She was bad and annoying. But more bad than anything else. Everyone else in this thread is a Streep or Olivier compared to her.
You’re not kidding! NajaHusband did an honest-to-goodness spit-take.
Bonnie Langford in the TV series of Just William, found a character that seemed to match her acting style, so I’m not sure whether or not to include her. But, if we fast forward to her role as companion to Doctor Who, we can probably deduce that she would have been a bad child actor.
Yup, that was the point–there’s chunks of the interview with the Corey and Rob Reiner discussing the same thing, along with Chris Chambers/River Phoenix and the peacemaker qualities, Vern Tessio/Jerry O’Connell being a dorky goofball, and so on.
Yeah, Dee was a bad actor but I don’t think she really whined.
I loved the way she made a profit off of being a tattletale though – that’s enterprising!!
It wasn’t until I was older that I realized she wasn’t just doing a deadpan delivery.
Recent pictures of Justine Bateman, are, to put it euphemistically, not flattering at all. I dunno what happened to her, but the pics I saw were shocking, to say the least.
Any child actor with that fucking Adam Rich soupbowl monstrocity of a pseudo-haircut.
She looked pretty good on Arrested Development I thought.
Another one for Danielle Spencer. In every scene she sounds like she’s reading the script for the very first time (though Fred ‘Rerun’ Berry had perhaps the worst comic timing on the show).
The Murphy twins- Tabitha from Bewitched- were pretty bad as well, also “just say the line and look at Elizabeth” acting.
Claude Jarman from The Yearling. Had I been Jane Wyman (which I very nearly was, but an elderly woman beat me to it) I’d have let the deer live and shot him (and he won an Oscar!).
Edward Furlong was one of the whiniest performances I’ve ever seen in Terminator 2, and the reason Brad Renfro gave a natural performance in The Client was he wasn’t acting: he’s sucked in almost everything else.
Trivia: Did you know that DJ from Roseanne (mentioned earlier) had a kid of his own before the show was over? It was born when he was about 17. He’s still with the mother and they have another kid now.
I have to chime in to add to Wil Wheaton’s defense, too. It was the character Wesley Crusher, even WW hated the character. Read his blog and you’ll find he’s just a normal well-intentioned geek like the rest of us. Hate the character, not the actor. And he was good in Stand By Me.
Let’s not stop at the Olsen Twins, all the kids in that show were terrible especially the middle one. She had one facial expression - annoying grimace. Yes, I watched it but I was young and I thought John Stamos was hot.
Michael Oliver, who played Junior in “Problem Child”(1990), alongside John Ritter.
According to IMDB his career in film was short, thank heavens.
Not as bad as all that, but in this picture she seems to have a serious case of “smoker’s face.” (Stay away from the cigs, kids!)
Yay, I’m not alone! I loathe that commercial and no one here understands why. I second Raven-Symone. Yikes.
Wow. Just wow.
Word. She tops my list of kids I don’t want to be in the same room with.
This Wet Shirt Rule must be all that is required by Hollywood today in picking starlets. and how Sharon Stone gots herself a job.
Joey Lawrence. And Matthew Lawrence.
Oh come on - nothing that a better haircut and a good makeup job won’t fix - although admittedly she’s no longer youthful!
Agreed. My point was that she is not as bad as John DiFool was implying – but that she obviously shows the effects of a long-term smoking habit. Smoking ages your face; no getting around it.
Yes! But I LIKED my trolls…
I liked the Keaton kids, until the youngest (is that the equivalent of jumping the shark–bringing Aw, cute! toddlers onto fading shows? Cosby did it, too–Rudi was awful and then they brought yet one more rugrat on…) came along.
Joanie on Happy Days was annoying and not so great in the acting dept, and Chotchie (sp?) was in a class by himself–remedial.
No kidding. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone who fits that description so gorram well though. Even the Olsen twins on Full House picked up a little something during their run. DJ (Michael Fishman) just never, ever got better. Why they decided to involve him in plots (getting a girlfriend), I’ll never know.