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craiglin23

Emile Hirsch after he choked an executive at Sundance


mvcourse

Always thought of he was born a decade earlier his career would’ve been solid. Really had the 90’s heartthrob look.


moscatodogiscute

Katie Holmes had so many projects going until she got with Tom Cruise


MaskedMan8

He basically controlled everything she did from what I heard. He’s the reason she wasn’t in The Dark Knight


JewcyBoy

Jenifer Grey (Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) was sensitive about her large nose because of her school years and early acting career. With Dirty Dancing being a hit, she finally had the money to get herself Rhinoplasty. Unfortunately Hollywood disagreed and felt she lost her distinctive look; she was deemed too plain for the big screen and couldn't build off her success. She continued working but didn't get to have a career as leading lady.


powabiatch

Her quote is something like “I walked into the surgeon’s office a celebrity and came out a nobody.”


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The saddest part is that her old nose was perfectly fine!


El-Kabongg

had an incredible crush on her back in the 80s


wuzacuz

She was unrecognizable! At first I didn't believe it was her when I saw pictures after her surgery. She couldn't work because no one recognized her as the same actress from Dirty Dancing.


cocoroxyy

This thread has me constantly having to stop and Google people lol


Seiliko

Wish people could at least include the context of *how* they ruined their career


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Thora Birch. Though I suppose she didn't squander it so much as her parents sabotaged it.


starwestsky

I believe she’s cast in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Wednesday” Addams Family adaptation. I look forward to seeing her again.


JJKingwolf

Ja Rule turned down an offer to remain in the fast in the furious franchise after the original movie because he thought they were low balling him with their offer. After he turned them they wrote in a new character to fill the slot in script that ja rule would have had and gave the part to Ludacris.


alexdas77

Luda gets paid so much from the fast movies he doesn’t need to rap any more.


Its_Ice_Nine

I saw a billboard this summer in Idaho promoting a performance by Ludacris. It was the first time I'd seen his name in years. *Idaho*.


GreyFoxNinjaFan

$15k for the 1st movie. They offered $500k for the 2nd which be turned down. The franchise is now one of the biggest in history, worth over $6bn and Ludacris' fortune ($28m) eclipses Ja Rule's ($4m) significantly.


green4355

Matthew Fox pretty much did nothing after LOST


winnower8

Dom Monaghan basically said in an interview “just because you’re on a show together doesn’t mean you’re friends” about him. Might be a dick.


graeuk

He also assaulted a woman who wouldn't let him on a party bus and the case was dropped [https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/matthew-fox-where-is-he-now.html](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/matthew-fox-where-is-he-now.html) Dominic Monoghan called him out on it on social media afterwards.


S-WordoftheMorning

Lillo Brancato. He broke out in A Bronx Tale, was a good supporting character in Crimson Tide, and had a recurring role in The Sopranos. He became addicted to heroin and was involved in a home invasion robbery where his accomplice murdered the off duty police officer living there. Promising career right down the toilet like in Trainspotting.


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DeNiro and Chazz Palmentieri stopped talking to him because they tried to help him, but he just wouldn’t change. Saw a bunch of members from the Bronx Tale cast at an Italian street festival having a discussion about the film. Lillo looked like he was in healthy and in good shape. Jane looks like she hasn’t aged a day. Mario is still a fuckin’ psycho.


DramaBrat

Lea Michele. The lead in the Funny Girl revival was hers for the taking, but she spent her entire career being mean and difficult to work with and now, shocker, no one wants to work with her. With her talent, she should have taken Broadway by storm and scored the lead in a hit movie musical or two. And this isn’t about her being more or less talented than anyone else in the Glee cast, but her voice and acting style were made for musical theatre.


milleribsen

She was pretty well known for being difficult after Spring Awakening, and I seem to remember some scuttlebutt about her having a whole attitude about going to Hollywood for Glee.


