i'm sorry to everyone
i was very naive welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 movies that made
actors quit i can't work i can't
concentrate i have no confidence
i never felt so bad in my entire life
i'll miss you bye dolly goodbye dear
for this list we'll be looking at films
that disillusioned certain actors to the
point that they decided to step away
from the industry
it doesn't necessarily have to have been
their final role but it has to be a
known catalyst toward their decision to
leave the limelight
which of these actors do you think
should come back say so in the comments
and who knows maybe they'll read it and
change their minds
all right let's go number 10
omar sharif the 13th warrior
the hell are you saying the 13th warrior
is you the 13th warrior was a massive
financial bomb
and received generally negative reviews
but its worst critic was perhaps its own
omar sharif he reflected quote let us
stop this nonsense
these meal tickets that we do because it
pays well a film so bad that it's not
even worth exploring
what does he say hurry to me death
before your place is taken sharif only
appears in the first
act of the film so he can't say he
should shoulder much of the blame
though blame he did shoulder as he
reported that
even his own grandchildren made fun of
him for it we guess it doesn't get any
lower than that
we seek your head man your king
this led to sharif only coming out of
retirement for projects he believed in
such as the similarly historical
adventure film hidalgo
what about your ability to tell the
future if i had the ability to foretell
the future
perhaps i would have bet on a painted
horse
number nine peter ostrom willy wonka and
the chocolate factory
after portraying charlie bucket in this
seminal family film
peter ostrom had a golden ticket to
becoming the next big child star in the
form of a three-picture contract
however he turned it down making willy
wonka and the chocolate factory
his only film appearance though he
remained reclusive about it for many
years
he eventually opened up by saying the
experience simply wasn't for him
a common question why didn't you stay in
the industry well
it just it really wasn't for me
he of course enjoyed certain aspects of
it such as working with the legendary
gene wilder but otherwise
wasn't so taken with the craft shortly
after filming
he became enamored with horses which led
him to a career as a veterinarian
which he still enjoys to this day am i
famous in my eyes absolutely not
and i'm amused that everybody's here to
talk to me
and amazed number eight carrie hen
aliens
here's another child actor that made a
big impression with her one and only
movie
carrie hen was perfect to play the young
newt in aliens
so much so that many fans were peeved to
learn the character died
off screen in alien 3.
flooded with fluid
oh gosh though hand probably
would have aged out of the role anyway
relative to the plot
there's another reason her return would
have been unlikely anyway
having been discovered by a casting
agent at her school
acting was not something she actively
sought and she was not driven to have a
film career
and she didn't like being apart from her
family during filming even though newt's
brother was portrayed by her real life
one
a reasonable excuse as she instead
decided to become a school teacher
actually i'm a teacher i teach nine and
ten-year-olds which is
the same age i was when i was in the
movie i'm a mother
i have two children and just enjoying
life number seven
daniel day lewis phantom thread
yeah we're hoping this isn't his last
performance too but if it is
it's a pretty good one to go out on so
what's all this moaning about
i am not moaning i do not like to be
turned away from
a famously devoted method actor no one
can say
daniel day lewis doesn't put every part
of himself into his roles
as he even learned the art of
dressmaking for phantom thread
however during filming a strange sense
of sadness hung over the actor to the
point that he announced his retirement
prior to release
he said quote i need to believe in the
value of what i'm doing
it's not very good is it
it's ugly of course anyone who's seen
the film will note a similar sense of
melancholy
but we don't think we're alone when we
say we hope day lewis can rediscover
that passion
and whatever he does next i can't work i
can't
concentrate i have no confidence
number six jeff cohen the goonies
another child star that never was jeff
cohen is best known for being associated
with two words
truffle shuffle come on
do it
[Music]
playing the token fat kid was familiar
to cohen from previous parts
but the role of chunk and the goonies
definitely had a greater impact
looking back he recalled quote when
people call you chunk every day of your
life from the age of 10
it gives you a complex i never felt so
bad in my entire life
i'm beginning to like this kid it also
didn't help that cohen quickly
transitioned out of his fat kid physique
keeping him from capitalizing on the
parts however cohen can still be found
in the entertainment industry working as
