Actors/Actresses who ruined their careers with a single move.

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Jan Michael Vincent? Dude was supposed to be the highest paid TV actor during Airwolf, but then turned out to be difficult due to alcohol and drugs.
 
JLynn said:
Guess what? People can make choices on their ailments. Dentists throughout Europe told Freddie Mercury they can perfectly remove his overbite. He refused. Doctors in NYC found cancer forming in Bob Marley's toe and told him he had a greater chance of survival from cancer if he had the toe amputated. He refused. Your view on Whittaker's refusal to treat his ailment is straight up petty.
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I'm petty as fuck yo. *shrug*

vern said:
Ghost Dog is the shit.

What's the Anthony Mackie movie?

Edit: Ghost Dog OT if anyone wants to come and join us with taste.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1213593&page=100000
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Repentance. Has that fuckboy Mackie, Mike Epps, Whitaker, and sadly Sanaa Lathan
 
DarkJediKnight said:
Josh Hartnett - Star was on the rise after Blackhawk Down, Pearl Harbor. Slated to become Batman in Nolan's trilogy only to act like an ass and get blacklisted by every director.
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It wasn't Batman, it was Brandon Routh's Superman - which he turned down. He wasn't the ass, his agent was. And after that incident he wasn't blacklisted by directors, he took a break from acting.


Technically, Rick Moranis ruined his own career.

But I don't think anyone can fault him for leaving acting to take care of his children after his wife died.
 
JLynn said:
Guess what? People can make choices on their ailments. Dentists throughout Europe told Freddie Mercury they can perfectly remove his overbite. He refused. Doctors in NYC found cancer forming in Bob Marley's toe and told him he had a greater chance of survival from cancer if he had the toe amputated. He refused. Your view on Whittaker's refusal to treat his ailment is straight up petty.
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Petty and highly illogical.

There has to be some other reason why that poster hates him so much. Calling him out for his lazy eye is disgraceful.
 
Adcon said:
Anyone seen Aaron Erkhart lately?
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I kinda agree that Eckhart's career as a leading man stalled big time, but I don't think there was any real public thing that happened that could be traced as the cause, so I figure it's just a matter of him having a terrible agent in the wake of the praise he got for TDK.
 
SpookyFries said:
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He was in a ton of great films in the 90s. Seems like after this mess he played either cameo roles or stared in low budget movies. He is only recently coming back with The People vs OJ Simpson
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Legit, when I was younger I used to confuse him and Terrence Howard for some reason.
 
Remember Leelee Sobieski and Alicia Silverstone guys?

Actually I don't know what happened with Sobieski carrer, but the last AAA movie of Silverstone was Batman & Robin
 
ScatheZombie said:
Technically, Rick Moranis ruined his own career.

But I don't think anyone can fault him for leaving acting to take care of his children after his wife died.
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Moranis doesn't really belong in this thread imo. If he stayed acting, he'd probably still be getting somewhat regular work even now. And I'm sure he'd be able to get work if he ever wants to return.
 
Revolver said:
I wish I could forget about it. Linda Fiorentino went from the Last Seduction to that? Such a poor decision.
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Last time I think I saw her in anything was Dogma where she was apparently difficult to work with, so much so that Smith wished he cast Janeane Garofalo when Alanis Morissette couldn't do it, it seems she got dropped from MIB II as well which seeing how that turned out might've been a blessing.

GunBR said:
Remember Leelee Sobieski and Alicia Silverstone guys?

Actually I don't know what happened with Sobieski carrer, but the last AAA movie of Silverstone was Batman & Robin
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I had a thing for Leelee Sobieski back in the day but yeah she had a few hit movies in the 90s, especially with Deep Impact but then just a string of box office and critical failures in the 2000s that I don't think she recovered from. According to her Wiki she's more interested in raising her kids now but I'd wager Hollywood hasn't really been knocking down her door. Last thing I saw her in was The Glass House, I guess she was in The Wicker Man remake that flopped and a direct to video movie with Pacino but I never saw either.

Last thing I remember seeing Silverstone in was Blast from the Past which coincidentally also starred Brendan Frasier.
 
Elizabeth Berkley went from a children's daytime sitcom to headlining a major motion picture. That's like being promoted from dishwasher to head chef in 2 weeks. Signing on for Showgirls was a no-brainer. Did it ruin her career? Of course not.

