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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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Skyrainlight · 14/12/2024 20:39

The 3 Harry Potter kids - I couldn't watch the movies they were so bad despite loving the books
Jenifer Aniston is most things I've seen since Friends

Bananadana · 14/12/2024 20:40

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stargazerlil · 14/12/2024 20:41

SantaToSSD · 14/12/2024 20:09

One from a while ago: Clive Owen.

He was ok in Gosford Park. He just doesn’t have charisma.

ScentOfSawdust · 14/12/2024 20:41

Kris Marshall. No idea why he's ever been given leading roles when he barely has the talent for a primary school nativity.

Jc2001 · 14/12/2024 20:44

ScentOfSawdust · 14/12/2024 20:41

Kris Marshall. No idea why he's ever been given leading roles when he barely has the talent for a primary school nativity.

Not sure what leading roles he's actually had.

Nanny0gg · 14/12/2024 20:44

Parratha · 14/12/2024 17:43

Actually there have been some fantastic soap actors and actresses. "Raquel" from Coronation Street for example.

And Anne Reid, Thelma Barlow and Jean Alexander

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Laserwho · 14/12/2024 20:31

Dakota Fanning. She was brilliant as a child actor up untill around 12 but. Seems to have lost the ability since then

12 to about 15 seems to be where a lot of child actors lose it.

my sense is that the main thing for a child actor is to be natural and unmannered on camera, and sort of still. Compared to most kids who move to much and over-act.

But at about 12, they start to become self-conscious, like an adult, and they can't just be natural any more. They need other talents like being observant of people, and training, like an adult actor. Some have those talents but most don't.

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 20:45

Keira Knightly, George Clooney, Brad Pitt

PurplePattern · 14/12/2024 20:45

Emma Watson - honestly by far the worst I have ever seen.

renoleno · 14/12/2024 20:46

Emilia Clarke is always Emilia Clarke - she does the same exaggerated laugh/smile/cry in all her films, with the same affected upper class accent whether she's a Yugoslav immigrant or Khaleesi.

Colin Firth leaves me cold, does he ever do films not wearing a suit or shirt and speaking in the same voice?

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 20:46

I just remembered another one. Kenneth Branagh. Not totally awful but extremely overrated. Mediocre director too. I strongly dislike all of his Shakespeare films.

stargazerlil · 14/12/2024 20:46

Keira knightly has ruined so many potentially good movies. teeth clenchingly embarrassingly awful, just like watching a bad sixth form play.

Elizabeth Hurley cannot even be considered an actress, more an escort really.

Emma Watson her laugh in Harrry Potter is so fake, it’s cringeworthy.

Ill have to come back with the men.

Acrossthemountains · 14/12/2024 20:47

I'm going to get torn apart for this, but alan rickman. The only thing he's vaguely watchable in is die hard.

stargazerlil · 14/12/2024 20:47

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 20:46

I just remembered another one. Kenneth Branagh. Not totally awful but extremely overrated. Mediocre director too. I strongly dislike all of his Shakespeare films.

Agreed

Toopulululu · 14/12/2024 20:47

Can’t believe the criticism of the The Rock. I mean, he’s never going to be doing Lear at the RSC, but in the right films he’s great, tons of charisma.

Likewise Channing Tatum - brilliant comic timing, very watchable.

Completely agree about Emma Watson. I’m not even sure she was that good in HP.

Skyrainlight · 14/12/2024 20:47

SiobhanSharpe · 14/12/2024 18:40

Emma Watson is terrible even in the TV perfume ads. (Gucci? Who knows.)

OMG yes!! I complain about her acting every time I see the ad.

westisbest1982 · 14/12/2024 20:48

I've loved Hugh Grant for a very long time (late 80s). He was a terrific actor before his 50s! Has anyone seen An Awfully Big Adventure and Maurice? He's always had a wide range.

Adeel Akhtar plays the same character in everything I've seen him in. Can't understand the obsession that casting directors have with him.

Keeley Hawes is another mediocre actor casting directors love to employ.

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He lacks charisma.

Powerofflower · 14/12/2024 20:48

Lucian Laviscount but eye candy and agree with Keira Knightly . With some actors I wonder if they are just being themselves…

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 20:48

renoleno · 14/12/2024 20:46

Emilia Clarke is always Emilia Clarke - she does the same exaggerated laugh/smile/cry in all her films, with the same affected upper class accent whether she's a Yugoslav immigrant or Khaleesi.

Colin Firth leaves me cold, does he ever do films not wearing a suit or shirt and speaking in the same voice?

She was incredibly lucky to get the 'Game of Thrones' role because she is not a good actress. She really stood out in a mostly excellent cast.

Boredforlife · 14/12/2024 20:49

ARealitycheck · 14/12/2024 17:27

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

She absolutely does not 😂

stargazerlil · 14/12/2024 20:49

Toopulululu · 14/12/2024 20:47

Can’t believe the criticism of the The Rock. I mean, he’s never going to be doing Lear at the RSC, but in the right films he’s great, tons of charisma.

Likewise Channing Tatum - brilliant comic timing, very watchable.

Completely agree about Emma Watson. I’m not even sure she was that good in HP.

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I love them both. They do good comedy.

VacuumPacked · 14/12/2024 20:49

SailingOnAWave · 14/12/2024 20:17

Gweneth Strong (Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses). Very wooden for a comedy show.

with awful hairstyle or wig, not a believable couple at all

Nanny0gg · 14/12/2024 20:49

Ellie56 · 14/12/2024 17:54

Yep. Daniel Radcliffe is spectacularly crap. He has no talent at all.

I think he only got the part of Harry Potter because he looked how JK Rowling visualised him.

He's done very well on Broadway and won a Tony.

And a Critics Choice award

He's done lots more than HP

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