In a rare move for an actor, Matthew Goode has slammed his new movie Leap Year, calling it “turgid” and saying he expects it to be labelled “the worst film of 2010.”

Goode stars opposite Julie and Julia star Amy Adams in the romantic comedy about an American woman, Anna, travelling to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on 29 February. The British Actor plays a surly innkeeper, Declan, who makes Anna rethink her relationship.

“It’s turgid,” Goode told the UK Telegraph. “I just know that there are a lot of people who will say it is the worst film of 2010.”

The actor says he took the job because it was close to home. “That was the main reason I took it – so that I could come home at the weekends. It wasn’t because of the script, trust me. I was told it was going to be like The Quiet Man with a Vaughan Williams soundtrack, but in the end it turned out to have pop music all over it. A bit like Chasing Liberty (in which he starred opposite Mandy Moore in 2004) again. Do I feel I let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had a nice time and I got paid.”

He explains to the Telegraph that he feels it’s important to be able to speak one’s mind, saying, “Because of the way my repartee comes out, people tend to think that I don’t care. Actually, it’s often just a result of my being in a situation where I’m embarrassed about having to talk about a film which I don’t think is that brilliant – but obviously I can’t say that… I do think that it’s important that one should be able to speak out without worrying about causing offence, or whatever. And it saddens me that the romanticism has been ripped out of being an actor.”

Goode can also dish it out against himself. When talking about A Single Man, in which he plays Colin Firth’s lover, he says, “When you see a finished film, it’s very rare that it exceeds your expectations. Generally, you’re thinking. ‘Oh no, I don’t think this is going to work out the way I hoped.’ This was one of the few occasions when I thought, ‘Wow, it’s really brilliant.’ And I’m hardly in it, so there may well be a correlation there.’