# Do You Boycott Certain Actors Because You Don't Like ..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347 "2012-04-20T01:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/1 "2012-04-20T01:29:58Z")
… what they’re like in their real lives, and if so, who are they? Q ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/2 "2012-04-20T01:51:00Z")
Not intentionally. I think Tom Cruise is a nutjob, but I still enjoy the Mission Impossible movies for example. The famous people I really despise, like Jenny Mcarthy, I never really felt compelled to in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/3 "2012-04-20T02:06:53Z")
Definitely. I’ll never willingly watch a Tom Cruise movie. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/4 "2012-04-20T02:10:01Z")
Not at the moment; but I might if they were a big enough supporter/financier of some cause I really despised. Like if, say, big action star Bob Smith was a big mover behind an Abstinence Only/HIV-Doesn’t-Cause-AIDS education lobbying group in Africa, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/5 "2012-04-20T02:13:28Z")
My wife used to love Charleton Heston, but stopped watching his movies as he became more and more identified with the NRA. Even though he got Alzhiemers, withdrew from public life and eventually died, she still won’t watch his movies. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/6 "2012-04-20T02:23:24Z")
I was raised in a house where Jane Fonda movies were not allowed due to her actions during the Vietnam War (specifically posing on an AA gun that might have shot at my dad). I don’t bother with any censoring of that type. One actor is still only a small part of the total equation. ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/7 "2012-04-20T02:25:37Z")
I refuse to watch Tom Cruise movies anymore, since the guy is a nutjob. And before she came out with her “I Cured My Son’s Autism” nutjobbism, I didn’t care one way or the other about Jenny McCarthy but now I refuse to watch anything with her in it. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/8 "2012-04-20T02:36:08Z")
I agree with the “Cruise” comment, and will add one other: Julia Roberts. Sorry my friends, but when she left Kiefer Sutherland and married what she thought was the ugliest guy she could find (Lyle Lovett) and then quickly divorced him, I lost all respect for her and gained 100% respect for this talented gentleman. I don’t doubt they’re good at their craft, but both are assholes in real life (IMO) and I won’t watch anything they’re in. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/9 "2012-04-20T02:40:00Z")
No actors, but I refuse to watch Roman Polanski’s films. I won’t be a party to putting a dime in the pocket of an unabashed rapist. I won’t even watch his films on cable. Maybe once he’s dead and in the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/10 "2012-04-20T02:41:14Z")
I can’t deal with the whole Roman Polanski thing. ETA - JINX! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/11 "2012-04-20T02:41:14Z")
Mel Gibson, for sure. He hasn’t made anything good in years, though, so it’s not a difficult boycott. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/12 "2012-04-20T02:45:47Z")
Hugh Grant. ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/13 "2012-04-20T02:56:42Z")
Angelina Jolie creeps me right the heck out. From the time she was famous for those deep wet kisses with her brother, to the time she went around with a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood on a chain around her neck to the compulsive hoarding of children… I avoid her like I avoid all nut jobs… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/14 "2012-04-20T03:40:03Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Hugh Grant. Dude. No Kidding. He went home at night to Elizabeth Hurley, and screwed it up. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/15 "2012-04-20T05:05:53Z")
Woody Allen. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/16 "2012-04-20T05:24:45Z")
Tom Cruise ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/17 "2012-04-20T05:26:53Z")
The only one whose work I once enjoyed is Mel Gibson. I always thought Tom Cruise was an annoying little twerp and avoided his work anyway, but _The Road Warrior_ was one of my favorite movies and I enjoyed the first _Lethal Weapon_ flick and _Braveheart_. Now I can’t watch them without feeling slightly nauseated and I would never pay to see a film of his. I always hated Woody Allen, so finding out that he was a creep didn’t make a lot of difference. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/18 "2012-04-20T05:32:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Definitely. I’ll never willingly watch a Tom Cruise movie. Or Mel Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/19 "2012-04-20T06:15:11Z")
I won’t see any movie directed by [Victor Salva](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva#_), a lesser known pedophile rapist. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347/20 "2012-04-20T07:10:43Z")
I generally dislike Tom Cruise because he’s a wacko $cientologist and all-around nut. I’ve managed to avoid most of his movies for a while but my wife rented the most recent Mission Impossible and I have to say I found it entertaining. I haven’t seen anything Mel Gibson has done in years but, dammit, I still love _Mad Max_ and _The Road Warrior_. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-boycott-certain-actors-because-you-dont-like/619347.md?page=2)