Actors You Despise

I hated Eddie Albert as a child because of “Green Acres” and then, because my parents always mentioned it, “Little Rascals”.

He was probably a great actor and activist, but I hate him.

Clint Eastwood. Insufferable asshole, onscreen and off.

We've had this thread before, but I'll play along: Armie Hammer. Does he still qualify as an actor? Did he ever?

Angela Lansbury, Ben Affleck, Miss Susan Lucci.

Off topic a bit, but OP is that the one with James Farentino as the lead? He hams it up at the end of the movie so much it would make William Shatner blush.

That's the one. Farentino had a great ass.

Julianne Moore and Keira Knightley both look like they’re sucking in their cheeks in every role

Makes me insane.

Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, and Kevin Spacey. You know, the usual suspects.

How could anyone despise Angela Lansbury??

Beady eyed, ferret faced Bradley Cooper gives me the willies.

Miles Teller & Frances McDormand.

Jon Hamm

Phony Swede El Brendl gives me rotting meatballs.

Clooney: for what he did to the teen boy in Italy and the subsequent in your face, obnoxious bearding.

The DLer who is Clooney's resident watchdog and PR surrogate will be here shortly hissing all kinds of accusations to deflect and distract. However, the Italians corroborate the story and have been telling it since 2014. The timing of the very public 2014 wedding coincides with the incident. The blind wasn't even published until 2016. Qanon didn't come into existence until 2017 which is after this happened so Q has nothing to do with this sordid story. The Clooney sycophant just throws up smokescreens.

Frances McDormand. I feel like we should hate her as much as she apparently hates the world. Seriously Frannie. Three fucking Oscars so far. Crack a smile and say "thank you" for once in your life, you ghoul in a burlap sack!

Clint Eastwood. Pretty sure he's got the dementia by now, but it's hard to tell because he's always seemed a little fried.

John Malkovich. Another one like McDormand. Lighten up, jagoff. You're a multimillionaire from doing your dream job. Life ain't that miserable!

Gwyneth Paltrow. Too easy.

Winona Ryder. I loved Heathers but she ruined it for me. The way she talks just drives me nuts. She kind redeemed herself with Black Swan though.

Ed O Neill. Charlize Theron. Michelle Dockery. Michael Douglas.

There are actors I despise for their political beliefs but don't mind watching perform. Kevin Sorbo is an example of that. He's an asshole but I can still enjoy his old Hercules TV series. Likewise Susan Sarandon. Her dumbass leftwing political pronouncements in 2016 helped Trump get elected. Still loved her work in the Joan Crawford Bette Davis miniseries. Andy Dick is apparently a pretty horrible person but I still enjoy his work in News Radio. Some actors annoy you for petty reasons. Renee Zellweger's squint really bugs me and detracts from her performances. It's almost a deformity. I know he's done some good stuff, but Bruce Willis's smug smirk rubs me the wrong way. I avoid his work.

Lens

Leo DeCaprio

Gwen Paltrow

Jack Black

Jim Nabors

Mel Gibson

Denzel Washington

Adam Sandler

Rob Schneider

Chevy Chase

Will Smith

Bruce Willis

The Rock

Ben Affleck for receiving an Oscar for Good Will Hunting which he sure didn't write. And now for those scummy photos with J-Lo while his 3 children are still in grade school.

Vince Vaughn, Adam Sandler, and Téa Leoni raise my blood pressure faster than that of a Karen denied access to a manager.

r14 Ugh, Jesus. I used to hate him because he apparently, enjoyed playing pranks on people. That alone marked him as a major fucking asshole in my mind.

I'd heard about this poor kid but never actually read that blind. Even more reason to hate him. What a cunt.

Dead and Buried is a great little known horror movie.

Wrong thread, R24?

I hate Angela Lansbury and the Matlock guy.

Miyam Bialik or however you spell her name.

R27

She's creepily attached to her kids, but at least she doesn't pre-chew their food like Alicia Silverstone!

Meryl.

There's no "Clooney sycophant" on Datalounge, Davida.

There are lots of actors who are horrible people, but if we're just talking about watching them on screen, I'd do with:

Angela Lansbury: watching her act is just like watching someone with Tourette's syndrome

Meryl Streep: always seems to be saying, "watch me act!"

Clint Eastwood: he always looks like he's going to break character and say, "I hate gays and I love Trump."

