Julian Sands.
Actors who were going to be the next big thing (but weren't).
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Josh Hartnett
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 30, 2022 11:56 PM |
Maxwell Caulfield.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 30, 2022 11:58 PM |
Monica Potter.
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Gretchen Mol.
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Alex Pettyfer.
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Samantha Mathis.
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Benicio del Toro.
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Sherilyn Fenn.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 31, 2022 12:01 AM |
Armie Hammer (had to be said)
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Hayden Christensen.
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Naomi Watts
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Zac Efron.
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Djimon Hounsou.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 31, 2022 12:03 AM |
Freddie prince jr
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Two with the same initials and similarly non-starting careers (this is like a Jeopardy clue): Tom Hulce and Timothy Hutton.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 31, 2022 12:04 AM |
Ann Jillian
Katherine Heigl
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Greg Kinnear
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 31, 2022 12:05 AM |
Anthony Andrews
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Jude Law.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 31, 2022 12:05 AM |
Jaye Davidson.
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John C. Reilly.
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Sam Rockwell.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 31, 2022 12:07 AM |
Rupert Graves.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 31, 2022 12:07 AM |
Mickey Rourke.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 31, 2022 12:07 AM |
Ben Chaplin.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 31, 2022 12:07 AM |
Dianna Ross. As an actress she was supposed to be the next big thing. Never happened.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 31, 2022 12:08 AM |
Dolph Lundgren.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 31, 2022 12:08 AM |
Tom Hulce.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 31, 2022 12:08 AM |
Diana Ross is black. It would never have happened anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 31, 2022 12:10 AM |
Brendan Fraser.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 31, 2022 12:10 AM |
Jamie Walters from 90210.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 31, 2022 12:11 AM |
All the beefcakes from Melrose: Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Doug Savant, Thomas Calabro, etc., etc....
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 31, 2022 12:12 AM |
Timothy Dalton as James Bond (pfffft).
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 31, 2022 12:13 AM |
Riz Ahmed and that guy from the Yesterday film, Himesh Patel.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 31, 2022 12:14 AM |
He was still A-list, but Kevin Costner could have been the next Eastwood or even Redford (especially after "Dances With Wolves" - that was a peak Hollywood moment) but he pissed it away and now Hollywood has changed so much, I don't think the opportunity will return.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 31, 2022 12:16 AM |
Gary Oldman. Tim Roth.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 31, 2022 12:17 AM |
[Quote] I don't think the opportunity will return.
Neat.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 31, 2022 12:19 AM |
Taylor Lautner.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 31, 2022 12:21 AM |
For obvious reasons: Jon-Erik Hexum and Brandon Lee.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 31, 2022 12:21 AM |
Ed Burns.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 31, 2022 12:23 AM |
Miles Teller
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 31, 2022 12:27 AM |
Giovanni Ribisi
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 31, 2022 12:28 AM |
Christian Slater.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 31, 2022 12:29 AM |
Wesley Snipes.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 31, 2022 12:31 AM |
Julian Sands is big downstairs if you catch my drift.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 31, 2022 12:32 AM |
Benjamin Bratt (especially when he was with Julia Roberts).
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 31, 2022 12:32 AM |
Michael Chiklis. Wasn't his big break (supposed to be) in the Belushi biopic? Probably a terrible career first-move, making your film debut as a recently-dead iconic comedian and guaranteeing that the unflattering comparisons never end.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 31, 2022 12:35 AM |
I loved Greg Kinnear. He had that sort of old school leading man hollywood charisma that is actually pretty rare. Wish he'd pop back up. If someone makes a thread about dissapeared stars you'd wish popped back up, he'd be on my list.
Anyway, Cuba Gooding jr never fully took off after Jerry Macguire.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 31, 2022 12:36 AM |
Jason Patric
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 31, 2022 12:38 AM |
Patrick Bergin.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 31, 2022 12:38 AM |
John Belushi's friends held grudges, that's for sure. As the story goes, Dan Aykroyd got J.T. Walsh (who played John Woodward) fired from Loose Cannons. On the other hand, Jim Belushi apparently forgave Michael Chiklis, who played the "I was young, I needed the work." card.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 31, 2022 12:40 AM |
Ted Wass, a blast from the 80s. Cast disastrously for his film debut in that post-Peter Sellers Pink Panther reboot, and cast disastrously for his second film outing as the "John Denver" character in "Oh God! You Devil."
He ended up playing Blossom's dad on the sitcom, in a pale approximation of a Bob Saget-type character, which I guess was about as good as it got.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 31, 2022 12:42 AM |
Take your pick from the Teen Wolf TV series. Most of the guys in the main cast are working actors, but none of them have really broken through.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 31, 2022 12:45 AM |
[quote] was about as good as it got.
That starred the aforementioned Greg Kinnear
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 31, 2022 12:46 AM |
54 replies and no one has mentioned Taylor Kitsch. It's not just that his Hollywood career is dead, people also seem to forget he even exists.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 31, 2022 12:47 AM |
Tim O Tay
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 31, 2022 12:49 AM |
Timothy Bottoms
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 31, 2022 12:50 AM |
Sam Worthington who was in the same boat as Taylor Kitsch - cast in starring roles in major films and didn't take off.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 31, 2022 12:50 AM |
Gabriel Byrne.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 31, 2022 12:50 AM |
Taylor Lautner.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 31, 2022 12:51 AM |
Christina Ricci
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 31, 2022 12:51 AM |
Elliott Gould
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 31, 2022 12:53 AM |
Vera Farmiga
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 31, 2022 12:56 AM |
Ben Barnes
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 31, 2022 12:58 AM |
Ted Wass continued to work as TV series director.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 31, 2022 12:58 AM |
[quote] Vera Farmiga
She rolls her eyes at your post.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 31, 2022 1:00 AM |
Diana Scarwid.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 31, 2022 1:01 AM |
Jude Law has had a pretty good career. John C. Reilly has done pretty well considering he is no Jude Law.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 31, 2022 1:03 AM |
[quote] Diana Scarwid.
We were just not one of her faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaans!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 31, 2022 1:03 AM |
Jennifer Beals
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 31, 2022 1:04 AM |
Most of the actors listed didn't fade away, they still have careers. They are consistently working. Some have become character actors.
Because these actors didn't become A-List sure doesn't mean they're pumping gas or working at a grocery store.
Why is 'making it' in showbiz always seen in terms of becoming a huge and usually obnoxious 'moviestar'?
Ever think about the fact, that these people are actually happy, especially as they are always working and make damn good money at something they studied?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 31, 2022 1:05 AM |
Kip Pardue
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 31, 2022 1:07 AM |
Jude Law- very successful and yummy back in the day!
by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 31, 2022 1:08 AM |
Rodney Allen Rippy
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 31, 2022 1:11 AM |
Adam Arkin
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 31, 2022 1:19 AM |
Treat Williams
by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 31, 2022 1:20 AM |
Aw, Julian Sands. I liked him.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 31, 2022 1:20 AM |
Campbell Scott.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 31, 2022 1:20 AM |
Dawson
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Hunky Elliot Page.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 31, 2022 1:24 AM |
David Corenswet. Although he's still young and hot, so I guess it can still happen.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 31, 2022 1:28 AM |
Dermot Mulroney
Johnathon Schaech
by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 31, 2022 1:35 AM |
Loren Dean
by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 31, 2022 1:47 AM |
Carrot Top
by Anonymous | reply 86 | January 31, 2022 1:51 AM |
Yes, Carrot Top was always destined for stardom.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 31, 2022 1:54 AM |
Jon Hamm. Still waiting to be a movie star.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 31, 2022 1:56 AM |
[quote] Jon Hamm. Still waiting to be a movie star.
