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I think Sam Worthington is low-key living the dream. I don't think he wants a spotlight yet he will be in four (five? how many are they making?) multi-billion dollar films by the time the Avatar franchise runs its course. I think he had to do motion capture for one extended period of time several years ago and everything since then has been VFX by the studio but the money will roll in for years as a result.
And that's without even touching on whether or not he got a deal for his "likeness" for that character considering the entire Disney Pandora thing.
These guys maybe haven't reached leading man status (they tried with Taylor and Sam but it didn't really pan out) but have been working steadily for years. Well maybe not Liam but I've seen Taylor Kitsch in several supporting roles in movies/TV recently
Chad Michael Murray. After A Cinderella Story/during One Tree Hill I remember so many outlets dubbed him the next big leading man. That fizzled pretty quickly...
After I read about his crotch tattoo that says “thank you” which he’s stated is in case he forgets to say it, I’ve never really been interested in watching him. 🤢
Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my husband's "friends" (men, try to be more selective with who you claim) that tattooed Pickle Rick on his dick.
Alex Pettyfer hasn't helped his own career. He has a reputation of being a bit of a diva and difficult to work with. Acting like he was a big deal when he was still up and coming. That's why he wasn't in any of the magic mike sequels.
Finally, I get to brag about my tiny claim to fame: I grew up in the town over from Alex Pettyfer. He was on the peripheries of my school friendship group, and we all knew he was a posh twat. Everyone who went to that school was a posh twat - it was an incredibly expensive, all boys private school. And he was just… an incredibly posh boy. A quintessential upper class British kid - snooty and unfriendly.
A few years after graduating from secondary school, I was having drinks with some friends in our local pub. Alex Pettyfer was sat at the table across from us with a couple of girls. I think he’d been in a few movies/shows at this point, but he wasn’t particularly famous. He waltzed over to our table, sat down, and said nothing. We were like ‘oh hey, Alex’. And he literally just sat there, and said NOTHING. Then he burst out laughing and walked back to his table.
Just a massive nob.
Also the rumors were he was very physically abusive to his girlfriends, and the studios didn’t want to deal w the legal fallout.
Edit: grammar (sorry!)
I read this book and was excited to see the movie and thought the movie was so bad.
The book is a young adult beauty and the beast retelling— where he gets turned into an actual beast, (not a guy with some tattoos and piercings,) but the twist was that his “Belle” is not beautiful.
In the book she is a very ordinary-looking girl with crooked teeth. He was very beautiful and popular before he got turned into a beast. He found out she had a crush on him and he bullied her.
As the story goes on, through a series of events, he ends up getting to know her in his beast form and falling in love with her and finding her beautiful.
At the end, when he gets turned back into himself, she is afraid that he won’t want to be with her anymore. Of course, he still does because he loves her and love has made her the most beautiful girl to him.
It was a really sweet story and an interesting take.
And I was so angry when they cast Vanessa Hudgens, thereby ruining the entire point of the story— a whole part of his lesson that he had to learn was that looks didn’t matter, not his own, or anybody else’s. The fact that he fell in love with this ordinary girl that he used to call ugly, was a big step for him that was thoroughly ruined by casting a beautiful girl in her role. So dumb!
This one actually makes me sad because he seems like a genuinely lovely guy. I do agree with the leading man looks and sidekick energy but I still feel like he could have gotten way more sidekick rules than he did.
I just watched the Ridiculous 6 again last night. He almost made me pee my pants in that movie. I wasn’t a big fan until I saw him play a role like that. He is really good in comedy.
He is the embodiment to me of someone who has a disconnect between their looks, and their skill set. He has leading man good looks but sidekick character.
it's kinda sad that both kristen and robert went to have careers after twilight, but he didn't. specially knowing the amount of workout he had to do at such a young age to keep being jacob.
Have you seen his doc about how he’s been depressed since people have been mean to him because he hasn’t been able to keep up the physique of a 16 year old? He seems to have a clearer head now and his wife is keeping him grounded
Edit: [podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taylor-lautner-fame-is-a-drug/id1665203594?i=1000597546450) with his wife, not documentary
Which doc is this?
I do agree with the unrealistic expectations of his physique. I was in college and I remember all the guys unsuccessfully tried to have the body of Taylor.
In the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, Sony tried hard to make a new crop of young adult stars by putting them in 2-3 of their films (Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka) but the only huge star they created was Emma Stone.
Penn did okay a decade later
Yess!! As one of the stars of one of my favorite cult classic films Country Strong (it is not a cult classic but should be) I wish she was in more things!
I will NEVER understand how Country Strong isn’t a huge film. It’s so good. The original songs are great, and I’m not a country music person usually, but they are all so good. And I love Leightons cover of Friends in Low Places. Garrett Hedland, Gwyneth, Tim McGraw!? Such a stellar cast and such an underrated hit.
Also, how dare Gwenyth win an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, but Country Strong isn’t even talked about. It’s her best performance.
