When what happens backstage/IRL ruins a show/movie for you

[EdwardKnoxII]

OK when I watch a film or show I try to separate the actor from the character they are playing but, there times were you have trouble watching cause of something the actor has done in real life or there is backstage problems on a show or film and it's showing up in the production. So what are those moments for you?

Double Dare: Marc Summers had admitted how when the show first started how he hated to get dirty on the show cause of his OCD and more or less had to force him to get slimed, etc. It's weird watching the reruns cause you just keep thinking of the hell he is going through when he gets slimed.

Ferris Beuler's Day Off has a whole new set of connotations after Jeffery Jones got busted for stat rape. And I felt the same way about Pee-Wee Herman after Paul Reubens got busted for indecent exposure.

What are yours?

 

[Youth N Asia]

Michael Richards... it seemed weird watching him on Curb. Like many others I now see him as "that African-American person guy."

 

[foleyfanforever88]

The "African-American person" incident made me enjoy Michael Richards more.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The "African-American person" incident made me enjoy Michael Richards more.

 

[Jingus]

Tom Cruise is the only one that usually gets me. Most of the other crazy movie stars aren't so aggressive with shoving their craziness in your face, but he goes above and beyond the call of Xenu with his batshit insanity. The worst being how he seems utterly inable to laugh at himself. Like, Janeane Garofalo is a fucking wackjob, but she can make the occasional joke at her own expense. Cruise is so serious about his wacky cult that he can't stand anyone laughing at it.

 

[atticus Chaos]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie becoming insanely famous has kind of ruined them for me. I was a huge fan of Jolie in the 90s and thought she was an incredibly talented and beautiful woman. Now, I've seen so much of her, I'm sick of her. I think it was something Justin Theroux said about actors losing their mystery, he was spot on.

 

[Vitamin X]

Completely agree on Brangelina. Throw in Jennifer Aniston too, and the whole tabloid trio has become so overexposed I have a very, very difficult time watching films that they're in.