And still waiting after R84.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 31, 2022 1:57 AM |
Benicio Del Toro? Sam Rockwell? Gary Oldman? All of them Oscar winners. I'd say they're doing just fine. And the Jon Hamm hate-thing is just stupid. Really, Marys.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 31, 2022 2:04 AM |
Ryan Philippe
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Channing Tatum
by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 31, 2022 2:14 AM |
R54 playing a gay man no less...and also starring Cuba Gooding jr as his lover/promoter..or at least thats what I remember?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 31, 2022 2:16 AM |
Orlando Bloom
by Anonymous | reply 96 | January 31, 2022 2:18 AM |
Several people mention (like John C. Reilly) were never hyped as "the next big thing." They were always looked at as character actors and they've done well doing that.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 31, 2022 2:21 AM |
Orlando Bloom?
by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 31, 2022 2:21 AM |
Michael Pare' , Clinton Spillsbury (Lone Ranger movie), the cute fireman from Roxanne with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | January 31, 2022 2:25 AM |
Sienna Miller
by Anonymous | reply 101 | January 31, 2022 2:26 AM |
Simon Callow. Ace Venture ruined his career.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | January 31, 2022 2:30 AM |
Jonathan Jackson....Been winning Emmys since he was a kid. Oscar material. Never understood why he didn't do more in Hollywood. My theory is his religion and putting out was never something he would do. 25 years in the business and he does lousy music and is only worth 3 million.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | January 31, 2022 2:32 AM |
Jon Hamm
by Anonymous | reply 104 | January 31, 2022 2:34 AM |
There are a lot of very successful actors listed here. Just because they never became huge stars is something else entirely. Very few attain such heights. And even more guys listed were never positioned to be "stars" in the first place. Sheesh, get over it.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | January 31, 2022 2:39 AM |
R103 Supposedly he had the role of Anakin in the second Star Wars prequal in the bag until a magazine broke the story, and DL fave Hayden was cast instead.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | January 31, 2022 2:39 AM |
[quote] until a magazine broke the story
Which story?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | January 31, 2022 2:41 AM |
Chris Klein
by Anonymous | reply 108 | January 31, 2022 2:43 AM |
Hayden Christensen
by Anonymous | reply 109 | January 31, 2022 2:43 AM |
You mean to tell me, Corey Feldman, THE FELDSTER, was never going to be a Superstar?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | January 31, 2022 2:45 AM |
Jonathan Jackson showing why he has FIVE Emmys.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | January 31, 2022 2:49 AM |
Bryan Singers "special friend" Brandon Routh.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | January 31, 2022 2:54 AM |
About Diana Ross - in a long-ago book "The Club Rules" author Paul Rosenfield (he worked for gossip columnist Joyce Haber) said Diana humiliated some power player's wife and that was it for her film career. The Hollywood wife held a party in Diana's honor and Diana didn't show up. The next morning, she was dropped by Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | January 31, 2022 2:54 AM |
R107 That he won the role. The story is that George Lucas was mad that the casting got leaked, so he recasted with his second choice.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 31, 2022 2:55 AM |
Josh Hartnett is/was so hot. Next big thing that wasn't, Mason Reese.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | January 31, 2022 2:57 AM |
R114 = Actually EVERYONE auditioned for Anakin Skywalker---including Leo Dicaprio....LINK----------->>" Among those who auditioned for the part of Anakin Skywalker were Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker, Colin Hanks, Heath Ledger, James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson, Eric Christian Olsen, Erik von Detten, Chris Klein, and Jonathan Brandis".
by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 31, 2022 2:59 AM |
Joseph Fiennes. After Shakespeare in Love, he should’ve been huge. Instead, most people only know of his brother.
I always thought Joseph had fantastic brown eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | January 31, 2022 3:10 AM |
Haley Joel Osment
Though, he kind of is a great, big thing. Unfortunately.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | January 31, 2022 3:11 AM |
Orlando Bloom owns this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | January 31, 2022 3:15 AM |
Lee lee Sobieski was supposed to be a big deal but she wasn’t. She gave one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen in this terrible Al Pacino movie called 88 minutes. If you want to see laughably bad acting, check her out in that. Al was awful as well.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | January 31, 2022 3:17 AM |
Skeet Ulrich
I thought he was hot in Scream, but I dont think I can name another movie he did.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | January 31, 2022 3:20 AM |
[quote] Lee lee Sobieski was supposed to be a big deal but she wasn’t.
I became the next big thing before her, and she looks just like me!
by Anonymous | reply 122 | January 31, 2022 3:20 AM |
Nevermind, I can name one, he was in The Craft.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | January 31, 2022 3:21 AM |
Edward Furlong
by Anonymous | reply 124 | January 31, 2022 3:24 AM |
Molly Ringwald
by Anonymous | reply 125 | January 31, 2022 3:28 AM |
Wes Bentley from American Beauty. I guess he’s doing alright now with Yellowstone, but after AB he should’ve been able to have his pick of films. Maybe the crazy eyes didn’t help.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | January 31, 2022 3:29 AM |
Eric Bana
It’s a shame he never caught on in America because he’s hot as fuck. Blackhawk Down was filled with hot guys, but he was my favorite. If he was to become A list I think it would’ve happened after Munich, but it didn’t happen. Too bad.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | January 31, 2022 3:38 AM |
Garrett Hedlund
by Anonymous | reply 128 | January 31, 2022 3:40 AM |
Josh Lucas kind of went nowhere.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | January 31, 2022 3:45 AM |
James Caviezel
by Anonymous | reply 130 | January 31, 2022 3:54 AM |
Mark Shera
by Anonymous | reply 131 | January 31, 2022 3:57 AM |
Jim J Bullock
by Anonymous | reply 132 | January 31, 2022 4:02 AM |
Chris Klein
Clive Owen
The Old Spice guy
by Anonymous | reply 133 | January 31, 2022 4:04 AM |
R119 but my swinging dick owned twitter, twice!
by Anonymous | reply 134 | January 31, 2022 4:25 AM |
Taylor Kitsch
Alex Pettyfer
by Anonymous | reply 135 | January 31, 2022 4:27 AM |
Sam Worthington
by Anonymous | reply 136 | January 31, 2022 4:33 AM |
Chevy Chase.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | January 31, 2022 5:41 AM |
R117, Joseph Fiennes was beautiful in Shakespeare in Love, just stunning eyes with those impossibly long lashes. I missed out on seeing that movie until recently, and damn, I can see why he was so sought-after as a result of that film and then... nothing. The only thing I can recall seeing him in recently was American Horror Story: Asylum, which was 10 years ago!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | January 31, 2022 6:06 AM |
Joseph Fiennez reminds me of the late singer Prince.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | January 31, 2022 6:14 AM |
Henry Golding, his latest film bombed
by Anonymous | reply 141 | January 31, 2022 6:23 AM |
Henry Cavill
by Anonymous | reply 142 | January 31, 2022 7:04 AM |
Casted.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | January 31, 2022 7:07 AM |
Charlie Hunnam goes in line with Taylor Kitsch and Sam Worthington.
Garrett Hedlund too.
I think what must happen is these guys land one big role and then other studios grab them next and they just have catastrophic bombs back to back that ruin them for good.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | January 31, 2022 7:17 AM |
Also I don’t know if he’s been mentioned but Alden Ehrenreich.
He really got caught up in the Star Wars drama and didn’t deserve it.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | January 31, 2022 7:18 AM |
Joseph Gordon Levitt has literally been working since he was a kid. He currently has a new TV series. He also continues to make films.
WTF are some of you going on about? Most of the listed actors have solid careers.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | January 31, 2022 7:25 AM |
[quote]Wes Bentley from American Beauty. I guess he’s doing alright now with Yellowstone, but after AB he should’ve been able to have his pick of films. Maybe the crazy eyes didn’t help.
IIRC, Wes Bentley had a heroin problem for several years, seems his addiction stalled this career.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | January 31, 2022 7:27 AM |
R145 = LINK....Alden Ehrenreich is a queen...He is really feminine and lisps off script. REALLY feminine. That didn't help during interviews.....See for yourself.....There is a reason he went down the toilet and SOLO was only a part of it.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | January 31, 2022 7:30 AM |
Peter Bogdanovitch shamelessly flaunted his affair with Cybil Shepard on the set of The Last Picture Show. Peters very pregnant wife at the time was often on set as she had some production role or something.
T. Bottoms publicly lashed out at Peter. I don’t remember precise details , but he may have pushed Peter against a wall and ranted.
Peter said that Bottoms was finished in the business and that’s what happened.
