# Actors you hate because of their personal lives **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320 "2016-03-27T08:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/1 "2016-03-27T08:28:03Z")
Everything Mel Gibson has ever did is now a bit uncomfortable to watch. I can’t quite capture the suspension of disbelief I was once able to. I no longer see “Mad Max”\*, I see “Mel Gibson”. The celebrity fuck up has actually colored my perception of the performance of the role. Similarly, there’s Tom Cruise. He’s a Scientologist. A very devout one, and I’m sorry, I AM prejudiced against Scientology. And by extension, I am preloaded not to like his movies. However, “Edge of Tomorrow” was actually pretty good. I don’t have an actual point here, I am starting a thread for the discussion. It’s just a jump off point. How does your opinion of the person in actual life color your perception, and enjoyment, of their performance in a fictional role? \*We don’t need Mel for Mad Max. We have “Fury Road” ---
**Author:** ![Lorne\_Armstrong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@Lorne\_Armstrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorne_Armstrong)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/2 "2016-03-27T08:34:44Z")
Bill Cosby. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/3 "2016-03-27T08:37:21Z")
When I hear about some celeb getting up to shenanigans I disagree with, it does bother me a bit, and it does affect how I perceive them in public (in interviews or on red carpets or whatever) though I also try to take a step back and assess if I should care. Some things are none of my business, while a few genuinely do matter. I don’t give a shit about Tom Cruise’s religion, or anybody else’s, they’re all equally as ridiculous if you take a minute, but someone who may potentially be a role model spouting racist or sexist bullshit really does worry me. But, having said that, it does not affect my enjoyment of their shows or movies. For whatever reason, I can separate their personal lives from their characters effortlessly. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/4 "2016-03-27T09:59:53Z")
Bruce Willis. His reputation as a huge asshole to everyone kind of colors my perception of him, plus he seems to be phoning in most of his performances these days. Wesley Snipes. Seemed like a cool guy in Blade etc but after his “[sovereign citizen](http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/8198-sovereign-citizen-movement-continues-to-attract-attention)” tax debacle where he seemed to have zero common sense and a brain the size of a baseball, it’s hard now not to regard him as just a handsome Forrest Gump type idiot reading lines. Tobey Maguire apparently is [a bit of miserly sadist.](http://pagesix.com/2014/06/11/tobey-maguire-is-a-royal-jerk-at-the-poker-table/) January Jones [weirdness is also a bit off putting](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330360/January-Jones-opens-Xanders-mystery-father-models-array-stunning-gowns.html) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/5 "2016-03-27T11:15:01Z")
> [@Lorne\_Armstrong](#): > > Bill Cosby. Holy Shit. How did I forget that? Dr. Heatcliff Huxtable is an OB/Gyn! I used to like “The Cosby Show”, but it will never, EVER, be the same. It was a good show, but it is also the absolute perfect example of something that is now ruined by an actor’s personal life. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/6 "2016-03-27T11:35:35Z")
I used to like Phillip Seymour Hoffman until I found out he was a junkie ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/7 "2016-03-27T12:19:41Z")
Andy Dick, for allegedly helping get Phil Hartman killed… …I mean, I wouldn’t especially like Andy Dick’s work _normally_, but that certainly doesn’t help matters. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/8 "2016-03-27T12:20:33Z")
OJ. Ferris Bueller actor Jeffrey Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/9 "2016-03-27T13:02:40Z")
> [@astro](#): > > January Jones [weirdness is also a bit off putting](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330360/January-Jones-opens-Xanders-mystery-father-models-array-stunning-gowns.html) That just makes her even hotter to me ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/10 "2016-03-27T13:22:20Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > That just makes her even hotter to me To me, that interview is nothing. What, exactly, did she say that was good or bad there? I wonder if it is this: "‘It’s just not something the public needs to know,’ she told the online magazine. 'I don’t divulge my sexual preferences. There are parts of your life – no matter what your job – that should remain private." I don’t need, nor want, to know an actor’s personal life. When they are vocal about it, it can take you away from the suspension of disbelief from the character, but that doesn’t happen with me regarding her. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/11 "2016-03-27T14:13:48Z")