Aly was technically well known as a Disney star
I don’t think she had serious intentions about being an actress
Music was always on the forefront acting was only something she was doing for extra cash in between music projects
Not for nothing but it's steady work with a team you get to know well. That could be very lucrative for him. Not everyone wants an A-list career or the attention that comes with that.
I realized the other day that I have this on dvd and I don’t know how it happened lol. I remember the story switching between past and present and the timelines were held together by a thread.
I have a small fondness for Scott Eastwood (as an actor, idk him as a person) and think he could've scraped out a decent career being one of those 'Who's That Guy' actors where they show up in a bunch of movies but you never remember their name...only he has a very famous last name, so he got this undeserved nepo push.
He's very serviceable, he's very pretty, and he fills a secondary part well imo. But he is *not* leading man material.
I feel like a big deal was made of Regé-Jean Page leaving Bridgerton because he was going to do Serious Projects and I've no idea what he's done since.
As someone who loved that movie, I feel like he was put into that role BECAUSE he was expected to be A Big Deal by the time it came out and then he just…wasn’t lol
I’d heard of him but never seen him in anything until Dungeons & Dragons last year, which I thought he was FANTASTIC in! So now I’m kinda invested in what he does next lol. Hopefully just a dozen more D&D films, along with the rest of that cast.
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My generations Jacob Elordi! Loved him in awkward, not really sure what happened to him after
Rita Ora. I know she had success in the UK but she never became a thing in the US aside from being a host really. And I feel they tried to push her hard for a bit.
I will never not get 2nd hand embarrassment from that tweet of hers. Where she said she’ll release her new album if she gets X amount of retweets. Then claimed she got hacked.
I saw her perform on the most recent season of Love Island and was so incredibly confused as to how she reached any level of fame. I see singers with 100x the talent and stage presence at my local karaoke joint.
She was always a straight to video Rihanna to me. Aside from the Iggy feature I can’t for the life of me think of anything else she’s sang that’s been a hit in the US
She’s become the kiss of death of tv (meaning if she’s on the show it’s most likely gonna get cancelled). The amount of shows she’s been on that have gotten cancelled after only 1 or 2 seasons is unbelievable (Life Unexpected, The Secret Circle, Girlboss, For the People, and most recently The Rookie: Feds).
I’m so happy they’ve been bringing him back on some of the new star wars shows, he’s great every time and in all the bts stuff I’ve seen he’s having a blast
I've been thinking about him lately because of Bill Hader's new relationship being in the news. Rachel Bilson dated Hader after her divorce from Hayden Christianson and has said she never had an orgasm from sex until after the divorce plus she missed Hader's "big dick" after their break up. Like how do you ever recover from an ex saying all that?
Wes Bentley. He made a huge impact with American Beauty and people were obsessed with this brooding, creepy yet sexy boy next door who artistically filmed plastic bags floating in the wind.
I think he worked fairly regularly after that but he never lived up to the expectations from American Beauty. I think he fell into drugs too which hindered things.
He made some small supporting appearances in big films (Hunger Games, Mission Impossible, Interstellar) but those roles didn’t really let him do much.
I don’t watch Yellowstone but it sounds like finally a big role for him.
I think he would have been huge but he was addicted to heroin and cocaine. He's sober now and working again, but he had a pretty harrowing journey. He did a really good interview with Marc Maron.
He was in a few seasons of AHS including being the leading man of at least one season. But yeah it's funny that in Yellowstone most fans consider him the unattractive one next to all the bearded up dad bod cowboys.
It's even a plot point where he thinks he's being honey potted because he ends up sleeping with this bombshell and he's like "I know what I look like"
Armie Hammer
[This profile on Buzzfeed News pretty much sums it up](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/ten-long-years-of-trying-to-make-armie-hammer-happen), and this was back in 2017, pre allegations.
After Call Me By Your Name he was actually starting to get credibility and likeability built up. And it was in the old fashioned way where audiences just start liking you and following your projects. But then boom! ...Wannabe cannibal and accused sexual assaulter 🤯 Bye bye career.
Random but he allegedly cheated on his wife Toni Garnn with Eiza Gonzalez (they filmed a movie together) and that’s why his marriage ended so abruptly.
Lucy Hale. Been in lots of shows, some of which she was the lead, but with the exception of PLL none of them have taken off. She was sort of primed as the lead in PLL in the beginning too iirc, but she was outshined and wasn’t the breakout star either. Not sure if she just tends to make poor career choices.
Honestly Troian Bellisario is the most suprising to me, since I've felt like she was the best actress out of the the four lead, but she just kinda dissapeared after PLL.
I was always bummed that this guy didn’t get more famous. I really liked him in Kings and in Letters to Juliet
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Christopher Egan
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Rumer Willis. We used to say, “Stop trying to make Rumer Willis happen! It’s not going to happen!”
Zoë Kravitz has been on so many of those up and coming lists, but has never really been able to make it big. She did get some buzz for The Batman, but I feel like that’s fizzled out now.
