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Actors who were going to be the next big thing (but weren't).

Julian Sands.

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Josh Hartnett

by Anonymousreply 1January 30, 2022 11:56 PM

Maxwell Caulfield.

by Anonymousreply 2January 30, 2022 11:58 PM

Monica Potter.

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Gretchen Mol.

by Anonymousreply 4January 30, 2022 11:59 PM

Alex Pettyfer.

by Anonymousreply 5January 30, 2022 11:59 PM

Samantha Mathis.

by Anonymousreply 6January 31, 2022 12:00 AM

Benicio del Toro.

by Anonymousreply 7January 31, 2022 12:00 AM

Sherilyn Fenn.

by Anonymousreply 8January 31, 2022 12:01 AM

Armie Hammer (had to be said)

by Anonymousreply 9January 31, 2022 12:01 AM

Hayden Christensen.

by Anonymousreply 10January 31, 2022 12:02 AM

Naomi Watts

by Anonymousreply 11January 31, 2022 12:02 AM

Zac Efron.

by Anonymousreply 12January 31, 2022 12:02 AM

Djimon Hounsou.

by Anonymousreply 13January 31, 2022 12:03 AM

Freddie prince jr

by Anonymousreply 14January 31, 2022 12:04 AM

Two with the same initials and similarly non-starting careers (this is like a Jeopardy clue): Tom Hulce and Timothy Hutton.

by Anonymousreply 15January 31, 2022 12:04 AM

Ann Jillian

Katherine Heigl

by Anonymousreply 16January 31, 2022 12:04 AM

Greg Kinnear

by Anonymousreply 17January 31, 2022 12:05 AM

Anthony Andrews

by Anonymousreply 18January 31, 2022 12:05 AM

Jude Law.

by Anonymousreply 19January 31, 2022 12:05 AM

Jaye Davidson.

by Anonymousreply 20January 31, 2022 12:06 AM

John C. Reilly.

by Anonymousreply 21January 31, 2022 12:07 AM

Sam Rockwell.

by Anonymousreply 22January 31, 2022 12:07 AM

Rupert Graves.

by Anonymousreply 23January 31, 2022 12:07 AM

Mickey Rourke.

by Anonymousreply 24January 31, 2022 12:07 AM

Ben Chaplin.

by Anonymousreply 25January 31, 2022 12:07 AM

Dianna Ross. As an actress she was supposed to be the next big thing. Never happened.

by Anonymousreply 26January 31, 2022 12:08 AM

Dolph Lundgren.

by Anonymousreply 27January 31, 2022 12:08 AM

Tom Hulce.

by Anonymousreply 28January 31, 2022 12:08 AM

Diana Ross is black. It would never have happened anyway.

by Anonymousreply 29January 31, 2022 12:10 AM

Brendan Fraser.

by Anonymousreply 30January 31, 2022 12:10 AM

Jamie Walters from 90210.

by Anonymousreply 31January 31, 2022 12:11 AM

All the beefcakes from Melrose: Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Doug Savant, Thomas Calabro, etc., etc....

by Anonymousreply 32January 31, 2022 12:12 AM

Timothy Dalton as James Bond (pfffft).

by Anonymousreply 33January 31, 2022 12:13 AM

Riz Ahmed and that guy from the Yesterday film, Himesh Patel.

by Anonymousreply 34January 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 Anonymousreply 35January 31, 2022 12:16 AM

Gary Oldman. Tim Roth.

by Anonymousreply 36January 31, 2022 12:17 AM

[Quote] I don't think the opportunity will return.