John Wilkes Booth

Seconding Mayim Bialik, and adding Wil Wheaton.

Will Ferrell-a creepy, unfunny "comic" actor. Cannot watch him.

Kevin Hart-also not at all funny.

Charlton Heston-just because

Orson Welles-pompous and one-note in e everything he did.

Mark Wahlberg

The Rock

Arnold

Clint Eastwood

Bradley Cooper

Most of the "actors" in those Fast & Furious movies

Anyone in a Hallmark movie

Tyler Perry

Julien Brody

Hugh Grant in his dotage.

Angelina Jolie. Mediocre actress and director. Overrated looks. Pap-walking skeleton using her kids for pr. Holier than thou. Fake as fuck.

Timothee Chalamet. Mediocre in every way and yet somehow he has the media praising him as the greatest thing to ever happen in Hollywood.

R13. Are you Ethan Mordden by chance?

Leonardo DiCaprio. Fat douchebag and his head is the size of a pumpkin. A parade of barely legal models who date him to launch their modeling careers. Takes a private jet to accept a climate change award and lectures the rest of us on our carbon footprint. Overrated as fuck too.

Michael Caine

Mark Wahlberg

Charlotte Ray

Jennifer Jason Leigh

John Bernthal

William Hickey

Tim Roth— I only see his character from Rob Roy :/

Anna Paquin

I don’t “despise” him, but Keegan-Michael Key is someone who makes me turn the channel. I have never liked him or his comedy.

Jennifer Lawrence - talentless and a cunt in every sense of the word.

Excellent lists so far--didn't know so many agreed with my own perceptions. I'll add Gerard Butler--he might be a nice guy (I have no idea) but he deadens and kills every film he's in, for me. And I can't stand Vera Farmiga.

Keegan Michael Key is an asshole. He's fucking terrible in Schmigadoon and so obviously phony on talk shows. A real creep.

Nick Searcy. Big Republican asshole. I stopped watching "Justified" because of him. Each time I see a film he pops up in I get irrationally angry.

Nicolas Cage

Just not impressed.

KEVIN FUCKING KLINE. He ruins EVERYTHING he's in. I'd say "he has a fucking Academy Award!", but so does Jennifer Lawrence, so that's meaningless.

IF KEVIN KLINE CAN CONVINCE PEOPLE HE'S TALENTED, AND WIN AN OSCAR, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.

R38: Not to mention she starts affairs and has mental health issues.

Yeah, I never got the big deal about Leo. He's capable as an actor, well enough, but this thing like he's the De Niro or Pacino of his time... oh please.

Never got the big deal about Jennifer Lawrence either. Again, capable, and entertaining enough...but that's it. Nothing special.

R51: They tried to sell both Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts as relatable, girl next door, America sweetheart types when in reality they're both narcissistic cunts.

Chris Pratt Mark Wahlberg Keira Knightley Evangeline Lily

Bing Crosby

Frank Sinatra

Oh yeah! Chris Pratt. Definitely (forgot to add him to my list at R35). Never understood the appeal of him, whatsoever.

A movie buff friend said she couldn't stand Jimmy Stewart. I said what? He seems so innocuous. However, it made me watch him in a different way, with his "aw, shucks" bullshit. There are modern actors who do the same thing, but I can't think of anyone right now.

Maybe Kevin Kline or Timothy Hutton bug me the same way as Jimmy Stewart.

Anne Hathaway

Julia Roberts

Frank Sinatra

David Spade

Lily James

Mark Ruffalo

Jesse Eisenberg

Angelina Jolie cannot act for shit, never has been able to.

Amy Adams is a snoozefest and her twitter fraus who think she should win an Oscar for breathing are just ANNOYING.

I feel like many of you are just saying Clint Eastwood because of his RNC stunt you still haven't gotten over, you all sound like the tards' who won't shut up about "Hanoi Jane" whenever someone brings up Jane Fonda. Clint isn't an incredible actor (far better of a director imo) but he's great in things like The Beguiled, the Dollars trilogy etc.

