Who are the least talented actors who are successful?

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In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

Reverend Obadiah Slope? Sir Alexander Dane aka "Dr Lazarus"? Severus Snape (the only reason I bothered with the HP films was that he and Jason Isaacs were in them).

He’s total chancer

Robert Mitchum
John Wayne

Unless you're the director you don't know how many takes an actor needs I.e. how really good they are, how easy to work with, or not.
There's a difference between bad acting and always playing the same character. Often actors will be cast as the same type character and not given a chance to show range.

Personal taste definitely comes to it. I am not keen on watching Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Adam Sandler.

Olivia Coleman is amazing, I think and was surprised to see her name mentioned here. The last movies I watched her in were The Favourite and Wonka. Both very different. When not acting (on things like Graham Norton) she's very sweet.

I recently saw him in Macbeth and he was superb. Am baffled by the number of people who think he just got plucked out of thin air for Dr Who.

Macbeth at donmar? Yes he was ace. He slayed it

Agree. He’s a fly guy

Pretending the lead actors had a simple difference in opinion to JKR is not just disingenuous, it’s dishonest.

They didn’t merely disagree with JKR. They outright attacked her, piled in on her, ostracised her, and contributed to the sustained (and thankfully, failed) attempts to cancel her, destroy her career and exclude her from her own work. They continued, even when JKR was receiving rape and death threats, and threats to go to her home address.

Whereas Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) personally disagreed with JKR while condemning the attacks on her - for which the trans rights mob promptly turned on Evanna, too.

So don’t downplay their actions and how badly JKR was treated. Don’t try to act like JKR is just unreasonable and petty.

It’s all the more galling when Watson and Radcliffe are so untalented/unremarkable that they would never have succeeded in the business at all without JKR initially casting them. Ungrateful, talentless, spoiled little shits.

White straight blokes are passe now aren't they? Sad but true.

Tom Cruise

Leonardo De Caprio

Tom Hanks

Oh come on. Decades ago. Times change. At the time they were marvellous. Give them credit.

He’s in Rivals he’s pretty good in it. Proper acting

Ben Affleck
Matt Damon

I saw it at the Harold Pinter but I think it started out at the Donmar? Immersive production? Absolutely brilliant, both him personally and the production generally.

Ah, he was just right in Rivals and I don't think it was an easy role

Brad Pitt

and his Ex Wife

Pick either Ex Wife - both dreadful actors

NK is mostly shit in everything except as Lucielle Ball where she excels.

The casting of the three main children in the Harry Potter films makes makes me quite cross. They are so completely shit that it must have been perfectly obvious to everyone on set, including the casting director, that they couldn’t act. But it’s as though the casting team was completely inexperienced, and just supposed that no kid could act convincingly, so they just picked Radcliffe, Watson and Grint as they were the first three through the door. In fact, of course, many children are spectacular actors, and they should never have settled. The little boy in Kramer Vs Kramer is a prime example of talent, as is Danny from The Shining. The Goonies is a great example of talented child actors.

Saoirse Ronan

Gillian Taylforth

Of all the TV actors I can’t bear James Nesbitt, he seems to be getting worse with age and works the same confused expression for every part or situation. I wonder whether he’s just bored with acting now but it’s fairly pleasant & he keeps being cast so just carries on regardless…

Get times have changed, bad acting is bad acting, doesn’t matter what era.

See I’ve been watching EE since I was a wean, She’s Kathy Beale innit
No range required

As a matter of interest, who do we actually like??? I'll contribute Maggie Smith as an actress capable of such a wide range of roles.