Neat.

by Anonymousreply 37January 31, 2022 12:19 AM

Taylor Lautner.

by Anonymousreply 38January 31, 2022 12:21 AM

For obvious reasons: Jon-Erik Hexum and Brandon Lee.

by Anonymousreply 39January 31, 2022 12:21 AM

Ed Burns.

by Anonymousreply 40January 31, 2022 12:23 AM

Miles Teller

by Anonymousreply 41January 31, 2022 12:27 AM

Giovanni Ribisi

by Anonymousreply 42January 31, 2022 12:28 AM

Christian Slater.

by Anonymousreply 43January 31, 2022 12:29 AM

Wesley Snipes.

by Anonymousreply 44January 31, 2022 12:31 AM

Julian Sands is big downstairs if you catch my drift.

by Anonymousreply 45January 31, 2022 12:32 AM

Benjamin Bratt (especially when he was with Julia Roberts).

by Anonymousreply 46January 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 Anonymousreply 47January 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 Anonymousreply 48January 31, 2022 12:36 AM

Jason Patric

by Anonymousreply 49January 31, 2022 12:38 AM

Patrick Bergin.

by Anonymousreply 50January 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 Anonymousreply 51January 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 Anonymousreply 52January 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 Anonymousreply 53January 31, 2022 12:45 AM

[quote] was about as good as it got.

That starred the aforementioned Greg Kinnear

by Anonymousreply 54January 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 Anonymousreply 55January 31, 2022 12:47 AM

Tim O Tay

by Anonymousreply 56January 31, 2022 12:49 AM

Timothy Bottoms

by Anonymousreply 57January 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 Anonymousreply 58January 31, 2022 12:50 AM

Gabriel Byrne.

by Anonymousreply 59January 31, 2022 12:50 AM

Taylor Lautner.

by Anonymousreply 60January 31, 2022 12:51 AM

Christina Ricci

by Anonymousreply 61January 31, 2022 12:51 AM

Elliott Gould

by Anonymousreply 62January 31, 2022 12:53 AM

Vera Farmiga

by Anonymousreply 63January 31, 2022 12:56 AM

Ryan Gossling

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by Anonymousreply 64January 31, 2022 12:57 AM

Ben Barnes

by Anonymousreply 65January 31, 2022 12:58 AM

Ted Wass continued to work as TV series director.

by Anonymousreply 66January 31, 2022 12:58 AM

[quote] Vera Farmiga

She rolls her eyes at your post.

by Anonymousreply 67January 31, 2022 1:00 AM

Diana Scarwid.

by Anonymousreply 68January 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 Anonymousreply 69January 31, 2022 1:03 AM

[quote] Diana Scarwid.

We were just not one of her faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaans!

by Anonymousreply 70January 31, 2022 1:03 AM

Jennifer Beals

by Anonymousreply 71January 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 Anonymousreply 72January 31, 2022 1:05 AM

Kip Pardue

by Anonymousreply 73January 31, 2022 1:07 AM

Jude Law- very successful and yummy back in the day!

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by Anonymousreply 74January 31, 2022 1:08 AM

Rodney Allen Rippy

by Anonymousreply 75January 31, 2022 1:11 AM

Adam Arkin

by Anonymousreply 76January 31, 2022 1:19 AM

Treat Williams

by Anonymousreply 77January 31, 2022 1:20 AM

Aw, Julian Sands. I liked him.

by Anonymousreply 78January 31, 2022 1:20 AM

Campbell Scott.

by Anonymousreply 79January 31, 2022 1:20 AM

Dawson

by Anonymousreply 80January 31, 2022 1:22 AM

Hunky Elliot Page.

by Anonymousreply 81January 31, 2022 1:24 AM

David Corenswet. Although he's still young and hot, so I guess it can still happen.

by Anonymousreply 82January 31, 2022 1:28 AM

Dermot Mulroney

Johnathon Schaech

by Anonymousreply 83January 31, 2022 1:35 AM

You rang.

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by Anonymousreply 84January 31, 2022 1:39 AM

Loren Dean

by Anonymousreply 85January 31, 2022 1:47 AM

Carrot Top

by Anonymousreply 86January 31, 2022 1:51 AM

Yes, Carrot Top was always destined for stardom.

by Anonymousreply 87January 31, 2022 1:54 AM

Jon Hamm. Still waiting to be a movie star.

by Anonymousreply 88January 31, 2022 1:56 AM

[quote] Jon Hamm. Still waiting to be a movie star.

And still waiting after R84.

by Anonymousreply 89January 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 Anonymousreply 90January 31, 2022 2:04 AM

Kevin Zegers

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by Anonymousreply 91January 31, 2022 2:06 AM

Lukas Haas..

