# Actors who keep getting work who should never work again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314 "2016-09-30T21:33:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/41 "2016-10-02T01:34:08Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > I’m gonna go with Sam Worthington. Bland, bland, bland. > > I’ll agree with this. I think I’ve seen him in three movies. Avatar, Terminator Salvation, and Clash of the Titans. He was terrible in all three. Sam Worthingtown to me is the epitome of the Hollywood-manufactured (or in this case, Cameron-manufactured?) star. Hand-picked from up on high and relentlessly pushed by the Machine, while a lot of people downstream stand around thinking, “Huh?” Plus, to me, Sam Worthingson is like the human personification of the Memento-effect - he’s so bland that by the time I’m done with the effort of recalling his given name, I just either can’t be arsed to or actual forget to recall his entire surname. His full name is just not worth the effort of recollection - that’s how bland Sam Wortherspoon is to me. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/42 "2016-10-02T02:20:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Bill Paxton. He’s like watching a CPR dummy. Love Bill Paxton, at least as a good guy, as in Twister. His villainy tends to be cartoonish. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/43 "2016-10-02T02:27:32Z")
Amy Poehler, Will Farrell, Megan Mulhally??? Some of you guys should have your opinions taken away, ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/44 "2016-10-02T02:49:28Z")
Olivia Munn. Even if I didn’t associate her with G4’s nosedive into crass pandering, she’d still be as charismatic as a wooden plank that was somehow trying too hard. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/45 "2016-10-03T15:00:47Z")
Channing Tatum. Mila Kunis. (Why yes, I \*am \*still in awe of just how bad _Jupiter Ascending_ was…) > [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Mahershalalhashbaz Ali](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDg4OTczODE5Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjgwMjA0Mg@@._V1_UY317_CR32,0,214,317_AL_.jpg) Hotness aside, I thought he was very good in _The 4400_, good in _Treme_, and pretty good in _House of Cards_. (And he seems to be credited as just “Mahershala Ali.”) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/46 "2016-10-03T15:11:18Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > (And he seems to be credited as just “Mahershala Ali.”) I’ve seen both on screen. Might have been the first season of Alphas that he used his whole name, might have shortened it even for the second. I guess if there’d been a third season he’d have just been “Ma Ali.” He’s got a kind of deadpan thing going, but he plays his characters well. I wouldn’t put him in this list. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/47 "2016-10-03T15:16:15Z")
I want to remind people that **Andie MacDowell** has had steady acting work for decades. Andie MacDowell. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/48 "2016-10-03T16:20:46Z")
I will go with Channing Tatum, or Tater Channing, or whatever his name is. He actually IS a potato, with abs carved in. They play up his abs because he’s got nothin’ else. He is so bland and forgettable, and they keep pushing pushing pushing him as the Next Biggest Thing EVER. It hasn’t happened and time is passing for Mr. Potato. (I know someone who complains she can’t pick him out of a crowd, he has ‘generic Man Face’. Like a blah Ken doll.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/49 "2016-10-03T16:26:35Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Mila Kunis. She’s- within her limitations- OK, but she bought and promoted her way to the top of the Top 100 Hot women list, which is bogus. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/50 "2016-10-03T16:29:02Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Yeah, you wonder if all the Tom Cruise haters realize that it is a business. Studios don’t get income according to the arbitrary acting judgments of fans only for the tickets they buy. So things like this in Forbes [Box Office: Tom Cruise Hasn’t Had A Real Flop In Nearly 30 Years](http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/07/30/box-office-tom-cruise-is-still-a-man-of-few-flops/#13b8214d18ee) may have some bearing on the subject of Tom Cruise’s suitability for acting jobs. Exactly. I don’t like Will Ferrell at all, but he’s made some very successful comedies. THAT is why he works steadily, not because studio execs have some irrational love for the guy. Tom Cruise strikes me as a weird guy, but he’s a handsome guy, he’s made a lot of highly profitable movies, has been quite good in many of them, and has a reputation as a hard working actor who’s easy to get along with on the set. Why WOULDN’T he work steadily? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/51 "2016-10-03T17:42:13Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I mean because they are terrible actors. Some actors keep finding jobs in movies or TV and no one can seem to figure out why. I don’t even mean people like Adam Sandler, who keeps cashing huge checks. I mean actors who are dry as could be or just terrible at emoting. > > I have a patron saint for this: > > [Mahershalalhashbaz Ali](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDg4OTczODE5Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjgwMjA0Mg@@._V1_UY317_CR32,0,214,317_AL_.jpg) > > This man. He can not act at all. He’s dry. Dry like sandpaper. > > I see he’s in Luke Cage. > > Sigh. > > Another show I have to see that he appears in. I thought he did a fairly fantastic job in Luke Cage, myself. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/52 "2016-10-03T19:50:19Z")
Jennifer Aniston Gweneth Paltow Jessica Alba Anyone that as ever appeared in an Adam Sandler movie. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/53 "2016-10-03T20:19:13Z")
Ben Stiller - 95% of the time he comes off as trying too hard. Vince Vaughn - Swingers was 1996, been stuck in that character ever since. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/54 "2016-10-03T20:28:19Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Anyone that as ever appeared in an Adam Sandler movie. Including Jack Nicholson? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/55 "2016-10-04T01:38:24Z")
leonardo dicaprio he has never transitioned into Leading Man for me, I still see him as a retarded kid from 'whats eating gilbert grape" I refused to watch titanic because of him ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/56 "2016-10-04T06:03:40Z")
Yeah, but DiCaprio’s trophy case speaks for itself. Josh Hartnett hasn’t been mentioned yet I don’t think. Hartnett has been in some good movies, but as an actor there’s just nothing there and he’s never been a draw. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/58 "2016-10-05T20:28:34Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > leonardo dicaprio he has never transitioned into Leading Man for me, I still see him as a retarded kid from 'whats eating gilbert grape" I refused to watch titanic because of him I absolutely hated him until Gangs of New York. That movie flipped the switch for me. I’ve liked him in everything since. ---
**Author:** ![Nauplius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nauplius/32/51_2.png) [@Nauplius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nauplius)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/59 "2016-10-05T21:40:55Z")
Jai Courtney - Just awful. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/60 "2016-10-05T22:12:24Z")
Jonah Hill. Hollywood seems to love him (2 Oscar nominations - 2!!!) But I just don’t get it. He started out getting roles in every movie made as the fat dick-ish funny-ish guy, then somehow got morphed into fat disk-ish funny-ish guy with Oscar nominations. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/61 "2016-10-05T22:15:27Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I always thought that Nicholson could only do crazy but his performance in About Schmidt was outstanding. Watch any 1970’s Nicholson to see Jack at his finest. There’s this western, The Missouri Breaks, where he’s required to show several layers of emotions at the same time throughout the movie and is absolutely natural at expressing them. And then Strassberg method legend Marlon Brando appears, chomping scenario like it was made of custard, with a crazy oirish accent and being very flamboyant- and Nicholson with his Checkhovian “realistic” and more subdued style- and he’s still not out shined at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314.md?page=4)