Hollywood careers that just ended abruptly

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.

Mira Sorvino was big in the 90's.

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!

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.