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by Anonymousreply 92January 31, 2022 2:09 AM

Ryan Philippe

by Anonymousreply 93January 31, 2022 2:13 AM

Channing Tatum

by Anonymousreply 94January 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 Anonymousreply 95January 31, 2022 2:16 AM

Orlando Bloom

by Anonymousreply 96January 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 Anonymousreply 97January 31, 2022 2:21 AM

Orlando Bloom?

by Anonymousreply 98January 31, 2022 2:21 AM

Michael Pare' , Clinton Spillsbury (Lone Ranger movie), the cute fireman from Roxanne with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.

by Anonymousreply 99January 31, 2022 2:25 AM

Joseph Gordon Levitt..

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by Anonymousreply 100January 31, 2022 2:25 AM

Sienna Miller

by Anonymousreply 101January 31, 2022 2:26 AM

Simon Callow. Ace Venture ruined his career.

by Anonymousreply 102January 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.

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by Anonymousreply 103January 31, 2022 2:32 AM

Jon Hamm

by Anonymousreply 104January 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 Anonymousreply 105January 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 Anonymousreply 106January 31, 2022 2:39 AM

[quote] until a magazine broke the story

Which story?

by Anonymousreply 107January 31, 2022 2:41 AM

Chris Klein

by Anonymousreply 108January 31, 2022 2:43 AM

Hayden Christensen

by Anonymousreply 109January 31, 2022 2:43 AM

You mean to tell me, Corey Feldman, THE FELDSTER, was never going to be a Superstar?

by Anonymousreply 110January 31, 2022 2:45 AM

Jonathan Jackson showing why he has FIVE Emmys.

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by Anonymousreply 111January 31, 2022 2:49 AM

Bryan Singers "special friend" Brandon Routh.

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by Anonymousreply 112January 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 Anonymousreply 113January 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 Anonymousreply 114January 31, 2022 2:55 AM

Josh Hartnett is/was so hot. Next big thing that wasn't, Mason Reese.

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by Anonymousreply 115January 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".

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by Anonymousreply 116January 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 Anonymousreply 117January 31, 2022 3:10 AM

Haley Joel Osment

Though, he kind of is a great, big thing. Unfortunately.

by Anonymousreply 118January 31, 2022 3:11 AM

Orlando Bloom owns this thread.

by Anonymousreply 119January 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 Anonymousreply 120January 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 Anonymousreply 121January 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 Anonymousreply 122January 31, 2022 3:20 AM

Nevermind, I can name one, he was in The Craft.

by Anonymousreply 123January 31, 2022 3:21 AM

Edward Furlong

by Anonymousreply 124January 31, 2022 3:24 AM

Molly Ringwald

by Anonymousreply 125January 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 Anonymousreply 126January 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 Anonymousreply 127January 31, 2022 3:38 AM

Garrett Hedlund

by Anonymousreply 128January 31, 2022 3:40 AM

Josh Lucas kind of went nowhere.

by Anonymousreply 129January 31, 2022 3:45 AM

James Caviezel

by Anonymousreply 130January 31, 2022 3:54 AM

Mark Shera

by Anonymousreply 131January 31, 2022 3:57 AM

Jim J Bullock

by Anonymousreply 132January 31, 2022 4:02 AM

Chris Klein

Clive Owen

The Old Spice guy

by Anonymousreply 133January 31, 2022 4:04 AM

R119 but my swinging dick owned twitter, twice!

by Anonymousreply 134January 31, 2022 4:25 AM

Taylor Kitsch

Alex Pettyfer

by Anonymousreply 135January 31, 2022 4:27 AM

Sam Worthington

by Anonymousreply 136January 31, 2022 4:33 AM

Chevy Chase.

by Anonymousreply 137January 31, 2022 5:41 AM

R63....

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by Anonymousreply 138January 31, 2022 5:54 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!

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by Anonymousreply 139January 31, 2022 6:06 AM

Joseph Fiennez reminds me of the late singer Prince.

