7 Actors Who Had Ridiculous Reasons For Quitting A Role

Let’s
be honest: we’ve all wanted to quit our job at a certain point in
life. No matter how awesome your job is, or how awesome you think it
is, there’s going to be that one moment where you’ve just had it.
Most people will just let that moment pass, but a select few will
roll with it and quit their job.

Even
TV stars sometimes get to that moment and quit their job. And it’s
not always for a good reason either – here’s a few of the more
ridiculous ones. Be that either good or bad.

Isaac
Hayes (South Park)

While
we can imagine South Park
providing its actors with plenty of reasons to leave their roles
without anyone blaming them, Isaac Hayes chose a pretty weird one. We
all know South Park
loves mocking all types of religion, so Isaac leaving the show after
the show’s creators mocked Scientology, Isaac’s religion, was a
bit weird. I mean, it had to happen sooner or later, right?

Luke
Grimes (True Blood)

This
is a painful one if true, but according to HBO Luke Grimes left the
show because he didn’t agree with his character becoming gay.
Sounds like a petty thing to lose a role in one of the more popular
shows of its time over, but I guess Luke disagreed with that.

Janet
Hubert (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)

Remember
when Aunt Vivian was suddenly another Aunt Vivian? Well, it turns out
that the first actress who played the part, Janet Hubert, couldn’t
stand Will Smith and felt he was a bit of an egomaniac. In fact, in
the recent reunion, she was also painfully absent, claiming that Will
Smith hadn’t changed one bit and she’d never do anything that he
is attached to.

John
Rhys-Davies (Sliders)

John
quit this science fiction show about parallel universes because of
nothing more than bad writing. He claimed the writers knew nothing
about science fiction or science, which does seem like it would pose
a few issues when dealing with this kind of material. Then again,
considering how little we know about this subject – especially 20
year ago, when the show aired – I think a little creative leeway
was to be expected.

Kal
Penn (House M.D.)

Kal
Penn’s character committed suicide in the popular House M.D.
series, which usually means the writers are 100% sure the actor isn’t
coming back – either because they don’t want to or the writers
don’t want them to. In Kal’s case, it was the former: he left the
show to work for the Obama administration. It’s hard to blame the
guy.

Charlie
Sheen (Two and a Half Men)

Who
could forget about this one? Charlie Sheen hit rock bottom before
leaving the Two and a Half Men showrunners no other choice but to
continue on without their most popular actor and character. Charlie
missed no opportunity before and after him getting fired to call
Chuck Lorre all kinds of names in interviews, which begs the question
if this was what Charlie Sheen wanted all along.

Dave Chappelle (Chappelle’s Show)

If you get a show named after yourself, it does beg the question why you’d quit it in the first place. Well, it’s actually fairly simple: Dave got tired of what the producers asked him to do and how hard he had to fight them to keep certain of his own skits and jokes in the show. I guess if the juice isn’t worth the squeeze anymore, it’s probably smarter to just call it quits.