7 Actors Who Determined To Ditch Total Movie Genres

Discover out why these stars gave up on sure genres..

George Clooney has portrayed an onscreen heartthrob for almost all of his profession however he not has any curiosity in taking over romantic roles. Following 2022’s Ticket to Paradise, George defined that he simply doesn’t really feel like competing in opposition to youthful actors within the romance style.

“Look, I’m 63 years previous. I’m not attempting to compete with 25-year-old main males,” George lately mentioned on 60 Minutes. “That’s not my job. I’m not doing romantic movies anymore.”

Liam Neeson has remodeled a dozen motion pictures within the motion movie style however he says he’s prepared to hold up his hat. Whereas Liam says he presently has no drawback maintaining with motion roles bodily, he is aware of that in the future he gained’t have the ability to combat like he used to and doesn’t need to must continuously depend on his stunt double Mark Vanselow. He shared that he plans to step away from motion motion pictures “perhaps the tip of” 2025.

“I’m 72 — it has to cease at some stage,” Liam lately advised PEOPLE “You possibly can’t idiot audiences. I don’t need Mark to be preventing my combat scenes for me.”

Early in Matthew McConaughey’s profession, he made a reputation for himself starring in rom-coms — however finally determined that it wasn’t the course he needed to take his profession. He made a acutely aware determination to show down any rom-coms that got here his method and even notably turned down a $14.5 million payday. As soon as studios realized he was critical about taking completely different sorts of roles, the affords dried up.

“No affords got here in for nearly a 12 months and a half. I used to be now shaking fingers with the truth that I could by no means work in Hollywood once more. It pinched me slightly, however I used to be okay with it. It was time for a brand new chapter in my life,” Matthew advised AARP.

It took time however studios lastly started to simply accept that Matthew was on a brand new path. He went on to land main roles in dramas like Dallas Consumers Membership and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Clint Eastwood’s early profession centered on enjoying the main man in Western movies like The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider however after years of enjoying a cowboy-type, Clint determined to stroll away from Westerns. In 1992, after his movie Unforgiven took dwelling Finest Image on the Oscars, he mentioned he didn’t suppose he’d do any extra.

“That was an exquisite script. But it surely appeared prefer it was the tip of the street for me with the style, as a result of it type of summarized all the things I felt in regards to the Western at that exact time,” he shared with Esquire in 2008.

Though he walked away from the style for many years, he finally returned to his roots in 2021’s Cry Macho.

In 2012, Jackie Chan introduced that he was carried out with motion movies after constructing his profession on his martial arts and stunt expertise. He defined that he thought the world was already too violent and needed to make Chinese language Zodiac his “final huge motion film.” Whereas he did say he would nonetheless hold his commitments to The Karate Child and Rush Hour franchises, he mentioned he needed to deal with extra critical elements.

“The world is simply too violent now. I really like preventing however I hate violence,” he mentioned throughout a press convention. “I need the viewers to know I’m not nearly preventing, additionally I can act. And so, day-to-day, 12 months by 12 months, I mentioned, ‘Proper, I’m going to indicate you the actual Jackie Chan.’ I don’t simply need to be an motion star, I need to be a real actor.”

Michael Douglas has appeared in his fair proportion of Marvel motion pictures however he doesn’t need to participate in any additional MCU flicks. In actual fact, Michael says he requested to be killed off Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania however his pitch was turned down. Sooner or later, he says he’s simply not going to indicate as much as movie.

“[Getting killed off] truly was my request for the third one,” he mentioned on The View. “I mentioned I’d prefer to have a critical [death], with all these nice particular results. There’s received to be some improbable method the place I can shrink to an ant measurement and explode, no matter it’s. I need to use all these results. However, that was on the final one. Now, I don’t suppose I’m going to indicate up.”

Since collaborating within the Lord of the Rings franchise, Viggo Mortensen has taken a step again from franchise movies. Whereas he’s not utterly opposed, he says most of them are “not often that good” and “not often that properly written.” As an alternative, he opts for movies that inform “fascinating tales.”

“I’d by no means do a film simply because so-and-so is directing it. It must be in regards to the story. And if I feel I’m proper for the character, that at all times comes first. That goes for franchises,” he advised Self-importance Truthful. “However they’re not often that good. I imply, to me, they’re not often that properly written. They’re sort of predictable. I imply, after all there’s at all times the problem of if I run out of cash.”