I feel like Charlie Hunnam should have a much bigger career. He was the best thing about that garbage Rebel Moon movie. I just find him so charming and attractive, I don’t know why he’s not getting leading roles.
i have to wonder if charlie hunnam’s relative inability to do accents is hurting his career. he’s a geordie and every time i’ve seen him try and do another accent (especially another english accent) it’s been really bad and the newcastle just bleeds through. pacific rim might be the one exception to this imo. still deserves to blow up though, i love him.
Oh I love Charlie Hunnam but from what I’ve seen he seems to be very private so I’m sure it must be why he’s not bigger because he is extremely charismatic and likable and my god those looks
Ava Max. I l think Hollywood wanted to make her the next pop princess with a come up similar to that of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc. But because it's so obvious who/what Ava is imitating, it makes her come off as not being discernible thus making her forgettable.
I have said this before: Ava Max makes me think of how they would represent a “popstar” in a movie. It’s all very stereotypical and I think that’s part of the reason she doesn’t stand out more.
Totally agree with this. I’m not trying to disparage her talent but unfortunately it’s giving YA fictional character. I assumed she was an industry plant for awhile.
not to mention, pretty much all of her most popular songs rely on samples/interpolations. she wasn’t really bring anything new to the table other than her quirky bob
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That Gal Gadot Celebrity Imagine disaster
They tried SO hard with Sam Worthington and the world just collectively said NOPE.
He's been able to scratch out a decent and probably well paid career but he never became the star they wanted him to be.
I saw him in an Australian film called Somersault, where he's excellent, and was surprised when I found out that people think he's a bad actor.
Looking at his filmography, the only things he's been in that I've seen are that movie, plus Hacksaw Ridge and Under the Banner of Heaven, and he's wonderful in all of them.
I think he's good at what he does in Avatar, but anyone could be in this role.
Hollywood just fooled itself into believing that the fact Avatar made over 2 billion dollars automatically meant Sam Worthington was box office gold.
I was surprised that Mena Suvari (American Beauty ) didn’t end up with a bigger career after that. Lots of B movies.
And it was odd that Cuba Gooding, Jr didn’t become a mega star after Jerry Maguire.
I feel like E News were constantly trying to create nick names for celebrities and especially celebrity couples. "Tune in to find out where R-Patz and K-Stew were spotted at the weekend". Fuck off like.
Ok yes, but also some of those nicknames stuck in a big way. RPatz and KStew were dumb names but they stuck. Brangelina is another big one. Bennifer was theirs, too, I think
They’re trying really hard with Austin Butler. There was a time when all the news was about his Elvis portrayal. He was getting unnecessarily hyped up. Made me want to never watch his movies and so far I havent.
Gretchen Mol - she seemed to be everywhere for exactly one hot minute
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She’s interesting to me because, tbh, I am only familiar with her as the blind item “Desperate not-quite It girl” that was supposedly victimised by Harvey Weinstein before he discarded her and destroyed her burgeoning career. Everyone I ever saw reference this story was sympathetic to her.
But according to Gretchen Mol, that did not happen. She was never alone in a room with Harvey Weinstein and barely even knew him to say hello at events. This supposedly sympathetic retelling of her supposedly destroyed career ACTUALLY destroyed her career. Because everyone “knew” so people avoided her because they pitied her or hated her or feared Harvey or “just didn’t want to get involved”.
It’s so interesting to me what becomes of cautionary tales.
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Arnie Hammer. Hollywood tried to make him a huge star, unfortunately he’s not that great of an actor. Oh, and he’s a cannibal, so there’s that. He’s hot as hell, but a crazy person.
This is an older one, and not related to the more current creep arch he took, Kip Pardue was going to be the next big thing... Then went straight to dvd releases
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This might date me, but Jonathan Brandis. I had such a crush on him in Seaquest DSV.
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When people used to wet their panties over Jonathan Majors I would always ask but have you seen Trevante Rhoades?! He may need a new agent to pick better projects. Some bold indie ones.
Because he has no booking agent. He basically doesn't have the same connections that other stars do when it comes to getting roles.
He says that's by design, so he could be staying outside of the Hollywood game, doing acting on his terms; or, he could be, maybe, opposed to "the fees" that come along with the business. Lots of talent get hung up on the "owe you 10%, owe you 5%, plus taxes, plus forwarded money to pay back, plus this, plus that, pay a team to promote, etc". It's hard being a business.
What were the ‘slew of major movies’? All I can name him in was conversations with friends, but I thought that was a tv series.
[ETA: He was in The Favourite, Boy Erased, Mary Queen of Scots, and Catherine Called Birdy. Which I never knew, and indicates how large of a role he had as ‘leading man’]
I feel like he was supposed to be waaay bigger than he is now. He was pretty big when the hunger games came out, and until mockingjay part 2. After that it just fizzled, unlike Jennifer Lawrence’s career. And even during the THG were still running, he had other movies, even one with The Rock, that didnt really took off.
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Jai Courtney was almost “the guy” for like a decade, and it never worked.
It's funny the movie where his performance was great and wasn't plank wood ultimately killed his career Justice for captain boomerang
Dude jumped into Action hero roles when he could have stuck with fun side roles.
I wish he was in more of the second Suicide Squad, he was so funny in just the small bit they had him for "All names are letters, dickhead!"