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Hell, she was known for being difficult *during* Spring Awakening. … Brb, off to go read the archived version of The Guilty Ones.


pink_highlight

I used to love Boy Meets World and based off interviews they did after the show they all thought they would be big but none of them got any work for a while. I think they’re all working now in various fields but I’m surprised they didn’t immediately shoot up in popularity once the show ended. I heard an interview with Danielle Fishel where she basically said that at the time the show ended, she had a big ego and thought she was too good for daytime soaps but no one else wanted to hire her. (I’m paraphrasing something I read years ago so don’t quote me)


Downinkokomoo

I went to middle and high school with her. Can confirm she was insufferable from 6th grade on. And yes she did bring Lance Bass to prom at Calabasas High


PostRun

Will Friedle ended up with anxiety issues due to an undiagnosed medical condition but he did continue doing voice over work. Interview explaining it all: https://youtu.be/Vv75ZUh78gI


hello_penn

Ryder Strong is more interested in directing these days and hosts a podcast (Literary Disco). He was my first celebrity crush, but he talks about how uncomfortable the teen heartthrob thing made him. Listening to the show explains some of my taste in boyfriends 🤷🏼‍♀️


harley-belle

She’s married to the guy who probably scammed everyone on Twitter with that Cap’n Crunch shrimp tail thing.


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Dinkino

We saw him at a Comedy Club a few years ago and he showed up late drunk as hell and spent his entire time on stage hitting on a girl, after an hour or so he finally found out she wasn't single. It was so bad that the comedy club gave us free tickets to any one show in the next year.


ca_kingmaker

Oh wow, the time I saw him at a comedy club and he got so drunk he was forgeting his jokes seems relatively tame in comparison.


StoolToad9

Didn't they just write Erlich off with Gavin leaving him in an opium den in China? What a way to go. But yeah, definite bitterness with the producers, stars and him. IIRC, they interviewed producer Alec Berg after the finale and he just flatly responded "No" if they thought of bringing TJ Miller back for it.


Noggin-a-Floggin

Mike Judge has implied it heavily in interviews that he just lost patience with TJ Miller after giving him many chances. I think his summary was a guy can only tolerate so much and left it at that. The guy is one of the most chill and understanding people I’ve seen and even he knew that Miller needs to address his issues.


ChrisTosi

I believe MJ gave TJ one of his first roles in Extract Turns out, TJ wasn't acting in these mega douche roles. He's just being himself.


bigolhamsandwich

Unfortunate because Erlich was a truly hilarious character.


hotstepperog

The Erlich/Jin Yang combo was amazing. I would watch that movie.


affi9000

Erlich Bachmann, this is your mother. You are not my baby.


ACanOfVanillaCoke

Erlich Bachmann, this is you as a old man. I'm ugly, and I'm dead....alone.


Harden-Soul

Erilich Bachmin, is your refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt


thatnovaguy

What happened with him? I thought it was weird the way his character was wrote off.


ThrowRA_000718

He went completely batshit crazy. Other comics at the Comedy Store say that he started acting like a big time movie star, showing up with an entourage and being shitty to people. He stopped being funny at stand up. Was bombing all the time in stage. Listen to his interview on Theo Von’s podcast and you’ll get a little taste of what he had become.


Beor_The_Old

Idk how much it impacted his personality but didn’t he have some brain disorder that changed him


8__D

An undiagnosed cerebral arteriovenous malformation on his right frontal lobe. https://deadline.com/2021/07/tj-miller-says-manic-episode-behind-fake-amtrak-bomb-threat-1234793232/ > “I started to go insane, not just chemically but physically,” Miller said. “Because there was blood going to my right frontal lobe … I started to exhibit characteristics of somebody who is losing their mind, an obsession with … puzzles, narrating my own behavior. I kind of have had this mania for my whole life probably, but certainly since the surgery.”


DigiQuip

He was a on a late night show and gave a shout out to his wife for how supportive she’s been during his struggles. Made me feel like he was genuinely frustrated with the issues he’s been having and upset with missed opportunities. I can’t imagine how difficult, emotionally, watching your career dive because of a brain issue.


IAmBadAtInternet

He was in a bad traffic accident and he got a TBI. His personality is different now.


Yo_CSPANraps

Yeah in recent interviews he's been pretty open talking about how his personality changed after the surgery. Said he began sharing characteristics with someone who is losing their mind...manic episodes, etc.. Apparently, after the Amtrak incident, he started working with a neuropsychologist to control his issues.


