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Totally irrational dislike for actors/actresses??

423 replies

AnnMeredithPerkins · 13/08/2017 19:13

What is it about certain actors/actresses that just make you dislike them for no reason at all?
I was just looking at the web and Melissa George (Home and Away, and others) and i just really don't like her. I have no idea why though? I don't dislike other female actresses?

do you dislike anyone famous for no reason?

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dollypoodle · 14/08/2017 20:05

Glad Scarlett Johansson's had a couple of mentions.

JuicyCake · 14/08/2017 20:55

Rainbunny, my mum always hates on male celebs who've had affairs. "Oh him? He left his wife, you know..."

Mummatron3000 · 14/08/2017 20:59

This may be unpopular, but...
Colin Firth
Benedict Cumberbatch

whosebootsaretheseshoes · 14/08/2017 21:03

Another vote for Nicole Kidman. No idea why, I just really dislike her. Also Bette Midler and Michael Caine. Ugh.

sillywitch · 14/08/2017 21:07

Keira Knightly, she just makes me cringe in every movie.
Kevin Spacey, he seems so arrogant. I can't sit through a movie with him.

More obscure:

Sigourney Weaver, no idea why.
Dianne Worst, that fucking voice.
Sally Field
Mia Farrow
Sissy Spacek

sillywitch · 14/08/2017 21:08

Dianne Wiest

sillywitch · 14/08/2017 21:09

Actually, also Woody Allen.

sillywitch · 14/08/2017 21:10

Rick Moranis. This is fun.

PandorasXbox · 14/08/2017 21:15

Billy Connolly.

Never understood the love for him.

Just not funny.

lifeinthecountry · 14/08/2017 21:17

I can't watch anything with Julia Roberts or Ben Affleck in. Oh, and really hate Adam Sandler.

JuicyCake · 14/08/2017 21:18

Weist / Field / Farrow / Spacek are all the same person in my mind...

Butterymuffin · 14/08/2017 21:24

Have disliked Billy Connolly since his Ken Bigley 'joke' www.scotsman.com/news/uk/crowd-angered-by-connolly-s-get-on-with-it-hostage-joke-1-557343/amp
and his prima Donna reaction to criticism over it.

While I'm about it, Pamela Stephenson Connolly gives either obvious or terrible sex/relationship advice, and wouldn't have that column without her previous fame.

Onetedisbackinbed · 14/08/2017 21:28

Julie Walters.
She's always the same character, some les Dawson bosom hoiking winking type of mad woman

dingdongdigeridoo · 14/08/2017 21:44

I didn't used to like Julie Walters. Then I read that she is involved with getting working class kids into acting. I thought that was kinda nice as the arts are solidly middle class nowadays.

Housewife2010 · 14/08/2017 21:48

Christine Lampard: her accent, fake tan and horsey whitened teeth annoy me. Nadiya Hussain's eyebrows really annoying me. Why doesn't she pop down to a Blink Brow Bar and get them shaped properly? I also dislike Cladia Winkleman and her grubby faux gaucheness.

SilentBob · 14/08/2017 21:50

Kristen Stewart and Amanda Seyfried. Absolutely cannot watch anything they are in, for no reason whatsoever. I bet they're gutted.

TitsalinaBumSquash · 14/08/2017 21:50

I think it's well reported that Martin Freeman isn't a nice man IRL, he's been heard saying "Do you know who I am?!" A few times or variations of it. It's s shame because Sherlock is one of my favourite shows ever and he was great in Fargo too.

I have to say Jude Law, I didn't like him before, no reason he just seems like a nob, now he's cast as Dumbledore and I'm fucking OUTRAGED!
(How very dare someone say they don't like Eddie Redmayne though?! He's the perfect Newt)

Coconutspongexo · 14/08/2017 21:57

Emma Watson
Jennifer Lawrence I hate her 'I'm so relatable act' please fuck off
Katherine Heigel she's just a tit
Jim Carey i hate daft comedy
Jason Sudekis come across vile in interviews.

Everyone hate Keira Knightly I was once told I'm the spitting image of her (which I'm not but i get it regularly) and then a barrage of abuse for how shit she is and she's 'not even good looking' .. I have no control over her acting skills Grin

LittleCandle · 14/08/2017 22:09

I loathe Craig Charles. His voice alone makes me want to strangle him.
I don't like Lorraine Kelly and its her voice I'm beginning to sense a theme here
Anna Hathaway because she is so utterly ugly, but I will partially forgive her for 'I dreamed a dream' in the ghastly Les Mis film.
Tom Cruise - can't stick him.
Jim Carrey makes me shudder when I see him.
Julia Roberts - again, shockingly ugly.
Idris Elba - comes across as a total knob and can't act to save himself.
Daniel Craig - yawn.
All the morons in Friends

I could go on Grin

Sparrowlegs248 · 14/08/2017 22:13

Another vote (as if she needed one) for Keira Knightly.

Sparrowlegs248 · 14/08/2017 22:14

Although I don't think it's irrational!

Coconutspongexo · 14/08/2017 22:20

Littlecandle you don't like people because they're ugly?!Hmm

TrickyLicky · 14/08/2017 22:20

Another vote for Suranne Jones. Totally overrated and it really bugs me how she constantly has one eyebrow raised. Not technically an actor but Cliff Richard creeps me out. I have to turn over the tv/radio if he comes on. His cringey mid-atlantic accent and the way he can't say his 's's properly make me irrationally ragey.

StorminaBcup · 14/08/2017 22:21

Poor Keira. I hope she's not on mumsnet.

MadisonAvenue · 14/08/2017 22:27

Gwyneth Paltrow
Benedict Cumberbatch
Jim Carey - use to enjoy his films but he creeps me out since the revelations following the suicide of his ex girlfriend.

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