Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down26 Celebrities Who Got Shockingly Honest About Their Movies, Costars, And CareersOnce enough time passes, movie stars start to run their mouths.by Mike SpohrBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Movie stars won't usually tell you what they really think about their careers, but if you catch them at the right moment they can be refreshingly blunt about the movies they made - and the ones they regret not doing! Here are 26 times movie stars were surprisingly candid about their careers: 1. During a recent interview on Hot Ones, Macaulay Culkin revealed that he found an unread screenplay for Wes Anderson's Rushmore in his house, and still can't believe he missed it! The Home Alone star was on a break from acting back then and figured he was keeping up with submissions, but this one slipped through. His reaction now is part amused, part horrified: "I mean, I can't imagine anyone but Schwartzman doing that part, but at the same time - oh, man, that would have been a ball and a biscuit, that one." It's an alternate timeline - with Culkin as Max Fischer - that underscores how easily a single unopened envelope can change a career. Cindy Ord/VF25 / Getty Images for Vanity Fair 2. In the early 2010s, Guillermo del Toro was going to make a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson as Belle, but it never ended up happening. One of the reasons? He couldn't find the right actor to play the Beast. Channing Tatum recently admitted that he was offered the role, but turned it down, saying, "I'd just had a baby, I was on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn't totally there yet. I was just in a place in my head that I was like, 'I don't think I can do this right now.'" Tatum is a major fan of del Toro, and now calls his choice "one of the biggest mistakes of my career," adding that it could have been the "sickest movie ever." Oh well. At least he said "yes" to G.I. Joe: Retaliation, lol. Arnold Jerocki / Getty Images (Emma Watson later starred in a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast directed by Bill Condon.) 3. Speaking of Watson, she told Jimmy Kimmel about how - as a 10-year-old - director Chris Columbus called her out in front of everyone on the set of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for mouthing her costars' lines. She said, "This is actually quite traumatic for me because I created issues because of this. I would ruin takes. Chris would be like, 'Cut! Emma, you're doing it again. You're mouthing Dan's lines.'" She added, "I was such a loser. I really loved those books, I really wanted to do my job well, and I kind of overdid it." Max Mumby / Getty Images 4. By the time she was 16, Drew Barrymore had already lived through more highs and lows than almost any kid her age, but then things got even weirder when she was cast in 1992's erotic thriller Poison Ivy (yes, an erotic thriller...at 16...where she seduces her best friend's dad. Yikes!). Not long after the movie came out, Barrymore said the movie transformed how the industry saw her. "Once people started seeing a little bit of footage, [my agent] J.J. got all these calls, like, 'We've got this role for Drew as a Lolita-esque nymphet.' And people were coming up to me on the set, going, 'How does it feel to be a sex symbol?' I was like, 'Me?!'" Barrymore said she never viewed herself that way: "I might be a sensual person, but I don't look at myself in the mirror and go, 'Yeah, baby, you've got it goin' on.'" New Line Cinema It'd be interesting to hear Barrymore's thoughts on the movie now that she's a mother with kids not all that much younger than she was when she filmed the role. The movie opened doors but also thrust her into a hyper-sexualized spotlight at much too young an age. 5. On a 2023 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Gwyneth Paltrow reflected on how winning the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love affected her. "[When] you win the biggest prize, like, what are you supposed to do? It was hard, the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following." Paltrow - who was just 26 when she won - called the experience "disorienting" and "really unhealthy," adding, "I was like, 'This is crazy. I don't know what to do. I don't know which way is up.' It was a lot." Vince Bucci / AFP via Getty Images Perhaps to deal with the trauma, Paltrow began inserting jade eggs in her vagina. Just kidding! (If you don't know, her wellness and lifestyle brand Goop notoriously sold vaginal eggs.) 6. Barry Keoghan revealed that the shocking scene in Saltburn where his character, Oliver, basically makes love to the soil around his lover Felix's grave, was improvised. Asked about the improvised elements of the film on the red carpet of the 2024 Golden Globes, Keoghan joked that they'd improvised "all the sick parts." He then went on to discuss the shocking grave sex scene. MGM About that scene - which he said was