James (Fat Fuck) Corden owns a huge piece of this thread, and the remaining piece goes to Neil (I’m Fantastic! Really, I Am, Because I’m In EVERYTHING) Patrick Harris. 🤮

[R40] you don’t have to be Ethan Mordden to (very correctly) despise El Brendel. How someone somewhere one day conceived the idea that this guy was “funny” is a total mystery. Despite his complete unwatchability, his great star vehicle Just Imagine is a masterpiece of Jetsons-type futurism, made at the dawn of the sound film, so I recommend your suffering through El ONCE. But never again! He really is The Worst.

I kind of hate Harrison Ford and this 3 facial expressions.

R60: Yea I don't get Amy Adams' A list career at all.

R64 I think it's because she corners the market for relatability to people who pretend like they don't want it (movie snobs). She's a cute, not gorgeous, middle America nice girl who can sometimes scream and cry. God, I miss when actors were fucking charismatic and interesting.

But I’m a religious man!

Mel Gibson

Bill Cosby

Charlie Sheen

Johnny Depp (used to love him)

Kathy Griffin

Meghan Markle

Cosby's the only one whose acting I despise, the rest I despise as people.

R67

Another vote for Wahlberg & Jennifer Lawrence

I don't dislike the Rock, but he's so wooden & one note, I have no interest in watching any movies he's in.

I used to dislike Arnold, but he's redeemed himself by his recent videos; I don't agree with this his politics, but I like that he's pushing back on the Trumptard repigs.

John Lithgow....gives me the creeps, he and Tom Hanks.

I don’t like DiCaprio, J. Lo, I can’t look at Mel Gibson. I don’t especially like Naomi Watts, Robin Wright makes me crinkle my face as does Reese. I still think Tom Cruise is hot. Saoirse Ronan.. actually she and DiCaprio, I just don’t get it. Not in a million years do I get it with either of them. Tobey Maguire and that fucking voice and the eyes, thank god he’s gone. Give me Willem Dafoe!!!!!!

Schmigadoon is a clueless attempt to draw show-hungry theater lovers into spending time watching their screens as a substitute for the real thing. Terrible parody tunes, too obvious to amuse theater people but too obscure for vid watchers to even recognize. Looks like a production at a private h.s. with more money than it knows what to do with but no taste at all, and choreography that makes you wonder why anyone ever invented the concept of “dance.” The leading man is no help at all (though the leading lady somehow manages to emerge with some dignity).

r72, how many minutes do we get to enjoy Aaron Tveit?

The Rock needs to go away for awhile. Busy Phillips bugs me.

R74, if you can actually “enjoy” mega cute Aaron in a highwaters based Billy Bigelow costume (stupidly unflattering) singing (well, of course) a pathetic parody of Soliloquy, about 5 minutes. If not, zero. Turn it off and put on your Catch Me If You Can CD and hear a real score, spectacularly performed. You can skip Norbert’s numbers, no matter what anybody says. Norbert is, for the most part, not my cup of tea. I sort of liked him in Is He Dead?, but he is not, to me, a musical theater star.

Brie Larson. She represents everything that’s wrong with Hollywood’s Generation Blah.

There's nothing more confusing than Jennifer Aniston's A list career. Mediocre actress who makes shitty commercial films. Tabloid star who uses her Brad Pitt drama to stay relevant. She's not even that attractive.

Matthew McConahay (or however you spell his surname). His Texas accent is grating and he always seems like he's trying really hard to act. Ditto Brad Pitt.

R80, Clint gave me the creeps LONG before his speech to an empty stool. He's a sociopath, a user, a self-righteous libertarian white supremacist asshole. His "love of jazz" is vomit-inducing. He hates minorities and women, like a good ol' boy should.

George Douchebro Clooney. I just read the old CDAN article. Was this the friends' payoff?

MM. I think she’s married to some douche Prince Dookie Clown.

Jeremy Piven

Eric McCormack

R74 - “ The Rock needs to go away for awhile. Busy Phillips bugs me”

The Rock should never have happened to begin with. Same with that other douche-bro, Vin Diesel. I like some action movies, but find these two birds totally unwatchable.

^both of them are so hideously unattractive, they look like rejects from a low budget Russian action movie.

Sterling Holloway and that ugly voice of his.

All of them

R86

Sarah loves Stephen Baldwin, the fattest and creepiest brother in a very fat and creepy family of Irish meatheads.

R64 She knows how so suck a good cock.

The incredibly phony James Spader.

