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Who are the least talented actors who are successful?

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WokeKarenHereAskMeAboutStuff · 14/12/2024 17:20

In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

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Fairislesweater · 14/12/2024 19:01

WalterdelaMare · 14/12/2024 18:06

Also Hugh Grant - can't act for shit but that's not what you pay to see him do.

I have to disagree. He might have been limited to posh twerps 30 years ago, but he’s grown into a really fantastic actor. He’s just brilliant in Heretic and so many more recent things.

I agree, in recent years he has been much better and in heretic he’s fantastic. Utterly chilling.

IMO crap actors include Keira Knightly, Andie MacDowell, Emma Watson, Dermot Mulroony - all so wooden.

Jason Statham, the Rock etc have their place as action stars and do it well when they stay in those similar roles.

Jackreacherstrousers · 14/12/2024 19:01

ARealitycheck · 14/12/2024 17:27

Plays the same part in everything i've ever seen her in i'm afraid.

This exactly. One of the most overrated actors around. Her and Martin Freeman I really don't get the love for either of them.

Bruisername · 14/12/2024 19:01

Whilst he is an oddbod, Tom cruise has done some good acting early in his career, the vampire film, magnolia and tropic thunder!

agree Tom hanks isn’t as good as people make out

KnopkaPixie · 14/12/2024 19:02

FeegleFrenzy · 14/12/2024 18:55

Saw the thread title and immediately thought Keira Knightly, good to see I’m not alone. The other actress from Bend it Like Beckham was much better, she was good in ER as well. But obviously it the same success as KK.

i watched Day of the Jackal earlier and it got me thinking how being successful for actors must be so much down to luck. The lead actress in that was very good, never seen or heard of her before 🤷‍♀️. And there’s much worse actors who are well known.

the child actors in Harry Potter. All still shit. Emma and Daniel anyway. Think Ron bought an ice cream van and left acting?

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As we're on Bend It Like Beckham, I was not keen on Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Although he was (at least how he looked in that film) the absolute double of an ex which may have clouded my judgement.

Bulkypeepants · 14/12/2024 19:03

Lily Collins

MrsMitford3 · 14/12/2024 19:04

!00% Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliff and Rupert Grint. Just awful.

However must disagree on Liam Neeson if only for his appearance on Derry Girls. he was brilliant!! I do think he takes the piss out of himself sometimes and I love that.

ARealitycheck · 14/12/2024 19:05

MrsMitford3 · 14/12/2024 19:04

!00% Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliff and Rupert Grint. Just awful.

However must disagree on Liam Neeson if only for his appearance on Derry Girls. he was brilliant!! I do think he takes the piss out of himself sometimes and I love that.

Didn't he have a sketch in Ted where he sends himself up as well?

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 19:05

WishinAndHopin · 14/12/2024 18:46

Agree. The hate she got for the Love Actually character is absurd. She didn’t write the script!

Not saying she’s the world’s best actress but she fitted in well Bend It Like Beckham and the Pirates of The Caribbean films. I can’t imagine anyone else in them.

There are far worse actors than Keira for sure. She has an idiosyncratic jaw and smile and I think people are irritated by it and think it’s exaggerated, but that’s just how her face actually is. I don’t mind her facial expressions so I don’t find her to be terrible.

There are far worse actors than Keira for sure.

There are, but they probably aren't getting every high profile role in their age category, which it seemed she was for quite some time.

KK is nowhere near talented enough for the level of success she has had.

Slatkater · 14/12/2024 19:07

ARealitycheck · 14/12/2024 17:27

Plays the same part in everything i've ever seen her in i'm afraid.

Agreed. I don’t understand why she is highly rated

MrsMitford3 · 14/12/2024 19:07

Lifelover16 · 14/12/2024 18:59

Hugh Grant

Aw I love Hugh Grant.

His transition from foppish adorable british man to brilliant posh bad guy has been superb. How can you not love anyone in Paddington 2? He also def takes the piss out of himself.

