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

That's her name!
I knew it was helen someone-i asked dp if she played rosie or Sophie and he didn't have a clue
I'm too lazy to check!lol
Thank you

Gwyneth Strong was Cassandra.

Agreed she's not great.

Emma Watson is terrible even in the TV perfume ads. (Gucci? Who knows.)

Anne Hathaway. This brings us into a whole new category of "Actors we cannot criticise because they did something extreme for a rôle."

Nicolas Cage is Francis Coppola's nephew which probably helps explain his success

Just finished Jackal on tv-Eddie Redmayne makes the unbelievable very watchable but the actress who played Bianca was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Completely wooden and has open mouthed expression for everything. We are watching Shetland at the same time and the actress who plays Tosh is on a different level-so noticeable when watching side by side.

David Tennant. If he hadn’t been in Doctor Who, he would be on the tills in Lidl by now.

He only has two expressions and his voice is monotonous; recently he seems to have gone a bit mad, so he has added staring eyes to the repertoire.

Owen Wilson. Every performance is just toe-curling.

She was in a film (Colonia was the name, I think) with the amazing Daniel Brühl, and she managed to spoil that too.

Agreed. How on earth have they got away with it without everyone noticing?

Really? He’s great in serious performances like The Hunt for Red October and Glengarry Glen Ross, but also excels in comic roles like 30 Rock.

Clive Owen. Shocking. To the extent I can’t really watch anything he’s in because he drags down the averages so badly.

I’m sure he’s a lovely guy, but on screen he’s always just a massive plank of wood in an early 90s overcoat.

Emma Watson
Sean Connery
Michelle Keegan

Bringing it closer to home (I am going to get shot for this, I am sure) but Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith Bynoe from Ghosts. Both wooden as wooden can be, though Kiell is better. To be honest, I didn't get the love for that series in general. Watched a couple of episodes and thought the 'comedy' was very dated (and not in the deliberate, send-up way of Benidorm), the script as a whole was dire.

I totally can’t watch Hugh Grant-professional player of upper class twits and Sean Bean - professional Yorkshire man
and I’m from Yorkshire !.

Michelle Keegan - couldn't remember her name, and also Suranne Jones.

Leif Schreiber, he gives me the heebie jeebies
Daniel Radcliff, no range whatsoever
Rami Malek,
Kevin Costner

Yes, she is.Tyrannosaur, watched it a couple of times, because it was so good.Haven’t seen Flowers, will look into streaming it and definitely watch.I think it is harder for mature actresses always been the case and it just comes down to ageism.

Agree. The hate she got for the Love Actually character is absurd. She didn’t write the script!

Not saying she’s the world’s best actress but she fitted in well Bend It Like Beckham and the Pirates of The Caribbean films. I can’t imagine anyone else in them.

There are far worse actors than Keira for sure. She has an idiosyncratic jaw and smile and I think people are irritated by it and think it’s exaggerated, but that’s just how her face actually is. I don’t mind her facial expressions so I don’t find her to be terrible.

He has made something out of v.little and an example of life gives you lemons, make lemonade

He starred in one where he was buried alive (called ‘Buried’) and the majority of the film was just him in a coffin. He was quite good in that, but there wasn’t much opportunity for joking.

I’ve never seen Samuel L Jackson play anything other than Samuel L Jackson.

😂

But HG has been totally brilliant in more recent stuff like The Gentlemen, where he’s playing against type. Agree the OG version - witless, stuttering upper class idiot - was insufferable in everything.

Me too. I said that to my niece earlier today