16 times celebrities hated their own biopics: ‘I felt violated’

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the email, Assange said the film’s script was based on “a deceitful book” written by someone with a “vendetta” against him, and urged Cumberbatch to drop out of the movie. “I said listen, this film is going to explore what you achieved, what brought you to the world’s attention, in a way that I think is nothing but positive,” Cumberbatch told The Guardian. I should have done everything in my power with the leverage that I had 10 years ago – which was a different leverage but it was leverage nonetheless – I should have tried everything in my power to cast a black woman to play an exceptionally perfect black woman … She deserved better, and I am sorry.” open image in gallery Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in ‘Nina’ Sarah Palin vs Game Change The infamous Alaska governor, who was John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, hit out in 2012 at Game Change, an unflattering dramatisation of the McCain campaign. “I’m not going to go see the movie, neither is the good Senator John McCain,” Palin told Fox News.