Why did Ashley Judd's career go straight down the shitter?

Shrill and unlikable in real life.

She refused Weinstein's oh so subtle advances?

Are you fucking serious? Judd was blackballed by Weinstein for turning him down.

She was the queen of all those "white woman in peril" films in the late 90s (which all did well at the box office) but then she just disappeared overnight. Getting blacklisted by that creep makes perfect sense.

She's in A dogs way Home which is out now and her plastic surgery is AWFUL. THAT ruined her career.

Probably because she's a raging bitch to get along with. I thought she was beautiful, though, in all those "Kiss the Girls," "Double Jeopardy" type movies.

She could've done Monster instead of Charlize Theron. Not that there was anything wrong with Charlize's performance, but Ashley was just as good at playing that kind of role, and looked similar too. Count me as an Ashley fan, she definitely has legitimate talent.

Her bad plastic surgery.

Recently, I saw her in Berlin Station. She was in season 2 and now season 3. Her face is still pretty bad.

Cuz she was always so high and mighty using words that were always absurdly multi-syllabic and turned audiences off.

I think I read she tales steroids for a medical condition, hence the weirdly puffy face.

I love you, R9! I thought I was the only one who noticed that!

One name: Harvey Weinstein

she wasn't a very good actress. She was in a few movies. I remember watching them. she was OK. nothing special.

She’s nuts.

[quote] she wasn't a very good actress

Have you ever seen Ruby in Paradise? She gave an amazing performance in that one. I believe that was her film debut.

Wsn't she going to run for the Senate from Tennessee?

If people don't like you, you don't fuck Harvey Weinstein, and your fuck up your face with bad plastic surgery, you're not going to get many movie roles offered.

Because she's an annoying self aggrandizing bitch?

She looks bad and she has looked bad for awhile now.

Is it true De Niro was hitting that during the filming of Heat? The scene where he yells at her in the hotel she is staring at him like she's literally in love with him and she's his slave.

She is a solid actess. Conventionally attractive women generally don't get credit for their talent.

Who else is a fan of her tv movie "Normal Life?" It costarred Luke Perry as her put-upon husband she walked all over. Fantastic performance, one of the best tv movies I've ever seen.

Her career slowing before the bad work though.

She was actually quite pretty when young, easy to forget that now that she has filler face.

She was good looking but she was also (IMO) very unlikeable. I think a lot of others feel the same way as I do. So... you'll get cast (for a while) but you won't continue to work if people are put off by you.

She was great in "Ruby in Paradise" She was the IT girl for a while.

In the mid-90's my friend was a driver to take Ashley Judd from the trailer to the movie set. He asked her "How are you this morning, Miss Judd?" Her reply "Just STFU and keep driving" Ok, so that cuntiest cunt that ever cunted attitude isn't just rumors.

She was also naked in that Marilyn movie where she played Norma Jean and Mira Sorvino played the blonde Marilyn Monroe. I guess NOT having Heavy Whalestein masturbate in front of you does shitcan your career. It did for those two actresses.

She's just a frau now.

I liked this Ashley.

Everyone ages dear, R28

She made that “Kiss the Girls” movie like seven different times with a new title each time.

There's not that many roles for women of her age and a lot of talented actresses trying to get them. It's not just her fault.

I have only sat through one movie with this fat-faced woman.

It was that homophobic Cole Porter movie and her character was as unappealing as the actress playing them.

Judds = mental instability. They are all crazy.

Oh, Wynonna. That's a Trump voter face if ever there was one.

Love these shitter threads.

Saw her in Double Jeopardy only. Was not impressed with the acting.

[quote] I love you, [R9]! I thought I was the only one who noticed that!

No, dear, there are plenty of dumb-dumbs here who are stymied and offended upon encountering words more than two syllables long.

OP = tired, misogynist troll who cyber stalks tired, innocent actresses. Let's all F&F the shit stirrer!

R29, no shit. I'm just saying I liked her then.