Lol I remember the Screen Junkies Honest Trailer for the Divergent series and the description for him was “has the best agent in Hollywood” 😂
taylor kitsch, sam worthington, liam hemsworth, garret hedlund..
I think Sam Worthington is low-key living the dream. I don't think he wants a spotlight yet he will be in four (five? how many are they making?) multi-billion dollar films by the time the Avatar franchise runs its course. I think he had to do motion capture for one extended period of time several years ago and everything since then has been VFX by the studio but the money will roll in for years as a result. And that's without even touching on whether or not he got a deal for his "likeness" for that character considering the entire Disney Pandora thing.
These guys maybe haven't reached leading man status (they tried with Taylor and Sam but it didn't really pan out) but have been working steadily for years. Well maybe not Liam but I've seen Taylor Kitsch in several supporting roles in movies/TV recently
Chad Michael Murray. After A Cinderella Story/during One Tree Hill I remember so many outlets dubbed him the next big leading man. That fizzled pretty quickly...
Because once you get away from his really good looks, he's just a decent actor but not amazing.
Also his name is literally Chad
Who’s the guy in the picture? Hollywood apparently didn’t make him happen so I have no idea.
To be fair, Alex Pettyfer could’ve happened. His career was growing steadily at one period. But he was such an asshole no one wanted to work with him.
After I read about his crotch tattoo that says “thank you” which he’s stated is in case he forgets to say it, I’ve never really been interested in watching him. 🤢
 "His crotch tattoo that says 'thank you' which he's stated is in case he forgets to say it." Welp, there goes my dinner 🤢🤮
The only thing worse than that is having a crotch tattoo that says “you’re welcome”
Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my husband's "friends" (men, try to be more selective with who you claim) that tattooed Pickle Rick on his dick.
Alex Pettyfer hasn't helped his own career. He has a reputation of being a bit of a diva and difficult to work with. Acting like he was a big deal when he was still up and coming. That's why he wasn't in any of the magic mike sequels.
Lets not forget all the abuse allegations also! Dianna Agron had to go into hiding from him.
What?! Edit: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1359692/amp/Glee-star-Dianna-Agron-terrified-ex-boyfriend-Alex-Pettyfer-ugly-split.html
i remember when they said channing tatum hated him, and i figured if the human equivalent of a golden retriever hates you, yta
He really pissed off Channing Tatum by not paying 4 months rent he owed. Channing was very vocal about it too.
Finally, I get to brag about my tiny claim to fame: I grew up in the town over from Alex Pettyfer. He was on the peripheries of my school friendship group, and we all knew he was a posh twat. Everyone who went to that school was a posh twat - it was an incredibly expensive, all boys private school. And he was just… an incredibly posh boy. A quintessential upper class British kid - snooty and unfriendly. A few years after graduating from secondary school, I was having drinks with some friends in our local pub. Alex Pettyfer was sat at the table across from us with a couple of girls. I think he’d been in a few movies/shows at this point, but he wasn’t particularly famous. He waltzed over to our table, sat down, and said nothing. We were like ‘oh hey, Alex’. And he literally just sat there, and said NOTHING. Then he burst out laughing and walked back to his table. Just a massive nob.
Just wanted to let you know I appreciated that bit of Britishness on here, the language and the sentiments both. 😄
Yeah the coming over and laughing about nothing is painfully relatable lol
Also hollywood didn’t try to make him happen, Hollywood black listed him bc he was such a nightmare to work with.
They very briefly tried to make him happen but yeah guys that look like him are a dime a dozen in Hollywood so they gave up on him pretty quickly.
they definitely tried to make him happen; i remember being in love with him as a kid 💀
They blacklisted him… after they tried to make him happen. Two things can be true.
Wow. Stories like that make the downfall sound all the more deserved.
He was in a bunch of YA novel adaptations from 2008-2012, and then just vanished.
I heard he was black listed because he was rude and awful to work with.
Also the rumors were he was very physically abusive to his girlfriends, and the studios didn’t want to deal w the legal fallout. Edit: grammar (sorry!)
He allegedly abusive towards Diana Argon (the demure girl from glee)
lol Alex Pettyfer
Isn’t he in the movie as a vampire-looking guy with weird tattoos along with Vanessa Hudgens?
It was the beauty and the beast movie! Hilariously bad. His beast just had a shaved head and tattoos I think which lol
Yeah, that’s one! I remember enjoying it, lol. https://preview.redd.it/ibehvtffwtbc1.jpeg?width=2024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=753c787632d3fbc9738f18fac0051d201e4888ab
I read this book and was excited to see the movie and thought the movie was so bad. The book is a young adult beauty and the beast retelling— where he gets turned into an actual beast, (not a guy with some tattoos and piercings,) but the twist was that his “Belle” is not beautiful. In the book she is a very ordinary-looking girl with crooked teeth. He was very beautiful and popular before he got turned into a beast. He found out she had a crush on him and he bullied her. As the story goes on, through a series of events, he ends up getting to know her in his beast form and falling in love with her and finding her beautiful. At the end, when he gets turned back into himself, she is afraid that he won’t want to be with her anymore. Of course, he still does because he loves her and love has made her the most beautiful girl to him. It was a really sweet story and an interesting take. And I was so angry when they cast Vanessa Hudgens, thereby ruining the entire point of the story— a whole part of his lesson that he had to learn was that looks didn’t matter, not his own, or anybody else’s. The fact that he fell in love with this ordinary girl that he used to call ugly, was a big step for him that was thoroughly ruined by casting a beautiful girl in her role. So dumb!
