5 actors who hurt their careers with scandals and mistakes
Celebrities like Mel Gisbon, Megan Fox or Hugh Grant could not get away with their mistakes and ended up paying the consequences seriously.
Maintaining a positive image with the public is not an easy matter for all Hollywood stars. While some try to find balance and are generally victorious, not all can.
Celebrities like Mel Gisbon, Megan Fox or Hugh Grant, for example, could not get away with their mistakes and their careers were affected.
Here are some celebrities who lost much more than just millions due to their mistakes, according to a publication in the Spanish newspaper El PaÃs.
Mel Gibson
Perhaps Mel Gibson thought that because of his fame he had the privilege of saying what was going through his mind without any consequence. Although for a long time he was like that, he ended up messing with the wrong people and it did have serious effects on his career.
Back in the eighties and nineties the actor used to say phrases like “Who is going to think with this look that I am gay? Do I speak like a homosexual? Do I move like them? On another occasion he said: "I will apologize to the homosexual associations when hell freezes over", when he was accused of showing effeminate the villain of 'Braveheart', however this mattered little and was still awarded two Oscars for this film, as producer and director.
But his offenses were not so well received when they were directed at other powerful groups in Hollywood. In 2006, the police stopped him for driving drunk and he got out of his vehicle shouting: "Jews are to blame for all the wars of humanity, what's wrong, you're a Jew?" Months later, he threatened to “fuck the life” of a policewoman who also arrested him for driving under the influence. "What are you looking at, sweet little tits?" Was one of her phrases against her. He then tried to apologize for this by blaming his alcoholism for his attitude, but he did not stop demanding that they record him in those situations without his consent.
But Gibson when appearing not only unleashes his anger with strangers, he also does it with those closest to him. In 2010, a voice message that she left with her ex-partner Oksana Grigorieva was known, in which she referred to a struggle in which he left her without two teeth, while she was carrying her newborn baby from she. "You deserved it. And if you were raped by a pack of blacks, you would deserve it. I'm going to go there and I'm going to set your house on fire, ”said the actor, who later claimed that he had been taken out of context.
After this he did not get away well and for 10 years he was not considered for more than five low-budget action films. In 2016 he came back with 'Until the Last Man' and was praised again, not even caring that in another scandal he assaulted and spat on an Israeli journalist. Gibson is currently planning the sequel to The Passion of the Christ, Resurrection.
Hugh grant
The kind and tender image of Hugh Grant almost ended up destroyed due to a mistake made by him on June 27, 1995.
In the early morning, Grant got into the BMW that the studio had rented for him while he was shooting the movie 'Nine Months' and went looking for some company. He approached a prostitute and wanted to hire his services, but they had a value of $ 100, an amount that he did not have at the time, he only had $ 60 in cash. For that value she offered him a fellatio inside the vehicle. In the middle of the situation, the actor began to press the brake of the car drawing the attention of some policemen who passed by and both ended up arrested.
For this reason, the study canceled the promotion of 'Nine Months' and his image was affected. However, despite the lack of publicity, the film was successful and Grant apologized for the fact on a television show. He went four years without proposals, but then came back in a big way with 'Notting Hill'.
Katherine Heigl
Having everything to achieve glory, Katherine Heigl spoke too much and made very bad decisions that left her with only five films without repercussion, very few series and in several commercials for cat food.
In just two years she had terrible comments about her own work. "She portrays women as stretched harpies without a sense of humor, it was difficult for me to play such a spoilsport", was the reflection that she made of her on the role of her in the movie 'Slightly pregnant'. She also criticized the scripts for 'Grey's Anatomy', where she played Izzie Stevens, one of the series' most beloved characters and which gave her an Emmy for the third season. At the end of Part 6, where Izzie's story was to end, she didn't even show up for the recordings.
Megan fox
With just one movie she gained worldwide fame for her sexy and provocative image, but one comment ended her career on the rise. She had the misfortune to compare director Michael Bay to Hitler and this cost her the producer, Steven Spielberg, to fire her and remove her from the third part of 'Transformers' (she was replaced by the Victoria's Secret model Rose Huntington- Whiteley).
“She wants to earn a reputation as a megalomaniac, it's a nightmare working for him because she's a Hitler on set. But when he comes off the set and he's not in director mode, he's shy and vulnerable. He has no social tools and he's even adorable, ”was exactly what she said about Bay.
Although she and the director have already signed the peace, her career from then on was totally limited and she has only landed six supporting roles.
Winona ryder
The actress who stood out in a unique way in the nineties for her image and the roles she played, saw her fame and career collapse after she was caught in 2011, at the exit of the Sacks Fifth Avenue store, with Several products paid for and some not (had their burglar alarm removed). The total value of the merchandise was $ 4,700.
She was convicted of vandalism and she had to pay with three years of probation, 480 hours of work for the community and a fine of $ 11,000.
In 2007 she finally spoke about it and said that she would make up her mind that it was best to let people forget it as time went by. But the image of her as kleptomaniac of hers was not so easily removed from people's minds and was not taken into account for long. In 2016 she was finally able to return with a role on the series 'Stranger Things'. (AND)
