Posted 50 minutes ago"The Worst Thing I Have Ever Seen": 37 Actors Who Openly Criticized The Roles That Made Them FamousI don't care what anyone says, "Grease 2" is high art.by Hannah MarderBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink It's not a requirement for an actor to love the project they're in, and let's be honest - if you're just starting out, you don't exactly have your pick of roles. Despite the fame and fortune a first major role may bring, it may also make you cringe to look back at it. That was the case for these 37 stars, who reportedly had strong feelings about their character or the project that made them famous. Read on to see what they said! 1. Jennifer Aniston looks back on her first major movie role - as Tory in the campy 1993 horror film Leprechaun - with more than a little embarrassment. In an interview with Howard Stern, he called it "the bane of [her] existence," and let's just say that she did not correct him. Aniston recalled her ex Justin Theroux forcing her to watch it, and her struggling to get the remote from him to turn it off...ultimately failing and "cringing" as she came in and out of the room. Trimark Pictures / Via youtube.com Last year, when it was brought up while promoting The Morning Show, Aniston said she doesn't understand why people love it. "It's not my favorite, but it's, uh...listen, whatever blows your hair back, you know?" Jake's Takes / YouTube / Via youtube.com However, she also called it a cult classic she's proud of. 2. One of Alec Baldwin's first major films, Beetlejuice, was not *quite* his favorite - but this feeling came mostly while he was filming it. While making the film, he was worried it would end his career. "When we did Beetlejuice, I had no idea what it was about," he said in a video with GQ. "I thought my, all of our, careers are going to end with the release of this film. Maybe we're all going to be dead." He also felt he didn't have much to do in comparison with the other actors. The Geffen Company / Via youtube.com To make his role more interesting, he was considering changing his character to be modeled after 1950s Hollywood star Bob Cummings, but director Tim Burton shut the idea down. This was apparently the only direction he ever gave Baldwin. "I remember walking through that movie and thinking, 'I got nothing.' I was like a set piece. A prison sentence," Baldwin later said. However, he also complimented Burton's mad genius, calling him a "crazy professor," and lauded Michael Keaton's comedy chops, so it seems like there are no hard feelings. The Geffen Company/GQ / Via youtube.com youtube.com 3. While Mark Wahlberg was already famous in the hip hop world, he cemented his role as a serious actor after starring in Boogie Nights in 1997. However, it's not a role he looks back on fondly. He once said, "I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I've made some poor choices in my past. Boogie Nights is up there at the top of the list." Wahlberg was speaking at a church, and later clarified he was "just saying that I just hope he has a sense of humor because I maybe made some decisions that may not be okay with Him." Lawrence Gordon Productions / Via youtube.com The R-rated movie features Wahlberg as a famous porn actor, and it's extremely explicit. He apparently got so into the role that he'd stroll around the set with a fake erection. Seems like he enjoyed it at the time, but his turn toward religion and fatherhood means he wouldn't take a similar role today. "I don't want to compromise my artistic integrity or choices based on my faith or my family, but I also have other things to consider, and being a little bit older and a little wiser, the idea of having to explain that movie and the reason behind it to my kids is another issue," he said to People on a red carpet. Lawrence Gordon Productions / Via youtube.com 4. John Cusack's fame-making role was probably in The Sure Thing, but that same year, he further cemented his abilities as a leading man in Better Off Dead, a black comedy about a suicidal teenager. Cusack reportedly loathed the film. Apparently, the film's director, Savage Steve Holland, claimed that Cusack once stormed out of a screening and told him the film "was the worst thing I have ever seen," and said Holland had "used him, and made a fool out of him." Cusack also reportedly said, "I will never trust you as a director ever again." However, this may be a cinema legend; it's hard to track down the original source, and even if Holland said it, there's no guarantee it's true - though costar Curtis Armstrong corroborated the story. A&M Films / Via youtube.com Cusack actually also starred in another Savage Steve Holland film called One Crazy Summer, which was shot before Better Off Dead but released afterward. Many years later, in 2013, Cusack told a Reddit AMA that he didn't hate it but "just thought it could have been better," adding that he thinks that about most of his movies. "I have nothing against the film