Look, I’m just gonna say it – Tyra Banks really, truly hates that she was in Halloween: Resurrection. And when I say hates, I mean she’s not even trying to be diplomatic about it.

The Regret Is Real (Like, Really Real)

When Entertainment Weekly asked the 52-year-old supermodel if she looks back fondly on her role in the 2002 slasher flick, her answer was brutal: “No. Not even a little bit. Like, not even a tiny bit.”

That’s not the usual Hollywood dance where celebrities gently distance themselves from past work while still being gracious about it. This is straight-up “I wish I could erase this from my IMDb” energy.

And honestly? I get it. Halloween: Resurrection was the eighth installment in the franchise, and let’s be real – by that point, they were really scraping the bottom of the Michael Myers barrel. The movie currently sits at a painful 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is exactly as bad as it sounds.

The Josh Hartnett Logic That Didn’t Quite Work Out

Here’s where it gets interesting. Banks didn’t even want to do the movie. She knew it didn’t make sense for where she was trying to take her career. But her agent at the time had this whole pitch ready to go.

“I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that.’ What is it going to do for my career? I’m a model, and I need to do things that are kind of different to get this acting career that I want. He was like, ‘No, Josh Hartnett did Halloween, and look what he’s doing now!'”

The thing is, Josh Hartnett was in Halloween H20, which came out in 1998 and was actually pretty well-received (relatively speaking for a horror sequel). That movie worked because it brought Jamie Lee Curtis back and felt like it actually respected the franchise.

Halloween: Resurrection, on the other hand, was the one with the reality TV premise and Busta Rhymes literally kung-fu fighting Michael Myers. I’m not making that up. It was… a choice.

When Agent Advice Goes Wrong

This whole situation really highlights something we don’t talk about enough – how many bad career decisions get made because someone’s following a playbook that doesn’t actually apply to them. Hartnett’s trajectory and Banks’ trajectory were completely different. He was a rising actor trying to prove he could do commercial films. She was a supermodel trying to break into acting in a way that wouldn’t typecast her or waste the brand equity she’d built. It's the kind of miscalculation that echoes Tom Cruise's $150M career-killing disaster, where a single bad bet overshadowed years of smart choices.

And look, I’ve seen this pattern before with models transitioning to acting. The roles they take in those early years either open doors or lock them into a very specific box. Banks was right to be worried about it.

What She Was Actually Building

By 2002, Banks wasn’t just any model – she’d already made history multiple times over, from magazine covers to runway shows. She had bigger plans. America’s Next Top Model would premiere just a year later in 2003, and that show would run for 24 cycles and make her a household name in a completely different way than Halloween: Resurrection ever could have.

So yeah, her instincts were spot-on. The movie didn’t help her acting career, didn’t expand her range, and nearly 25 years later, she’s still getting asked about it – but not in a good way.

The Lesson Nobody Asked For (But Here It Is Anyway)

What’s kind of fascinating about this whole thing is that Banks is willing to be this blunt about it now. Most celebrities would soften it, talk about how it was a learning experience or how they loved working with the cast. But she’s at a point in her career where she can just… tell the truth. And the truth is that sometimes you make a decision that sounds logical in the moment, based on someone else’s success story, and it just doesn’t work out.

The real question is whether that agent ever admitted he was wrong. Because I’m guessing Banks has thought about that conversation more than a few times over the years.

Not even a tiny bit fond of it. That’s the kind of honesty that makes you wonder what other roles she turned down that year – and whether any of them would’ve been the actual breakthrough she was looking for.