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

I must forgive people for too much if I like them, as some names that I like keep popping up on here, like Emma W, Keanu and the Rock 😂

How dare you. He was the very best thing about Rivals. Although maybe that was the moustache doing the heavy lifting...

Nic Cage was astonishing in leaving Las Vegas and good in 8mm although both films are tricky to watch. Maybe he was better in the 90s!

I love The Rock, I actually think he has a lot of range. I mean of course he is mainly going to be cast in action films, due to his physique, but he's hilarious.
He was brilliant in the Jumanji films.

I think it also depends how old you are and when you first saw the actor - I think pp is right that some amazing actors have dialled in performances since recognition and if you never saw their early work you will think they are rubbish!

I know Robert De Niro can act - just most of the recent stuff I've seen him in he's been acting the part of Robert De Niro.

A few months ago I would have said Danny Dyer but he was superb in Rivals. He gave a very funny, sweet and poignant performance that I found rather moving. I won't be surprised if he's nominated for a Bafta.

I loved Ewan Macgregor in his early stuff, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave etc.
I watched whatever Star Wars film he is in for the first time recently, and said to DH, I thought Ewan Macgregor could act? He was terrible! What happened?

Thought it was Hugh Fearlessly- Eatsitall.

I agree about James MacAvoy, started great then went off the boil. I think it's something about the Hollywood blockbuster crap, same with Ewan McGregor. Simon Pegg I like but getting cast in massive blockbusters is a stretch. Thank even he wonders how that happened.

I agree, loved him in Rivals!

Bad script and direction?

I think he’s said publicly 2 + 3 were nightmares to act in because it’s all green screens

Sooo many come to mind 😬

Some that have been mentioned and I agree (and then some more,): Mark Whalberg, Kristen Stewart, Keira Knightley, Chaning Tatum, Zoe Kravitz, Dakota Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively........

The list could go on 🥴

I can't stand Emma Thompson. I have to own up that it is pure jealousy. She's got it all: she is super-talented: she is a great great actress. I would give her an Oscar for that brilliant moment in Love Actually when she discovers her husband didn't buy the present for her. Jeez, that really cuts you to the gut. She won an Oscar for her writing. She has a beautiful husband, and she is very very clever. And (in my opinion) beautiful. I hate her.

The ones who are well known always become full of themselves and that kind of spoils their artistry. Or perhaps it is that that fame blinds the rest of us to their humanity so they don't seem real anymore. I've always thought the luckiest actors are those who are character actors rather than A list stars. Character actors can have lifelong careers while the stars can lose their shine and status and be quickly replaced.

I also think that what actors and directors see in their fellow actors while filming doesn't always translate to the viewer. For example, everyone says how great Emily Blunt is, but I just can't see it.

Blake Lively. I just don’t get the obsession with her. She’s in everything and always plays the same hoarse, hair flipping character.

I think he's a really versatile actor actually. Seen him play a few really good different roles

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In reference to Bradley Pitts

At one point David Tennant was in just about everything. I don't think he is a bad actor I just don't like him a lot

I knew one of Gerard Butler's directors. They said "if you can, cast Gerard Butler, because he has so many fans who'll see him in ANYTHING... (pause) ...but don't give him too much dialogue. He's not good at talking.

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The chap you plays DC Sandy in Shetland. He's so wooden and overacts in every scene. It's like watching a really bad amateur play!

Yes and Tosh isn't much better

Tosh is bloody awful and she always pulls that same pained expression

This. Discovered Outlander in lockdown and thought Sam Heughan was brilliant in it. But everything else I have seen him in has been dire. And he seems to spend most of his time flogging booze these days. Whereas CB is going from strength to strength as an actress.

Yes to be fair he was but his dodgy wig and tache 😀

I could have definitely done with subtitles for him in The Revenant. “Mmm nunna hay, Glass”.