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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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TheScottishPlay · 13/08/2017 19:36

Babycham. I totally agree. James McAvoy is absolutely gorgeous. Love him.

vikingprincess81 · 13/08/2017 19:36

But but but but she's lovely bossy Grin
Daenerys is getting tiresome though - I have a theory they're setting her up to be a 'mad queen' ShockHmmGrin

pasturesgreen · 13/08/2017 19:37

Another one for Tom Cruise here.

Oh, and Matthew McConaughey.

RallyRoundTheFlagBoys · 13/08/2017 19:37

Gerard Butler. Makes me shiver. Not in the right way.

BossyBitch · 13/08/2017 19:37

In a nutshell: I worked as a night manager at a London hotel during my uni days. He stayed once. He made a fuss. I got pissed off and nearly lost my cool. He complained. Luckily for me, he was such a twat that I ended up not getting fired.

I hate him!

Jessiecat27 · 13/08/2017 19:38

Emma Watson! So boring! Also the likes of channing tatum and similar, the types that woman obsess over, I just don't see it!

squoosh · 13/08/2017 19:38

I never liked Jim Carey and his slapstick nonsense but I actively dislike him since all those unsavoury details concerning his private life emerged after his ex's death.

Brittbugs80 · 13/08/2017 19:39

I adore Tom and Gi Fletcher!!

But would happily leave Kiera Knightly, Ewan McGregor and the woman off the oral b dentist advert (I didn't know Oral B did a toothpaste) on a desert island somewhere unreachable by boat, plane etc.

Lucked · 13/08/2017 19:39

Gerald Butler, can't act and I see no appeal

squoosh · 13/08/2017 19:39

Good for you for standing up to him Bossy. He does have that egotistical spoilt baby Hollywood vibe.

user1471453601 · 13/08/2017 19:39

In my family, we have a convention. If one of us comments that we dislike an actor/singer, one of us follows up with the response "well, they speak very well of you".

TypicallyEnglishMustard · 13/08/2017 19:40

Olly Murs and James Corden. That oh so fake, "Ooh what a cheeky chap I am" shit just grates on me.

StorminaBcup · 13/08/2017 19:41

Adam Sandler - has a whiney edge to his voice that I can't stand

Jim Carey - just annoying

Anne Hathaway - as above.

I realise they're all probably lovely in RL and I'm probably not their cup of tea either Grin

fourquenelles · 13/08/2017 19:41

Imogen Stubbs. I am sure she is lovely in real lfe but I always think of her as being grubby round the edges.

TypicallyEnglishMustard · 13/08/2017 19:41

How, how can you like Tom and Gi Fletcher?! Seriously, what is their appeal?!

AlmostAJillSandwich · 13/08/2017 19:41

Maybe its because they are paid to be fake and complete liars. You see them in films and in shows and you associate their characters traits as theirs. Or because of the press only publishing interviews with a bias on thrm to portray tbem a specific way intentionally.
Aaaand ofc some are just genuinely bad at acting and its infuriating how good a film could have been if they had bloody well cast someone else!
Or they actually are complete assholes in real life to real people who post about it on social media, like treating fans like shit and shouting abuse or insults at tbem

SaucyJack · 13/08/2017 19:42

Oh, and Billy Connolly is another one I've always hated.

Like, really, really hated.

StorminaBcup · 13/08/2017 19:42

And Robbie Williams for the labour video alone.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/08/2017 19:43

I shouldn't really say this as She is quite or rather a very good actress, and only quite young
but. I don't get brilliant vibes from Abigail Breslin.
I get the impression that she thinks she's doing you a favor by being on TV.
Like I say, though. Just an impression

Huffletuff · 13/08/2017 19:43

I can't believe people hate the Fletchers. They're so genuinely nice and very kind people. Yes, I know them.

TypicallyEnglishMustard · 13/08/2017 19:44

Harry Styles, but only because when I saw Dunkirk, more than half the audience in my cinema squealed as one, "It's Harry Styles!" when he appeared, and some actually SCREAMED out loud for him.

You're watching a film about war, calm your flaps.

AtiaoftheJulii · 13/08/2017 19:45

I don't like David Thewlis because he had my boyfriend's name in a film and shagged (I think - I don't know, I never saw the film!) someone with his ex-girlfriend's name. Never watched anything he was in. Had to get over it (a bit) when my kids wanted to watch the Harry Potter films!

QueenMortificado · 13/08/2017 19:45

Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler for that awful style of comedy they do

Gerard butler for the fact he cannot do accents

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 13/08/2017 19:45

Nicholas Cage and David Spade for me. Also David Schwimmer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus - but I think those are because I can't stand the characters they play.

Not an actor but Jay Leno gets on my nerves too.

shaggedthruahedgebackwards · 13/08/2017 19:45

I've never liked Jolie Richardson (loved Natasha)
Completely illogical but I just can't warm to her and think her acting is a bit rubbish