In the post Showgirls years she has arguably done as well or better than anyone else that was on Saved By The Bell (none of whom ever headlined a film, mind you). Showgirls is now something of a cult classic, so her place in film history has been pretty well cemented for decades to come. Meanwhile every other Saved By The Bell actor will be forgotten when millennials die off.
 
Not sure if it counts or if even one bad move, but feel like Emile Hirsch was primed for big things and don't really see him in much these days.
 
border said:
Elizabeth Berkley went from a children's daytime sitcom to headlining a major motion picture. That's like being promoted from dishwasher to head chef in 2 weeks. Signing on for Showgirls was a no-brainer. Did it ruin her career? Of course not.

In the post Showgirls years she has arguably done as well or better than anyone else that was on Saved By The Bell (none of whom ever headlined a film, mind you). Showgirls is now something of a cult classic, so her place in film history has been pretty well cemented for decades to come. Meanwhile every other Saved By The Bell actor will be forgotten when millennials die off.
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I agree that 'Showgirls' was the best thing that could've happened to her. She's a very shitty actress, and that movie did hit cult status which is more than most shitty actors can claim.

Mark-Paul Gosselar still has a pretty decent career, and he's still handsome as hell. Mario Lopez has done pretty well for himself. He'll probably still be hosting televised New Years Eve parties in 20 years. Either way, they've both done better than Berkley. Both of them have more talent than her though. It has nothing to do with 'Showgirls'.
 
The Beard said:
Mark-Paul Gosselar still has a pretty decent career, and he's still handsome as hell. Mario Lopez has done pretty well for himself. He'll probably still be hosting televised New Years Eve parties in 20 years. Either way, they've both done better than Berkley. Both of them have more talent than her though. It has nothing to do with 'Showgirls'.
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I suppose it depends on how you choose to rate success, whether it's in terms of money, frequency of work, or prestige. Gosselar has more regular, recurring roles on TV shows. But has he ever been in an Oliver Stone or Woody Allen movie? Berkley has done both. Mario Lopez has a regular gig with Extra that probably pays very well, but it's not even acting so I think it's a difficult comparison.
 
What happened to Megan Fox? She had a hot career (and I really liked her in Jennifer's Body) then mostly vanished for a while. She's in the TMNT movies now, I guess, but that's after 3 years of almost nothing.
 
Ridley327 said:
I kinda agree that Eckhart's career as a leading man stalled big time, but I don't think there was any real public thing that happened that could be traced as the cause, so I figure it's just a matter of him having a terrible agent in the wake of the praise he got for TDK.
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Um, everyone forgetting the truly appalling Frankenstein movie he was in that bombed horribly and was met with horrendous critical reception? I'd say that more than anything is why we haven't seen him in a while. When your first film with you as the main lead flops Hollywood generally doesn't give you a second chance.

See also Kit Harrington, Taylor Lautner etc.
 
Jobbs said:
What happened to Megan Fox? She had a hot career (and I really liked her in Jennifer's Body) then mostly vanished for a while. She's in the TMNT movies now, I guess, but that's after 3 years of almost nothing.
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She's fine, her really brief absence was just a bad combo of getting kicked off the 3rd Transformers movie and being pregnant. If she had done Dark of the Moon, that gap wouldn't have been as noticable. Taking a role on New Girl is probably so she can keep normal hours and be close to her family.
 
rothgar said:
Jan Michael Vincent? Dude was supposed to be the highest paid TV actor during Airwolf, but then turned out to be difficult due to alcohol and drugs.
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If you watch any more recent interviews with him, it's clear drug abuse destroyed him. It almost appears he has brain damage, unless there is another reason I'm not aware of.
 
Cepheus said:
Vivica A. Fox went from Kill Bill to Sharknado 2 to Cool Cat Saves the Kids.
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You'd have to go back further than that. She went from Independence Day to Batman & Robin.

But she's been consistently employed for her entire career. She's always just been more of a B-movie actor. She's like the female Casper Van Dien, showing up in a real movie every decade or so to remind people that she exists.
 
border said:
Elizabeth Berkley went from a children's daytime sitcom to headlining a major motion picture. That's like being promoted from dishwasher to head chef in 2 weeks. Signing on for Showgirls was a no-brainer. Did it ruin her career? Of course not.