I think Bottims lives happily on a ranch somewhere with his wife and kids. He looks good and seems happy . He doesn’t regret that he stood up to Peter who I always hated, with that stupid scarf around his neck
by Anonymous | reply 149 | January 31, 2022 7:38 AM |
Alden Ehrenreich = (Link 1:55) When asked what kind of girl he likes he starts making stupid jokes---then his publicity team tell the interviewer he has to go--even they know he cannot pull off straight....Fun Story = Aldens career is doing so well his next movie co-star will be Jesse Tyler Ferguson!! No Joke..The movie is called Cocaine Bear. It is about a bear who eats a bag of cocaine!!...That is the actual plot!!....Elizabeth Banks is directing!!.....Hilarious!!
by Anonymous | reply 150 | January 31, 2022 7:44 AM |
Not only did OP spam his own thread with answers, but half of them were wrong, including naming several Oscar and Tony nominees.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | January 31, 2022 7:50 AM |
Looks like it's going that way for Ansel Elgort.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | January 31, 2022 1:24 PM |
Yes, R152 someone finally mentioned him.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | January 31, 2022 1:31 PM |
R149 Bottoms did appear in Bogdanovich's Texasville the sequel to The Last Picture Show.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | January 31, 2022 1:50 PM |
Julian Sands doing the freaky Helena movie killed his chances of being the next big thing. He's too weird and his face is hardly pin up quality, the big shnoz and scary sunken eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | January 31, 2022 1:53 PM |
Meh, Fiennes was kind of a one note wonder. Did he actually have a career after Paltrow in Love?
by Anonymous | reply 156 | January 31, 2022 1:54 PM |
Joseph Fiennes was a great casting choice Shakespeare, who, while a genius for the ages, was not a conventionally handsome guy.
But it's hard to see him really seizing and owning any other role because he lacks the gravitas and aristocratic carriage of Ralph.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | January 31, 2022 2:01 PM |
I wonder if Wes Bentley was harassed by Spacey on the American Beauty set
by Anonymous | reply 158 | January 31, 2022 4:28 PM |
I would also make the case to add Viggo Mortensen to this list.
Despite being a bit long in the tooth to suddenly build a leading-man career, he was brooding, smolderingly sexy and perfectly cast as Aragorn. He was also a very intriguing choice to be cast as a Russian gangster in David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises." But that film underdelivered, and what has he really done since then but "Green Book," which (despite the awards) generated the wrong kind of publicity for him, at a time when he is running out of runway age-wise to make up for the impact of that role?
This thing he was on track for--hip/sensitive but wildly hot older guy combining artistic integrity with blockbuster career--is being done better by Keanu Reeves. This should have been Viggo.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | January 31, 2022 4:33 PM |
And, speaking of LOTR, Elijah Wood. He seems to have moved solely into voice/production work.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | January 31, 2022 4:35 PM |
Wilford Brimley
by Anonymous | reply 161 | January 31, 2022 4:39 PM |
E! Online used to do a "Sizzling 16" every summer where they picked 8 actors and 8 actresses that they considered ones to watch. Some of their picks turned out to be pretty good, but many of them are pretty hilarious in hindsight. Jeff Hephner? Lauren German? Katharine Towne?
The link shows all the picks before 2005. You have to click through the individual pages of the "Guys" and "Girls" tabs to see the 2005 picks, which range from the good (Chris Evans, Blake Lively, Kerry Washington) to the awful (Justin Chatwin, Victor Rasuk, Jill Ritchie).
by Anonymous | reply 162 | January 31, 2022 4:53 PM |
Kellan Lutz, Trevor Donovan, Kevin Zegers, insert names of other cute, young actors pushed by Hollywood here.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | January 31, 2022 4:58 PM |
Seann William Scott
by Anonymous | reply 164 | January 31, 2022 5:07 PM |
Sean Patrick Flanery. Went from films, "Boondock Saints" and "Powder" (unfortunately, I think this was the kicker) to soaps. Apparently he's most recently won an award for his role on a "digital daytime drama." Are those words any actor wants to hear?
by Anonymous | reply 165 | January 31, 2022 5:10 PM |
[R102], that plus his snot nosed fucking superior attitude. A side of hubris with your career's downslide, Mr Callow?
by Anonymous | reply 166 | January 31, 2022 5:12 PM |
Billy Crudup
by Anonymous | reply 167 | January 31, 2022 5:47 PM |
Tiffany Haddish
by Anonymous | reply 168 | January 31, 2022 5:47 PM |
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
by Anonymous | reply 169 | January 31, 2022 5:47 PM |
Tyler Christopher - The General Hospital star was supposed on the way to bigger things and ended up doing twenty-plus years on the soap treadmill.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | January 31, 2022 6:00 PM |
Why are actresses on this list? Don’t they have a thread already?
by Anonymous | reply 172 | January 31, 2022 6:09 PM |
There was a time (Room with a View days) when Julian Sands was my everything.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | January 31, 2022 6:38 PM |
Cary Elwes. Similar Julian Sands-type appeal, but he didn't really work out, either.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | January 31, 2022 6:40 PM |
Jonny Lee Miller. His look as Sick Boy in "Trainspotting" was very au courant/high fashion, and he was married to Angelina Jolie around that time. But unlike his costar Ewan McGregor, his career never took off.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | January 31, 2022 6:49 PM |
James McAvoy
by Anonymous | reply 176 | January 31, 2022 7:37 PM |
Andrew Garfield. He needs to milk his five onscreen minutes in the new Spiderman film for all it's worth.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | January 31, 2022 7:40 PM |
Billy Crudup? He won an Emmy last year for Morning Show, and we're in a golden age of television. And yes, he deserved it. It's an amazing showcase for him.
Andrew Garfield? WTF? He's in one of the biggest box office hits of the year, and his other two films this year are in the awards race. He's sensational in Tick, Tick... Boom! and may very well win the Oscar. I'd argue he's having his best year ever, one that other actors would kill for.
And Joseph Fiennes is doing all right. Not A-List status, but he's on Handmaid's Tale and getting nominated for awards for it.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | January 31, 2022 8:00 PM |
No one watches "Morning Show"
by Anonymous | reply 179 | January 31, 2022 8:23 PM |
R178 But they become the next big thing? And Spiderman would have been a success with or without Garfield. And he ain't winning no dam Oscar!
by Anonymous | reply 180 | January 31, 2022 9:29 PM |
David Duchovny.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | January 31, 2022 10:06 PM |
The male ensemble cast from Whit Stillman's film "Metropolitan." Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Edward Clements--they would have been so well-suited for films that came later. "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "American Psycho," etc.
"Metropolitan" is one of my favorite all-time films, and I don't think a single member of the cast is still acting today.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | January 31, 2022 10:15 PM |
[quote]"Metropolitan" is one of my favorite all-time films, and I don't think a single member of the cast is still acting today.
Isabel Gillies had a nice loooong run as Stabler's wife on Law & OrderL SVU.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | January 31, 2022 11:35 PM |
Zac effron had years of success
by Anonymous | reply 184 | January 31, 2022 11:41 PM |
David Duchovny had decades of success
by Anonymous | reply 185 | January 31, 2022 11:41 PM |
Kate Bosworth
by Anonymous | reply 186 | January 31, 2022 11:43 PM |
Actors please, not actresses.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | February 1, 2022 12:10 AM |
Liam Hemsworth Dylan O'Brien
by Anonymous | reply 188 | February 1, 2022 12:26 AM |
Viggo, really? James McAvoy? Those names are stupid choices.
There’s varying degrees of success. Apparently some think if you’re not on a level with Leo or Tom Hanks, you’re a failure.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | February 1, 2022 12:36 AM |
Nick Robinson
by Anonymous | reply 190 | February 1, 2022 12:40 AM |
[quote]Why are actresses on this list? Don’t they have a thread already?
The word 'actor' is gender neutral. Anyone who acts is an actor.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | February 1, 2022 3:19 AM |
[quote]David Duchovny had decades of success
R185 brings up a good point. Are we talking about TV stars who didn't make the jump to FILM or vv one shot movie celebs?
by Anonymous | reply 192 | February 1, 2022 3:23 AM |
"The word 'actor' is gender neutral. Anyone who acts is an actor"
But we already have a similar "actresses" thread...shouldn't that imply this one was intended to be about male actors
by Anonymous | reply 193 | February 1, 2022 5:12 AM |
Remember when Michael Cera was going to be a movie star?
by Anonymous | reply 194 | February 1, 2022 5:21 AM |
R44, so true. Snipes had it going on for a while then he went off the rails for some reason.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | February 1, 2022 12:07 PM |
Woody Harrelson. Seriously, was his career poached by Matthew McConaughey? Can Hollywood handle only one Margaritaville airhead at a time?
by Anonymous | reply 196 | February 1, 2022 8:16 PM |
I'm also going to say Adrien Brody, even though he was my favorite thing about the latest season of "Succession."