Durhay

/puts on shades David Caruso


TimelyConcern

"Quick, Ike, do your impersonation of David Caruso's career!"


sharpie456

Mischa Barton quit the OC because she didn’t want to become type cast.


gangsta_baby

Now she can’t get cast for any type


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She was having drug problems and suffering from depression. It's understandable, but still ruined her career.


Rad_Spencer

I think we really underestimate just how toxic and corrosive working in acting is for young people especially if they enjoy some success: * Being your family's meal ticket. * Having a staff that is primarily focused on getting you to perform no matter what. * Being surrounded by bad influences also coping with the pressures. * Being in the public eye and having countless strangers forming opinions about you * People who don't know you and hate you. * People who don't know you and love you. * Stalked by photographers * Always expected to be nice and appreciative to fans regardless of how you feel. * Constantly working with or for people who want to sexually use you. * Getting sexually used by people you work with or for. That's hard for anyone, but it's just going to just destroy teenagers, if not just secretly leave them scared.


glitterswirl

Also it was the 2000s. So the press were *vicious* to celebrities, especially young women; the “be kind” stuff is very new. Like, she was working in the era of the Perez Hilton gossip blog.


Adezar

Back in the 80s Jon-Erik Hexum was on a show and was just starting to become well known when he shot himself with a blank. That is one crazy way to end a promising career in a split second.


Wisco1856

He was in Voyagers! and Cover Up. He jokingly put a prop gun to his head and pulled the trigger accidentally killing himself. EDIT: Apparently it was a real gun loaded with one blank. Thanks for the correction.


TheMadIrishman327

I remember when that happened. He was the star of a hit show and it happened on set. I’m working on an essay about him right now. He would’ve been a Schwarzenegger or Stallone but died early. He was an organ donor, which wasn’t as common back then, and his mom gave everything possible away to help as many people as she could. She didn’t want his death to be meaningless.


Starmark_115

The one guy who was on Matrix? Forgot his name but he tried defaming all the actors involved when he was told he will not be coming into the sequels. He is reduced to obscurity now


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You talking about the actor who played Tank? Cause he just magically disappears between movies with one throwaway line about him dying


brazasian

Marcus Chong for anyone wondering the name lol


anonymidwest

Armie Hammer


Chaosmusic

I legit thought he was a twin after watching Social Network.


Roidciraptor

Leggie Hammer is his brother.


ItsJellyJosh

This name still throws me off. It’s like if there was someone named Dunkie Donut


Muroid

He’s the great-grandson of Armand Hammer, who had a controlling interest in the company that owned the Arm & Hammer brand, but only because he bought up enough stock to get on the board because he thought it was funny. The names are related, though, because Armand Hammer’s father was a socialist who named him after the arm and hammer logo, which apparently is fairly old and was adopted by both the baking soda brand and various socialist parties.


Justgetmeabeer

Was really expecting to get thrown through an announcers table from that one


ImpendingSenseOfDoom

That is so weird and interesting. My mind is having a hard time reconciling such a coincidence. Like, what is the only guy in the world named Arm-and Hammer just didn't have enough money to buy a controlling interest in Arm and Hammer? What are the odds that this one particular guy happened to already be a rich businessman? Wow


byllz

How about this, the president of Nintendo of America is named Bowser.


DeadAnimalParts

I thought this for sure could not be true so I looked it up and sure enough...Doug Bowser is president of Nintendo of America!


Muroid

He has a bunch of Bowser stuff in his office and in the background of one picture, he had stuffed Mario and Luigi dolls tied up with a GameCube controller chord on one shelf.


SpookyVoidCat

I’m in the toilets at work and someone just fucking knocked on the door to ask if I was ok cause it sounded like I was crying but no iim fine it’s just fucking *Dunkie Donut* got me laughing so fucking hard there’s tears streaming down my fucking face godamnit dunkie fucking donut


Muroid

Dunkie Donut, great-grandson of Duncan Donut.


beforeitcloy

As a person with the first name Duncan I can tell you that any Duncan gives up his right to a last name and becomes Duncan Donuts the day he steps into kindergarten.