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by Anonymousreply 140January 31, 2022 6:14 AM

Henry Golding, his latest film bombed

by Anonymousreply 141January 31, 2022 6:23 AM

Henry Cavill

by Anonymousreply 142January 31, 2022 7:04 AM

Casted.

by Anonymousreply 143January 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 Anonymousreply 144January 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 Anonymousreply 145January 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 Anonymousreply 146January 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 Anonymousreply 147January 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.

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by Anonymousreply 148January 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 Anonymousreply 149January 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!!

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by Anonymousreply 150January 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 Anonymousreply 151January 31, 2022 7:50 AM

Looks like it's going that way for Ansel Elgort.

by Anonymousreply 152January 31, 2022 1:24 PM

Yes, R152 someone finally mentioned him.

by Anonymousreply 153January 31, 2022 1:31 PM

R149 Bottoms did appear in Bogdanovich's Texasville the sequel to The Last Picture Show.

by Anonymousreply 154January 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 Anonymousreply 155January 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 Anonymousreply 156January 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 Anonymousreply 157January 31, 2022 2:01 PM

I wonder if Wes Bentley was harassed by Spacey on the American Beauty set

by Anonymousreply 158January 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 Anonymousreply 159January 31, 2022 4:33 PM

And, speaking of LOTR, Elijah Wood. He seems to have moved solely into voice/production work.

by Anonymousreply 160January 31, 2022 4:35 PM

Wilford Brimley

by Anonymousreply 161January 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).

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by Anonymousreply 162January 31, 2022 4:53 PM

Kellan Lutz, Trevor Donovan, Kevin Zegers, insert names of other cute, young actors pushed by Hollywood here.

by Anonymousreply 163January 31, 2022 4:58 PM

Seann William Scott

by Anonymousreply 164January 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 Anonymousreply 165January 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 Anonymousreply 166January 31, 2022 5:12 PM

Billy Crudup

by Anonymousreply 167January 31, 2022 5:47 PM

Tiffany Haddish

by Anonymousreply 168January 31, 2022 5:47 PM

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

by Anonymousreply 169January 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 Anonymousreply 170January 31, 2022 6:00 PM

Me! Me! Me!

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by Anonymousreply 171January 31, 2022 6:08 PM

Why are actresses on this list? Don’t they have a thread already?

by Anonymousreply 172January 31, 2022 6:09 PM

There was a time (Room with a View days) when Julian Sands was my everything.

by Anonymousreply 173January 31, 2022 6:38 PM

Cary Elwes. Similar Julian Sands-type appeal, but he didn't really work out, either.

by Anonymousreply 174January 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 Anonymousreply 175January 31, 2022 6:49 PM

James McAvoy

by Anonymousreply 176January 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 Anonymousreply 177January 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 Anonymousreply 178January 31, 2022 8:00 PM

No one watches "Morning Show"

by Anonymousreply 179January 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 Anonymousreply 180January 31, 2022 9:29 PM

David Duchovny.

by Anonymousreply 181January 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 Anonymousreply 182January 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 Anonymousreply 183January 31, 2022 11:35 PM

Zac effron had years of success

by Anonymousreply 184January 31, 2022 11:41 PM

David Duchovny had decades of success

by Anonymousreply 185January 31, 2022 11:41 PM

Kate Bosworth

by Anonymousreply 186January 31, 2022 11:43 PM

Actors please, not actresses.

by Anonymousreply 187February 1, 2022 12:10 AM

Liam Hemsworth Dylan O'Brien

by Anonymousreply 188February 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 Anonymousreply 189February 1, 2022 12:36 AM

Nick Robinson

by Anonymousreply 190February 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 Anonymousreply 191February 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 Anonymousreply 192February 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 Anonymousreply 193February 1, 2022 5:12 AM

Remember when Michael Cera was going to be a movie star?

by Anonymousreply 194February 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 Anonymousreply 195February 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 Anonymousreply 196February 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 Anonymousreply 197February 1, 2022 8:26 PM

River Phoenix. Johnny Depp had other ideas.

by Anonymousreply 198February 1, 2022 8:33 PM

Phillips Holmes

by Anonymousreply 199February 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 Anonymousreply 200February 2, 2022 2:34 PM