I'm going to venture that winning the Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist did him very few favors because it was Roman Polanski's film, and that was weird/awkward.
Also, amid generally unfavorable career trade winds post-Oscar, Brody has been distinguished by his ongoing romance with Harvey Weinstein's ex, Georgina Chapman, which is also weird/awkward.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | February 1, 2022 8:26 PM |
River Phoenix. Johnny Depp had other ideas.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | February 1, 2022 8:33 PM |
Phillips Holmes
by Anonymous | reply 199 | February 1, 2022 9:07 PM |
For comedy films, I'm gonna say Jack Black. "School of Rock" coulda/shoulda been the catapult.
I think he's hilarious, but his film career seems not fully realized. He's funnier and weirder on camera than Adam Sandler. But, overall, the Jack Black filmography is like what Jim Carrey's coulda/shoulda been without the big breakthrough.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | February 2, 2022 2:34 PM |
R189 'Varying degrees' as opposed to becoming "the next big thing"
by Anonymous | reply 201 | February 2, 2022 2:52 PM |
Matty Kemp
by Anonymous | reply 202 | February 2, 2022 4:08 PM |
Sonny Tufts…teehee
by Anonymous | reply 203 | February 2, 2022 4:20 PM |
[Quote] Zac effron had years of excess
Agreed.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | February 2, 2022 5:33 PM |
Andre the Giant
by Anonymous | reply 205 | February 2, 2022 6:16 PM |
Lou Diamond Phillips.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | February 2, 2022 7:05 PM |
[quote] The word 'actor' is gender neutral. Anyone who acts is an actor.
Please take that crap elsewhere. We are trying to have a pointless, inane discussion about a very serious topic.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | February 2, 2022 7:14 PM |
People have gone kind of crazy in the replies....
Celebs like Jude Law, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Fraser and Gary Oldman didn't fail to "make it" in Hollywood at all; they were people who had nice B++ careers for about ten years and then got downgraded to B-/C list actors, just like some A listers get downgraded to B-list.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | February 3, 2022 3:02 PM |
John Lone.
Exceptional roles in two exceptional films -- Cimino's Year of the Dragon and Bertolucci's The Last Emperor -- then nothing to compare.
Was he too typecast as Chinese?
by Anonymous | reply 209 | February 4, 2022 3:53 PM |
A couple people have mentioned Brendan Fraser, but I remember him being big in the late '90s-early 2000s, especially after GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE and the MUMMY movie franchise were huge hits. Rather, it was early in the '90s that his career was seemingly going nowhere: ENCINO MAN was a hit in theaters and on home video but was a critical failure; SCHOOL TIES bombed but the critics liked it. That's kind of how his career was until he hit it big with GEORGE.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | February 4, 2022 5:20 PM |
Yahoo Serious.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | February 4, 2022 6:34 PM |
Jason Priestley.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | February 4, 2022 6:36 PM |
Devon Sawa.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | February 4, 2022 6:39 PM |
Paul Hogan.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | February 4, 2022 6:52 PM |
Larry Parks. The communist witch hunts did him in.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | February 4, 2022 7:02 PM |
Urkel. Did he do that?
by Anonymous | reply 216 | February 4, 2022 7:03 PM |
Priestly still works a lot more than other 90210 actors. I would say tv wise he didn't fail to make a good career for himself.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | February 4, 2022 7:15 PM |
What about "Next Big Thing" don't you understand?
by Anonymous | reply 218 | February 4, 2022 7:16 PM |
My understanding is that Jason Priestley is more interested in directing than he is in acting, and has had a solid directing career.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | February 4, 2022 7:17 PM |
John Lone was also terrific in ICEMAN (1984). I think the lack of good roles for Chinese-American actors in previous decades really hurt him--he is a fine actor.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | February 4, 2022 7:18 PM |
Many of those named have had very good careers. Are we assuming someone who is not Brad Pitt or DiCaprio doesn't have a big career?
by Anonymous | reply 221 | February 4, 2022 7:23 PM |
Big Thing? You don't understand the term?
by Anonymous | reply 222 | February 4, 2022 7:24 PM |
[Quote] Many of those named have had very good careers. Are we assuming someone who is not Brad Pitt or DiCaprio doesn't have a big career?
Lisa Eichorn did not have a big career. It's time for you to accept that.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | February 4, 2022 7:25 PM |
Zack & Cody!
by Anonymous | reply 224 | February 4, 2022 7:28 PM |
Big thing? Ohhhh, you mean Big You Know What.
I get you now. Wink wink.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | February 4, 2022 7:29 PM |
When did anyone thought Jason Priestley was going to be huge like Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks R218?
Television wise he has been on five shows since he left Bh90210, and only two of those shows were cancelled in their first season;which is great considering that he isn't exactly the most talented actor out there.
If we are counting ANYONE who didn't become an A+ list actor like Leonardo DiCaprio people who failed to be the next big thing, than I guess nearly EVERYONE failed.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | February 4, 2022 7:35 PM |
The "American Beauty" trio: Mena Suvari, Thora Birch, and the aforementioned Wes Bentley. IIRC they were all on the cover of Vanity Fair way back when.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | February 4, 2022 7:52 PM |
[Quote] If we are counting ANYONE who didn't become an A+ list actor like Leonardo DiCaprio people who failed to be the next big thing, than I guess nearly EVERYONE failed.
No. Not everyone gets the "Next Big Thing" push.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | February 4, 2022 7:58 PM |
R175 He did a CBS show where he played Sherlock Holmes for 7 or 8 years. He has also had stage success in the UK.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | February 4, 2022 9:04 PM |
Mike Myers. I'm amazed he is not on this list yet.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | February 4, 2022 11:52 PM |
And speaking of SNL, Dana Carvey. He walked on air on SNL for years and years. I remember going to see a matinee of his first film outside the SNL universe (by which I mean, not including the "Wayne's World" movies), "Clean Slate," and you could just sense that the career was not happening. It was a shock because he was SO hilarious on SNL.
(his costar was Valeria Golino, who I think ended up on the Actress version of this thread, although she wasn't really hyped as a NBT. She was beautiful, but made dreadful film choices, not just "Clean Slate," but also "Big Top Pee-Wee").
by Anonymous | reply 231 | February 4, 2022 11:54 PM |
Michael Pare’. Anyone mentioned him yet? He was probably too beautiful for movies.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | February 5, 2022 8:24 PM |
R231 He had some pretty bad health problems as well, which probably didn't help.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | February 5, 2022 8:36 PM |
Michael Pare was beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | February 6, 2022 3:31 AM |
[quote]John Lone. Exceptional roles in two exceptional films -- Cimino's Year of the Dragon and Bertolucci's The Last Emperor -- then nothing to compare. Was he too typecast as Chinese?
Think, for some reason ,he got confused with Tony Leung, who was in The Lover and the OTHER Tony Leung from In the Mood for Love.
I remember a few friends arguing about the actor who was in The Lover, one insisted it was Tony Leung, the other said it was John Lone. Then, the confusion about the two Tony Leungs started!
by Anonymous | reply 235 | February 7, 2022 6:46 AM |
Marylin Michaels
by Anonymous | reply 236 | February 7, 2022 7:39 AM |
Diane Venora.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | February 7, 2022 7:39 AM |
Jack Scalia
by Anonymous | reply 238 | February 7, 2022 10:20 AM |
R150 Oh wow he’s super gay.
It must be hard to keep it up.
That’s why people think Cavill is gay because he’s so calculating and conscious and self aware in his interviews and everything he does, like he’s trying to hide a screaming queen.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | February 7, 2022 10:33 AM |
Incidentally, remember when Josh Strickland was cast as Tarzan in the 2006 Broadway adaptation of the Disney animated film? To promote the musical, they had Josh do a video tour of the theater/back stage and... a thousand purses dropped out of his mouth. Many people online commented on this. Later, they had him doing fewer interviews or instances where he had to speak. He was fine on stage acting out a part and whenever he sang, but he couldn't seem to suppress his flamboyancy otherwise. Long story short, it's not surprising that he's now out and married to a man.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | February 7, 2022 11:20 AM |
Clive Owen. Tall dark handsome and a hood actor.
