" I think if you need the average soul , Liam Hemsworth ’s most illustrious theatrical role was as Miley Cyrus ’s boyfriend , husband , and then ex . … I feel like he was marketed as a novel heartthrob , but he ’s just very … blah . Nothing particularly magnetic about him on- or offscreen . "
Recently, redditoru/UnlikelyFig2822posed thequestion, “Which up-and-coming Hollywood actors fizzled out?” to the people ofr/popculturechat. Here are their top responses:
1.“Taylor Lautnerdisappeared from the screen after theTwilightmovies ended.”
2.“Was always surprisedSam Claflindidn’t have a bigger career afterHunger Games. I always mixed him up with Alex Pettyfer back in that era. He was recently great inPeaky BlindersandDaisy Jones, though, so hopefully he’ll get more projects!”
3.“Alex Pettyfer! He starred inBeastlyandMagic Mikebut allegedly had issues withChanning Tatumon the set ofMagic Mike. His movieI Am Number Fourflopped, and rumors were swirling that he was difficult to work with on set.”
4.“I think if you ask the average person, Liam Hemsworth’s most notable role was as Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend, husband, and then ex. A close second is Gale inThe Hunger Games. I feel like in the beginning, he was marketed as a new heartthrob, but he’s just very…blah. Nothing particularly charismatic about him on- or offscreen.”
5.“Shailene Woodley was supposed to be the next Jennifer Lawrence, but her career tanked right alongsideDivergentwhen the YA adaptation bubble burst.”
6.“Larisa Oleynik! She just kind of disappeared. I think she was inMad Menfor a hot second?”
7.“Sara Paxton. They put her in everything in an effort to make her the next big thing.”
8.“I thought Mia Wasikowska was gaining traction in the early 2010s, but I haven’t seen her in much since.”
9.“Skeet Ulrich had crazy hype afterScream, and then he completely fizzled out.”
10.“I’ve always liked Taylor Kitsch as an actor. He seems to have worked semi-steadily, so I wonder if the ‘fizzle’ is partly of his own choosing? He was inLone Survivor,True DetectiveSeason 2,Waco,The Terminal List, and nowPainkiller.”
11.“Dane DeHaan. Someone in another thread today mentioned how every young up-and-coming white male actor always gets compared to Leonardo DiCaprio. I remember when Dane was starting out and had been inChronicleandThe Place Beyond the Pines; he got compared to Leo around then. AfterThe Amazing Spider-Man 2and thatValerianmovie with Cara Delevingne, he fizzled out. He was recently inOppenheimerand he was good in it, despite not being in the movie much. It made me wish he had become a bigger star.”
12.“This was over a decade ago, but Brandon Routh was supposed to be huge — like, the next Tom Cruise — but I haven’t heard much about him sinceSuperman Returns.”
13.“No one mentioned Theo James yet?? Glad he’s getting more attention afterWhite LotusSeason 2!”
14.“I’d like to argue for Hayden Christensen. AfterStar Wars, we barely saw him in anything because he had so much backlash over the role, even though now he’s remembered quite fondly. He’s had a career revival lately with his performance in theObi-Wan Kenobishow, so I hope he’ll be seen and cast a lot more now.”
15.“I loved AnnaSophia Robb, but I haven’t heard much about her sinceThe Carrie Diaries.”
16.“Josh Hartnett had a great run and then just vanished. I saw an interview not too long ago where he said he felt magazines overhyped him and disrupted his career.”
17.“Eliza Dushku — I thought she was going to be huge, but she kind of disappeared!”
18.“Wentworth Miller. Apparently hestruggledreally hard with depression and living in the closet, andPrison Breakdidn’t help. He had to break from acting to get a good frame of mind again.”
19.“Maybe it’s me living under a rock, but I feel like Felicity Jones was on track to be super A-list but then just disappeared.”
20.“Josh Hutcherson disappeared afterHunger Games.I was wondering what happened to his career after the last movie, but someone told me they read in an interview that it was his choice. I guess he decided to take a break for a few years. Apparently, he’s living inSpainwith his girlfriend, but he’s having a bit of comeback this year with a new movie — ahorrorone, I think.
21.Finally: “Isla Fisher. I feel like she was making bank in her 30s, and now she’s at that age when Hollywood won’t work with her because she’s not a bubbly young thing, but not quite old enough to play an older woman. Obviously, women aren’t allowed to age in Hollywood 🙄.”
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