screaming at her to come back and wake up, and I was slapping her across the face and I see that they've run out of film in the camera — there's a light on the camera — and nobody had said anything," Haris explained in a 2016 interview.
4 David Hyde Pierce Won't Promote Hellboy
In Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy the role of Abe Sapien was portrayed by contortionist Doug Jones. The production team wanted to give Abe a more familiar voice, so they hired Frasier star David Hyde Pierce.
Piece ended up being so impressed by Doug's performance that he reportedly refused to take credit for the role. Hyde allegedly told Jones that he "did his job, as he was hired to do, and did it beautifully."
David Hyde Pierce's name was removed from the final cut of film, and he did not attend any press events. The actor didn't come back for the sequel and Doug took over to voice the mild-mannered ambiphious creature.
3 Paris Hilton Didn't Promote National Lampoon's Pledge This
National Lampoon's Pledge This! was one of Paris Hilton’s first movies, but the producers felt the socialite didn't do enough to promote it. Hilton played the president of a sorority at fictional South Beach university. The movie made just $2.9m and is considered one of the worst films of all time.
The reality star and heiress was sued by the film's production company for violating her contract by allegedly rejecting or ignoring requests to appear on talk shows and take part in other interviews to promote the movie.
Ultimately, the judge ruled in Paris' favor, stating that it was the production company's fault for creating "a wholly inadequate marketing plan." "If I have my name attached to something, I want it to be as big as it can be," she said, insisting in court that she spent more than two years promoting the movie, including trips to the Cannes Film Festival.
2 Dan Aykroyd And Rosie O' Donnell In Exit To Eden
Adapted from an Anne Rice (Interview With A Vampire) novel and sharing a director with Pretty Woman, Exit to Eden should have been a huge success. Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell were two of the hottest comedy actors around when the film was released in 1994, yet the film bombed.
Dan Aykroyd admitted in an interview that this so-called comedy was the movie he regrets making the most.
Rosie O' Donnell took it even further than refusing to promote the raunchy comedy about a sex island with diamond smugglers. The comedian arrived at red carpet events with a ferocious dog. Every time a member of the press came near her, the dog barked and tried to attack them.
1 Christopher Plummer Hated The Sound Of Music
Christopher Plummer had a thorny history with The Sound Of Music. The actor hated the iconic musical. “That sentimental stuff is the most difficult for me to play, especially because I’m trained vocally and physically for Shakespeare," he told People Magazine in 1982.
In 2005, the Knives Out star refused to attend to the 40th-anniversary cast reunion but did provide commentary for the DVD release that year. When asked about his hatred in The Hollywood Reporter, he revealed, “Because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey. You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humour into it.”
In a more recent interview the Oscar-winning said, “I was a bit bored with the character. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse." He has attended multiple anniversary events over the years, including the 45th-anniversary cast reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show and a 50th-anniversary screening.
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