Ditto Marthew Goode
Ditto Rupert Penry Jones
by Anonymous | reply 241 | February 7, 2022 11:24 AM |
^*And, it looks like the luscious James Norton may be headed in the same direction . . .
by Anonymous | reply 242 | February 7, 2022 11:26 AM |
Clive Owen is known beyond the hood for his acting.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | February 7, 2022 11:56 AM |
[quote] He was probably too beautiful for movies.
He's made a ton of movies.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | February 7, 2022 1:22 PM |
R244 who did?
by Anonymous | reply 245 | February 8, 2022 8:06 AM |
Tom Bateman.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | February 8, 2022 1:43 PM |
Christopher Reeve. Curse of Superman.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | February 9, 2022 12:32 AM |
The 80s-early 90s casualties-
Lenny von Dohlen
Jeff Fahey
by Anonymous | reply 248 | February 9, 2022 3:18 AM |
Johnathing Schaech
by Anonymous | reply 249 | February 9, 2022 5:01 AM |
Pauly Shore. For that period of time, that vapid "Hey buuuuuddy" was everywhere on MTV, and then "Encino Man" and the straight-to-video decline. Odd, because he had the imprimatur of MTV programming and his mother's comedy connections behind him.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | February 9, 2022 1:24 PM |
I have wondered if any of Mitzi Shore's enemies kept Pauly's career from bigger. I read the book 'I'm Dying Up Here" which was later the basis for the Showtime series. The book detailed quite a bit of Mitzi's battles with comedians who wanted to get paid and she had rivalries with other club owners. There was one comedian interviewed for the book who said Mitzi was one of the most manipulative people she had ever encountered. After reading that book I wondered if some of Mitzi's enemies fucked with Pauly's career, but who knows.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | February 9, 2022 2:49 PM |
Mitzi McCall
by Anonymous | reply 252 | February 9, 2022 2:50 PM |
Does DL fave Brenton Thwaites count? He was originally meant to be in films. But now he is just doing a streaming tv show. This was after he made turkey after turkey on film
by Anonymous | reply 253 | February 9, 2022 3:04 PM |
[quote]Pauly Shore. For that period of time, that vapid "Hey buuuuuddy" was everywhere on MTV, and then "Encino Man" and the straight-to-video decline.
Encino Man was a hit in theaters and on home video.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | February 9, 2022 11:14 PM |
Dorothy Dandridge
by Anonymous | reply 255 | February 23, 2022 12:45 PM |
Eve Plumb
‘Portrait of a teenage washout’
by Anonymous | reply 256 | February 23, 2022 12:50 PM |
Treat Williams. Classic case of The Next Big Thing Fail.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | February 23, 2022 2:13 PM |
I think Priestley was fine with tv but wanted out of 90210 to be in something more hard hitting like homicide: life on the street.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | February 23, 2022 2:15 PM |
Miles O'Keefe
Ivan Sergei
by Anonymous | reply 259 | February 23, 2022 2:16 PM |
Lucky Vanous
by Anonymous | reply 260 | February 23, 2022 2:16 PM |
Encino Man a one-hit blunder. It didn't have people craving for more. It has a 25 MetaScore. Once burned twice shy!
by Anonymous | reply 261 | February 23, 2022 8:54 PM |
Does anyone remember Elizabeth Pena?
by Anonymous | reply 262 | February 23, 2022 9:00 PM |
IMO Brendan Fraser is poised for a middle-age comeback. He has some big projects lined up, has built up a lot of Internet goodwill after being so open about his struggles and everything he does for his disabled son and he's shown he's still a very charismatic actor on Doom Patrol.
On the other hand, Taylor Kitsch is destined to be a big fat right-wing forgotten loser forever, like Chris Pratt will be soon.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | February 23, 2022 9:08 PM |
I always thought he was meh in looks and talent but some thought Chad Michael Murray was going to be the next big thing. At least he thought so.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | February 23, 2022 11:20 PM |
Debralee Scott
by Anonymous | reply 265 | February 23, 2022 11:25 PM |
Is Kitsch really a right winger? He was competent in [italic]the Defeated[/italic], though nowhere near as compelling as Tim Riggins.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | February 23, 2022 11:58 PM |
Haley Bennett
by Anonymous | reply 267 | February 24, 2022 12:01 AM |
Harry Asshole
by Anonymous | reply 268 | February 24, 2022 12:10 AM |
Millie Bobby Brown. Had such hype after Stranger Things season 1 but hasn’t done much of note.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | February 24, 2022 12:56 AM |
She played Henry Cavill's little sister in one of his movies.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | February 24, 2022 1:02 AM |
Lil Inez
by Anonymous | reply 271 | February 24, 2022 1:04 AM |
[quote]Is Kitsch really a right winger?
That's the rumor. Peter Berg was pro-Trump and makes a bunch of conservative pro-military films and Kitsch is very tight with him and was very close friends with far right wing pro-Trump crazy Marcus Luttrell.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | February 24, 2022 5:27 AM |
R169
Three names always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | February 24, 2022 5:52 AM |
Must admit had a thing for young Julian Sands after seeing film Warlock. Besides physical beauty he just gave off big dick energy....
by Anonymous | reply 274 | February 24, 2022 5:54 AM |
When was the last time an actor Hollywood was pushing actually ended up legitimately being the next big thing?
by Anonymous | reply 275 | February 24, 2022 6:00 AM |
Rock Hudson r275.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | February 24, 2022 11:55 AM |
R262 I loved her. I was so pissed when Showtime canceled her show, Resurrection Blvd. She was excellent in it. But her alcoholism brought her down unfortunately. She was good in everything that she was in.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | February 24, 2022 12:16 PM |
R272, shit like that pisses me off. It’s like McCarthyism. What? So because this guy doesn’t base his relationships off the whims of a political party, he’s automatically guilty by association? We have to eliminate all conservative people in our lives, even if we disagree with that part of them, to avoid the taint of it? Gimme a break.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | February 24, 2022 11:55 PM |
Esai Morales
by Anonymous | reply 279 | February 25, 2022 12:39 AM |
R278 needs to look up what McCarthyism is. Hint: it's not calling people names on a gay gossip site. If you want real McCarthyism, look at the red states trying to pass "Don't say gay" bills and bills banning critical race theory or "divisive" concepts
by Anonymous | reply 280 | February 25, 2022 1:09 AM |
Hardly great examples there for defining McCarthyism, R280.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | February 25, 2022 1:18 PM |
R281 is a Republican
by Anonymous | reply 282 | February 25, 2022 6:12 PM |
R272 Some DLer in an old thread said Taylor Kitsch was very liberal and pro-gay, and he bonded especially with Jonathan Groff on set of The Normal Heart.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | February 26, 2022 5:24 AM |
^Kitsch was friendly with Groff while they were filming a movie together 10 years ago so he can't be a right-wing Trumper? Wow. I trust more who he is friends with and surrounds himself with in real life. Fact is Kitsch is close friends with Luttrell and regularly spends Thanksgiving with his family and likes his right wing posts on social media. Another close friend is Paul Craig who is also a big Trump supporter and regularly hangs out with Rick Perry and other Trumpers. Show me one picture of Kitsch with a real-life black or gay friend if he's really a liberal Hollywood actor! Fact is he only hangs out with white Republicans and MAGA supporters. Kitsch's next two projects are with Peter Berg and guess who....Hollywood "liberal" CHRIS PRATT were he's playing yet again a Navy Seal.
His fans think he's a right winger bc there was a frenzy on his Instagram account when he posted about a promotional appearance on Trevor Noah's show. It was so crazy that he had to delete the post about his appearance on the Daily Show.
Here, btw is Markus Luttrell's brother Morgan who is running for congress. Check out the MAGA hats while hanging out a Trump rally. Kitsch liked the post when Luttrell announced his candidacy. These are Kitsch's REAL-LIFE close friends and people he regularly hangs out with.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | February 27, 2022 2:20 AM |
Kitsch has no career. Why are we talking about him?
by Anonymous | reply 285 | February 27, 2022 2:37 AM |
Does Kitsch have dual citizenship?
by Anonymous | reply 286 | February 27, 2022 2:55 AM |
Kevin Anderson. He was in movies (Sleeping with the Enemy, opposite Julia Roberts and A Thousand Acres, opposite Jessica Lange); nominated for an Emmy (Nothing Sacred); and in theater (created the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard, with LuPone, and was nominated for a Tony for a Death of a Salesman revival).