R189 'Varying degrees' as opposed to becoming "the next big thing"

by Anonymousreply 201February 2, 2022 2:52 PM

Matty Kemp

by Anonymousreply 202February 2, 2022 4:08 PM

Sonny Tufts…teehee

by Anonymousreply 203February 2, 2022 4:20 PM

[Quote] Zac effron had years of excess

Agreed.

by Anonymousreply 204February 2, 2022 5:33 PM

Andre the Giant

by Anonymousreply 205February 2, 2022 6:16 PM

Lou Diamond Phillips.

by Anonymousreply 206February 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 Anonymousreply 207February 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 Anonymousreply 208February 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 Anonymousreply 209February 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 Anonymousreply 210February 4, 2022 5:20 PM

Yahoo Serious.

by Anonymousreply 211February 4, 2022 6:34 PM

Jason Priestley.

by Anonymousreply 212February 4, 2022 6:36 PM

Devon Sawa.

by Anonymousreply 213February 4, 2022 6:39 PM

Paul Hogan.

by Anonymousreply 214February 4, 2022 6:52 PM

Larry Parks. The communist witch hunts did him in.

by Anonymousreply 215February 4, 2022 7:02 PM

Urkel. Did he do that?

by Anonymousreply 216February 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 Anonymousreply 217February 4, 2022 7:15 PM

What about "Next Big Thing" don't you understand?

by Anonymousreply 218February 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 Anonymousreply 219February 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 Anonymousreply 220February 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 Anonymousreply 221February 4, 2022 7:23 PM

Big Thing? You don't understand the term?

by Anonymousreply 222February 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 Anonymousreply 223February 4, 2022 7:25 PM

Zack & Cody!

by Anonymousreply 224February 4, 2022 7:28 PM

Big thing? Ohhhh, you mean Big You Know What.

I get you now. Wink wink.

by Anonymousreply 225February 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 Anonymousreply 226February 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 Anonymousreply 227February 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 Anonymousreply 228February 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 Anonymousreply 229February 4, 2022 9:04 PM

Mike Myers. I'm amazed he is not on this list yet.

by Anonymousreply 230February 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 Anonymousreply 231February 4, 2022 11:54 PM

Michael Pare’. Anyone mentioned him yet? He was probably too beautiful for movies.

by Anonymousreply 232February 5, 2022 8:24 PM

R231 He had some pretty bad health problems as well, which probably didn't help.

by Anonymousreply 233February 5, 2022 8:36 PM

Michael Pare was beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 234February 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 Anonymousreply 235February 7, 2022 6:46 AM

Marylin Michaels

by Anonymousreply 236February 7, 2022 7:39 AM

Diane Venora.

by Anonymousreply 237February 7, 2022 7:39 AM

Jack Scalia

by Anonymousreply 238February 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 Anonymousreply 239February 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 Anonymousreply 240February 7, 2022 11:20 AM

Clive Owen. Tall dark handsome and a hood actor.

Ditto Marthew Goode

Ditto Rupert Penry Jones

by Anonymousreply 241February 7, 2022 11:24 AM

^*And, it looks like the luscious James Norton may be headed in the same direction . . .

by Anonymousreply 242February 7, 2022 11:26 AM

Clive Owen is known beyond the hood for his acting.

by Anonymousreply 243February 7, 2022 11:56 AM

[quote] He was probably too beautiful for movies.

He's made a ton of movies.

by Anonymousreply 244February 7, 2022 1:22 PM

R244 who did?

by Anonymousreply 245February 8, 2022 8:06 AM

Tom Bateman.

by Anonymousreply 246February 8, 2022 1:43 PM

Christopher Reeve. Curse of Superman.

by Anonymousreply 247February 9, 2022 12:32 AM

The 80s-early 90s casualties-

Lenny von Dohlen

Jeff Fahey

by Anonymousreply 248February 9, 2022 3:18 AM

Johnathing Schaech

by Anonymousreply 249February 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 Anonymousreply 250February 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 Anonymousreply 251February 9, 2022 2:49 PM

Mitzi McCall

by Anonymousreply 252February 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 Anonymousreply 253February 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 Anonymousreply 254February 9, 2022 11:14 PM

