# Actors you hate whom you loved in just ONE role? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632 "2005-05-06T01:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/61 "2005-05-09T20:35:43Z")
Kevin Costner annoys the hell out of me–except for **Bull Durham**. Count another vote for Tom Cruise–but my exception is “Interview With the Vampire” And I can’t stand Bette Midler in anything except “Ruthless People” ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/62 "2005-05-09T20:40:33Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > And I can’t stand Bette Midler in anything except “Ruthless People” And I can’t stand Bette Midler in anything except that “Seinfeld” episode where she gets injured in a softball game and Kramer makes it his duty to look after her. But “Seinfeld” isn’t a movie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/63 "2005-05-09T20:55:17Z")
I loved Kirsten Dunst in “Interview with the Vampire”. Everything else she did (and yes, that includes the Spiderman films) I can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/64 "2005-05-09T21:04:22Z")
> [@Agrippina](#): > > And I can’t stand Bette Midler in anything except that “Seinfeld” episode where she gets injured in a softball game and Kramer makes it his duty to look after her. But “Seinfeld” isn’t a movie. 😃 IMHO, it’s not much of a TV show , either. 😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/65 "2005-05-10T01:06:38Z")
Costner in _Field of Dreams_. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/66 "2005-05-10T01:34:16Z")
Costner _and_ Judd Nelson in _Fandango_. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/67 "2005-05-10T03:17:54Z")
**Sean Penn** in \*\*Fast Times at Ridgemont High[//b]. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/68 "2005-05-10T03:34:03Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > **Sean Penn** in **Fast Times at Ridgemont High**. I liked him quite a bit in _21 Grams_. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/69 "2005-05-10T05:06:46Z")
> [@NE Texan](#): > > I’ve never liked Richard Dreyfuss (and I’m fully aware that I have little to no company with that opinion) in anything he’s been in. Except for “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, where I really, really, thought he was perfect for the part. Which made me re-watch him in other movies. Where I still thought he was crap. I only liked him as Mr. Holland. You have company in that opinion, to a point. I particularly hated him as Mr. Holland, but I’ve sure never liked him in anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/70 "2005-05-10T05:07:47Z")
Holly Hunter started out okay and then began to drive me crazy in everything she was in. Until she got to _The Piano._ Possibly because she didn’t talk? ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/71 "2005-05-10T07:21:58Z")
I’m not usually a big fan of Ben Stiller, but I did like him in Meet the Parents. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/72 "2005-05-10T10:27:47Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > Costner in _Field of Dreams_. No, Costner in _Silverado_. Everything since then has been a downhill slide. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/73 "2005-05-10T14:27:53Z")
> [@KJ](#): > > I’m not usually a big fan of Ben Stiller, but I did like him in Meet the Parents. I agree with Ben Stiller, but substitute _The Royal Tenenbaums_ for _Meet the Parents_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632.md?page=3)