I think that's a lot of why the Deplorable Harry Potter trio-other than their awful acting-show themselves up so much-they take themselves so seriously and are so self important it is ridiculous!

isitxmasalready · 14/12/2024 19:08

Vicky McClure- monotone and wooden
David Tennant - overacts
Olivia Coleman- apart from in the Peep Show
Tom Cruise

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Aworldofmyown · 14/12/2024 19:08

Hugh Grant is a much better actor than people give him credit for, he was definitely stuck in a genre. I hope for Jason Stathams sake that it's the same for him 😆

NovemberMorn · 14/12/2024 19:09

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Pacino has always overacted in a really embarrassing way, though he was good in the Godfather trilogy.

DeNero used to be good...(great in 'Falling in Love' with Meryl Streep) sadly now has the same badly constipated look on his face all the time.

RaraRachael · 14/12/2024 19:09

Anyone who makes no attempt whatsoever to use an accent other than their own. I'm thinking of one late oscar winner and a current actor who always use their own accent in whatever part they're playing.

slightlydistrac · 14/12/2024 19:09

NPET · 14/12/2024 17:34

Russell Brand
He was even banned from the BBC for a while, but he came back!

I wouldn't even use the word 'actor' to describe him.

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Was she Dawn in Eastenders? If so, then she was terrible!
Just also remembered how bad Jennifer Anniston is.

NovemberMorn · 14/12/2024 19:10

Female...also in the Godfather trilogy, Dianne Keaton, she is just very irritating.

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 19:11

ghostfacethriller · 14/12/2024 18:01

I saw Four Weddings again recently and feel bad saying Andie MacDowell but... Andie MacDowell. It doesn't help her of course in Four weddings that she is surrounded by fabulous character actors. Is she better in later stuff? I remember seeing Elle MacPherson 'acting' and getting the same impression: very lovely but quite blank.

This was a phase when lots of models tried their hands at being actresses. Now it's more likely to be the other way round!

MacDowell was by no means the worst but yeah, she is not a good actress. Margaret Qualley, her daughter, however, was great in 'Maid'. It's funny when the 'nepobaby' is more talented than the parent!

fetchacloth · 14/12/2024 19:11

Another down vote for Keira Knightley.
Just the sound of her voice gives me the ick 🙄 and she can't act for toffee.

WaneyEdge · 14/12/2024 19:11

VeganStar · 14/12/2024 18:59

Anna Maxwell Martin.
So bad.Funny gurnie faces in all she does.
Watched her in “Untill I kill you” a few weeks ago. Based on a true story. The woman she portrayed was supposed to have been Canadian but there was no trace of the Canadian accent at all. She just gurnied through the series just the same as her other parts.

Agree. I loved Ludwig but she very nearly ruined it for me, I wish they’d cast someone (anyone?) else as her character.

I don’t mind Suranne Jones that much but she totally failed to convince me as the mother of a missing daughter and someone who’d had a fling with Lennie James’s character in Save Me & Save Me Too. The rest of the cast were brilliant.

I did enjoy ‘Unforgiven’ with SJ from 2009, she plays a woman released from a life sentence for murder. She was good in that.

Tulipvase · 14/12/2024 19:12

Adam Sandler was good in Reign over me and Hustle wasn’t bad.

Im not really a fan of his though.

Hellotherehi · 14/12/2024 19:12

Fairislesweater · 14/12/2024 19:01

I agree, in recent years he has been much better and in heretic he’s fantastic. Utterly chilling.

IMO crap actors include Keira Knightly, Andie MacDowell, Emma Watson, Dermot Mulroony - all so wooden.

Jason Statham, the Rock etc have their place as action stars and do it well when they stay in those similar roles.

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MrsMitford3 · 14/12/2024 19:12

ARealitycheck · 14/12/2024 19:05

Didn't he have a sketch in Ted where he sends himself up as well?

He did-honestly love him-his dead pan delivery in Ted!!!

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 19:12

WokeKarenHereAskMeAboutStuff · 14/12/2024 17:20

In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

Gal Gadot

Surprised she hasn't been mentioned more often. She is easily the worst high profile 'actress' out there. She simply cannot act at all.

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