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Hollywood careers that just ended abruptly

B.A._Baracus

A random thread.
But I just happened to switch on an episode of Baywatch there randomly on TV and it guest starred Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie from Saved by the Bell)
The episode in question was in 1992 which was the same year Saved by the Bell ended. This of course is all leading up to her infamous Showgirls movie in 1995.

Only aged 23 when the movie came out her career pretty much ended as the movie was a flop. She would star in movies like Any Given Sunday (1999) but the damage was done.
In a 2015 interview the director of Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven, apologized for her career ending so soon. Not that it was his intention or anything like that. But having made a movie that failed he felt responsible for what he says 'Hollywood blackballing her'.

It's mental looking back. She was young, beautiful, tall, could act and had a rocking body. If you were a betting man, then the (seemingly) smart bet would have been on her.

Anyone else come to mind?

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Ash.J.Williams

sugarman wrote: »

I wouldn't say ended abruptly, but Bill Murray had a fairly sharp drop off post Groundhog Day and Kingpin in the mid 90s when he was still in his 40s. Since then he mostly stuck to cameos and voice work.

He’s been livin the dream

JP Liz V1

dark crystal wrote: »

Renee Russo comes to mind; I haven't seen her in anything for a long time. She was ubiquitous during the mid 90's - early 2000's.

Kim Basinger also seems to have been absent from the big screen for a while now. She won the Oscar for L.A Confidential and then sorta just disappeared after her divorce from Alec Baldwin.

Russo appears in her husband's films

Basinger hasn't done really anything

Realt Dearg Sec

sugarman wrote: »

I wouldn't say ended abruptly, but Bill Murray had a fairly sharp drop off post Groundhog Day and Kingpin in the mid 90s when he was still in his 40s. Since then he mostly stuck to cameos and voice work.

Lost in translation? Hyde park on Hudson? Royal tennenbaums? Life aquatic?

Would say his real dip in form was late eighties and early nineties when he was in some awful stuff post ghostbusters but pre groundhog

~Rebel~

If not already said - Pauly Shore!

Had an purple patch with Biodome, Jury Duty, and In the army now, and then dropped off to almost entirely inconsequential roles.

Biodome and In The Army Now were guilty pleasures back in the day..

Speaking of the latter, Lori Petty was a really big deal for a while - that, Free Willy, Point Break, Tank Girl, and then right back to small roles in small things until appearing in Orange is The New Black as a crazy old lady. That role made me feel very weird after being a bit in love with her in some of the above movies...

[Deleted User]

the purple tin wrote: »

Haven't seen Michael Madsen in anything in ages. Kill Bill 2 was probably the last time.

He's actually one of the most prolific actors in the world.

He basically gets paid 20k to shoot a short clip, takes one day and the company can then use his name on the box of whatever God awful tripe they are putting out.

Last one i saw was a blatant c list movie about a giant shark with dodgy cgi. He was in the first 5 minutes, I managed 10 so I guess the 20k worked

Ash.J.Williams

Suckit wrote: »

I knew he was the original, but didn't realise he wasn't well liked.
I just read this, and might get the book.

He would have been an interesting Marty , much darker apparently

dubstepper

Renee Russo was good in Velvet Buzzsaw. Still look great too!

dubstepper

You can see on this thread that a lot of the issue with 80s/90s stars is bad plastic surgery. I saw Helen Hunt on a netflix movie recently and would not have recognised her.

weldoninhio

Eric Bana was Chopper and Hulk and then disappeared.

Ash.J.Williams

weldoninhio wrote: »

Eric Bana was Chopper and Hulk and then disappeared.

i saw him the other day

The Inbetween is mine

weldoninhio wrote: »

Eric Bana was Chopper and Hulk and then disappeared.

He was in Munich and Star Trek amongst other things...but he's married and based in Australia, so Hollywood isn't his scene it seems

Ash.J.Williams

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

He was in Munich and Star Trek amongst other things...but he's married and based in Australia, so Hollywood isn't his scene it seems

he did special correspondents in 2017, then a series dirty john and has somethin in the pipeline

wally79

weldoninhio wrote: »

Eric Bana was Chopper and Hulk and then disappeared.

Hardly disappeared. He was in Troy, munich, Star Trek, time travellers wife, hanna, lone survivor and also dirty John on Netflix

NeuralNetwork

Molly Ringwald

She practically defined the Brat Pack era of teen films in the 1980s: The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink etc.

Her career didn't end, but she definitely disappeared as a big name.

eviltwin

NeuralNetwork wrote: »

Molly Ringwald

She practically defined the Brat Pack era of teen films in the 1980s: The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink etc.

Her career didn't end, but she definitely disappeared as a big name.

She got married and moved to France. I think she has said she wanted to live a normal life after being in the spotlight for most of her teens. Then she had children and decided to stay home. She's been in a few things over the last few years but seems happy to just do acting part time these days.

[Deleted User]

sugarman wrote: »

I wouldn't say ended abruptly, but Bill Murray had a fairly sharp drop off post Groundhog Day and Kingpin in the mid 90s when he was still in his 40s. Since then he mostly stuck to cameos and voice work.

That is the wrongest opinion yet. Murray has been in most Wes Anderson movies. Lost in Translation. Lots more. Looks like 1-2 movies a year,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray#2010s:_Films_with_Wes_Anderson

Beechwoodspark

xper wrote: »

I don't think Hackman would have had any trouble getting role offers in his 70's. He just elected to retire. Some actors do. Having a few quid in the bank after a successful career helps of course.

