This must be a joke. You’re mocking silly reasons to dislike an actor, right?
Meryl Streep
She’s arguably the greatest actress of her generation. Doesn’t mean I have to like her to acknowledge that fact.
No matter what role she’s playing, all I can see is Meryl Streep pretending to be someone else.
No, I really like her! I have no idea why I see that. My brain is telling me that makeup is hiding acne. I just looked her up and it says she struggles with adult acne. I may have seen a tabloid shot of her with a breakout but I don’t recall it.
Eddie Redmayne. I’m not a violent man, but there’s just something about his face that makes me want to punch him.
(I also think that he’s one of those actors who always seems like he’s trying too hard).
Terrible actor, that insipid stutter. Good pilot, though.
I’m now picturing a behind-the-scenes clip of him delivering a long and enthusiastic impromptu speech that’s as rapid as it is smooth — until he gets called to the set, and has to put a lot of effort into earning his latest paycheck by acting like a stuttering stammerer.
John Oliver on Jimmy Stewart: “He was a bad actor,” Oliver said before taking a swipe at Old Hollywood. “They were all pretty bad back then, but he was especially bad.”
Speaking of punchable faces. That guy is unlistenable.
I think his best role was in The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I avoided that movie for ages just because of him. But I ended up loving it once I saw it.
Tom Cruise for me. He’s a hack actor with two expressions (mostly, a look of constipation), and he’s high up in scientology trying to intice poor suckers into the cult scam.
I disagree with most in this thread, but these are the most disagreeable. I watch plenty of actors I don’t find “attractive”, but that doesn’t make them bad actors. I never knew attractiveness was a gatekeep to drama club.
Where would you rank Paul Giamatti and Steve Buscemi in the looks department? And no disrespect to those two!
Paul Giamatti and Steve Buscemi are never cast in roles in which their attractiveness is a plot point. She was literally the title character in a movie called “Pretty Woman.”
So you’d like her if she weren’t portraying a purported good-looking woman?
I should add, I don’t enjoy many of her performances myself. She comes off to me as too full of herself.
For starters:
Woody Allen
Rowan Atkinson
Chevy Chase
Dane Clark
Louis de Funès
Whoopi Goldberg
Ethel Merman
Pat O’Brien
Martha Raye
Ginger Rogers
Sylvester Stallone
Jimmy Stewart
Lino Ventura
John Wayne
Not barf, but definitely want to avoid. Fortunately my husband agrees with me. However, we did have to suffer through him with Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.
Also no interest in seeing a movie with Tom Cruise or Will Smith.
There are a number of actors I don’t think much of, and some that I will watch even though they won’t ever get an award.
But the one I despise, will absolutely NOT watch if she’s in a film, is Jane Fonda.
I detest Woody Allen. I’ve sat through a couple of his movies, and have no wish to see any more.
I also intensely dislike Diane Keaton, simply because she sunk so low as to bang Woody Allen.
Vin Diesel, anyone?
How about Randolf Scott?
Definitely Meryl Streep. “Look at me and my accent!”
Tom Hanks. I have disliked him since his Bosom Buddies days.
And if you want an actress with an annoying voice, look at Emily Procter.
Ditto. Most of Jim Carrey’s films are that, although he was good in The Truman Show. I’ll usually avoid his films.
But your post reminded of someone who acted stupid for comedy in the 1980s. Dudley Moore. SOOO annoying!
Curious, have you seen him in Good Will Hunting? If so, your thoughts about him there?
Yeah, now that you mention it his face is definitely hittable.
So, no mention of this guy yet? He’s one I definitely avoid. Matt Dillon.