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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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check_six

Rattlehead_ie wrote: »

She compared people being hated for their political view in the Us is like the persecutions of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
Note: I am paraphrasing here

I can't believe you paraphrased that...you monster! (Can't be too careful :rolleyes: )

US politics has a real toxic edge to it right now and Carano diving in with as stupid and tone deaf a statement as that is not going to win you any fans (well, any new fans that anyone would want anyway).

Was she in that Haywire movie with the geographically accurate rooftop chase in Dublin city centre? That movie was quite fun.

pjohnson

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

It could backfire on Disney. The right might stay away.

Would "the right" have followed "Star Wars"? They were already outraged when Daisy Ridley and John Boyega were cast so that ship already long sailed.

No that Disney would care about loosing the likes of that anyway.

santana75

pixelburp wrote: »

She's scarcely a martyr. She posted CoVid and US election conspiracies on Twitter in yet another failure for people to realise that social media is you, for the world to see. Talk about failing to read the room, the US is kinda twitchy about pro-insurrectionist BS ATM.

She spoke her mind and from what I've been told by friends in America, what she said is actually a fairly accurate description of the current climate over there.

ZX7R

Antonio Banderas what happened to him.
The last thing I saw him in was the spongebob film.

banie01

o1s1n wrote: »

It amazes me how stupid people can be when it comes to posting things on social media.

Career over with one post.

In fairness to lucasfilm and Disney, it is far more than one post.
She has a history of being quite pointedly provocative.
Comparing "cancel" culture to the Holocaust was obviously the last straw for a company that caters in the main to a pg13 market.

Captain Flaps

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Most rational people wouldn't see much wrong with what she said.

Ok.

santana75 wrote: »

She spoke her mind and from what I've been told by friends in America, what she said is actually a fairly accurate description of the current climate over there.

I don't want to derail this thread by getting into this too far, but this is just unbelievable nonsense. You've had the Trump-led right screaming down 'snowflakes' for half a decade, things boiled over and there was what many consider an attempted coup, and you have people like Gina Cararo who conisistently egged everything on now trying to play the victim because all of a sudden she thinks SHE'S the one being persecuted for her sh*tty beliefs. Spare me.

[Deleted User]

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Most rational people wouldn't see much wrong with what she said.

Most intelligent people know that this particular subject matter is to be avoided, particularly in an industry with a strong connection to the Jewish community.

On a personal level, I think you need to brush up on your history, nobody is rounding up Republicans for internment.

pixelburp

Soooo... that Colin Farrell guy. Whatever happened to him eh?

the purple tin

pixelburp wrote: »

Soooo... that Colin Farrell guy. Whatever happened to him eh?

He's working in Dunnes :P

silliussoddius

santana75 wrote: »

She spoke her mind and from what I've been told by friends in America, what she said is actually a fairly accurate description of the current climate over there.

Speaking ones mind doesn’t make them right.

Morathi

COLIN ****ING FARRELL LADS.

Theboinkmaster

o1s1n wrote: »

It amazes me how stupid people can be when it comes to posting things on social media.

Career over with one post.

Yes - i really don't understand why actors don't just stay off all social media. Just keep your mouth shut and get rich.

MrStuffins

santana75 wrote: »

She spoke her mind and from what I've been told by friends in America, what she said is actually a fairly accurate description of the current climate over there.

She compared criticism of her conservative/right-wing political ideas to the persecution and systematic genocide of the Jewish population in Nazi Germany. She was insinuating that those steps taken to criticise her and others like her are akin to the first steps in the process that brain-washed a massive chunk of an entire generation of Germans that led to such atrocities.

This is after spending the past few months spreading, propagating and promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, including the QAnon theory that is literally rooted in anti-Semitism and is almost a mirror image of the kinds of lies and propaganda that was fed to people back then to lead to the darkest page in recent human history.

It's not a crime to have different political ideas, but if it was illegal to not understand irony then she would have been launched into space immediately.

TheWonderLlama

pixelburp wrote: »

Soooo... that Colin Farrell guy. Whatever happened to him eh?

Wasn't he just in the last Guy Richie film, The Gentlemen? I'd say he's keeping busy.

pixelburp

TheWonderLlama wrote: »

Wasn't he just in the last Guy Richie film, The Gentlemen? I'd say he's keeping busy.

Yeah, I know; you probably missed the in-joke where he kept coming up

Unless you're being further meta in which I tip my hat to you

The Wizards Sleeve

Mary Stuart Masterson. She was popular around the time of Fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop Cafe but seemed to disappear not too long after.

