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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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UmmH · 14/12/2024 21:13

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy I was coming to say Gwyneth Paltrow too!

Also..I might be offending a heap of people but Humphrey Bogart. He just stood around and talked with a goofy expression.

umdontdothat · 14/12/2024 21:13

Don't agree re Gal Gadot and Channing Tatum.
I don't get the love for Daniel Craig.

Jc2001 · 14/12/2024 21:15

Dollybantree · 14/12/2024 21:05

Nick Cage is a Legend! Have you never seen Con Air?

”Put the bunny back in the box!”

I even love his crap films🤣

Yeah Nick Cage is a bit of an anomaly. He can either be one of the best actors ever, like in Raising Arizona, where I can't imagine anyone else coming close to making that film work so well. Or he can be in a film like the remake of the Wicker Man which was so bad, you just have to see it.

Either way, the world is a better place with Nick Cage in it. 😜

Edit. He's worth it for all the funny GIFs that's he's spawed.

Oldmouse · 14/12/2024 21:15

Ghostofallnightmares · 14/12/2024 17:26

Martin Freeman

How very dare you 🫣

CandiedPrincess · 14/12/2024 21:16

Dollybantree · 14/12/2024 21:05

Nick Cage is a Legend! Have you never seen Con Air?

”Put the bunny back in the box!”

I even love his crap films🤣

It Could Happen To You is a bloody classic.

Bihan · 14/12/2024 21:17

Chase Stokes...not sure he can be classed successful as fairly new compared to everyone else listed so far. He stars in Outer Banks and the acting is Terrible!

ODFOx · 14/12/2024 21:18

KnopkaPixie · 14/12/2024 17:32

Judi Dench. She is just Judi Dench in everything. Sorry. I like Tracey Ullman as Judi Dench. Tracey Ullman as Judi Dench is much better than Judi Dench as Judi Dench.

She is an extraordinary actor. Just extraordinary. I can't believe anyone would add her to such a list. She can and has played characters who are foolish, clever, lovable, unlikeable, funny, pathetic, angry, pathetic. The woman is one of the greatest British Actors who ever left bed

Easipeelerie · 14/12/2024 21:18

Katherine Parkinson - it’s not that she’s a bad actress, it’s that I just see Katherine Parkinson no matter what part she’s playing.
Owen Wilson - bit cringy but also his nose is off putting.
Everyone in the Archers- no doubt I’m misguided, but I always think I could do better.
Sarah Lancashire - I liked her a lot in Julia but in things like Happy Valley, she seems like a caricature of herself.
Julia Davis - like KP, I feel like she always plays the same part.
Olivia Colman - it’s not her acting that’s a problem, it the actoriness/luvvyness when she’s talking about her work in real life. Lots of self deprecation which seems believable but might just be her being an actooor.
Kate Winslet - I know she’s a good actor, there’s just something slightly off, for me.
Eddie Buckingham in Neighbours and the girl who used to say Marcoos in El Dorado.

Nextdoor55 · 14/12/2024 21:18

Judi Dench is an atrocious actress. I don't know how she's so successful with all those talented actresses out there, she's still there & needs retiring off.
Nicole Kidman is also really bad.

I thought nick cage was awful until I saw longlegs & he's really good I'm that, quite scary.

chaosmaker · 14/12/2024 21:19

Can't watch anything with Tom Cruise or Catherine Zeta-Jones in

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ODFOx · 14/12/2024 21:18

She is an extraordinary actor. Just extraordinary. I can't believe anyone would add her to such a list. She can and has played characters who are foolish, clever, lovable, unlikeable, funny, pathetic, angry, pathetic. The woman is one of the greatest British Actors who ever left bed

Oh yawn she's so bad, one of those that are famous because she's so famous, just won't go away.

trivialMorning · 14/12/2024 21:22

Actually I agree with Daniel Craig - turns out I haven't really noticed his performance or hated it in everything he's been in I've seen.

Nick Cage - I agree with PP he's very inconsistent can be really good or dire.

powershowerforanhour · 14/12/2024 21:22

John Wayne.

KTheGrey · 14/12/2024 21:22

Dappy777 · 14/12/2024 20:49

I honestly think 90% of actors could be replaced and no one would know the difference. The vast, vast majority have no actual talent. They were just lucky, or good-looking, or were in the right place at the right time. One or two really are exceptional. Marlon Brando, John Gielgeud, Rik Mayal, Rowan Atkinson, etc really did have talent. If you watch Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for example, there's no doubt you're watching someone with a gift. But when it comes to the vast majority of soap stars and Hollywood actors, I see no talent at all.

Emma Thompson would be top of my list. Utterly awful in everything.

See I think that about Judi Dench. Best Lady Macbeth ever cos she shows what she’s thinking and that she’s scared to death.

But she can also do comedy and flirting etc - she has range.

Lellojello · 14/12/2024 21:22

villagecrafts · 14/12/2024 17:27

Richard Beckinsale's daughter, Kate Beckinsale.

I just googled her to see if anyone agreed, and she was listed #1 in an article called '27 Actors Who Can't Act'. 😮

Her instagram account is so very odd. I can't decide if she is properly eccentric or there are some serious issues going on.

The acting was never up to much was it. She rode on her looks mostly I think.

Londoneye20 · 14/12/2024 21:24

Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman

CharlotteLightandDark · 14/12/2024 21:24

Jc2001 · 14/12/2024 21:15

Yeah Nick Cage is a bit of an anomaly. He can either be one of the best actors ever, like in Raising Arizona, where I can't imagine anyone else coming close to making that film work so well. Or he can be in a film like the remake of the Wicker Man which was so bad, you just have to see it.

Either way, the world is a better place with Nick Cage in it. 😜

Edit. He's worth it for all the funny GIFs that's he's spawed.

Edited

I read somewhere that Nic Cage will take any old role for the money and if he doesn’t rate the script much that’s when he does all the OTT performances. If he likes the script he takes it seriously and acts properly, which he’s more than capable of.

IcedPurple · 14/12/2024 21:26

Londoneye20 · 14/12/2024 21:24

Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman

Cameron Diaz is an OK comedy actress but not much else.

Nicole used to be good but in the past decade or so has been phoning it in and seems to take any job that pays. And she's had so much work done to her face that it's impossible to take her seriously anymore.

Raindropskeepfallinonmyhead · 14/12/2024 21:26

Danny Dyer.

petermaddog · 14/12/2024 21:26

dont like alec baldwin but as trump excellent

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 14/12/2024 21:28

Another vote for Brad Pitt - he never quite seems to know what to do with his hands, somehow? Morgan Freeman acted him off the screen in Seven.

StinkyWizzleteets · 14/12/2024 21:28

I’ll get hate for this but David Tennant.

He mostly plays the same person with every character, himself. He’s in some great shows but that’s rarely because of his acting talent.

I know he’s loved, national treasure etc but he’s just himself in everything.

Nonono11 · 14/12/2024 21:28

Ghostofallnightmares · 14/12/2024 17:26

Martin Freeman

Have you watched the responder? He’s excellent in that.

Ophy83 · 14/12/2024 21:30

Thatcastlethere · 14/12/2024 17:53

Have you seen Heretic? Hs wonderful in it

Also as Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal. And I also very much enjoyed his performance as the oompa loompa in Wonks! (Olivia Coleman is also good in that one!)

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