Hollywood careers that just ended abruptly

Itssoeasy · 26-01-2021 07:14PM

This person doesn’t technically fall under the thread title but orson welles would be someone who’s career while amazing didn’t probably get as much as it should have. He seems to have had constant tension between himself and the studios over his movies. During the lockdowns we’ve had I’ve gone done some YouTube rabbit holes watching his interviews and he’s someone who can draw you in. Now he does seem like he was known to embellish his stories and they needed to be taken with a grain of salt. But an amazing actor.

silliussoddius · 26-01-2021 08:01PM

The White Wolf wrote: »

Sarah Michelle Gellar was always a weird one to me. A talented actress who set the archetype down for how female hero leads are still being written today.....however her career never really seemed to get going after Buffy ended.

She's still active on social media and seems happy so I that's all that matters at the end of the day. Still....would love to see her land a major role.

Sometimes a character can overshadow the actor.

MfMan · 26-01-2021 08:25PM

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Aaron Eckhart and Josh Lucas are 2 actors who seemed to vanish from the limelight.

Lucas working away steadily. I'd place him in the "Really should be much bigger" file. Eckhart I'd like to place in the "..much smaller" file.

saabsaab · 26-01-2021 09:00PM

silliussoddius wrote: »

Sometimes a character can overshadow the actor.

In the late thirties He tried to get a film made about the treatment of the Jews in Germany. He was stopped by the studios.

CastorTroy · 26-01-2021 09:39PM

silliussoddius wrote: »

Sometimes a character can overshadow the actor.

Not too often a lead actor can get away from a character. Tom Welling would be another example.
Not sure how David Boreanaz has done it a few times with Buffy/Angel to Bones to SEAL Team.
But that's a subject for a different thread in the tv forum I'm sure.

razorblunt · 26-01-2021 09:58PM

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Aaron Eckhart and Josh Lucas are 2 actors who seemed to vanish from the limelight.

Josh Lucas was in Ford vs Ferrari. He has the ability to go from completely likeable to absolute douche in his roles. A very good actor.
I’d say he’ll be working away nicely until he’s old.

odyssey06 · 26-01-2021 10:09PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

Not too often a lead actor can get away from a character. Tom Welling would be another example.
Not sure how David Boreanaz has done it a few times with Buffy/Angel to Bones to SEAL Team.
But that's a subject for a different thread in the tv forum I'm sure.

Even pre-accident roles seemed to be drying up for Christopher Reeve as he was identified so much with Superman... his other credits are mostly period or genre pieces.

* He was very good in the Bostonians

santana75 · 26-01-2021 11:32PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

This person doesn’t technically fall under the thread title but orson welles would be someone who’s career while amazing didn’t probably get as much as it should have. He seems to have had constant tension between himself and the studios over his movies. During the lockdowns we’ve had I’ve gone done some YouTube rabbit holes watching his interviews and he’s someone who can draw you in. Now he does seem like he was known to embellish his stories and they needed to be taken with a grain of salt. But an amazing actor.

I myself have fallen down a fair few Orson Wells rabbit holes. I could listen to him all day, he had something magnetic about him. Although I have to say the most entertaining clips I watched were of the infamous pea commercial and of course the one for wine where he's absolutely off his box and slurring his words to beat the band.

Itssoeasy · 26-01-2021 11:37PM

santana75 wrote: »

I myself have fallen down a fair few Orson Wells rabbit holes. I could listen to him all day, he had something magnetic about him. Although I have to say the most entertaining clips I watched were of the infamous pea commercial and of course the one for wine where he's absolutely off his box and slurring his words to beat the band.

Ah yeah the wine one where the two other actors are standing there not knowing how to react. His speech at the Jimmy Stewart roast is one for the ages.

dark crystal · 26-01-2021 11:47PM

Mena Suvari and Thora Birch didn't really seem to capitalise on their success in American Beauty. Haven't seen them in anything much since that film came out.

26-01-2021 11:56PM

dark crystal wrote: »

Mena Suvari

All the American pie movies, few other teen romcoms following ap and last I saw, an absolutely terrible zombie movie. Her cv is full but once the teen roles dried up she went straight to b if not c movies

Nitrogan · 27-01-2021 12:06AM

Patrick Bergin

Looked like he was making a name for himself with Sleeping with the Enemy and Patriot Games, then he disappeared.

JP Liz V1 · 27-01-2021 12:22AM

ZX7R wrote: »

What happened to the boldwin brothers.

Alec still acts, Stephen is Justin Bieber's father in law now and a Trump supporter, William was in MacGyver reboot as a guest star not sure what Daniel is up too

RandomViewer · 27-01-2021 12:24AM

Nitrogan wrote: »

Patrick Bergin

Looked like he was making a name for himself with Sleeping with the Enemy and Patriot Games, then he disappeared.