TheWonderLlama

pixelburp wrote: »

Yeah, I know; you probably missed the in-joke where he kept coming up Unless you're being further meta in which I tip my hat to you

yeah, that's it, I was being meta. *cough*.

[Deleted User]

pixelburp wrote: »

J

Not quite a Hollywood actor, but was thinking of Ardal O'Hanlon recently for similar reasons. Post Father Ted, he had a brief career but seems to have just completely disappeared from screen.

He played Detective Mooney for two series of Death In Paradise in just the last couple of years. He was also in the terrible comedy where he was a super hero.

fryup

The Wizards Sleeve wrote: »

Mary Stuart Masterson. She was popular around the time of Fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop Cafe but seemed to disappear not too long after.

from the same era, Bridget Fonda too

[Deleted User]

fryup wrote: »

from the same era, Bridget Fonda too

Serious car accident in 2003, hasn’t appeared on screen since apparently.

fryup

really? hope she didn't damage her face

she was a fine bit of stuff

Itssoeasy

Dav010 wrote: »

Serious car accident in 2003, hasn’t appeared on screen since apparently.

fryup wrote: »

really? hope she didn't damage her face

she was a fine bit of stuff

According to Wikipedia she fractured a vertebra in her back which I’m sure is very painful and not something you get over quickly.

silverharp

Dan Schneider, seems like the last place he should had been involved in was a kids network

"Exit from Nickelodeon (2018–present)
On March 26, 2018, Nickelodeon announced that it would not be extending its production deal with Schneider and Schneider's Bakery.[13] In addition, the network also announced that Schneider's comedy Game Shakers would not be renewed for a fourth season. Schneider's remaining Nickelodeon comedy Henry Danger would be receiving a fifth season.[4] Deadline Hollywood, the first to report about Nickelodeon parting ways with Schneider, also reported that there were complaints about Schneider's alleged behavior, including his alleged "well-documented temper issues for years" and his tweets showing photos of his young actresses' feet. Nickelodeon did not respond to Deadline's report and Schneider's representative refused to comment on the report.[14]"

Biafranlivemat

p to the e wrote: »

I actually think she's trying to get more work. Sure with the kind of stuff she's saying she won't get hired by Netflix or Disney anytime soon but you have to remember that there's a lot of people who would buy into what she's saying no matter how nuts.

1: Say crazy stuff on Social Media
2: Get a rabid following
3: ???
4: Profit

She didn't kill her career, by her standing up to the Haters and Bigots, got her fired.

Biafranlivemat

o1s1n wrote: »

It amazes me how stupid people can be when it comes to posting things on social media.

Career over with one post.

What did she post, that makes her look stupid.

It is brave to stand against the haters.
The cowards knee.

MrStuffins

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

She didn't kill her career, by her standing up to the Haters and Bigots, got her fired.

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

What did she post, that makes her look stupid.

It is brave to stand against the haters.
The cowards knee.

You have it mixed up.

She spent months spreading an anti-semetic conspiracy theory, at times even posting outwardly anti-semetic memes, and then topped it off by comparing being criticised for stuff like this to being a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Pretty dumb.

Varik

MrStuffins wrote: »

You have it mixed up.

She spent months spreading an anti-semetic conspiracy theory, at times even posting outwardly anti-semetic memes, and then topped it off by comparing being criticised for stuff like this to being a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Pretty dumb.

I'm sure you can prove that by posting any of those.

MrStuffins

Varik wrote: »

I'm sure you can prove that by posting any of those.

I could but i'm sure you can do your own research.

Biafranlivemat

MrStuffins wrote: »

You have it mixed up.

She spent months spreading an anti-semetic conspiracy theory, at times even posting outwardly anti-semetic memes, and then topped it off by comparing being criticised for stuff like this to being a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Pretty dumb.

No she didn't

Her co star pedro pascal, posted Nazi stuff on his account.
But that was ok, since he was comparing Trump and his supporters to Nazis.

If it wasn't for double standards, you wouldn't have any.

MrStuffins

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

No she didn't

Her co star pedro pascal, posted Nazi stuff on his account.
But that was ok, since he was comparing Trump and his supporters to Nazis.

If it wasn't for double standards, you wouldn't have any.

Then I guess this is a giant misunderstanding and everything will be ok then.

Thanks for your intrepid work!