Dorothy Dandridge

by Anonymousreply 255February 23, 2022 12:45 PM

Eve Plumb

‘Portrait of a teenage washout’

by Anonymousreply 256February 23, 2022 12:50 PM

Treat Williams. Classic case of The Next Big Thing Fail.

by Anonymousreply 257February 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 Anonymousreply 258February 23, 2022 2:15 PM

Miles O'Keefe

Ivan Sergei

by Anonymousreply 259February 23, 2022 2:16 PM

Lucky Vanous

by Anonymousreply 260February 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 Anonymousreply 261February 23, 2022 8:54 PM

Does anyone remember Elizabeth Pena?

by Anonymousreply 262February 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 Anonymousreply 263February 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 Anonymousreply 264February 23, 2022 11:20 PM

Debralee Scott

by Anonymousreply 265February 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 Anonymousreply 266February 23, 2022 11:58 PM

Haley Bennett

by Anonymousreply 267February 24, 2022 12:01 AM

Harry Asshole

by Anonymousreply 268February 24, 2022 12:10 AM

Millie Bobby Brown. Had such hype after Stranger Things season 1 but hasn’t done much of note.

by Anonymousreply 269February 24, 2022 12:56 AM

She played Henry Cavill's little sister in one of his movies.

by Anonymousreply 270February 24, 2022 1:02 AM

Lil Inez

by Anonymousreply 271February 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 Anonymousreply 272February 24, 2022 5:27 AM

R169

Three names always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen.

by Anonymousreply 273February 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....

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by Anonymousreply 274February 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 Anonymousreply 275February 24, 2022 6:00 AM

Rock Hudson r275.

by Anonymousreply 276February 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 Anonymousreply 277February 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 Anonymousreply 278February 24, 2022 11:55 PM

Esai Morales

by Anonymousreply 279February 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 Anonymousreply 280February 25, 2022 1:09 AM

Hardly great examples there for defining McCarthyism, R280.

by Anonymousreply 281February 25, 2022 1:18 PM

R281 is a Republican

by Anonymousreply 282February 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 Anonymousreply 283February 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.

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by Anonymousreply 284February 27, 2022 2:20 AM

Kitsch has no career. Why are we talking about him?

by Anonymousreply 285February 27, 2022 2:37 AM

Does Kitsch have dual citizenship?

by Anonymousreply 286February 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 Anonymousreply 287February 27, 2022 5:32 PM

Drink?

by Anonymousreply 288February 27, 2022 5:35 PM

He had a permanent place at Steppenwolf so why rock the boat?

by Anonymousreply 289February 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 Anonymousreply 290February 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 Anonymousreply 291February 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.

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by Anonymousreply 292February 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.

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by Anonymousreply 293February 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 Anonymousreply 294February 28, 2022 12:58 PM

I had such a crush on Kevin Anderson when I was a gayling.

by Anonymousreply 295February 28, 2022 2:03 PM

Billy Campbell

Jami Gertz

Suzy Amis

Stephen Dorff

by Anonymousreply 296March 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?!

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by Anonymousreply 297March 1, 2022 1:41 AM

Why does everyone's head look photoshopped on for the 1996 cover?

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by Anonymousreply 298March 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 Anonymousreply 299March 1, 2022 10:47 AM

Theo James. A pretty face and body but not much of an actor.

by Anonymousreply 300March 1, 2022 6:00 PM

Colton.

by Anonymousreply 301March 1, 2022 6:05 PM

[quote]Three names always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen.

R273 Three names remind me of serial killers.

by Anonymousreply 302March 1, 2022 11:34 PM

Brett Butler

by Anonymousreply 303March 1, 2022 11:35 PM

Ed Helms

Tiffany Haddish

by Anonymousreply 304March 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 Anonymousreply 305March 1, 2022 11:41 PM

She still works.

by Anonymousreply 306March 1, 2022 11:42 PM

Yancy Butler.

by Anonymousreply 307March 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 Anonymousreply 308March 2, 2022 12:05 AM