And then, he pretty much disappeared.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | February 27, 2022 5:32 PM |
Drink?
by Anonymous | reply 288 | February 27, 2022 5:35 PM |
He had a permanent place at Steppenwolf so why rock the boat?
by Anonymous | reply 289 | February 27, 2022 5:39 PM |
[quote]Kitsch has no career. Why are we talking about him?
Because this is an "Actors who were supposed to have a big career but actually flopped" thread - few recent actors are more topical for this than Taylor Kitsch.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | February 28, 2022 5:23 AM |
R267 Haley Bennet won Best Actress at Tribeca last year and got raves for ‘Swallow’. She’s excellent in it, btw. A birth as an actress of stature is surely better than being Katherine Heigl or Drew for a season? They can’t take a good performance back even if it ends up being just one.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | February 28, 2022 5:34 AM |
R284 Thanks for your info. I don't know much about Kitsch's friends irl, but I'm just relaying what I read here from someone who seems in the know. I do want to give him the benefit of the doubt because of his work, such as The Normal Heart and 21 Bridges. He wrote in a tribute to Boseman that he was in the latter film simply because he admired Boseman.
Here's the DLer on Kitsch in The Normal Heart (R92 in the original thread):
[quote] I think people may be mistaking his weak acting as dislike for the material, but I was told he actually fought very hard to get that role. He's Canadian and very liberal and vocally pro-gay. Jon Groff and I have a mutual acquaintance in NYC, and from what I heard through him, Jon and Taylor got along really well, and Matt Bomer liked him a lot, too.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | February 28, 2022 9:17 AM |
R235 speaking of The Lover, WHET to Jane March?
She was being promoted as the NBT, she was in that horrible Basic Instinct wannabe The Color Of Night where Bruce Willis shows his dick and that Tarzan movie with Casper Van Diem, then poof she was gone.
I think Kate Beckinsale stole her career.
by Anonymous | reply 293 | February 28, 2022 10:39 AM |
And he should’ve R287. He’s the worst part of Sleeping With The Enemy. He had a FOX show where he played a priest for a while. Even as a kid, I thought the guy was a charisma free dud.
But he definitely applies to this thread. He was pushed hard.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | February 28, 2022 12:58 PM |
I had such a crush on Kevin Anderson when I was a gayling.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | February 28, 2022 2:03 PM |
Billy Campbell
Jami Gertz
Suzy Amis
Stephen Dorff
by Anonymous | reply 296 | March 1, 2022 1:29 AM |
For inspiration, scroll through this history of the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue (1995 - 2021). Each cover highlights several "young stars to look out for", and contains at least one "not quite"; the 2000 cover is particularly bad.
And 2011 is just odd; all of these hot, young, potential-stars (Ryan Reynolds, Andrew Garfield, Jessie Eisenberg, Anthony Mackie, Jake Gyllenhaal), and slapped in the middle is -- Robert Duvall?!
by Anonymous | reply 297 | March 1, 2022 1:41 AM |
Why does everyone's head look photoshopped on for the 1996 cover?
by Anonymous | reply 298 | March 1, 2022 5:35 AM |
[Quote] Take your pick from the Teen Wolf TV series. Most of the guys in the main cast are working actors, but none of them have really broken through.
[Quote] Very few attain such heights. And even more guys listed were never positioned to be "stars" in the first place.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | March 1, 2022 10:47 AM |
Theo James. A pretty face and body but not much of an actor.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | March 1, 2022 6:00 PM |
Colton.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | March 1, 2022 6:05 PM |
[quote]Three names always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen.
R273 Three names remind me of serial killers.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | March 1, 2022 11:34 PM |
Brett Butler
by Anonymous | reply 303 | March 1, 2022 11:35 PM |
Ed Helms
Tiffany Haddish
by Anonymous | reply 304 | March 1, 2022 11:38 PM |
300 replies and no one's mentioned Julia Stiles. I have no idea what went wrong with her career but she was a good young actress who got off to a promising start. AND THEN......nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | March 1, 2022 11:41 PM |
She still works.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | March 1, 2022 11:42 PM |
Yancy Butler.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | March 1, 2022 11:42 PM |
[quote] She still works.
R306, simply working is a far cry from being a Movie Star and/or Critically Acclaimed-Oscar Winning Actress.
Julia's onscreen persona seemed somewhat cold but she was still a fantastic actress. I'd rather look at her onscreen then Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, etc. I don't get it.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | March 2, 2022 12:05 AM |
Michael Pitt
by Anonymous | reply 309 | March 2, 2022 12:06 AM |
R304 I think of Ed Helms being more of a character actor.
On a related topic, it seemed like Hollywood tried to make Helms' Office co-star Jenna Fischer a big thing, but she is bland as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | March 2, 2022 2:19 AM |
Likewise with John Krasinski. He's been licking Marvel's asshole for years trying to get a part but he's too bland even for them.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | March 2, 2022 4:54 AM |
I think Krasinksi is a total fug with big fug nose. To his credit, he has sort of managed to break out of the shadow of "The Office" with some successes like A Quiet Place movies and that Jack Ryan show. But, Fischer's post Office projects haven't gone well. It's hilarious how she and Angela Kinsey have that "Office Ladies" podcast which is basically them still clinging on the show years after it ended. As much Jenna Fischer's Office fangirls hate on Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper, at least they don't totally cling on The Office in way Fischer does.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | March 2, 2022 5:05 AM |
That Jack Ryan show isn't watched by anyone who doesn't qualify for a senior discount. He's OVER.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | March 3, 2022 4:55 AM |
^^He married well!
by Anonymous | reply 314 | March 3, 2022 6:50 AM |
Talk about bland Office actors: How did that fug BJ Novak manage to appear in the opening credits for 7 years? And why the hell did they replace Carrell with Ed Helms? That guy was painfully unfunny. I was relieved when he disappeared for several episodes in the final season. He should have stayed in the Bahamas or drowned.
by Anonymous | reply 315 | March 3, 2022 10:57 AM |
Apparently that fug fucked Mindy Kaling at some point.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | March 4, 2022 6:14 AM |
I can't tell if Peter Berg is a full-blown right-winger or just a neoliberal Spielberg military propagandist type. I know he bashed Mitt Romney in 2012 and (with a sarcastic tone) spouted "Join the Navy, motherfucker!" in an interview during the promotion for "Battleship."
Berg's directorial debut "Very Bad Things" (which he also wrote) was very nihilistic. I don't know how you go from that to military propagandist.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | May 30, 2022 5:58 PM |
Minnie Driver
by Anonymous | reply 318 | May 30, 2022 6:56 PM |
Stephen Dorff
by Anonymous | reply 319 | May 30, 2022 6:56 PM |
Chris Kline
by Anonymous | reply 320 | May 30, 2022 6:57 PM |
Ginnifer Goodwin
by Anonymous | reply 321 | May 30, 2022 7:08 PM |
[quote]Berg's directorial debut "Very Bad Things" (which he also wrote) was very nihilistic. I don't know how you go from that to military propagandist.
Look up accelerationism if you haven't heard of it already. The straight white LGBT-and-drugs-friendly libertarian to rabid right winger pipeline is very real. He's definitely a military propagandist now and Taylor Kitsch has openly been one for years. Probably his nearly 20 years living in Texas have worked on him.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | May 31, 2022 3:17 PM |
Vin Diesel.
Chris O'Donnell
by Anonymous | reply 323 | May 31, 2022 3:55 PM |
Julian McMahon
Ioan Gruffudd
by Anonymous | reply 324 | May 31, 2022 4:14 PM |
Karl Urban
by Anonymous | reply 325 | May 31, 2022 4:35 PM |
Campbell Scott Rupert Everett Rupert Grint Mads Mikkelsen Hugh Laurie Stephen Fry
by Anonymous | reply 326 | May 31, 2022 4:41 PM |
At no point ever was Rupert Grint seriously considered "the next big thing"--sorry. Same with Stephen Fry.
