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

Snopes is interesting on the Tom Hanks rumours.
https://www.snopes.com/list/tom-hanks-summer-2023/

Emma Thompson -only got where she is because of being mates with Richard Curtis etc at Cambridgeshire

I can’t watch anything with Kiera knightly in - she is the same in everything and can’t open her mouth properly to speak.
obviously agree with Harry Potter three. At least Rupert Grint seems to have given up.

Emma Thompson is a nepo baby if you really want to go there (and Richard Curtis went to Oxford).

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Audrey Hepburn. Iconically beautiful, stylish, wonderful philanthropic work…wooden acting.

@Catsmere I did see Reds but I don't remember much about it. I will try and find Sleepers.
Thanks for the hint.

Jack Wild (Artful Dodger) would disagree. His double act with Ron Moody (Fagin) is one of the greatest combos in cinema history.

Hayley Mills another major British child star (and Walt Disney's favourite).

And Macauly Culkin? Love the first two Home Alone films, but he can barely act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JackWild

Agree that Olivia Colman is terrible. The same in every role, with the grimaces face and talking fast. How has she managed to get into so many roles?

She was appalling in Mary Poppins. One of the worst castings I've ever seen with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ruined something that should have been magical. Her accent was terrible.

Also Andie McDowell, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Nicola Watson for all the reasons given by PPs.

I knew this thread would be pages of posts about Daniel Radcliffe et al. You'd think the Harry Potter franchise was the sum total of decades of film making, They're just some films for kids.

Keira knightly is dreadful.

Oh definitely. She was so dull & not funny. They could have picked so many better actors for that role. Although I liked her in Cold Feet but that had elements of drama in to which she's more suited

Loved that film

Emma Watson is an awful actress. But she seems to have given up too, thankfully

I was a teenager when Love Actually came out and fell into the hype at the time..then I remember reading an article tearing it to absolute shreds for how misogynistic it was and it was like the scales fell off my eyes!!

As for Dwayne Johnson who keeps cropping up on here, I just absolutely love him. He is who he is, unapologetically and he plays his part. I laughed until I cried in No Pain No Gain. His comic timing was amazing, he was playing a reluctant criminal / recovering cocaine addict / born again Christian. He was the best thing in that film.
And I love how many of his roles often carry a strong Anti-Bullying / Don't be a Cunt message. He seems like a genuinely nice guy.

I think this is possibly an example of how direction can bring out different sides to an actor. I imagine there are some actors who need a lot of direction and really shine when it works well, but left to their own devices are a bit crap!

As some posters have pointed out, there are actors who aren't exactly bad, but are so entirely themselves all the time. Tom Cruise (with the exception of Born on the 4th of July.) Suranne Jones with her amazing range of rubber faced gurns. And, I hate to say it because I absolutely love her - Nicola Walker. She can't seem to ditch those uniquely Nicola Walker mannerisms. Those mannerisms might even be why I love her, but they're also extremely annoying!

I agree with someone upthread who said Melanie Griffith. If there are grades of wood in the bad acting hierarchy, she's MDF.

I will not hear a bad word about Martin Freeman. DP thinks he's terrible but I just love him. We will quite possibly come to blows over it🤣 He was fantastic in The Responder.

Dominic Cumberbatch -can't watch anything with him in

That would probably be because there isn't anything with Dominic Cumberbatch in it.

Is he Benedict Cumberbatch's brother or something?

Well most of us watch films or TV for entertainment, as a distraction or escape from the mundane and everyday; so we don’t want to see boring, ugly people on our screens. We could just get on the no. 5 bus to see that.

Actors need to have a bit of something to hold our attention, be it good looks, character or charisma. Kris Marshall has none of these, and is a shit actor too.

Not Reds - In The Red. Don't look for Reds, you'll end up finding the Warren Beatty film from 1981! 😄

Alun Armstrong was in it, too, and Rebecca Front and Richard Griffiths and Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry, among others. It was a glorious murder-political-satire-comedy.

Sleepers starred Warren Clarke and Nigel Havers and was made in the 90s. They're both available on DVD, don't know about online or streaming.

So where does her role in The King's Speech fit in?

Watch Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown and tell me if you really think that is the performance of an untalented actor.