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| Author: | Shack [ Sat Sep 28, 2019 4:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Popular actors who's career looked like it was going nowhere |
The opposite of "Once popular actors/actresses whose careers went nowhere" - who beat everyone's expectations This thread is inspired by Ray Romano who looks like he's on the rise as a legitimate actor (The Irishman, just announced new HBO Max series where he plays a reclusive con man with a sex robot, etc.) |
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| Author: | MadGez [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
He was also in the short lived Vinyl (Scorsese/Winter show) and Parenthood and still in the Get Shorty series. I'm still a big fan of ELR so good to see him doing well in both film and TV dramas these days. BTW - Welcome to Mooseport is still (sadly) Gene Hackman's last film. |
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| Author: | stuffp [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Cant believe he retired 15 years ago already, exactly with a 100 acting credits, he had a great career. |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
It's always weird seeing Chris Pratt pop up in an old movie as the asshole boyfriend or coworker. Like who remembers that he was in Wanted? |
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| Author: | Shack [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Bradley Cooper - I believe not much was expected of him when he was supporting actor on Alias as Garner's friend more than the hundreds of other hot person in a network show castings. He didn't even make enough of an impression to get will they or won't they with her'd. Then comedy character actor, then all around superstar Blake Lively - has broken out of the Gossip Girl expectations Michelle Williams - I do not know if on Dawson's Creek people saw a many time Oscar nominee type of talent. I'm guessing not. Jennifer Lawrence - she was on a TBS sitcom |
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| Author: | Chippy [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Yeah Cooper was in a bunch of smaller stuff, and played the asshole boyfriend etc etc etc. And then... broke out. |
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| Author: | GuybrushX McMurphy [ Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Leslie Nielsen and Morgan Freeman |
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| Author: | Shack [ Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Olivia Wilde as Marissa's bi fling had the most successful career of the OC actors (not counting 12 year old Shailene) |
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| Author: | Mister Ecks [ Sat Oct 12, 2019 2:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Shack wrote: Bradley Cooper - I believe not much was expected of him when he was supporting actor on Alias as Garner's friend more than the hundreds of other hot person in a network show castings. He didn't even make enough of an impression to get will they or won't they with her'd. Then comedy character actor, then all around superstar Definitely agree. He was the definition of "young hot actor with zero talent" on Alias. Then he was kind of funny in Wedding Crashers and it slowly progressed from there. |
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| Author: | Chippy [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
I don't think Paul Rudd's career was going nowhere... but he's far more popular now than anyone ever thought he would be. Obviously thanks to Marvel (mostly). |
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| Author: | Shack [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Magnus wrote: Cooper takes the crown here for guys for sure. Amy Syfried is my pick. She was the least known actress when Mean Girls came out and for the first few years just seemed like she’d just fizzle out. And then she does Mamma Mia and she gets a bunch of lead/co-lead roles in movies. She’s more active and relevant than her cast mates which is a shocking truth 15 years later. McAdams > Seyfried |
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| Author: | Chippy [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
She lives on a farm! |
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| Author: | Shack [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
Magnus wrote: Seyfried is more relevant cause she makes so many projects compared to McAdams. McAdams a bigger draw and star but Seyfried is just Objectively more prolific over the last 10 years. Also, McAdams was SUPPOSED to break out after mean girls. Seyfried wasn’t and yet is still one of the most consistent working actresses in Hollywood today. She’s been in 28 movies since Mamma Mia! and most of them have not been minor parts. She’s probably going to sneak her way into an Oscar nom one day and no one expected that. The fact that we’re still talking about Amanda Seyfried has a legitimate actress in 2019 is shocking. She was supposed To fizzle out by now. Seyfried has done well and I am personally a fan of Les Mis and Mamma Mia, but Rachel isn't Gwenyth Paltrow, she has actually made a lot of stuff the last 15 years Several blockbusters (2 Sherlock Holmes films, Doctor Strange, Wedding Crashers), and 40 mil opening Valentines film (The Vow) Oscar nominee and Best Picture winner in Spotlight One of the best modern Christmas movies (The Family Stone) Other solid films like Game Night and Red Eye, and lead role in Morning Glory A Terrence Malick film nobody saw (To the Wonder) Married multiple time travellers (Time Traveller's Wife/About Time) Made out with Rachel Weisz (Disobedience) True Detective S2 And the Notebook came out after Mean Girls so I'm counting it The only reason she wasn't Meg Ryan level star is nobody writes good romcom scripts anymore |
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| Author: | Chippy [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
McAdams has the potential to become a much bigger star than she is... but she doesn't seem to want to? Not sure why. |
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| Author: | Shack [ Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
It's mainly because Rachel is the #1 or romance or romcom actress of this generation, actually willing to make them and her taste in scripts doesn't suck, which in any other era up through the 90s would have been her the biggest actress, but both have been have been badly under-served. The success of A Star is Born, La La Land and Crazy Rich Asians shows what can happen if you have competent writers and directors make them. The lack of dramatic romance driven films other than low budget Nicholas Sparks movies is a joke, a huge portion of the movie going audience is obsessed with love and falling in love. There should be a movie like Passengers every year that's taking a home run swing at being the next Titanic/Gone with the Wind in case it happens, or a major musical romance like La La Land... the real Passengers wasn't even a flop despite being weird morally, it made 300 mil WW. |
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| Author: | Mau [ Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Popular actors who's career looked like it was going now |
The Rock? How the fuck did he go from a spin off the mummy to the highest paid actor in the world for two years in a row? |
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