In the post Showgirls years she has arguably done as well or better than anyone else that was on Saved By The Bell (none of whom ever headlined a film, mind you). Showgirls is now something of a cult classic, so her place in film history has been pretty well cemented for decades to come. Meanwhile every other Saved By The Bell actor will be forgotten when millennials die off.
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I would say Mark-Paul Gosselaar has a more solid career than her. Haven't seen it but I have heard he was pretty good in Pitch.
 
Maledict said:
Um, everyone forgetting the truly appalling Frankenstein movie he was in that bombed horribly and was met with horrendous critical reception? I'd say that more than anything is why we haven't seen him in a while. When your first film with you as the main lead flops Hollywood generally doesn't give you a second chance.

See also Kit Harrington, Taylor Lautner etc.
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I'm not, but he wasn't racking up great supporting roles after TDK, either.
 
Didn't Gabourey Sidibe sabotage her career by not wanting to do press tours, and talking shit about production in public? I think even Samuel L. Jackson told her to fall in line and do her job.
 
Grizzlyjin said:
Didn't Hartnett willingly decided he wasn't interested in being a part of the Hollywood system anymore? Or was that just ex post facto spin on his part?

My answer would be...



Katherine Heigl. She is a case study in how to fuck over your own career. She left Grey's Anatomy, which made her a household name, shit talking it on her way out. Then she just signed up for a string of bland forgetable rom-coms. Nothing wrong with that, but you gotta diversify your resume if you're going to survive. Being the "It Girl/Guy" in Rom Coms is a short term game. By the time she wanted to move on to something else, she had the reputation of being hard to work with. Tried to come back to TV and has flopped there, and might flop again next year. If she had just left on better terms, I think more projects would have been willing to "deal" with her post 2010.
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That would be my choice too. She was the next big thing with GA and Knocked Up. I remember being so stunned at how she shit talked the very premise of Knocked Up, as if it were some movie she randomly saw. As opposed to, you know, a movie she chose to make.

I've always felt like she's a lesser version of Elizabeth Banks anyway. They have a similar profile and fit the same basic demographic, but Banks is much funnier, warmer, and more talented.

Edit: I seem to recall that Mo'Nique was supposedly blacklisted for not kissing ass during awards season.
 
Maledict said:
Um, everyone forgetting the truly appalling Frankenstein movie he was in that bombed horribly and was met with horrendous critical reception? I'd say that more than anything is why we haven't seen him in a while. When your first film with you as the main lead flops Hollywood generally doesn't give you a second chance.

See also Kit Harrington, Taylor Lautner etc.
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I wouldnt write Kit Harrington off. He is still starring as the main hero in the biggest major blockbuster series in HBO's history. Despite that he starred in Spooks which opened to decent reviews. That Pompei movie was ass but he's young and has "the look" imo.

Lautner is just eugh. He will never go anywhere.

My biggest mystery is why Lost actors never quite achieved big time except Evangeline Lilly. Naveen Andrews already had a decent career. But what about Jack, Sawyer and Charlie? Jack was in Bone Tomahawk which was a decent effort and that was it.
 
RustyNails said:
I wouldnt write Kit Harrington off. He is still starring as the main hero in the biggest major blockbuster series in HBO's history. Despite that he starred in Spooks which opened to decent reviews. That Pompei movie was ass but he's young and has "the look" imo.

Lautner is just eugh. He will never go anywhere.

My biggest mystery is why Lost actors never quite achieved big time except Evangeline Lilly. Naveen Andrews already had a decent career. But what about Jack, Sawyer and Charlie? Jack was in Bone Tomahawk which was a decent effort and that was it.
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Sawyer got jobbed on Ghost Protocol :( and his tv show didn't last very long at all.
 
Maledict said:
Um, everyone forgetting the truly appalling Frankenstein movie he was in that bombed horribly and was met with horrendous critical reception? I'd say that more than anything is why we haven't seen him in a while. When your first film with you as the main lead flops Hollywood generally doesn't give you a second chance.
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If you had asked me who starred in I, Frankenstein, I would have said Thomas Jane.
 
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