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

No doubt they’ve all been said a million times, but:
Megan Fox
Hayden Christensen
Winona Ryder

Tom Cruise played very different roles in Born on the Fourth of July, Collateral, and Tropic Thunder 🙂

Again, it isn't about what his characters look like or how good the makeup department is for a particular film. It's about a lack of acting range, a lack of versatility, and an inability to express emotional nuance IMO.

Andi mcdowel
Emma Watson

I like Sean Bean but he plays Sean Bean in everything he does

Michelle Keegan.
very pretty, but I’m just not convinced by any of her characters.

Michelle Dockery - no facial expression at all beyond the odd raised eyebrow (learned at The Sir Roger Moore Acting Academy), and that fake deep voice she puts on in Downton Abbey left no room for any modulation or emotion at all.

Dan Stevens was absolutely rotten in Downton too. His walking stick outshone him in the few episodes it was required, and totally deserved a Best Supporting Actor nod at the BAFTAs in every single way.

Kristen Stewart’s repertoire is entirely composed of mouth breathing and blinking.

Nicole Kidman seems to believe that whispering is a substitute for acting. She’s another one who can’t ever keep her gob closed.

Agree with everyone who’s mentioned the Harry Potter trifecta of tripe. Mind you, I’ve only ever seen the first one, as I couldn’t be bothered to waste the time to see if they improved as they grew older.

Kevin Costner - all the charisma and screen presence of a shoe.

Orlando Bloom’s pointy ear prosthetics carried him through Lord of the Rings and unbelievably, it’s still his best role.

Keira Knightley is easy on the eye, but has the acting ability of a deckchair. She always just shows her teeth for any direction in the script, and in doing so, resembles a Yorkshire Terrier thinking about biting you.

Nicolas “The Bees” Cage.

Will Ferrell thinks he’s waaaaaay funnier than he actually is.

But for the absolute pinnacle of crapness, it has to be Brigitte Neilson in Red Sonja. A performance so bad, she made Arnie look like F. Murray Abraham. I still watch it every time it’s on, mind.

Michelle Dockery - no facial expression at all beyond the odd raised eyebrow (learned at The Sir Roger Moore Acting Academy), and that fake deep voice she puts on in Downton Abbey left no room for any modulation or emotion at all.

Dan Stevens was absolutely rotten in Downton too. His walking stick outshone him in the few episodes it was required, and totally deserved a Best Supporting Actor nod at the BAFTAs in every single way.

I mentioned Michelle Dockery above. Her snooty aloofness kind of worked as Lady Glary, but she's been absolutely hopeless in anything else.

Dan Stevens thought he was going to make it big in Hollywood after giving up the Cousin Matthew role just when his son and heir was born. It didn't quite work out that way however.

then dies anyway

Thank you @Isittimeformynapyet . I really appreciate your message. Yes, Flowers was brilliant but I can see that some people just wouldn't get it. The point was that OC was great in it, whether it was "nonsense" or not (which it wasn't, in my opinion).

I like Helena Bonham Carter but she always plays herself and it's hard to forget it's HBC.

Oh he is dreadful. He is one of those "plays the same character in every film" people. See also: Jennifer Aniston

Hugh Grant

A lot of hollywood stars can’t and don’t act. They just look pretty and are themselves in whatever role they are in.
Compare someone like Tom Cruise to Gary Oldman. No contest.

Well there is literally zero acting in anything he does, so you're kind of right.

He is more wooden than a woodshed, made of wood, filled to the brim.... With wood.

Dh has the Darkest hour on. Gary Oldman is one of the greats.

I agree with Keira Knightley and Nicole Kidman.

I’ll raise you with Emma Watson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Craig and Eddie Redmayne.

I've just rewatched Andi McDowell in the Four Weddings film, as I remembered the 'is it still raining?' terrible line, but in fact, she's a terrible actress in the whole thing. She is trying to look mysterious but comes over very oddly and not attractive at all, her line delivery is painful and makes Hugh Grant look fantastic at a very early point in his career. Honestly, it's worse than I remember.

The thing about Andi McDowell is I thought she was awful for years too from 4 weddings but I saw her in Maid, the Netflix series recently and she was amazing. Really convincing. So now I'm confused

Andi McDowell was also brilliant in Sex Lies and Videotape.

Andi McDowell is a SHOCKING actress, I agree.
Her lines were actually dubbed over by Glenn Close in "Greystoke" because she was so bad, in post production they realised just how bad she was and couldn't release the movie because of it without dubbing her. She could not do a passable accent apparently.

And this in in a film about TARZAN.

This. The Harry and Ginny scenes were painful to watch! Zero chemistry. I really hope the casting for the HP series is better.

I LOVE that movie. She's brilliant in it.

I've not seen her in much but honestly everything else I have seen her in she's been fine. What hasn't helper her is stilted dialogue "Is it raining, I hadn't noticed!" URGH. Just URGH,

Owen ‘wow’ Wilson

Pre About a Boy I might have agreed with you but he's just brilliant nowadays.

Tom Cruise charcters are different but are hypermasculine. I think he is a genuinely good "lead" but unlike lots of leads he is able to pull off extremly narcissistic characters into sympatheic sometimes even genuinly likeable people i.e. Collateral, Jerry Magurie etc... I enjoy watching films with him especially if the writing is good.

There are alot of actors that are considered great that have found their niche i.e. Robert De Niro, Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio and TC definately gives them a run for their money. Even though Jack Nicholson stole the film in A Few Good Men, he was expertly set up in that scene by TC.