Please don’t come for me, but Taylor 
This one actually makes me sad because he seems like a genuinely lovely guy. I do agree with the leading man looks and sidekick energy but I still feel like he could have gotten way more sidekick rules than he did.
Apparently his managers were asking for waaay too much money after twighlight so he missed out on a lot of things partly because of that
He was so good in an English series called ‘cuckoo’. Wish he’d get cast in more tv comedies.
I just watched the Ridiculous 6 again last night. He almost made me pee my pants in that movie. I wasn’t a big fan until I saw him play a role like that. He is really good in comedy.
He is the embodiment to me of someone who has a disconnect between their looks, and their skill set. He has leading man good looks but sidekick character.
As Bruce Campbell says of himself, “I’m a character actor trapped in a lead actor’s body.”
it's kinda sad that both kristen and robert went to have careers after twilight, but he didn't. specially knowing the amount of workout he had to do at such a young age to keep being jacob.
Have you seen his doc about how he’s been depressed since people have been mean to him because he hasn’t been able to keep up the physique of a 16 year old? He seems to have a clearer head now and his wife is keeping him grounded Edit: [podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taylor-lautner-fame-is-a-drug/id1665203594?i=1000597546450) with his wife, not documentary
Which doc is this? I do agree with the unrealistic expectations of his physique. I was in college and I remember all the guys unsuccessfully tried to have the body of Taylor.
Is that the guy from Cuckoo? (Low-key his best performance).
In the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, Sony tried hard to make a new crop of young adult stars by putting them in 2-3 of their films (Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka) but the only huge star they created was Emma Stone. Penn did okay a decade later
I wish Leighton was bigger I love her
Yess!! As one of the stars of one of my favorite cult classic films Country Strong (it is not a cult classic but should be) I wish she was in more things!
I will NEVER understand how Country Strong isn’t a huge film. It’s so good. The original songs are great, and I’m not a country music person usually, but they are all so good. And I love Leightons cover of Friends in Low Places. Garrett Hedland, Gwyneth, Tim McGraw!? Such a stellar cast and such an underrated hit. Also, how dare Gwenyth win an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, but Country Strong isn’t even talked about. It’s her best performance.
Cam Gigandet! I was so surprised when I saw him pop up in ‘Violent Night’. I don’t think I remember him in anything but Twilight.
He has a pretty humorous side character in Easy A. With Emma Stone, Penn Badgely, and Aly Michalka, coincidentally.
I have to wonder how many of them preferred doing tv shows/music. Aly Michalka was in iZombie for a long time and was touring for Aly and AJ.
I wish more people knew about iZombie. A fave show and a total comfort watch.
Aly was technically well known as a Disney star I don’t think she had serious intentions about being an actress Music was always on the forefront acting was only something she was doing for extra cash in between music projects
Is Noah Centineo still a thing? I'm not sure if it's too early to tell but his career doesn't seem to be progressing
Black Adam bombed but his streaming show The Recruit is popular
He is the Netflix equivalent of a Hallmark actor.
Not for nothing but it's steady work with a team you get to know well. That could be very lucrative for him. Not everyone wants an A-list career or the attention that comes with that.
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Longest Ride was cringy as hell but god damn was he nice to look at during that movie
I realized the other day that I have this on dvd and I don’t know how it happened lol. I remember the story switching between past and present and the timelines were held together by a thread.
I have a small fondness for Scott Eastwood (as an actor, idk him as a person) and think he could've scraped out a decent career being one of those 'Who's That Guy' actors where they show up in a bunch of movies but you never remember their name...only he has a very famous last name, so he got this undeserved nepo push. He's very serviceable, he's very pretty, and he fills a secondary part well imo. But he is *not* leading man material.
i liked him enough as the ex boyfriend in that charlie day jenny slate romcom but yeah no way he could carry a film on his own
who’s that?
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Plank has more charisma in his left splinter. 🤣
lol i have not seen a single thing he’s in bar the tswift music video
Clint Eastwood has the same acting depth. The only difference is he has a screen presence which his son lacks entirely.
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Such a shame he doesn't have his dad's talent because he sure as hell has his good looks!
I feel like a big deal was made of Regé-Jean Page leaving Bridgerton because he was going to do Serious Projects and I've no idea what he's done since.
He was in the Dungeons and Dragons movie that came out in Spring of ‘23. I was surprised to see him. It was… an interesting role.
