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Actors whose career crashed and burned after a hit

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ArjanN

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Fry8 said:
2007 Rush Hour 3

2001 Rush Hour 2

1998 Rush Hour

lol. Only three movies of the same franchise in 10 years. What a lazy bastard. :p

He directed 'Trust'. It was a pretty decent movie, I liked it.
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In the case of Chris Tucker I think it's more likely that those movies made him rich and he's fine with not having to work for a living anymore.

I think that's a different situation than some of these actors that only had one hit that made them famous, but that they didn't necessarily made a ton of money on (or they blew it all) and then spent the rest of their career getting by by doing shitty roles.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill said:
I just watched the first episode of 'Veep', Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new series on HBO. Quite liked it. She's 51 and still so fucking hot. I mean, she's more attractive now then she ever was on Seinfeld.
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Haha, man, exactly what I was thinking when watching it last night. She's fine as hell.

I feel like this happens a lot with TV actors. Playing a character for years and years makes it really hard for anyone to see them in a different role.

Just finished watching The Sopranos, and I really wish some of these guys did more stuff. Or at least, stuff where they had more major roles. Michael Imperioli was so brilliant throughout the show, but I haven't seen him in anything else lately. James Gandolfini is also criminally underused (though I know he's directed some documentaries, so maybe he just isn't into acting as much these days). Clearly a gifted actor that I'd love to see more of.
 
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Discotheque

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Fjordson said:
Haha, man, exactly what I was thinking when watching it last night. She's fine as hell.

I feel like this happens a lot with TV actors. Playing a character for years and years makes it really hard for anyone to see them in a different role.

Just finished watching The Sopranos, and I really wish some of these guys did more stuff. Or at least, stuff where they had more major roles. Michael Imperioli was so brilliant throughout the show, but I haven't seen him in anything else lately. James Gandolfini is also criminally underused (though I know he's directed some documentaries, so maybe he just isn't into acting as much these days). Clearly a gifted actor that I'd love to see more of.
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get hype

Gandolfini's by far my favorite TV actor of all time.
 
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Black Mamba

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smurfx said:
jonathan taylor thomas
james van der beek
pretty much everybody on saved by the bell
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Mario Lopez is still really big. He has one of those celeb gossip shows, no?

And Zach did has/had a TV show on TNT where he's lawyer? And did some other stuff too, I think.


Some people seem to be listing people who had a few hits then disappeared. I thought this was going to be about 1 hit then nothing.

Imperioli had that Detroit cop show last year on...I want to say ABC. Now he does tequila commercials.
 
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Guerrillas in the Mist

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The great thing about Vin Diesel's rebound is that he's using all of that newly found influence to get an R-rated Riddick movie made.

I was going to say David Duchovny, but he's been that Californication for a while, yeah? Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson gets plenty of work while trying to pass herself off as English.
 
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FelixOrion said:
Judge Doom, then Doc, then nothing really. Which is sad because I loved Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, but he really had nothing after that.
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For one thing you've got the order wrong, BTTF was before Roger Rabbit. He was also Uncle Fester in the Addams Family Movies, and became a kids movie staple. Look at his IMDB, he made several high profile films a year until like 2000.
 
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Black Mamba said:
Mario Lopez is still really big. He has one of those celeb gossip shows, no?

And Zach did has/had a TV show on TNT where he's lawyer? And did some other stuff too, I think.


Some people seem to be listing people who had a few hits then disappeared. I thought this was going to be about 1 hit then nothing.

Imperioli had that Detroit cop show last year on...I want to say ABC. Now he does tequila commercials.
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Not to mention that Tiffany Theisen (she dropped the Amber) is on "White Collar" these days
 
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Fjordson

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Black Mamba said:
Imperioli had that Detroit cop show last year on...I want to say ABC. Now he does tequila commercials.
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Haha, yeah. I kinda like those, if not just for him. They're on all the time.

And yeah he was a detective on that show I believe, but it's already been canceled =[
 
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Loofy said:
Chris Tucker only does a movie when hes broke.