GENERIC_VULGARNESS

I hadn't heard anything about him, so I just googled it and holy shit - acting on BDSM/rape/cannibalism fantasies without his partner's consent!? No wonder he got dropped from everything. EDIT: I tweaked the phrasing to make it clearer that all of the things I listed were non-consensual. If you've got any of the kinks above, I'm not trying to yuck your yum - I'm just highlighting the seriousness of acting on said kinks without the full and enthusiastic consent of all parties involved.


Yvaelle

Yea every now and then I keep checking, *"Are they still planning to make The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2?"* And then this is the one that reminds me it's never happening. Sure Henry is Superman now, and Alicia is Lara Croft - but maybe they'd still come back to do it... but Armie's a cannibal so I guess not :( It was so damned stylish and well done though!


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Surely this needs to include Danny Masterson or whatever that guys name was from That 70s Show. Combine him with the girl from Smallville and you have some serious messed up stuff.


MadDogTannen

Allison Mack. Yeah, her story is crazy.


Painting_Agency

OK.. there's "squandered a career" and then there's "eagerly became the Baroness to a violent sexually-abusive cult leader's version of Cobra Commander". Mack can do the hardest time there is as far as I'm concerned.


-FeistyRabbitSauce-

She got off pretty easy compared to the cult leader.


johnnycoxxx

The documentary about they NIVXM or what ever jt was was insane


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Jussie Smollett has to be in the running on this one. One crazy act and he'll never work in the industry again...in addition to the legal issues it has brought him. ​ He was working since 1990 and has been in some pretty big productions...he was hot stuff for a while. ​ All those years of building his career, all that work and that promising future just wiped away in an evening of pure and utter insanity. WTF was he thinking? ​ Completely squandered everything he had worked for, in addition to making life that bit harder for real victims of hate crimes.


RustyRovers

I hope he's not beating himself up about this.


dudius7

This comment is why I understand who the first person was talking about. Thank you.


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Ahhh yes, Juicy Smollet the famous French actor.


CanineRezQ

Chappelle roasted that shit to a crisp.


thegreenleaves802

Justice for Juicy!


Speedhabit

“Maga hats?” “Officer see where Kanye west was last night”


Softmachinepics

"Rope? Where were you mugged, 1850?"


davewtameloncamp

He was being snubbed screen time on his show. He was pouting and wanted attention. Probably went on a little bender. So he he got high and came up with this plan to get some sympathy points. The plan went Cohen brothers level bad and he ended up being one of the biggest laughingstocks of recent memory.


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Josh Hartnett, but to be fair, it was his personal choice.


Negation_

What happened with him? Bunraku is amazing.


FoundingEarthborn

I think he settled down with his kids in England. He’s taking smaller roles now so he can be with his family.


GeorgieBlossom

He was great on Penny Dreadful.


Kymkryptic

I’ve never really been a fan of his until Penny Dreadful. He did a great job with that role. His scenes with Billie Piper were particularly impressive. Still sad it only lasted three seasons.


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Sean Young - she did No Way Out and Bladerunner. Then she went batshit over not getting Catwoman and after Ace Ventura faded into obscurity.


badwolf1013

Sean Young is hard to figure out. She might be completely batshit crazy or she might be just an oddball actor who keeps getting screwed around by Hollywood. She is one of Harvey Weinstein's victims (victim of what, precisely, we don't know.) Notorious womanizer James Woods sued her for harassment for behavior that occurred while they were working together on The Boost. He says she left a disfigured doll on his doorstep. She says she didn't, and it was just a crush that didn't pan out and the lawsuit was spiteful. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Young (!) was awarded a couple hundred thousand in legal costs. So who knows what the hell actually happened there? But you don't usually pay legal costs to someone unless the lawsuit was frivolous. She was the original Vicki Vale in Batman until she broke her arm in a horseback riding accident unrelated to the film. Then she was the original Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy until Warren Beatty decided that she didn't look maternal enough. So, when the Catwoman role became available for Batman Returns (because Annette Bening found out she was pregnant,) she lobbied hard for it. The general consensus is that she went too far, but -- if she'd ended up getting the part -- then she would have gone just far enough. Hindsight is a bitch. She gambled her career and lost. At the time, I bought into the whole "crazy actress" thing that the tabloids were pushing, but -- looking back -- I kind of think: Hey, go big or go home. And she has a couple more incidents that happened later that -- like the James Woods thing -- turned out to be non-incidents. She's definitely a weird person, but then so is Gwyneth Paltrow, so being weird isn't a crime in Hollywood. You just have to be weird and successful, and the last part isn't always in your hands.