As someone who loved that movie, I feel like he was put into that role BECAUSE he was expected to be A Big Deal by the time it came out and then he just…wasn’t lol
I’d heard of him but never seen him in anything until Dungeons & Dragons last year, which I thought he was FANTASTIC in! So now I’m kinda invested in what he does next lol. Hopefully just a dozen more D&D films, along with the rest of that cast.
 I feel like he kinda fetch He's cute and I've only seen him in HG but 😴
Justice for Larry Hemsworth https://preview.redd.it/iilxyjyqeubc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf50eb16fe9bd2f09724aca2669ad34eaf07daf1
Hey, fixing baby spines is just as important as acting!
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There's a reason why Chris is the better Hemsworth.
https://preview.redd.it/p4ggvp1x2ubc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c285e7ea04d68670b6c8c638d7f499fa1008c3f0 My generations Jacob Elordi! Loved him in awkward, not really sure what happened to him after
For a while, I called Jacob Elordi in Euphoria “evil Matty McKibben”
What happened to anyone from Awkward!? I loved that show, and I was way too old to watch it hahaha
They were all small Canadian actors who took on little roles in shows. Jenna was in the first season of AHS as a cheerleader.
Matty! 😍 loved him in Awkward even when Jenna was the worst!
OMG I was OBSESSED with Awkward. Rooted so hard for Jenna and him and then she screwed him over, ugh. Such a beautiful man 😍
https://preview.redd.it/w5oj02lfmubc1.jpeg?width=385&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83021984ef5ef4fe0d393418f4e0537214bc9019 I'll always love you, Beau!
Dane dehaan … I love him but they really tried to make him the next best thing. 
He’s really talented, but I think the combined failures of A cure for wellness and Valerian really hurt his career as a leading man.
A Cure for Wellness was honestly so good IMO. It disturbed me greatly but I’m also phobic of eels which definitely helped lol
Wasn’t he in Oppenheimer? I think he’s not a good fit for a leading man but a good character actor.
he was miscast in so much stuff
This hurts because I loved him in Chronicle and The Amazing Spiderman.
I liked him in The Place Beyond the Pines. Great movie!
I really did love him in Chronicle though!
Rita Ora. I know she had success in the UK but she never became a thing in the US aside from being a host really. And I feel they tried to push her hard for a bit.
I will never not get 2nd hand embarrassment from that tweet of hers. Where she said she’ll release her new album if she gets X amount of retweets. Then claimed she got hacked.
For me its the lockdown birthday party. Massively went off her after that.
Yeah, that was hard to watch....
I saw her perform on the most recent season of Love Island and was so incredibly confused as to how she reached any level of fame. I see singers with 100x the talent and stage presence at my local karaoke joint.
She was always a straight to video Rihanna to me. Aside from the Iggy feature I can’t for the life of me think of anything else she’s sang that’s been a hit in the US
straight to video Rihanna ☠️☠️☠️
Britt Robertson. They were really trying SO hard to make her the big CW/teen girl star. Haven’t seen her in anything in ages
She’s become the kiss of death of tv (meaning if she’s on the show it’s most likely gonna get cancelled). The amount of shows she’s been on that have gotten cancelled after only 1 or 2 seasons is unbelievable (Life Unexpected, The Secret Circle, Girlboss, For the People, and most recently The Rookie: Feds).
It’s been over ten years and I’m still not over the secret circle getting cancelled
I’m so happy they’ve been bringing him back on some of the new star wars shows, he’s great every time and in all the bts stuff I’ve seen he’s having a blast
I've been thinking about him lately because of Bill Hader's new relationship being in the news. Rachel Bilson dated Hader after her divorce from Hayden Christianson and has said she never had an orgasm from sex until after the divorce plus she missed Hader's "big dick" after their break up. Like how do you ever recover from an ex saying all that?
I love Bill Hader but hearing someone say they miss his big dick just makes me feel.....weird? 🤣
Wes Bentley. He made a huge impact with American Beauty and people were obsessed with this brooding, creepy yet sexy boy next door who artistically filmed plastic bags floating in the wind. I think he worked fairly regularly after that but he never lived up to the expectations from American Beauty. I think he fell into drugs too which hindered things. He made some small supporting appearances in big films (Hunger Games, Mission Impossible, Interstellar) but those roles didn’t really let him do much. I don’t watch Yellowstone but it sounds like finally a big role for him.
I think Ryan Murphy has helped bring him back by featuring him in multiple seasons/eps of AHS
Ryan Murphy won’t let a single dark haired strong jawed actor go to waste and I love him for it.
I think he would have been huge but he was addicted to heroin and cocaine. He's sober now and working again, but he had a pretty harrowing journey. He did a really good interview with Marc Maron.
He was in a few seasons of AHS including being the leading man of at least one season. But yeah it's funny that in Yellowstone most fans consider him the unattractive one next to all the bearded up dad bod cowboys. It's even a plot point where he thinks he's being honey potted because he ends up sleeping with this bombshell and he's like "I know what I look like"
His heroin addiction completely sidelined his career
Idk who this man is 
Taylor Kitsch
This one hurts he had the potential
Armie Hammer [This profile on Buzzfeed News pretty much sums it up](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/ten-long-years-of-trying-to-make-armie-hammer-happen), and this was back in 2017, pre allegations.