Also might be a little too early to judge. But guaranteed daniel radcliffe wont get much work.
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Radcliffe has stage work and smartly decided to do other projects whilst doing Potter that began to separate himself from that role. He'll always have something to fall back on.
 
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Mena Suvari and Wes Bentley.

I thought they'd be big after "American Beauty" but they kinda floundered their career. Shame, since they both were talented young actors. Bentley recently tries to do a comeback though by starring in "The Hunger Games" but it'd take a film that showcase his character to do a proper one.
 
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I always think its a shame when TV actors don't get lots of movie roles. Idris Elba and Dominic West done well out of The Wire, but Michael K Williams is severely underused, not to mention the people who played Avon, Bubbles, Carver...

I forgot Carver was in Starship Troopers and watched it the other day, he's actually got quite a big part!!
 
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GDGF

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Replicant said:
Mena Suvari and Wes Bentley.

I thought they'd be big after "American Beauty" but they kinda floundered their career. Shame, since they both were talented young actors. Bentley recently tries to do a comeback though by starring in "The Hunger Games" but it'd take a film that showcase his character to do a proper one.
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Wes Bentley should have been huge.
 
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Replicant said:
Mena Suvari and Wes Bentley.

I thought they'd be big after "American Beauty" but they kinda floundered their career. Shame, since they both were talented young actors. Bentley recently tries to do a comeback though by starring in "The Hunger Games" but it'd take a film that showcase his character to do a proper one.
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I have no idea who Mena Suvari is but she has sweet bikini bod:
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Ugly tat tho.
 
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Costanzas boss(the funny one that never gave a shit) shot himself in the face, survived and made a 911 call. This call was released and he said that he shat his pants. Not making this up.
 
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SUPER DESTROYMAN said:
well, Joaquin Phoenix did that whole stunt with Casey Affleck, or something, which I thought really crashed his career.
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His career didn't 'crash.; He did an experiment and showed everyone you don't need to be a pretentious prick to be in Hollywood, even if you are one of the 5 best actors in the industry.

He is going to co-star in a movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman, another dude who is easily top 5 and isn't a prick, in The Master. It will probably release this year.
 
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The Outsider said:
Good riddance. Dude must have the best agent ever to get him so many damn roles these past few years.
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Before Avatar, I saw him in Gettin' Square, which he did a pretty good job in. Dude is a decent actor, but outside of Avatar (which was decent, if a bit unoriginal) every big vehicle he got a starring role in was a turd.
 
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I see David Schwimmer in Chicago, not everyday or anything, but once in a while. I think he's invovled in the theatre scene here.

Which, I mean, why not? He made his money and now he's working on his craft/passion.
 
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dejay

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KennyLinder said:
He was in Avatar?
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Sam Worthington, not Frankie Muniz.

ChiTownBuffalo said:
I see David Schwimmer in Chicago, not everyday or anything, but once in a while. I think he's invovled in the theatre scene here.

Which, I mean, why not? He made his money and now he's working on his craft/passion.
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He's always seemed to have his shit together and had fun doing it and seemed to diversify his skill base the most. He started directing during Friends I believe. I think he's enjoying his career. Hell, all of them were earning 1million an episode for the last two seasons of Friends - I'll never feel sorry for them and their "failed" careers.
 
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Thora Birch.

Child Star, American Beauty and Ghost World, then boom career death. Getting too thin, blonde hair + nutty parents didn't help.
 
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Alrus

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I wouldn't say Jennifer Aniston's career crashed to be honest... Outside of Wanderlust all her recent movie (whether they were turds or not) did pretty decently and she still gets cast regularly...
 
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Cox is the most succesful Friend imo.

She has the Scream-franchise to back her up.

Fucking ey.

Best horror trilogy. <3
 
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zoleristec said:
Cuba Gooding Jr. hasn't really done anything of note after winning that oscar.
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first guy i thought of as soon as I saw the thread title. I did like what dreams may come, but yeah after that he got stuck making shitty direct-to-dvd kids movies. baffling, really.
 
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