Sean Connery being another example - thank god Peter Jackson failed to tempt him out of retirement to play Gandalf despite throwing ludicrous money at him.

Jasus. Connery as Gandalf would’ve been woejus

Ash.J.Williams

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

They both appear for the first 5 minutes of Super Troopers 2 as well and Penn was in the Goon 2. Ok enough film

i went to tallaght cinema to see supertroopers 2 as it was the only cinema showing it, myself, my missus and a random lady pensioner .....i'd love to know what the pensioner made of it

weldoninhio

wally79 wrote: »

Hardly disappeared. He was in Troy, munich, Star Trek, time travellers wife, hanna, lone survivor and also dirty John on Netflix

Never seen Dirty John, but the most recent of those movies is 2013. 8 years is a long absence, especially for someone who was in such decent movies.

Ash.J.Williams

weldoninhio wrote: »

Never seen Dirty John, but the most recent of those movies is 2013. 8 years is a long absence, especially for someone who was in such decent movies.

consult imdb and come back then ...

Metroid diorteM

blue note wrote: »

There's a guy I wish was in more. I love watching him. Saw parenthood again recently. What a great film.

Steve Martin did a pandemic version of father of the bride (Skype call). Its genuinely decent. Its on Youtube

E mac

Mira Sorvino was big in the 90's.

blue note

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Jasus. Connery as Gandalf would’ve been woejus

I can imagine him in it and I think he'd have been excellent. Hard to imagine anyone better than Ian McKellan, but if it was to be someone else he'd have been an excellent choice.

I believe they also wanted him for Morpheus in the Matrix. Same story for me, Lawrence Fishbourne was terrific and I wouldn't change him. But if someone else was to do it, he'd have been an excellent choice.

chrislad

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I was going to say Freddie Prinze and Sarah Michelle Gellar but they’ve been mentioned already. I’d be gone into hiding too after the embarrassment that was Scooby Doo, but SMG does tv cookery shows, no idea what Freddie is at these days.

Freddie Prinze Jr was the voice of Kanan, in the Star Wars Rebels TV show. Those are Comic Con appearances for life!

weldoninhio

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

consult imdb and come back then ...

The Forgiven (2017) cost 15m, made 43k worldwide.
Missed him in King Arthur. (2017)
The Secret Scripture (2016) made 700k worldwide
Special Correspondents (2016) Made for Netflix gervais garbage.

Thats quite the fall from grace compared to his previous movies.

check_six

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Lost in translation? Hyde park on Hudson? Royal tennenbaums? Life aquatic?

Would say his real dip in form was late eighties and early nineties when he was in some awful stuff post ghostbusters but pre groundhog

Apparently, Bill Murray doesn't use an agent. He has an answering machine set up somewhere. You can leave a message for him, but there is no guarantee that he will listen to it anytime soon (can be months in between checks), and if it doesn't pique his interest then it just gets deleted with no feedback to you. He's been at a point in his career where he can do whatever he damn well pleases for a long long time now, and fair play to him!

A lot of the entries on this list are people who tread a very fine line between being box office heavies and being terrible to work with. As soon as the box office deteriorates then being terrible to work with is not so appealing to directors and producers. You'd wonder if those stars are self aware enough to realise their toxic personalities are holding them back. Edward Norton is a good example of a terrific talent, who had several big hits, that nobody is willing to put up with any more.

At the other end of the scale entirely is Keanu Reeves. Not much of an actor, truth be told, but famously easy to work with. He turns up on time, knows his lines, knows everyone else's lines, and is apparently a tremendously nice fellow to have around the set. You'd probably find that a lot of the big stars whose careers have endured over the decades share a lot of these qualities. Some of the more volatile characters were more of a 'flavour of the month' for a much shorter period.

HBC08

sugarman wrote: »

I wouldn't say ended abruptly, but Bill Murray had a fairly sharp drop off post Groundhog Day and Kingpin in the mid 90s when he was still in his 40s. Since then he mostly stuck to cameos and voice work.

He was in Lost in Translation in 2003 which won an Oscar for best original screenplay and had nominations for loads of other including best picture and best actor.....for Bill Murray!

The Inbetween is mine

"Difficult to work with" is a term bandied around quite a lot, and i would think in quite a lot of cases it's absolute rubbish...
Just a case of certain individuals not getting along and an egotistical individual needing to stamp their authority on a situation.
Take Will Smith & Janet Hubert Whitten...he branded her difficult to work with and ruined her career in one fell swoop.

MisterAnarchy

odyssey06 wrote: »

The box office bomb Cutthroat Island seems to have done for her film career and Matthew Modine's, as leads at least.

And rightly so .
I really hate that film, it bankrupted Carolco Pictures who produced some quality films in the 80s and 90s.
Rambo 1-3, Terminator 2, Total Recall, Universal Soldier.

Ash.J.Williams

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

"Difficult to work with" is a term bandied around quite a lot, and i would think in quite a lot of cases it's absolute rubbish...
Just a case of certain individuals not getting along and an egotistical individual needing to stamp their authority on a situation.
Take Will Smith & Janet Hubert Whitten...he branded her difficult to work with and ruined her career in one fell swoop.

Does it work against men? Difficult men are seen as some sort of artists and have to literally kill someone to be black listed and even at that have big comebacks