Was in that terrible RTE windmill thing last year

CastorTroy · 27-01-2021 01:00AM

dark crystal wrote: »

Mena Suvari and Thora Birch didn't really seem to capitalise on their success in American Beauty. Haven't seen them in anything much since that film came out.

Thora's been in Walking Dead recently but her father who was also her manager supposedly ruined her career by fighting with directors. Otherwise I'd say she could've had a career similar to Christina Ricci.
Think going into Ghost World she was the bigger of the 2 names, but Scarlett is the one we all know now

JohnFalstaff · 27-01-2021 01:03AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

This person doesn’t technically fall under the thread title but orson welles would be someone who’s career while amazing didn’t probably get as much as it should have. He seems to have had constant tension between himself and the studios over his movies. During the lockdowns we’ve had I’ve gone done some YouTube rabbit holes watching his interviews and he’s someone who can draw you in. Now he does seem like he was known to embellish his stories and they needed to be taken with a grain of salt. But an amazing actor.

Welles had the perfect career. As he said himself, he started at the top and worked his way down. Difficult as it might be to follow a directorial debut that many consider the greatest film ever made, Welles surpassed himself with The Magnificent Ambersons. After that, he did what he pleased. He eschewed the Hollywood system, or any system, and managed to deliver some masterpieces along the way.

I think what I love most about Welles, above many other filmmakers, is that he realised that the ultimate work of art is not the films, but the life lived whilst making those films.

Duckworth_Luas · 27-01-2021 01:25AM

ZX7R wrote: »

What happened to the boldwin brothers.

All taken out by the Canadian Air Force during an attack on Baldwin Manor.

JP Liz V1 · 27-01-2021 02:05AM

Nitrogan wrote: »

Patrick Bergin

Looked like he was making a name for himself with Sleeping with the Enemy and Patriot Games, then he disappeared.

He was in Eastenders last year afair

Ash.J.Williams · 27-01-2021 09:10AM

saabsaab wrote: »

Orlando Bloom.

His episode of extras was funny

saabsaab · 27-01-2021 04:18PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Was in that terrible RTE windmill thing last year

I liked it.

saabsaab · 27-01-2021 04:19PM

What happened to Colin Farrell? Not been in much recently.

RandomViewer · 27-01-2021 04:24PM

saabsaab wrote: »

What happened to Colin Farrell? Not been in much recently.

Artemis Fowl, Judy Dench going "Top of the mornin to ya"

odyssey06 · 27-01-2021 04:29PM

saabsaab wrote: »

What happened to Colin Farrell? Not been in much recently.

Lined up as the Penguin in next Batman production... although I would not have recognised him.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/1015/1171663-colin-farrell-is-unrecognisable-on-set-of-new-batman/

pixelburp · 27-01-2021 04:31PM

Colin Farrell again; the thread's beginning to repeat

RandomViewer · 27-01-2021 04:34PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Lined up as the Penguin in next Batman production... although I would not have recognised him.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/1015/1171663-colin-farrell-is-unrecognisable-on-set-of-new-batman/

He was brilliant as Bullseye in Daredevil,

27-01-2021 05:25PM

Taylor Kitsch always springs to mind.

John Carter was a very entertaining romp ruined by horrid marketing.
Battleship was a disaster not of his doing.

The Grand Seduction was a great little film but can't think of a film since

pixelburp · 27-01-2021 05:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Taylor Kitsch always springs to mind.

John Carpenter was a very entertaining romp ruined by horrid marketing.
Battleship was a disaster not of his doing.

The Grand Seduction was a great little film but can't think of a film since

I know what you meant, but the film that popped into my head when I read that was NOT the Andrew Stanton vehicle

Actually, on that note... Andrew Stanton. The toast of Pixar's early days, whose live-action directorial career hit an immediate wall with John Carter (presuming he had a future in mind)

Ditto Brad Bird: I see he directed Incredibles 2, but I got the sense Tomorrowland kinda stunted his move into live-action films (though Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol remains a blast)

RandomViewer · 27-01-2021 05:45PM

pixelburp wrote: »

I know what you meant, but the film that popped into my head when I read that was NOT the Andrew Stanton vehicle

Actually, on that note... Andrew Stanton. The toast of Pixar's early days, whose live-action directorial career hit an immediate wall with John Carter (presuming he had a future in mind)

Ditto Brad Bird: I see he directed Incredibles 2, but I got the sense Tomorrowland kinda stunted his move into live-action films (though Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol remains a blast)

Tomorrowland isn't that bad, John Carter was too long, Battleship ,a plot and a script would have been handy

RandomViewer · 27-01-2021 05:47PM

Clive Owen ,tipped for big things but never really got there, good actor

wally79 · 27-01-2021 05:52PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Clive Owen ,tipped for big things but never really got there, good actor

Would have liked to see him as jack reacher rather than cruise

Hollywood careers that just ended abruptly

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