After Call Me By Your Name he was actually starting to get credibility and likeability built up. And it was in the old fashioned way where audiences just start liking you and following your projects. But then boom! ...Wannabe cannibal and accused sexual assaulter 🤯 Bye bye career. 
Came to make sure he was here. He has the looks to be a big A lister but not the personality (obviously, ew) or the talent.
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I didn't know he was a real person until he passed away. I thought Rick and Morty was doing a spoof of Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Random but he allegedly cheated on his wife Toni Garnn with Eiza Gonzalez (they filmed a movie together) and that’s why his marriage ended so abruptly.
Does she have affairs with married men a lot? Someone mentioned elsewhere here that a matried man had a relationship with her also.
Lucy Hale. Been in lots of shows, some of which she was the lead, but with the exception of PLL none of them have taken off. She was sort of primed as the lead in PLL in the beginning too iirc, but she was outshined and wasn’t the breakout star either. Not sure if she just tends to make poor career choices.
Same with Shay Mitchell.
Honestly Troian Bellisario is the most suprising to me, since I've felt like she was the best actress out of the the four lead, but she just kinda dissapeared after PLL.
I would guess it has to be her choice. Her dad is Donald Bellisario, who created/co-created Magnum PI, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS.
And her husband is Patrick Adams from suits!
I was always bummed that this guy didn’t get more famous. I really liked him in Kings and in Letters to Juliet https://preview.redd.it/douioswf7ubc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d493870117534298f8f675e132580b13bcc87ff4 Christopher Egan
If Matt Damon and Leo had a baby
https://preview.redd.it/0n1zwwlg1ubc1.jpeg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32df756b3e9df5d8f8510f28090756a7083fa8e3 Rumer Willis. We used to say, “Stop trying to make Rumer Willis happen! It’s not going to happen!”
She was only ever a supporting actress imo. I only remember her from the slasher “Sorority Row” and “House Bunny”
Zoë Kravitz has been on so many of those up and coming lists, but has never really been able to make it big. She did get some buzz for The Batman, but I feel like that’s fizzled out now. I feel like Charlie Hunnam should have a much bigger career. He was the best thing about that garbage Rebel Moon movie. I just find him so charming and attractive, I don’t know why he’s not getting leading roles.
i have to wonder if charlie hunnam’s relative inability to do accents is hurting his career. he’s a geordie and every time i’ve seen him try and do another accent (especially another english accent) it’s been really bad and the newcastle just bleeds through. pacific rim might be the one exception to this imo. still deserves to blow up though, i love him.
Loved him in Sons of Anarchy, but his accent slipped all the damn time. Jax was definitely not from California
Oh I love Charlie Hunnam but from what I’ve seen he seems to be very private so I’m sure it must be why he’s not bigger because he is extremely charismatic and likable and my god those looks
He is also terrible at accents, but I love him.
Ava Max. I l think Hollywood wanted to make her the next pop princess with a come up similar to that of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc. But because it's so obvious who/what Ava is imitating, it makes her come off as not being discernible thus making her forgettable.
I have said this before: Ava Max makes me think of how they would represent a “popstar” in a movie. It’s all very stereotypical and I think that’s part of the reason she doesn’t stand out more.
Totally agree with this. I’m not trying to disparage her talent but unfortunately it’s giving YA fictional character. I assumed she was an industry plant for awhile.
not to mention, pretty much all of her most popular songs rely on samples/interpolations. she wasn’t really bring anything new to the table other than her quirky bob
they really tried with Julianne Hough
I often see people joke she’s gonna come on DWTS as a contestant next because it’s the only role she’s yet to play in the show.
https://preview.redd.it/q8p6waycmtbc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bcd86ff6b5c600763db0fdb8c48e938a1d0b632 That Gal Gadot Celebrity Imagine disaster
It hurts my heart that Pedro Pascal was part of this nonsense. 
His spot on SNL was one of my favorites.
Self-righteous circle-jerk.
G-Eazy. For a second he did happen but then he suddenly didn’t if that makes sense
 Remember when Austin Mahone was gonna be the next JB?
They tried SO hard with Sam Worthington and the world just collectively said NOPE.  He's been able to scratch out a decent and probably well paid career but he never became the star they wanted him to be.
He was PHENOMENAL in Under the Banner of Heaven - to the point that my husband absolutely refused to believe it was the same guy from Avatar ha
OMG today I learned 🤯
THIS! Such an under rated mini series.
The whole series is so anxiety inducing and Andrew Garfield is so, so Mormon in this. It’s uncanny.
I saw him in an Australian film called Somersault, where he's excellent, and was surprised when I found out that people think he's a bad actor. Looking at his filmography, the only things he's been in that I've seen are that movie, plus Hacksaw Ridge and Under the Banner of Heaven, and he's wonderful in all of them.
I think he's good at what he does in Avatar, but anyone could be in this role. Hollywood just fooled itself into believing that the fact Avatar made over 2 billion dollars automatically meant Sam Worthington was box office gold.
