# Actors that you just can't stand to watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024 "2020-01-06T09:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/1 "2020-01-06T09:28:50Z")
In this thread, I’d like to ask people to name one actor they just cannot stand to watch in movies or TV shows - especially if other people don’t seem to find them particularly horrible. If you like, please state some reasons why you don’t like them. Also, if you like, please state any exceptions - like one film or TV show in which you thought they did a good job and you enjoyed watching. My choice is Vince Vaughn. I find him to be a loud mouth whose routine gets very old very quickly. There is one movie however that I would call an exception. It is the film “Fred Claus (2007)”. That is a comedy that imagines what if Santa Claus’ had a brother named Fred. Fred Claus is nothing like his brother. He is selfish and manipulative and a real SOB. But I found this film to be a lot of fun - mostly because of some of the other actors, such as: Paul Giamatti, Rachel Weisz (especially good) and Elizabeth Banks. There is one chase scene in particular where a whole bunch of street Santa Claus are chasing Fred dressed as Santa because he was collecting money without a license. The chase was done to the song, “Surfin’ Bird” by the Trashmen. It was a really hilarious scene. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/2 "2020-01-06T09:44:49Z")
Are any of you familiar with the German word “_backpfeifengesicht_”? It means “Eddie Redmayne”. I’d like to say that it’s his affected acting style and generally annoying demeanor, or maybe because I hated his characters in \*Jupiter Ascending, Les Mis \*and _Fantastic Beasts_ so, so much, but really, it’s his face. It just needs to be punched. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/3 "2020-01-06T10:17:30Z")
Gary Sinise and his gurning face. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/4 "2020-01-06T11:13:17Z")
I also have disliked Vince Vaughn since _Jurassic Park 2_, which I believe was in fact his first film, so there you go. Anyway, my choice is Danny McBride. How the hell did he get where he is? What a talentless dick. No thank you. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/5 "2020-01-06T12:03:18Z")
Will Ferrel grates on my nerves and will ruin anything he is in. He is decidedly unfunny. His one note style is just annoying ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/6 "2020-01-06T12:11:18Z")
Jason Alexander. He manages to ruin everything he touches, even _The Music Man_, for God’s sake, a musical that is next to impossible to ruin. Eighth graders do a better Harold Hill. His undertone of desperate neediness is annoying after 30 seconds. He was even annoying in commercials. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/7 "2020-01-06T12:25:14Z")
My first thought was Diane Keaton, because she always, and _only_, plays Diane Keaton. I looked up her Filmography and discovered I’ve only seen a tiny fraction of her work, but there’s a sameness to what I have seen. I can’t imagine she has any more depth than that. So maybe I’m wrong, but I’m not going out of my way to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/8 "2020-01-06T12:30:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I also have disliked Vince Vaughn since _Jurassic Park 2_, which I believe was in fact his first film, so there you go. > > Anyway, my choice is Danny McBride. How the hell did he get where he is? What a talentless dick. No thank you. I fully agree and I am amazed that Hank Azaria has just kind of cloned his style in his current TV show Brockmire. Very similar acting style and similar situations. Really dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/9 "2020-01-06T12:35:18Z")
I’ve long disliked **Bill Murray**. He generally plays the wise-guy confident self-assured a-hole, which I cannot stand. He has transcended this in some films (His annoying character getting what’s coming to him worked to his advantage in _Scrooged_ and _Groundhog Day_ and, arguably, _The Razor’s Edge_. But he’s still playing that annoying character), but in most of his roles I find it torture to watch him. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/10 "2020-01-06T12:46:26Z")
I’ll go with a very unpopular opinion. I really can’t stand Leo DiCaprio in anything _other_ than Titanic. I actually think he’s so forceful, unconvincing, tryhard and unnatural in his acting and the fact that so many viewers constantly harp on about how brilliant he is just magnifies those issues for me. Only in the role of Jack Dawson does he actually FEEL like the character he’s portraying. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/11 "2020-01-06T12:59:57Z")
Mark Wahlberg. Can’t watch his films without thinking back to that cringeworthy Marky Mark shtick. Not to mention he’s a felon who racially abused young black women and beat a Vietnamese man with a stick. The fact he has made it big is a disgrace imo. Oh and his movies (at least the ones I know of) seem to be the same character. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/12 "2020-01-06T13:41:27Z")
Guaranteed to raise objections: Saoirse Ronan. She overacted to the hilt in _Atonement_. Had to grit my teeth thru _Lady Bird_ cause I wanted to see Metcalf. Leonardo DiCaprio. Another overdoing it, bad actor that my hate for started with _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape_ and never diminished. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/13 "2020-01-06T13:57:39Z")
David Thewlis. He just seems like a greasy, creepy slimeball. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/14 "2020-01-06T14:17:00Z")
Not sure I’d say “can’t stand”, but the casting of Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, or Kevin Costner has never increased a movie’s attraction for me. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/15 "2020-01-06T14:23:40Z")
**Matthew McConaughey**. Never thought he was handsome, though there was a time where at least I didn’t find him repulsive. He’s been quite good in a few things:_Killer Joe_, _Mud_, T_he Paperboy_but over time my dislike of him has been increasing to the point where I will avoid any movie that he’s in, even if they look good otherwise. **Connie Britton** has gotten on my nerves since the first time I saw her on the first season of _American Horror Story_. There’s an interesting show on Netflix (I think) called _Dirty John_ that I’d avoided just because she’s the lead. A friend, who really likes her, recommended it and I didn’t want to criticize a favorite actor of hers so I tried to watch it. The story is good, in spite of her, but I think I’m going to end up rooting for the bad guy, which I obviously the opposite of what the creators intended. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/16 "2020-01-06T14:32:32Z")
David Spade. Smarmy and eminently punchable without delivering a single laugh line. Fortunately, he doesn’t ruin much because he chooses projects I have no interest in seeing. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/17 "2020-01-06T14:37:18Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned **Chevy Chase** yet. I find his acting annoying and knowing how much of an a-hole he is in real life doesn’t help matters either. Then there is\*\* Pauly Shore\*\*—who I just found annoying in the 90s when he was doing movies. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/18 "2020-01-06T14:39:01Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > David Thewlis. He just seems like a greasy, creepy slimeball. Speaking of annoying greasy, creepy slimeballs,let’s not forget about Steven Seagal. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/19 "2020-01-06T14:39:22Z")
Oops, I forgot to mention the reason for the hatred. McConoughey’s weird, ugly face, ill fitting dentures, stupid accent and overall vibe of weirdness. Also he looks like he probably smells bad. Britton’s stupid, big hair and her air of rich, aging woman who thinks she looks younger than she does. Totally irrational and based on absolutely nothing; just what makes her unwatchable for me. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024/20 "2020-01-06T14:59:08Z")
**Jim Carrey**. He was near-brilliant at the start of his career. Can’t. Stand. Him. Now. Another vote for **Will Ferrel**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-you-just-cant-stand-to-watch/846024.md?page=2)