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Who are the least talented actors who are successful?

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WokeKarenHereAskMeAboutStuff · 14/12/2024 17:20

In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

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localnotail · 14/12/2024 18:13

Keira Knightly
Jude Law
Will Ferrell - also an unfunny comedian

Bakedpotatoes · 14/12/2024 18:13

Parratha · 14/12/2024 17:38

Adeel Akhtar. I didn't know his name but just googled him as I saw him in Black Doves recently. Every time he comes on the screen I'm " oh no...not him"

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/20/bafta-winner-adeel-akhtar-interview

Oh I really like him! He's just so adorable.

TotHappy · 14/12/2024 18:14

WinterColdBrrrr · 14/12/2024 17:35

Nic Cage i really struggle with. He comes across really wooden.

Wash your mouth out

FlabbergastedByTheGorgons · 14/12/2024 18:14

Phase2 · 14/12/2024 18:11

Olivia Coleman
Sarah Lancashire
David Tennant (now)

I don't watch anything they are headlining. Got through Black Doves as SL was minimal in it.

What?!

KnopkaPixie · 14/12/2024 18:14

Meghan Markle. She takes it one step further. She can't even play Meghan Markle. And not even in a film.

She can't do Meghan Markle with any degree of reliability on a day to day basis and nowhere near a movie studio.

TwinklyMintHelper · 14/12/2024 18:14

Michael LeVell - plays Kevin Webster in ‘Coronation Street’. Appalling actor.

Bruisername · 14/12/2024 18:15

nicolas cage was pretty good in the film he played himself

adam sandler/ryan Reynolds/jason statham just play the same character

dh Loves a Jason statham film though because it’s easy watching and he enjoys seeing what random name the film will have and how the SL is tweaked

SmudgeButt · 14/12/2024 18:16

Ghostofallnightmares · 14/12/2024 17:26

Martin Freeman

No Martin Freeman was very good in an Aussie movie about people becoming zombies. In fact he had being a zombie completely nailed. The more of a zombie he became the move believable he was!!

CentrifugalBumblePuppy · 14/12/2024 18:18

Gwyneth Paltrow.

(Spoiler alert) When Brad Pitt opened the box in Se7en, I was glad it was her decapitated head in there.

And I was relieved when she died in the first 20 minutes of Contagion, because I couldn’t have stuck the entire film if she was in it for longer than that.

She has one character, and that’s Gwyneth Paltrow.

I don’t know why I have such a visceral reaction to her. And her Goop nonsense (jade eggs and Noni massage bollocks) just makes it a thousand times worse.

I adore her Mum Blythe Danner, who has more talent in her little toenail than her daughter has in her entire body.

The antiquated debutante ball her daughter attended (in a reportedly £100k dress and muscled in to the photoshoot of others) just shows how utterly out of touch with reality her mother & father are. But then, she was brought up by a pair who unironically used the phrase Conscious Uncoupling’ in a press release.

And vaginal steaming? As Jim Royale would say, “Vaginal steaming my arse.”

Radionowhere · 14/12/2024 18:20

KnopkaPixie · 14/12/2024 18:14

Meghan Markle. She takes it one step further. She can't even play Meghan Markle. And not even in a film.

She can't do Meghan Markle with any degree of reliability on a day to day basis and nowhere near a movie studio.

This made me laugh 😂

W0tnow · 14/12/2024 18:22

Alec Baldwin, hands down! The most deadpan actor ever!

ItOnlyTakesTwoMinutes · 14/12/2024 18:23

labtest57 · 14/12/2024 17:23

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson

So bad

LaurieFairyCake · 14/12/2024 18:23

Keira Knightly was brilliant in Black Doves, really funny with great comic timing

Keanu Reeves is a great actor, love watching him in films. He always seems really committed to the roles, he's fantastic in action movies

W0tnow · 14/12/2024 18:23

SmudgeButt · 14/12/2024 18:16

No Martin Freeman was very good in an Aussie movie about people becoming zombies. In fact he had being a zombie completely nailed. The more of a zombie he became the move believable he was!!

I saw that! Yes, he was great.

@LaurieFairyCake I wasn’t sure about Black doves. But after the first couple of episodes they managed to get the balance between black comedy and thriller just right. I adored the two female assassins! And I loved that none of the main parts were white, straight blokes.

ProfessionalPirate · 14/12/2024 18:24

WokeKarenHereAskMeAboutStuff · 14/12/2024 17:20

In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

Ah no I love Dwayne Johnson! Great comic timing. Agree more or less with the rest. Also Jason Statham.

QuestionableMouse · 14/12/2024 18:24

david boreanaz... Just been watching SEAL and he has this constipated look on his face 75% of the time.

Phase2 · 14/12/2024 18:24

Sorry @FlabbergastedByTheGorgons I can't stand any of them. Olivia is just all bustly mumsy huffy and Sarah is all salt of the earth plain speaking damaged one and David just is David. Saw him live and we almost left at the interval

LaurieFairyCake · 14/12/2024 18:24

Martin Freeman is great in Fargo and Sherlock, I'm shocked anyone thinks he's not good

ItOnlyTakesTwoMinutes · 14/12/2024 18:24

WinterColdBrrrr · 14/12/2024 17:38

I think some child actors are just meant to stay child actors.

They were the shittest child actors ever. Hopefully they’ve had a lot of lessons and got slightly better. Couldn’t have got worse.

Hotafternoon · 14/12/2024 18:25

Flyylf · 14/12/2024 17:36

Eddie redmayne…no matter what character they’re all the same and he just pouts

I've just finished watching Day of the Jackal and found him rather unconvincing as the assassin. Yes, he does seem to pout rather a lot.

JohnMcClanesVest · 14/12/2024 18:25

I was never a big fan of Heath Ledger

Howmanycatsistoomany · 14/12/2024 18:27

Brad Pitt.

Arthurnewyorkcity · 14/12/2024 18:27

Jude law
Orlando Bloom
Tom Holland - but love him regardless

LostTheMarble · 14/12/2024 18:27

labtest57 · 14/12/2024 17:23

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson

Yes! Honestly I do not get the love for the HP films, they are both dire! Especially Daniel Radcliffe - and I do feel it’s bad saying someone is bad at their job but I’ve tried other films he’s in, there is no improvement. They’re so bad in Harry Potter they make the classic British actors they share scenes with seem hammy.

BonaidMhoir · 14/12/2024 18:28

Hippobot · 14/12/2024 18:01

Are you joking? She's one of the best ever. Try Tyrannosaur or Flowers.

Loved Flowers, and Tyrannosaur is absolutely devastating - incredible film.

Was surprised to find Gerard Butler’s last film was quite decent but other than that his career defies logic and I wish he’d stop talking pish about how rough Paisley is. Ryan Reynolds rips my knitting

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