This is such a satisfying thread because I get so annoyed with certain performers. Can we do t.v. news anchors and radio news readers as well? If so, I get so damn irritated with Tim Franks on the BBC. He mispronounces everybody's name and even said CalabasASS instead of CalaBASas when Kobe was killed. Crikey.

I hate actors who take producer credits with a passion. They literally do nothing but brag about how many different hats they're wearing. Producer credits is just an excuse for them to get more awards.

The movie MISTRESS is very funny about producers.

[quote] Stephen Baldwin

My favorite Baldwin brother.

[quote] David Spade

Always struck me as gay

Anne Bancroft was always the weakest link in whatever she was in, including All About Eve, where her general air of falsehood nearly topples the central conceit.

Jimmy Stewart's oh golly-gosh gee-whilikers, and odd's blud, ma'am bullshit removed any suspense from Vertigo and Rear Window for me.

Mel Gibson effectively carried the first two Mad Max films. He has been insufferable since and is evidently a complete monster in real life (although he's had the sense to keep his yap shut recently). I also never found him attractive.

Matt Damon makes me cringe. Ben Afleck also used to make me cringe but he appears to have slipped down a storm drain.

Leo looks like a mutant. With the exception of Catch Me if You Can, where he was admitted excellent, he hasn't given a decent performance since Gilbert Grape. His Gatsby was a travesty - even Redford's version was better and when than tedious cardboard cut-out out-acts you, you need to rethink your approach.

Used to love Depp. Reading about his recent behavior and reviewing his films since the Lone Ranger suggests that this was perhaps a youthful error on my part.

James Woods exudes malefic creep from every pore, to the extent that even when he's playing one it's too much to take.

Will Farrell is unbearable and has a weird bullying energy that kills any sympathy you have for his characters in the very rare instances where he isn't playing a shithead who needs to be beaten.

Adam Sandler is unbearable.

With a few exceptions - Gilda Ratner, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy (the last one is a near thing, though) - SNL seemed to be adept at casting the show with precisely the sort of people I have always expected to see fished out of a canal for a drug deal gone wrong.

One of the hidden attractions of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is the chance to see an entire cast of absolutely loathsome people finally get it right in the neck.

That said, there are plenty of actors I dislike as people whose work I find effective on screen. Eastwood never bothered me on screen and I think he can be fantastic when asked to do what it is he's good at - which is basically be a male reactionary ultraviolent Greta Garbo who doesn't move around a whole lot.

Melissa Leo.

Pure white trash 🗑️

Norma Shearer. Who the hell does she think she is?! And that facial wart!

That is crazy, r92, I was just thinking about MISTRESS a couple of hours ago. Haven't seen it in nearly 30 years but it just popped into my head for some reason.

[quote]Eddie Murphy

He was very good in Dreamgirls, Bowfinger, and Dolemite is My Name.

One hundred posts and NO ONE HAS MENTIONED TOM CRUISE?????

VIola Davis-overrated and comes off as arrogant as fuck.

Steve Guttenberg. I never believed a word he said in ANY of his movies. The epitome me of a wooden, and unconvincing actor.

Lady Gaga - as a singer/pop star and "actor" (emphasis on the quotations). I'll never understand why people are so easy on her.

Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Aniston.

[quote] Anne Bancroft was always the weakest link in whatever she was in, including All About Eve

Wait, what?

R102 He always packed a very nice lunch though.

I hate Adrian Grenier's face. Paul Dano's too.

Scarlet Johannson is a weird one for me. I tend to enjoy her in everything she's in, and consider her one of the best actresses in her generation (mid-30s to early 40s). HOWEVER, she seems like a Grade-A cunt in real life. I find her thoroughly off-putting in interviews...and I find it no surprise her personal life is a bit messy.

R108 I have friends who've met her in casual situations (house parties, concerts) and she's apparently super chill - they all used this word. Terrible taste in husbands, though.

R105 - ARRRGH!!! I meant Anne Baxter. I like Bancroft.

Ok, that's a fair point, R109. I trust the opinions of people who've actually met her over my biased, unfounded opinion!

R31 Eastwood always looks like he’s going to say I love trump? Since Eastwood starting acting at least half a century before trump entered politics I find that hard to believe.

Guttenberg got his big break in "The Boys From Brazil". After that, he just played his annoying, self-centered self.

I always thought Guttenberg was cute, so he never annoyed me.

Not much of an actor, though.