Michael Pitt

by Anonymousreply 309March 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 Anonymousreply 310March 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 Anonymousreply 311March 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 Anonymousreply 312March 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 Anonymousreply 313March 3, 2022 4:55 AM

^^He married well!

by Anonymousreply 314March 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 Anonymousreply 315March 3, 2022 10:57 AM

Apparently that fug fucked Mindy Kaling at some point.

by Anonymousreply 316March 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 Anonymousreply 317May 30, 2022 5:58 PM

Minnie Driver

by Anonymousreply 318May 30, 2022 6:56 PM

Stephen Dorff

by Anonymousreply 319May 30, 2022 6:56 PM

Chris Kline

by Anonymousreply 320May 30, 2022 6:57 PM

Ginnifer Goodwin

by Anonymousreply 321May 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 Anonymousreply 322May 31, 2022 3:17 PM

Vin Diesel.

Chris O'Donnell

by Anonymousreply 323May 31, 2022 3:55 PM

Julian McMahon

Ioan Gruffudd

by Anonymousreply 324May 31, 2022 4:14 PM

Karl Urban

by Anonymousreply 325May 31, 2022 4:35 PM

Campbell Scott Rupert Everett Rupert Grint Mads Mikkelsen Hugh Laurie Stephen Fry

by Anonymousreply 326May 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 Anonymousreply 327May 31, 2022 5:13 PM

Poor Julian McMahon was viciously sabotaged... by Julian McMahon's hairline.

by Anonymousreply 328May 31, 2022 9:21 PM

R72 but they were never big!

by Anonymousreply 329June 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 Anonymousreply 330June 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 Anonymousreply 331June 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 Anonymousreply 332June 18, 2022 12:29 PM

Rachel McAdams

by Anonymousreply 333June 18, 2022 12:33 PM

Blair Underwood

by Anonymousreply 334June 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 Anonymousreply 335June 18, 2022 12:35 PM

River Phoenix

by Anonymousreply 336June 18, 2022 12:36 PM

How many times was Jennifer Aniston mentioned here???

by Anonymousreply 337June 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 Anonymousreply 338June 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 Anonymousreply 339June 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 Anonymousreply 340June 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 Anonymousreply 341June 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 Anonymousreply 342June 24, 2022 10:29 AM

Chris Eigeman popped up in something recently. “Billions,” maybe? Off to check IMDb.

by Anonymousreply 343June 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 Anonymousreply 344June 24, 2022 3:29 PM

Chris Eigeman was Chandler before Chandler.

by Anonymousreply 345June 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 Anonymousreply 346June 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 Anonymousreply 347June 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.

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by Anonymousreply 348June 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 Anonymousreply 349June 26, 2022 7:46 AM

Michael Fassbender? Please. No ones forgotten about that stud.

by Anonymousreply 350June 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 Anonymousreply 351June 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 Anonymousreply 352June 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 Anonymousreply 353June 27, 2022 4:41 AM

*though Zoe may have been 20, not 19, depending on when their relationship started, to be exact.

by Anonymousreply 354June 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 Anonymousreply 355June 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 Anonymousreply 356June 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 Anonymousreply 357June 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 Anonymousreply 358June 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 Anonymousreply 359June 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.

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by Anonymousreply 360June 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 Anonymousreply 361June 27, 2022 6:14 PM

John C Reilly is a character actor. He is a solid actor who will always find work.

by Anonymousreply 362June 27, 2022 6:19 PM

James Dean.

by Anonymousreply 363June 27, 2022 6:19 PM

Chris Klein was so hot when he first started.

Now he looks a bit touched.

by Anonymousreply 364June 27, 2022 6:20 PM

Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose . . .

by Anonymousreply 365June 27, 2022 6:21 PM

David Caruso

by Anonymousreply 366June 27, 2022 7:23 PM

Billy Zane

by Anonymousreply 367June 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 Anonymousreply 368June 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 Anonymousreply 369July 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 Anonymousreply 370July 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 Anonymousreply 371July 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 Anonymousreply 372July 10, 2022 1:01 PM

Corinne Klingsplotter

by Anonymousreply 373July 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 Anonymousreply 374August 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 Anonymousreply 375August 5, 2022 6:31 AM
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