Pungey, you're just listing random names.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | May 31, 2022 5:13 PM |
Poor Julian McMahon was viciously sabotaged... by Julian McMahon's hairline.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | May 31, 2022 9:21 PM |
R72 but they were never big!
by Anonymous | reply 329 | June 1, 2022 10:03 PM |
[Quote] He's definitely a military propagandist now and Taylor Kitsch has openly been one for years.
The military propagandist has a new show on Prime called the Terminal List. He plays (big surprise) an ex-navy seal. The lead in this new series is MAGA lover and homophobe Chris Pratt. Taylor Kitsch's next project is a supporting role in Peter Berg's new Netffix mini series about the opioid crisis.
I wonder if it's a known fact in Hollywood that Kitsch is a right winger and no one wants to work with him. He only seems to get small supporting roles in military projects or jobs through his connection with Peter Berg these days.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | June 16, 2022 11:53 AM |
He seems to be really full of himself and kind of a blowhard, so I wouldn't be surprised if he made his obnoxious views known. He doesn't seem to have much goodwill built up in the industry for having been in it so long.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | June 16, 2022 10:14 PM |
[Quote] He only seems to get small supporting roles in military projects or jobs through his connection with Peter Berg these days.
Was he bad in Waco?
by Anonymous | reply 332 | June 18, 2022 12:29 PM |
Rachel McAdams
by Anonymous | reply 333 | June 18, 2022 12:33 PM |
Blair Underwood
by Anonymous | reply 334 | June 18, 2022 12:34 PM |
Simon Woods. Married a filthy rich fashion designer and became a stay-at-home dad indefinitely.
Thankfully, his straight clone Sam Reid appears to have bigger ambitions.
by Anonymous | reply 335 | June 18, 2022 12:35 PM |
River Phoenix
by Anonymous | reply 336 | June 18, 2022 12:36 PM |
How many times was Jennifer Aniston mentioned here???
by Anonymous | reply 337 | June 18, 2022 2:05 PM |
r321 She and her husband are such a thirsty pair of social climbers, I'm glad they never hit it big.
by Anonymous | reply 338 | June 18, 2022 2:09 PM |
Domhnall Gleeson. Got some decent roles in "Harry Potter" and "True Grit," then in 2013 started getting a lot of attention, beginning with "Black Mirror," "Frank," and "Ex Machina." Then he got "Unbroken" and "Brooklyn" and the "Star Wars" gigs, everyone was talking about him, but then he all but disappeared.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | June 18, 2022 2:13 PM |
Ginnifer loves to think that she is so fashion forward, but most of the stuff that she wears looks like ass because of her short, dumpy figure.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | June 18, 2022 5:43 PM |
PLEASE. Domnhall Gleeson was never going to be the next big thing looking like the ginger lovechild of Marty Feldman.
by Anonymous | reply 341 | June 19, 2022 1:24 AM |
[quote]Joseph Fiennes was beautiful in Shakespeare in Love, just stunning eyes with those impossibly long lashes. I missed out on seeing that movie until recently, and damn, I can see why he was so sought-after as a result of that film and then... nothing. [bold]The only thing I can recall seeing him in recently was American Horror Story: Asylum, which was 10 years ago[/bold]!
Joseph Fiennes is the main villain in The Handmaid's Tale. He was nominated for the Emmys and the SAG for his performance in the show. Are you people living under a rock?
by Anonymous | reply 342 | June 24, 2022 10:29 AM |
Chris Eigeman popped up in something recently. “Billions,” maybe? Off to check IMDb.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | June 24, 2022 11:37 AM |
Chris Eigeman has done a couple of episodes of BILLIONS and MRS. MAISEL recently. He had a good run on GILMORE GIRLS and the retread.
We have a mutual acquaintance and he sounds like a nice guy. But he's not exactly versatile: he usuallly plays snarky/smart straight man types.
He's certainly had a longer, more diverse career than many others from the Whit Stillman stable. Including Whit Stillman.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | June 24, 2022 3:29 PM |
Chris Eigeman was Chandler before Chandler.
by Anonymous | reply 345 | June 24, 2022 7:29 PM |
Michael Fassbender. He used to be called "the new Marlon Brandon" left and right, got 2 Oscar nominations, then it all went downhill when he made a bunch of poor choices, started a Harvey Weinstein-approved relationship with Harvey's girl Alicia Vikander, had a string of box office flops, then made the brilliant decision to leave his acting career behind to try and become a race car driver, which he's still trying to be at 45 (looking 65)... He was great as Macbeth though (and so was Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth), too bad that Harvey buried that film and any award chances it could have had. He's gonna be in the next David Fincher movie, so maybe there's still some hope for him since Fincher's films are always a hit and praised by critics regardless of who's the lead.
by Anonymous | reply 346 | June 26, 2022 6:58 AM |
It’s so sad about Gretchen Mol because she’d go to the lead colorist I worked with to get her hair done, despite all the studio support and encouragement you could kind of tell she was grasping for fame and it always kind of eluded her.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | June 26, 2022 7:07 AM |
[quote] Fassbinder …was great as Macbeth though (and so was Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth), too bad that Harvey buried that film and any award chances it could have had.
That movie was ignored because it was so bad. You couldn't hear the mumbling actors behind the thumping soundtrack. And you couldn't see the almost-invisible actors through the dark fog.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | June 26, 2022 7:31 AM |
I love that there's 2 Oscar winners in the first dozen or so names. And then all the people who are in current hits.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | June 26, 2022 7:46 AM |
Michael Fassbender? Please. No ones forgotten about that stud.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | June 26, 2022 7:47 AM |
I agree with R346 about Fassbender. The buzz about him was huge for a while, then cooled. Then disappeared.
He was a DL fave for a good run, regardless. I remember saying at the time that he would fail to become a major star partially because he didn't appeal to many straight women, who found him bland or creepy (or both) even while lots of gay men found him hot. (FWIW, I find him attractive but quite dull to watch as an actor. He managed to make Steve Jobs a numbingly boring character onscreen.)
No actor, no matter how beautiful or sexy he is, can get much traction without a following of straight women, unless he only works in one genre (action, superhero comic movies, etc.) Even now.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | June 26, 2022 1:29 PM |
[quote]No actor, no matter how beautiful or sexy he is, can get much traction without a following of straight women, unless he only works in one genre (action, superhero comic movies, etc.) Even now.
Fassbender's female fanbase used to be mostly Black women thanks to him having dated a handful of black or biracial women and publicly stating that he preferred dark-skinned women, which was quite unusual for a white actor to say aloud. But he managed to piss them off when he started dating Alicia and publicizing their relationship like any other Hollywood actor does, which they saw as "selling out to be accepted in Hollywood", so he lost the biggest fanbase he had.
And the race car thing - imagine if an acclaimed middle-aged actress had given up of her career to be a race car driver instead and then tried to go back to acting nearly 10 years later! She would be laughed at and would never be considered for lead roles in big movies again!
by Anonymous | reply 352 | June 26, 2022 4:50 PM |
Fassbender lost a lot of his female fanbase when it came out that he'd had serious credible allegations of beating the living shit out of at least one of his black exes back in the UK, then openly cheating on a second black ex Nicole Beharie with then teenage Zoe Kravitz. His arranged marriage to Vikander was his attempt to quietly rehab his image for Hollywood but I'm not sure it's worked at all and I'm sure people in Hollywood still wonder if he might still be bad news.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | June 27, 2022 4:41 AM |
*though Zoe may have been 20, not 19, depending on when their relationship started, to be exact.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | June 27, 2022 4:44 AM |
[quote]openly cheating on a second black ex Nicole Beharie with then teenage Zoe Kravitz.
He started dating Zoe when she was 21 after they met on the set of X-Men: First Class in 2010, they dated from 2010 to 2011, then he started dating Nicole (at least publicly) in 2012 when she was 27. I don't remember anyone ever mentioning anything about him cheating on Nicole with Zoe. He didn't lose fans because of that.
[quote]and I'm sure people in Hollywood still wonder if he might still be bad news.