Lindsey Lohan, who thankfully has about disappeared. Yet every so often her picture pops up on gossip sites: orange spray tan, bushel baskets of hair extensions, a gorgeous real in-your-face fur coat, at some event where you wonder how and why she ever got in. Strolling along the beach at some exotic resort, Hawaii or Nice or Bora Bora. I wonder how she affords it and why she isn’t working at a convenience store in Fresno (just to be able to afford 3 packs of cigarettes a day) by now. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/12 "2016-03-27T17:24:10Z")
Woody Allen. Total creep. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/13 "2016-03-27T17:26:30Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Lindsey Lohan, who thankfully has about disappeared. Yet every so often her picture pops up on gossip sites: orange spray tan, bushel baskets of hair extensions, a gorgeous real in-your-face fur coat, at some event where you wonder how and why she ever got in. Strolling along the beach at some exotic resort, Hawaii or Nice or Bora Bora. I wonder how she affords it and why she isn’t working at a convenience store in Fresno (just to be able to afford 3 packs of cigarettes a day) by now. I often wonder how she affords her exotic trips. Do you suppose she’s followed Tina Louise’s path? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/14 "2016-03-27T18:51:49Z")
Not an actor, but I heard Carl Sagan was a notorious asshole in restaurants, constantly sending back meals, never tipping, and giving servers long lectures (YAY!), so this colours my cosmic view of him. Elia Kazan’s congressional committee hijinks forever tainted (no - get that stupid perineum reference out of your head already!) my appreciation of some of his otherwise great films. Apparently Ted Bessell’s arrogant, recalcitrant behaviour on the set of one of the great 70’s TV series - “Me and the Chimp” - eventually contributed, at least somewhat, to the demise of what could have been maybe _the_ greatest television series, since “Get a Life”. I really hold Ted against that.☹ ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/15 "2016-03-27T19:39:04Z")
**[Shirley MacLaine after she revealed herself to be an anti-semite and pure and simple evil bitch.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2951513/Outcry-Shirley-MacLaine-asks-Holocaust-victims-paying-sins-past-lives-Comments-attacked-offensive-wrong-Jewish-campaigners.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/16 "2016-03-27T19:56:42Z")
Jane Fonda. Brilliant actress. But a clueless idiot in her personal life which had led her to embrace foolish causes. Most notoriously, North Vietnam. Being against the war was one thing. Supporting the other side during a war is different. Mark Wahlberg. Hate crimes. He says he’s moved past it. I doubt his victims have moved past it as easily. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/17 "2016-03-27T20:38:16Z")
I don’t really care about a person’s beliefs, wack-a-do or not. I have zero tolerance for the outrageous scam known as Scientology, but as long as the actors aren’t pushing the ideology in their performances, I can get past it. Tom Cruise and John Travolta make (mostly) good movies. On the other hand, Kirstie Alley and Juliette Lewis suck at their craft and I wouldn’t watch them in any case. Now, personal behavior is a different breed of cat. Someone like Cosby will never get another penny of my money, nor another second of my time, nor will any other entertainer who makes a point out of making people miserable. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/18 "2016-03-27T21:10:45Z")
As a rule, I don’t care about the personal lives of actors, musicians, athletes, politicians, and other public figures unless they’ve been committed felonies that adversely affect people other than themselves and/or espousing bigoted, racist, and/or morally repugnant social or political views. Beyond that, the fact Sam or Suzy Celebrity may the personality of a brain-damaged wolverine with poor impulse control doesn’t affect me unless I find myself having to regularly deal with them on a personal basis. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/19 "2016-03-27T21:33:44Z")
> [@astro](#): > > January Jones [weirdness is also a bit off putting](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330360/January-Jones-opens-Xanders-mystery-father-models-array-stunning-gowns.html) She seems completely level-headed and sane to me in that interview. > [@PSXer](#): > > I used to like Phillip Seymour Hoffman until I found out he was a junkie You dislike him because he suffered from addiction? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320/20 "2016-03-27T21:52:11Z")
None. I watch actors for entertainment - anything that happens outside of that has no bearing on the work. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-because-of-their-personal-lives/750320.md?page=2)