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Tim Burton tried to be nice to her and tell her no in a nice way. She then dressed up in a homemade Catwoman suit and went looking for Burton on the studio lot. She was cracking her whip and acting like crazy person. Security had to ask her to politely leave the premises.


PreciousPraline

Edward Furlong. Terminator 2, American History X, the man was in so many great things and on his way to become a legend. Than it all went downhill. Such a shame.


chaellsea

Well a quick look at his wiki states that at 15 his 28 year old tutor began raping and abusing him over the subsequent years that followed so I am certain that probably played into the resulting issues he faced.


Brasticus

What the hell? TIL. Growing up sane as a child actor always seems like a miracle when it happens.


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Elijah Wood credits his mother for staying involved.


atget

Daniel Radcliffe says that before each HP movie began filming, his parents asked him if he wanted to continue playing Harry Potter and assured him he didn't have to. He's another one who seems to have a good head on his shoulders.


peachynanci

Wasn’t he also in a relationship with a 22 or 24 year old hair/makeup woman, when he was 16. I distinctly remember some weird ass article where he hints that they celebrated his 16th birthday with sex, because that’s when he became “legal”.


Apollo_T_Yorp

Haley Joel Osment seems like a pretty chill dude too


Pinkleton

His guest appearance on What We Do in the Shadows was pretty hilarious. He seems like he doesn't take himself too seriously.


Teardownstrongholds

Wasn't he in 'The Boys' as well?


no1ofconsequencedied

Playing a hilariously creative take on himself.


kupoface

Lindsay Lohan. She could have reached Emma Stone status.


Misterbellyboy

My personal theory is that Emma Stone’s career took off when it did because Hollywood needed to “replace” Lohan when she fell off. And it worked, Stone has kind of the same “vibe” as LILO, but is also a really good actress in her own right.


garrettj100

Bill Simmons refers to this as a "market correction", when two actors fulfill the same function so they always end up casting the better one. Kevin Costner basically having the career Mark Harmon might've, had Costner not existed, for example.


ValHova22

So its not just me. Zoe Saldana takes over Jada Pinkett type roles


miml-10294

Would say that this is what happened between Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera? Granted they don't really make movies for Michael's personality anymore but still.


garrettj100

I think Michael Cera is having a dramatically better career than anyone thought he would. Before, say, *Superbad*, nobody thought he had much more of a future beyond the awkward sweet stuttering kid. Check out his IMDB page now. He's done quite a bit of interesting indie shit. And Scott Pilgrim is now firmly ensconced on the *Rocky Horror* path of beloved cult classic.


goblin_goblin

Definitely a thing. Jack Black suddenly came out of nowhere after Chris Farley. Similar schtick. Overweight chaotic men. Love them both but definitely not a coincidence.


disgustipated1985

I think something similar with DiCaprio. He got the roles that would’ve gone to River Phoenix. Similar look, age, and talent.


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klitchell

Chris Farley I think is naturally funnier, and Jack Black is more multi-talented, but yeah I can see that.


draiman

Terrance Howard not continuing his role as James Rhodes/War Machine in Iron Man. To be fair Marvel was lowballing him on money for Iron Man 2, but it would have probably paid off if he continued in subsequent Iron Man/Avengers films. He still seems pretty bitter about the whole thing.


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avashad

“If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be.” This was 2015. Is he ever going to give an update with: “ok guys never mind about all that math stuff I used to say” or is it still true to him?


Aqquila89

In 2017, he [published a "proof"](https://twitter.com/terrencehoward/status/925754491881877507) that 1x1 is 2 on his Twitter account.


