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

Several of the adults in Harry Potter were woefully miscast. David Tennant and Gary Oldman come to mind - far too old and played their characters all wrong, though to be fair the scripts for Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr were utter shite.

I imagine they are more conspiracy theories than rumours.

missed a couple.
James Nesbitt. Another face-puller who's the same in everything he does. tried watching a detective series he was in with the excellent Julien Baptiste and had to switch it off.
Robert downey junior and indeed most actors in most marvel movies. A bunch of puerile trash by a bunch of wooden hacks.

I don't give a fiddler's about Daniel's trans views. He seems like a nice enough kid without much real talent, who stumbled on a lottery ticket.

Was your second wife Lucille Ball?

You see, I agree with you that Keanu isnt a great actor but he has a mesmeric quality and the camera loves him. He was fantastic in The day the earth stood still precisely because he has an other worldly quality about him. I have a bit of a crush admittedly.

others for the list include;

Martin Freeman
Olivia Coleman
Eddie Redmayne

The outnumbered kids where amazing when little esp the two youngest. They didn't get lines, they where told what would happen in a scene and just ad-libbed, they just played themselves. Perhaps thats why it comes across as natural. Sadly the girl lost that ability in later episodes

I like Tom Hardy but his vocal characterisation has become a bit of a parody of itself now. You virtually needed subtitles for him in Peaky Blinders

As much as it pains me, Sam Heughan. He was good opposite Catriona Balfe but it seems to be because he wasn't acting so much and actually fancied her. He's been terrible in everything since Outlander whereas she's gone from strength to strength.

Am surprised Mel Gibson has been mentioned. Obviously his personal life is a shit show but as an actor before he was blacklisted (as an actor) by Hollywood he was well thought of. He did action hero well, he did romantic lead well. He was amazing in Gallipoli. His performances in stuff like Hamlet and Braveheart were well received and very different so a good range?

She annoyed me in outlander, first few seasons anyway. She had an odd , very precise way of delivering her lines. She did improve though. I binge watched outlander and it was a noticeable change.

What a thread of insane takes! De Niro? Pacino? Streep? Caine? Dench? And so much focus on Potter, although I agree Emma Watson is woeful (she doesn’t work much, so I can’t get that het up about her). Daniel Radcliffe has matured into a passable actor. Isn’t he famously the son of a big agent which is why he got cast as HP.

A lot of it is about casting, direction and material. Andie McDowell is awful in Four Weddings, but it’s a horribly underwritten part (Richard Curtis can’t write women). She’s much better in stuff with more auteur-y sort of directors: Sex, Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh), Short Cuts (Altman), Green Card (Weir).

Well I thought he was fine but I really don't understand why they got so many British actors to be American in the film? Why didn't they just keep them British?

We watched a British film with the kid who played Neville and he was fantastic in it. Really good.

iMO Daniel Radcliffe is easily the worst of the HP actors and as someone said upthread only got it as visually he looked like JKR’s imagining.

Emma Watson is awful in most things, but she did pleasantly suprise me in The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Helena Bonham-Carter.
She got the part in Room With a View with no training. Ok, benefit of the doubt.
Spent the next decade playing the same role.
Moved on to hysterical badly dressed psychopath role (Fight Club, Harry Potter).
Married the director best known for that type of film and got a few more decades out of it (Alice in Wonderland).

The only role she was really good in was as Princess Margaret in The Crown where the reasons for her frustration and self destruction were laid down by another actress.

Daniel Radcliffe is not great IMO.

I've seen no evidence of this at all. Even if it was true he's still a fantastic actor

Yes! She is in the "can't act" category.

Arnie

Kit Harington although not sure how successful he is aside from being John Snow.

I agree. The 2 leads are actually fantastic in Splash. One of my all-time favourite films

Yeah, I’ve only ever heard nice things about Tom Hanks and he’s obviously a really good actor.

I like HBC! This thread has made me realise I like most actors. I can’t think of any I wouldn’t watch at all.

Surely for lots it's just a job. Many average accountants out there for example.

I am watching the bill on u. Sone people who just okay one character for 28 years. Are they acting? Or do I need to see them playing someone who isn't a pc to know? Sane with people in long running soaps. Steve macdonald? Ken Barlow? The chap from holly oaks. Bad actors? I'd say competent enough for what they do.

Lots of movie stars are just charismatic. The rock etc. but he did act well in sone movie about teaching kids in prison football. Even cried. He is "the rock" in everything but i don't mind that. Same as Jason statham. But maybe sone of us just don't see people as the characters (once famous) but always as the actors?
Was Ludwig good due to the actors being good actors? Or just good casting of actors? Ludwig chap just seemed to be that man David Mitchell -how he'd be if he was suddenly made to be a detective!

I think, to a degree, being famous makes good actors bad. By which i mean they get cast as part X which is a big hit. Others then want to cast them in things very similar to part X because "look how popular it was". They say yes to more part X roles because it's what they're being offered/think people like them in. And a previously rounded actor just becomes someone who repeatedly does part X roles!

They're titillating us with this aren't they!!

Some of the people mentioned on here are great actors imo, Hanks (great in Captain Phillips), Dench, Coleman, Streep even Tennant. I agree that there is a lot more to it as the director has so much influence.
I agree Daniel Radcliffe is appalling and when I first saw HP, I wondered how on earth he got the part. Just looked it up and his parents being involved, their profession and friendships have now made it make sense. So much nepotism in the industry.