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Actors who failed to reach their potential
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A bit harsh to review actors based on their career before they died or retired. One from the past, Haya Harareet of Ben Hur fame, only made 7-8 films and really only Ben Hur was of note.
She must have been one of the few actresses of the 50s that had military service experience after serving two years in the Israeli Marines.0 -
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tony1kenobi wrote: »Does Alec Baldwin not win awards every year for 30 Rock?
No I stick by what I said. In "30 Rock" he's part of an ensemble. The focus of the show does not revolve around Alec Baldwin, who is more than able to hold the screen on his own.
As for acting career that never really reached the dizzying heights they should have Montgomery Clift comes to mind. A Car Accident, paralysed face, and poof he falls from grace hard, he would have been as big as Marlon Brando (figuratively :P).
EDIT: All this talk of Matthew McConaughey, and yet no one talks about his break through performance in Dazed and Confused.
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he's good in The Lincoln Lawyer but its retreading old paths playing lawyers again, how many has he played now? he was such a promising talent in the mid 90s with A Time To Kill and Contact then went into easy rom com fare, needs a proper meaty role.
Just going to leave this here.
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EDIT: All this talk of Matthew McConaughey, and yet no one talks about his break through performance in Dazed and Confused.
That was his break through but he hasn't really done anything of note in the last 10 years. Matt Damon fairly sums up McConaughey approach to his acting career with his impression of him:D
That said McConaughey has one of the best southern drawls in the business if he can get some good scripts after his looks fade.0 -
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I'm watching Mars Attacks! and was surprised to see Christina Applegate in the credits. I didn't remember seeing her before, and she has only a tiny part as the girlfriend of Jack Black's gung-ho soldier. Not sure why. I've liked her ever since Married ... With Children, and she has shown some impressive comic talent on occasions, such as in Anchorman and The Sweetest Thing ... but she seems happier on TV. Oh well.
About Tom Sizemore: his off-screen behaviour has been, we might say, problematic. A long-standing meth addiction, multiple arrests, time in jail and in rehab. But he's definitely working now, something like six films in production this year.From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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I'm watching Mars Attacks! and was surprised to see Christina Applegate in the credits. I didn't remember seeing her before, and she has only a tiny part as the girlfriend of Jack Black's gung-ho soldier. Not sure why. I've liked her ever since Married ... With Children, and she has shown some impressive comic talent on occasions, such as in Anchorman and The Sweetest Thing ... but she seems happier on TV. Oh well.
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Brest cancer would have limited her recent film roles.0 -
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Thought Jared Leto would move onto good roles after American Psycho but I guess Christian Bale overshadowed everyone in that movie.
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Let's hope at least half of them are good, then
He also spent time doing porn or something to that effect, as far as I know. That does seem to have some effect on careers, oddly sometimes positive, mostly negative.
porn of the ametuer kind , apparently he,d be well suited to that film industry , he has some bizzare condition which means he,s always on duty if you know what i mean :eek:0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Val Kilmer's career feel apart because he is an absolute bastard and most directors he worked with despised him. Schumacher called Kilmer "the most psychologically disturbed human being I have ever worked with" and on the set of Island of Dr. Moreau John Frankheimer screamed after shooting Kilmer's last scene "Cut! Now get that bastard off my set!". Kilmer burnt a camera operators face with a cigarette on set and while he denied it was intentional everyone else saw it as being a malicious and deliberate act.
I actually rate Kilmer very highly as an actor and do enjoy his work but on a set just like any other workplace you have to respect your coworkers and when you insist that no one can make eye contact with you and act like a spoilt bully then you find that a lot of people will simply refuse to work with you. In Hollywood an actor who has a reputation for being difficult will find that a lot of people will refuse to work with him.
To be fair to Tommy Lee Jones, he was an icon of cinema well before he was Two Face. If anything it ranks as a low point on his CV and he was completely miscast in the role.
you know your a sob to work with when your refered to as such in father ted
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