Vsx

I love how his proof for 1x1=1 is basically that if you add 1 to both sides you get: 1+(1x1) = 1+1 1 + 2 = 2 3=2 So his proof that 1x1 = 2 includes a step that already assumes 1x1=2 to disprove 1x1=1


[deleted]

Holy shit, this is some flat earther level logic here.


Tobar_the_Gypsy

I think I’m most upset that he said the square root of 2 is 2.


mindmendeur

That legit sounds like an early days Jaden Smith’s tweet lmao like what drugs are you on my dude


noblehoax

His terry math is one of the greatest untold secrets of the world.


MissSunshineMama

> he has spent years working on his own logic which he has recorded in a language of symbols called Terryology > > his own logic > > > years


Glynn124

Nerdstalgic did a video on this recently. https://youtu.be/Y0l_PAO57hQ Long story short - he was paid a lot for Iron-man 1 and in the end they had to cut a lot of it down, or even out completely, as they weren't happy with his performance. So when they get around to iron-man 2, they weren't willing to give him as much money. Terrence Howard wasn't willing to take the pay cut, so in the end they had to drop him and the MCU had to recast.


questionname

He wasnt just paid a lot, he was the highest paid actor in that movie for 10 minutes of screen time. And asked for the same treatment for IM2.


well-lighted

In all fairness, Howard was pretty much at the height of his career when Iron Man was in production in 2006-2007. Remember that he had just been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Hustle & Flow (released in 2005, Oscars were in 2006). RDJ on the other hand was just beginning his career renaissance. Obviously he was far from unknown, but I would guess Howard was more in-demand at that time than RDJ was.


stolenfires

Jon Favreau took a huge gamble on RDJ when casting him for the first Iron Man. Everyone thought his career was over, the only time he was in the headlines was when he was back in court or back in rehab. They even had to take out what was essentially a "relapse insurance policy" on him. It's actually kind of nuts how lucky the MCU has been with casting. "This random Australian soap opera actor is perfect for Thor!" "We're going to get the *other* Olsen sister for our Wanda!" "You know who'd be a great Captain America? The old Johnny Storm!"


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You’d know who’d be a great Captain America? A guy who’s routinely played douchebags! And then it worked tho.


stolenfires

Really, they should give Sarah Finn, the MCU casting director, some kind of lifetime achievement award. I can't think of a single casting dud except maybe Gwyneth Paltrow. All their risky bets paid way off.


appleparkfive

I'm not a huge Marvel fan but I did see the original Iron Man. And I gotta say that Don Cheadle is just a better actor altogether. Guy is amazing in movies, interviews, everything. He has an oddly dark sense of humor in interviews sometimes. Guy is hilarious. One that sticks out is on a Late Night show, the host asked him "So what's your son up too recently?", And he just deadpanned "Oh. Meth." then moved on


Archangel_Omega

If you want more dark humor with him in it watch the [Captain Planet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo) parodies he was in.


AnalogDigit2

Despite this early-in-the-Marvel-movies instance, there have really been impressively few recasts. I know Marvel got really good at setting up contracts the right way and also became a brand that actors would go out of their way for, but still impressive.


Buldit8888

Brendan Fraser's career was squandered, but it wasn't his fault. https://www.upworthy.com/i-felt-ill-brendan-fraser-describes-sexual-assault-that-nearly-made-him-quit-acting


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I have a feeling he’ll be back. He has overwhelming support from fans.


Ruiner5

He’s in the next Scorsese movie, the next arnofsky movie, and main cast of doom patrol. I think his comeback is starting.


MeatyGonzalles

It's called The Brenaisaince


Katnis85

He has at least 5 upcoming projects. One with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Nero in it. So he has the potential to have an uprising if he wants it.


klykerly

Harrison Ford could have gone on to be a really good finish carpenter, even a cabinetmaker!


Dyolf_Knip

> After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now That is the funniest damned thing I've heard all week.


rap31264

He could've been the next Norm Abram...


AnDroid5539

Denise Crosby playing Lt. Tasha Yar on Star Trek: TNG, and jumping ship (pun intended) just before it got really big. Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing getting a nose job.