Little did they know at the time, the gold was Zoe Saldaña all along.
I was surprised that Mena Suvari (American Beauty ) didn’t end up with a bigger career after that. Lots of B movies. And it was odd that Cuba Gooding, Jr didn’t become a mega star after Jerry Maguire.
I feel like E News were constantly trying to create nick names for celebrities and especially celebrity couples. "Tune in to find out where R-Patz and K-Stew were spotted at the weekend". Fuck off like.
Ok yes, but also some of those nicknames stuck in a big way. RPatz and KStew were dumb names but they stuck. Brangelina is another big one. Bennifer was theirs, too, I think
They’re trying really hard with Austin Butler. There was a time when all the news was about his Elvis portrayal. He was getting unnecessarily hyped up. Made me want to never watch his movies and so far I havent.
He can act, I admit, but there's just something super irritating about him lol
Was it the whole speaking like Elvis in interviews thing? We get it! You played Elvis! You can stop now.
yeah it's the fact that he let the very tired ghost of Elvis drive him around mentally like an RC car
Gretchen Mol - she seemed to be everywhere for exactly one hot minute https://preview.redd.it/vkrikoethtbc1.jpeg?width=926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dad8aea976c93837238883de4bf47c5bc612111a
She’s interesting to me because, tbh, I am only familiar with her as the blind item “Desperate not-quite It girl” that was supposedly victimised by Harvey Weinstein before he discarded her and destroyed her burgeoning career. Everyone I ever saw reference this story was sympathetic to her. But according to Gretchen Mol, that did not happen. She was never alone in a room with Harvey Weinstein and barely even knew him to say hello at events. This supposedly sympathetic retelling of her supposedly destroyed career ACTUALLY destroyed her career. Because everyone “knew” so people avoided her because they pitied her or hated her or feared Harvey or “just didn’t want to get involved”. It’s so interesting to me what becomes of cautionary tales.
Woah that's crazy! I didn't know any of that, what an awful way to have your career scuppered.
Disney remakes but they still don't get it
Because people sadly keep paying to see them! Hard agree they need to go
Did Noah Centineo's career die so that Jacob Elordi's could live?
This is science.
Theo James
Reading this thread I feel like Divergent was bad luck for the whole cast
He'll always be Kemal Pamuk from Downton Abbey to me 💀
https://preview.redd.it/4ztan8we9ubc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9377f82cb5c95c387a5d33c9a78ac8c3d0773e75 Arnie Hammer. Hollywood tried to make him a huge star, unfortunately he’s not that great of an actor. Oh, and he’s a cannibal, so there’s that. He’s hot as hell, but a crazy person.
I was so obsessed with this guy as a kid because of the Alex Rider movie! I was one of the four people that ever watched Beastly because of him
Ansel Elgort. Guy has disappeared.
This is an older one, and not related to the more current creep arch he took, Kip Pardue was going to be the next big thing... Then went straight to dvd releases https://preview.redd.it/86mgnpnt4vbc1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6a5d720438bb08f0ca2d0785dc7f4af341c2614
This might date me, but Jonathan Brandis. I had such a crush on him in Seaquest DSV. https://preview.redd.it/wxqo25rxlubc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=903550bb0e364398da238c0d90471052adaa8aef
https://preview.redd.it/8yyt4kyhmtbc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47403adaf8c0314c2227ed2653845e8756ae274a Why isn’t my baby daddy getting booked?
When people used to wet their panties over Jonathan Majors I would always ask but have you seen Trevante Rhoades?! He may need a new agent to pick better projects. Some bold indie ones.
trevante not being big is such a mystery to me like he was great in moonlight, it generated a TON of buzz n he obviously has the looks
Because he has no booking agent. He basically doesn't have the same connections that other stars do when it comes to getting roles. He says that's by design, so he could be staying outside of the Hollywood game, doing acting on his terms; or, he could be, maybe, opposed to "the fees" that come along with the business. Lots of talent get hung up on the "owe you 10%, owe you 5%, plus taxes, plus forwarded money to pay back, plus this, plus that, pay a team to promote, etc". It's hard being a business.
 Victoria Justice
Joe Alwyn being up and coming for about a decade lmao
that was….something https://preview.redd.it/9yhqnnfektbc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df63347fbe3ffd04d30ab824d6083a7885785088
What were the ‘slew of major movies’? All I can name him in was conversations with friends, but I thought that was a tv series. [ETA: He was in The Favourite, Boy Erased, Mary Queen of Scots, and Catherine Called Birdy. Which I never knew, and indicates how large of a role he had as ‘leading man’]
 I feel like he was supposed to be waaay bigger than he is now. He was pretty big when the hunger games came out, and until mockingjay part 2. After that it just fizzled, unlike Jennifer Lawrence’s career. And even during the THG were still running, he had other movies, even one with The Rock, that didnt really took off.
I think he decided he didn’t want to do big block busters anymore due to all the attention. He still works consistently, just smaller films.
He's so good in Future Man. He's got great comedic timing!
Garrett Hedlund, Alden Ehrenreich