a hollywood attorney
providing legal protection for actors
also we think we should drop the c
and just call him hunk now you know i
was watching the tom jones interview
and i felt the same you know i felt that
my talent was
you know overshadowed by my sex appeal
as well
number five heather donahue the blair
witch project
the supernatural horror flick may have
renewed interest in the found footage
genre
and received critical acclaim but it
didn't necessarily make long
lasting stars of three actors who played
its three student filmmakers
case in point heather donahue who has
since claimed that using a real name was
detrimental to her acting career
i'm sorry to everyone
i was very naive while her performance
earned some positive recognition
it's also won her a worst actress razzy
she also reportedly received threats
donahue's subsequent parts were much
smaller by comparison with their most
significant in 2002's taken mini-series
and her last in a 2008 direct-to-dvd
film
evolution has a cost every choice is the
death of all other possibilities
maybe something was lost along the way
yeah probably something very simple
the blair witch project may have been
one of the most successful indies ever
but considering her unremarkable roles
thereafter there's little
wonder that donahue ultimately retired
and took up riding
number four gene hackman welcome to
mooseport
while it's true gene hackman was much
more vocal about his dissatisfaction in
filming wes
anderson's the royal tenon bombs it's
hard for us to believe that 2004's
welcome to mooseport
wasn't the straw that broke the camel's
back or
mooses that was a gimme well no no there
are no gimmies
saddled with a flailing screenplay and
array romano that rarely did live action
features at the time
there wasn't much hackman could do to
elevate the film it's a negotiation
you've handled dictators you've handled
terrorists paris were easier i i swear
to god
dissatisfied with the finished product
hackman didn't even attend the premiere
announcing his retirement by saying
quote the compromises that you
have to make in films are just part of
the beast and it had gotten to a point
where i just didn't feel like i wanted
to do it anymore well
he'll always have moose port i had
dignity once
does anybody remember that number three
greta garbo two-faced woman greta garbo
remains one of the most
iconic actors of classic hollywood and a
thinker career ended when she was just
36 years young
worst yet it ended upon the release of
one lackluster rom-com
don't you know he has great
responsibilities in new york he's giving
them up
but we're gonna settle down to a quiet
life here
larry wants to write granted two-faced
woman is fairly flailing as a concept
garbo playing a woman who doubles as her
fictitious twin sister to save her
marriage
don't ask but clearly she could have
overcome one mediocre picture
our first separation our nation bye
dolly
goodbye dear though initially planning
to return to the screen
garbo's plans were halted upon the
advent of world war
ii coupled with her general misgivings
she ultimately made two-faced woman her
final film
which she even called her grave she
lived until 1990 without making
another film i see my future
i'm a flower of evil a few more burning
flame-like years and then the
end in this harsh new world there's no
place for me anymore
number two jake lloyd star wars episode
1
the phantom menace i'm a person and my
name is anakin
there's probably no single fan base more
difficult to operate in than that of
star wars
as many actors would learn but it was
perhaps 12 year old
jake lloyd that first learned this the
hard way any attempt to escape
and it blew you up boom
the phantom menace was a massive
cinematic let down in many ways
but the bulk of the ire was directed at
lloyd's portrayal of a young anakin
skywalker
it wasn't my fault really this led to
him being severely teased at school and
a heap of unwanted publicity
prompting lloyd to soon thereafter swear
off acting for good his troubles
wouldn't end there however as lloyd got
into trouble with the law as an adult
and was diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia
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number one sean connery the league of
extraordinary gentlemen
god i hate getting old before marvel's
the avengers
there was the league of extraordinary
gentlemen and well
it wasn't good in fact the first person
to tell you that was lead actor sean
connery who became increasingly
frustrated with director steven
norrington on set
sit down
of course the film bombed making the
gandalf roll he turned down in lord of
the rings looked
pretty good a wizard is never late
frodo baggins nor is he early
he arrives precisely when he means
connery would later
announce his retirement from the
industry disparaging the quote
idiots now making films in hollywood we
certainly missed him prior to his
passing in 2020
but he defended his time away by saying
quote retirement is just
too much damn fun well we can't fault
him there
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