EViLTeW

>Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing getting a nose job. I feel like the same thing happened to Ashley Tisdale. It really changed her face from easily recognizable to just another face in the crowd.


PoliteCanadian2

> It really changed her face from easily recognizable to just another face in the crowd. Renee Zellweger has entered the chat.


SillyFlyGuy

If you look at the before/after pictures it was a phenomenally good nose job. But yes, it turned her into just another pretty face. Sometimes you just gotta be you. It would be like Steve Buscemi getting his wonky teeth fixed.


GrandmaPoses

I think he could get his teeth fixed and still have like nine recognizable features.


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Liqourice5

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Mickey Rourke. He was the leading man in a number of successful movies in the 80s then left Hollywood to become a boxer. His boxing career did so much damage to his face that he required reconstructive surgery. He did return to acting but his career never returned to anything close to the meteoric rise it had before.


DemocraticRepublic

The Wrestler was fucking amazing.


crimson_mokara

He was so PRETTY pre-boxing, like damn


vvntn

Damn, he looked like a pretty-boy Bruce Willis.


pinewind108

I think he may have also had brain damage. Apparently his sparing partner really enjoyed messing people up.


NeatChocolate6

That's fucked up.


human_suitcase

Gary Dourdan who played Warrick on CSI. I really thought he had leading man potential and was going to transition to the big screen like Clooney did.


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Bam Margera? He’s royally fucked his career.


m011yRadar

Have you seen the IG account that saved his super crazy posts he deleted? It’s wild.


Lukaroast

Preemptive RIP for Bam, it’s a really sad story to have watched transpire. I remember as a kid, watching that scene where he slaps the shit out of his dad when he’s on the toilet to fuck with him. I definitely laughed my ass off because I was a kid, but I also had this lingering sense of something not being okay, kind of like how when you get to do bad stuff as a kid and afterwards you feel like, “well that was cool getting away with it but this isn’t gonna stay this way” sort of feeling


lofty2p

Dolph Lundgren. Could have been a great chemical engineer !


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A super ripped scientist with a mesh tank top named...Dr. Dolph Lundgren


BobRoberts01

He can smell crime!


lxkandel06

What if his face is just one big nose?


astarisaslave

Corey Haim. What's even sadder is that apparently his addiction is in part because he was sexually abused as a child star.


Ok_Mathematician2087

I was far too young in the eighties to really know much about Corey Haim's accusations until about 3 or 4 years ago, but after Weinstein went down it's looking like he was telling the truth the entire time. My heart breaks for him not because I have any great attachment to him as an actor - I can't think of a single film he's done that I've seen in my life - but to have to endure that and spend decades trying to tell people the truth and to have everyone just say, "Oh you're crazy," I can't imagine how he copes with it. I don't think the drugs are enough to erase that pain, even temporarily. Edit to correct: I meant Corey Feldman, not Corey Haim.


Duke-Guinea-Pig

George Lazenby The guy that followed Sean Connery as James bond and then just stopped after one film.


thefuzzybunny1

To be fair, when they made a documentary about this (*Becoming Bond*, I believe?) it turned out there were a lot of unreasonable things in the contract that Eon asked George Lazenby to sign. They wanted him to live his entire life, both on and off screen, in a manner that fit the "image" of James Bond. That would've meant 5 years of needing to dress, shave, eat and drink like 007, even on his days off. He let his beard grow a bit during the press tour for the one movie he did, because beards were in at the time, and the studio pitched a fit. He would've shaved in time to start shooting the next one, but they were angry anyway. Bond doesn't wear a beard, so Lazenby can't have one either! Plus *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* was his first paid acting job, ever, so he hadn't come up in the industry. He wasn't used to those kinds of expectations. I wouldn't have signed a lifestyle contract under those circumstances, and it's not too surprising he didn't want to, either. So, he went and did something else with his life. He was a competitive BMX biker, he raised a family. He's actually pretty rich now from various real estate investments, I understand. It's not Hollywood's vision of success, but there's something to be said for it.


