Star Wars may have been an instant cultural phenomenon when the film landed in theaters on May 25, 1977, Sir Alec Guinness famously hated not just the movie but the production as well. In letters to an acquaintance during filming of the original film, Guinness mentioned the experience. “Can’t say I’m enjoying the film. … new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wedges of pink paper — and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. I just think, thankfully, of the lovely bread,” he purportedly wrote (via Dangerous Minds). 

The film’s success didn’t make the actor any more congenial toward the movie or its fans, either. Back in 1979, only a year away from the release of The Empire Strikes Back (the sequel to the original Star Wars movie), Guinness met an eager young fan that had seen Star Wars over a hundred times (via Buzzfeed). The fan, Daniel Henning, begged the actor for his autograph. Guinness agreed, however on one condition. As Henning told Cheat Sheet, “[Guinness] got a pen, leaned his head down, and he wrote ‘To Danny, Good wishes always. Alec Guinness. And you have promised me not to see Star Wars again!'”