Help us shit the irrelevant, shitstain OP down!

F&F, please!

I remember that Angelina Jolie and her became famous around the same time and many people said they were interchangeable almost and were always going for and offered the same roles.

I think Angelina ended up getting the roles that could have went to Ashley.

I hate this inappropriate use of four-letter words.

All that ugliness belongs in a toilet!

R42 this is fucking DL, really? Maybe you would prefer a monk site.

[quote] All that ugliness belongs in a toilet!

Ashley Judd's career sure belongs in one!

Ashley had talent, her career didn't go as well as it could have, and in the end, CelebNetWorth says she has 22 million. If that isn't enough money to make you happy, tough shit.

Money makes no one happy. Trust me. People think it will. Never does.

R46 pretending to be a rich Biotch, but is really broke.

Don't fuck with Naomi's little girl!

Ashley and Morgan Freeman had great chemistry on-screen. Nothing sexual about it but for whatever reason they were perfect together.

She has the same chubby cheeks as Victoria.

It's largely an aging/ageism issue. She had television success on Sisters in her early 20s, made Ruby in Paradise at age 25, the same year she had a major supporting role in Heat opposite Val Kilmer, and had her her huge hit/breakthrough as a lead in "Kiss the Girls" at the age of 29. That success led to a good ten year run of decent visibility in high profile pics such as Simon Burch, Double Jeopardy, Where the Heart Is, the Oscar-winning Frida, etc. Her last significant, celebrated role was in the little seen but highly regarded Bug in 2006, which brought her right to the end of her 30s, the point at which most starlets (her type) are set out to pasture. In this way, the ebb of her career proved to be very typical. And because she didn't reach Oscar-nom heights during her salad days the window shut that much faster.

But don't feel sorry for her. She has continued to work pretty steadily in supporting roles in smaller profile pics during the past decade and actually went back to school (a la Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria) to obtain a Master's degree from Harvard at age 42. She's 50 now.

R33 speaks the truth. That whole family is batshit.

She also did herself no favors with her terrible performance in that Cat On A Hot Tin Roof revival on Broadway with the equally inept Jason Patric.

The worst Maggie and Brick I've seen, and that includes ScarJo.

She's like the same person in 'High Crimes' as she is in 'Double Jeopardy.'

"Husband's SECRET LIFE!"

Her movies are all over cable right now and all the same.

'Kiss The Girls?' that's the one where she has no husband? Where she is a plucky cop who knows more than the seasoned detectives? Or is that an Angelina Jolie movie?

And 'Twisted' is another of the same old, same old from AJ The Lesser.

Exactly R54... she played the same character in every movie. Dull and boring.

Who are the idiots who are afraid of big words? Deplorables.

Looks like a bitch? Yes.

Who's that hottie with her in these pics? Don't tell me that's her husband.

She did call in to "Car Talk" once, asking for advice on a vehicle to buy for her housekeeper or something like that. I thought it was cool that she listened to and would call in to Car Talk.

R60, that's her EX-husband, Italian race car driver Dario Franchitti. They were a couple from 1999 to 2013. No children by HER choice.

He has kids with his new woman.

The look on her face in this photo brings to mind a much-hated word used for some women...

r41 It was Charlize who everyone confused with Ashley. This was in the mid-90s when Ashley was blonde. And for a while, Ashley had the better career (and in her best roles like Ruby in Paradise and Normal Life, she's the better actress). By "Twisted" everybody was over her and her repetitive thriller movies. Maybe her choices were increasingly limited because of Weinstein, but the bad movies kept piling up.

I was trying to think of that 2008 movie of hers with the SAW-like killer killing people on the Internet.

It's 'Untraceable' - starring Diane Lane!

Interchangeable!!!! It reeks of an Ashley Judd movie, so I "remembered" it as being her in it.

Nope. Was def Angelina Jolie.