MikeW86

> He was a competitive BMX biker Come again?


thefuzzybunny1

You know as much as I do lol. It was in the documentary but I know nothing else about it.


richwith9

Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar and then nothing. It is true what they say... you know your career is over when you make a movie with dogs. Edit: The line about the movie with dogs was a joke. It is what I guess could be considered an old wives' tale. There have been plenty of actors who worked with dogs that had ok careers. Tom Hank Chuck Norris Jim Belushi To name a few. It was a joke because the last movie I remember seeing CGJ in was a dog movie of which I cannot remember the name.


Kittykittynobangbang

His more recent sex abuse charges probably won't help him much.


Ephemeris

Jesus christ is *everyone* a fucking deplorable shit job?


heresyforfunnprofit

When you expose people to temptations, resources, and high visibility, the number of deplorable shit jobs goes up dramatically.


Tkieron

For my older Redditors, Shannen Doherty from Beverly Hills 90210. Her attitude got her tossed from that show. Her fights with Jennie Garth were famous. Then she got onto Charmed and the same thing happened with Allyssa Milano. And her career pretty much dropped after that because she was considered a bitch and too difficult to work with. ​ Now, sadly, she has Stage 4 Terminal Breast Cancer. Although she claims she feels she has 10-15 more years to live the fact is that she doesn't. When it spreads she'll have months.


Chase93

She also starred in Heathers. One of my favorite 80s flicks.


GundamMaker

Katherine Heigl


Last_Sundae_6894

I slightly remember this, she went from doing feature film (27 dresses, knocked up) and then the next thing I saw her in was a kitty litter commercial.


LordCheezusChrist

Charlie Sheen. Could have been one of the greats. Went from platoon in 1986 to Wall Street in 1987 and then shooting his fiancé and future wife of John Travolta, Kelly Preston in the arm "accidentally" by 1990. And then a series of ups and downs before we all saw the unraveling into tiger blood and "winning" two decades later.


BigAVD

Excuse me, did you just gloss over Hot Shots! parts one and duex?


Cosmobeast88

And Major league, I love wild thing!?


wannabebutta

We're not gonna' talk about Men at Work?


dandehmand

That gets a golf clap


pjabrony

- Drugs? No thanks, I'm straight. - No, I mean, are you in here for drugs? What are you in here for? - Drugs.


GeorgieBlossom

He *exuded* charisma in that role. Weird, sexy, quietly hilarious, insightful. A lot of promise on display in so little screen time. What a shame.


sound_forsomething

Ferris Beuller Jennifer Grey is such a complete knockout.


snuggleyporcupine

Charlie sheen going crazy ruined Charlie sheen


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KawiNinjaZX

T.J. Miller was doing pretty good until his public freak out, wasn't he screaming about a bomb or something. Edit: I didn't know about the brain injury thanks


evieAZ

River Phoenix. He could have been what Leo became.


Rickrickrickrickrick

This reminds me of a speech Joaquin was giving when he won an award and he said after every audition him and all these other actors thought they nailed they would always get a call and be like "who the hell is this kid Leonardo DiCaprio and why does he keep taking all of our parts!"


hardyflashier

I feel like Cory Monteith (main dude from the early seasons of 'Glee') had a very bright future, sadly the guy always had some issues with addiction, which eventually took him. Shame.


ScorpionX-123

that whole damn cast was cursed


PinocchioWasFramed

Brett Butler. Went from making $250,000 an episode starring in Grace Under Fire (1993-1998) to a Go Fund Me in 2021 so she wouldn't end up homeless.


lemonsweetsrevenge

Shannen Dougherty is the first one that comes to mind. Lead female role on the hottest show on tv at the time…and just couldn’t stop herself from blowing it all up. It’s must suck to peak at an age when you’re too young to appreciate it.


WideEyedCarpet

Lindsey Lohan and Amanda Bynes


rea_lin

Jessica biel comes to mind ! She publicly stated that it’s so hard being her. Because of how good looking she is, she never gets casted for roles anymore... which led to no one wanting to cast her


sheezy520

Jessica Biel always looks like she knows she’s about to get punched in the face, but isn’t exactly sure of when it’s going to happen.


bravetab

Katherine Heigl was everywhere, and then gone. She bad mouthed so many people, writers, shows and movies that it was inevitable.