David Fincher certainly doesn't care about that. Those assault allegations resurface from time to time yet nobody cares about it outside of Twitter. It's like the Jared Leto pedo allegations: if The New York Times, or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times don't write a hit piece about it or if there's no HBO documentary, then people will keep ignoring it and they will keep getting work in high-profile productions.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | June 27, 2022 1:01 PM |
Jake Gyllenhaal has been doing a huge number of films, and I see on IMDB he has a Nicole Kidmanesque number forthcoming, but seems to have devolved into a respected jobbing actor, with fandom mostly now passing him by.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | June 27, 2022 1:10 PM |
[quote]It’s so sad about Gretchen Mol because she’d go to the lead colorist I worked with to get her hair done
Now we know who to blame.
by Anonymous | reply 357 | June 27, 2022 1:12 PM |
In 2022, Jake Gyllenhaal is only a huge star to aging DLers and a handful of NYC theatregoers. He remains a "respected jobbing actor" as R356.
HIs "window" for stardom really began with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW in 2004 and BROKEBACK in 2005. He's made a lot of movies since then, but almost none of them have been commercial hits. (No, DL fanboys: ZODIAC was not a hit, no matter how much you liked it. And he wasn't the star of SPIDER MAN: that's on Tom Holland.)
He's a good actor. But a huge star? No.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | June 27, 2022 3:40 PM |
R353 - They were not credible allegations, my god. They were totally thrown out of criminal court when the woman couldn't turn up any medical evidence. Why are all allegations now treated as fact? And Zoe Kravitz was not a teen when they dated.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | June 27, 2022 4:09 PM |
Remember Jake’s film “Prince of Persia”? I guess it was a hit, but it didn’t help his career at all. Even he admits it was a mistake.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | June 27, 2022 4:28 PM |
R355 the rumor was he cheated on Nicole with somebody and dumped her to date more high profile women, but I can't remember who it was he cheated on her with if it wasn't Zoe. Zoe herself is a weirdo.
R359 the woman dropped the charges and went back to him but she had quite a lot of medical evidence to back her up. It wasn't "thrown out." She now says he continued to be abusive to her through their relationship and Nicole said the same thing though she didn't detail what he did to her. This is common among abusers and abuse victims, but let's be honest, when was the last time DL found any woman's accusation that a "hot" guy hit her "credible"? As evidenced by the fact that even Bill Cosby has defenders on his threads, some of you sluts will defend literal monsters just because they have dicks. Michael Fassbender isn't going to fuck you.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | June 27, 2022 6:14 PM |
John C Reilly is a character actor. He is a solid actor who will always find work.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | June 27, 2022 6:19 PM |
James Dean.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | June 27, 2022 6:19 PM |
Chris Klein was so hot when he first started.
Now he looks a bit touched.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | June 27, 2022 6:20 PM |
Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose . . .
by Anonymous | reply 365 | June 27, 2022 6:21 PM |
David Caruso
by Anonymous | reply 366 | June 27, 2022 7:23 PM |
Billy Zane
by Anonymous | reply 367 | June 27, 2022 7:23 PM |
I always thought that Alicia Vikander turned down Weinstein and he tanked both her career and Fassbender's as a result. When the stuff about Weinstein was (finally!) made public, there were stories that he punished the boyfriends/husbands of women that said no to him.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | June 29, 2022 2:02 PM |
In the ‘90s, Justine Waddell, who starred in a slew of quality BBC productions like Wives and Daughters and Great Expectations. Then, like every ambitious British actors, she tried to make the transition to Hollywood but failed. Her last film credit is in 2011.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | July 10, 2022 10:56 AM |
[quote]I'm also going to say Adrien Brody, even though he was my favorite thing about the latest season of "Succession." I'm going to venture that winning the Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist did him very few favors because it was Roman Polanski's film, and that was weird/awkward.
I don't think it was that. A lot of years went by after 2003 before the Polanski issue really got a reheating. I think it was a combination of Brody's look ruling him out for a lot of conventional "young leading man" roles of the time, and some bad choices out of what remained.
He was great in The Pianist, and I was glad he won, in part because the other four nominees all already had an Oscar, and two of them had more than one Oscar. But he was perfect for it in a way he isn't/wasn't for a lot of things. He was an offbeat character actor who got the role of a lifetime and was in pretty much every moment of a prestige picture about a Holocaust survivor.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | July 10, 2022 11:17 AM |
[quote]I always thought that Alicia Vikander turned down Weinstein and he tanked both her career and Fassbender's as a result. When the stuff about Weinstein was (finally!) made public, there were stories that he punished the boyfriends/husbands of women that said no to him.
R368 Fassbender and Vikander had Weinstein's total support though, so I don't buy that theory in this case. The decline of both of their careers is due to other reasons. Vikander lacks charisma and star power, while Fassbender is a mess who made terrible career choices and has a problematic past.
[quote]During the showreel of The Weinstein Company's upcoming slate of films at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, producer Harvey Weinstein told journalists that he was so enamored of Vikander that he asked her to play a part in Burnt (2015) (her part didn't exist in the original script). [bold]Weinstein also stated that Vikander will have a brilliant future in Hollywood's biggest league, and that she and her boyfriend Michael Fassbender are "the new talented couple"[/bold]. Vikander had previously starred in another Weinstein Company film, Tulip Fever (2017).
Also: [quote]Vulture: At Cannes this year, Harvey Weinstein said he was so enamored of you that he asked you to play a part in Bradley Cooper’s chef movie, Burnt. What is it like to get that call from Harvey? Alicia Vikander: “It was a very tight schedule, because I had to go off and do The Light Between Oceans, but first of all, I’m the biggest foodie imaginable. And I think they know that! As soon as I was able to work as a teenager, I saved up money to go to Barcelona and San Sebastian to go to restaurants. So I was thrilled because of that, and when they called me and asked me to come in for a few days, I was excited. It’s a very, very tiny part, just two big scenes, but they’re really good ones.”
See how she dodged the question about Weinstein being enamored of her? All of these films (Burnt, Tulip Fever and The Light Between Oceans) were considered Oscar contenders at some point, before people saw how bad they turned out to be.
There was also this random moment when Weinstein showed up while she was being interviewed at a restaurant and paid for her bill. [quote]“Don’t you want to say hello to the pretty lady?” Harvey Weinstein asks his 2-year-old son. A skeptical look crosses the little boy’s face, and instead of answering he hovers close to his father, waving his hand and flashing a smile at the stranger in front of him. The adults exchange a few more words and, once pleasantries are sufficiently dispensed, the boy toddles out of the sleepy restaurant into the Tribeca morning, quite possibly the only person in the world not trying to get just a little bit closer to Alicia Vikander. [...][bold]but if there’s any question left as to whether or not Vikander has arrived, it’s unquestionably quashed when we signal the waiter for our check. “There’s no bill to pay,” he swings by to tell us. “Harvey put it on his tab.[/bold]”
by Anonymous | reply 371 | July 10, 2022 12:57 PM |
R368 There's a reason why Vikander kept silent when Weinstein got exposed (the same reason why Amy Adams was silent about him after getting half of her Oscar nominations thanks to Weinstein), then she played dumb when the topic was brought up.
[quote]In 2017, she signed an open letter against sex abuse along with nearly 600 other Swedish actresses. Three years earlier, she had filmed one of the last movies produced by Harvey Weinstein, Tulip Fever, [bold]but has said nothing untoward happened[/bold], despite the fact that [italic]she’d “heard he was an incredible bully and that he does anything to get what he wants[/italic]”. [bold]When the Weinstein scandal broke, she recalled feeling “shock and disgust”[/bold].
Sure, girl. Weinstein was putting you in his films for absolutely no reason, telling the world that he was ENAMORED of you and that you'd have a brilliant future in Hollywood, paying your restaurant bill, etc., but nothing happened... On the other hand, her Tulip Fever co-star Cara Delevingne said that she regrets doing that film because when she had a meeting with Weinstein to discuss her part in it, he tried to kiss her and also coerced her into kissing another woman in front of him. She said she turned them down but she got the role anyway. I can't even imagine who that [italic]other woman[/italic] might be!
by Anonymous | reply 372 | July 10, 2022 1:01 PM |
Corinne Klingsplotter
by Anonymous | reply 373 | July 10, 2022 1:09 PM |
Jake Gyllenhaal is a star. Not at the same level as Leo, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, but just one notch down. Far more than a "jobbing actor."
by Anonymous | reply 374 | August 4, 2022 5:35 AM |
It's amazing how Olivia Wilde managed to dodge most of the scrutiny from being one of Harvey's girls.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | August 5, 2022 6:31 AM |