I remember Ashley and Charlize getting confused often. Probably Angelina too when she went brunette. Most of them, particularly early in their careers seemed interchangeable.

The Bone Collector and Double Jeopardy

R62, Dario Franchitti is Scottish, even if of Italian descent - still, Scottish.

How anyone could ever have confused the pretty enough but decidedly meh-looking Ashley Judd with the beautiful Charlize Theron is beyond me.

Not to mention that Judd was always a middling, if rather one-note, actress at best.

r69 Theron really isn't any better.

I did note her absence - not that she was ever headed for huge stardom but who knows? Who has her career?

I suspected she was ill with some chronic autoimmune syndrome.

I too loved her in Ruby in Paradise. I never saw any of her other movies.

I remember her being in Olympus Has Fallen and dying within the first 5 minutes

R73 It's always sad to see once big stars in such nothing roles. Juliette Binoche was also killed recently in the first 10 minutes of Godzilla - why the fuck would you even bother hiring someone like Juliette Binoche, who's one of the greatest screen actresses of our time, if you plan on giving her five lines and killing her before people even manage to find their seat in the cinema hall.

R74 it’s sad. In some cases I think it’s to shock people they killed a big star so fast (Janet Leigh in Psycho and Drew Barrymore In Scream come to mind) but also some actors just aren’t big anymore and take those bullshit roles in big films for the easy paycheck and/or exposure again.

R75 Yeah, you're right. Playing bit roles in big budget films still beats doing autograph conventions.

Some of you are really sensitive flowery types. I love her because she IS a bitch. The story of her handling a stone to a costar and calmly telling them, "When I ask for the stone back, you may speak" has always made me laugh.

R77 LOL More stories about her bitchiness, please.

R22 Normal Life isn't a TV movie.

She thinks she’s smarter than everyone else. But, of course, she’s not.

There's no way she got out of that childhood without being crazy. Naomi looks waxed now and Winona's daughter just got sent to prison for drug dealing. I hate her interviews in which she seems like she wrote big words on the back of her hands to sound brilliant. Good for her and all she did for taking down Harvey, but her Southern belle act has worn thin.

She was crazy. She admitted it herself.

It's never just age though. Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore all still have no problem finding a job.

I like how she lied for years about where she went to college.

Nicole taking on the role of Aquaman's mother paid off big for her as that movie is a monstrous hit.

Plus - SPOILER ALERT - her character LIVES, unlike an Ashley Judd character, so Nicole can continue to appear in future DC movies and collect checks.

I think you know the answer to that OP.

[quote]Is it true De Niro was hitting that during the filming of Heat?

Oh, does she have some African ancestry, like Carol Channing did?

I heard De Niro hit on Channing too.

R83, but those actresses were/are in another tier because they secured Academy Award nominations which have given them a level of prestige that has afforded them greater opportunities. The four of them have fifteen nominations among them, and in fact, each has won the Best Actress Oscar. Aside from Bullock, they all started collecting nominations early on (Roberts in her 20s, Kidman and Moore in their 30s). Judd never broke through to that level and that in turn hampered the breadth of her choices once she hit the dreaded 40.

R84--what you do mean she lied for years about where she went to college? Right from the start she was always quick to point out her education and proudly mentioned University of Kentucky and the fact that she was Phi Beta Kappa.

R87 DeNiro has been linked to more than a few white women over the years.

Wait, people think DeNiro only likes black women? He’s most attracted to black women but that does not mean he doesn’t like anyone else.

I can't believe anyone actually like Ruby in Paradise. What a piece of shit.

It's a perfect slice of the Florida panhandle, R91. Perhaps you should come down for a visit!

She sucked? Shrill, humorless and very one note as an actress. She was pretty though.

R92 I'm in the panhandle too. I live outside Fort Walton Beach. Where are you?

When you use words like bibliopole and obnubilate in casual conversation you’re an asswipe just like Ms. Judd.

I guess the guy she was sleeping with at Paramount either dumped her or was fired.