- I'm thinking about trying out for the role
of Lex Luthor in a future Superman movie,
just with a beard, and a lot less money,
and a little squishier around the mid-section, yeah.
You know, if you're gonna try out
for a movie role these days, you gotta be a lot more choosy.
People are unforgiving, thank you.
It's always surprising to me when actors
with illustrious careers make odd role choices.
And I get it, some of them want to try new things.
But, Hollywood is fickle and if you make the wrong movie,
it haunts you.
In fact, it can end your career.
Here are 10 roles that ended famous actors' careers.
Number 10 is Sean Connery in The League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Money Penny, why don't you take off that blouse
so I can get to know you better.
Still, to this day, one of the most famous actors
of all time, Sean Connery is a true icon
of the film industry.
Now, 87 years old, you'd expect the man to simply retire.
But, it took a real bomb of a film
to make that retirement stick.
The movie in question is the 2003 sci-fi action flick,
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
in which Connery starred in the leading role
as Allan Quatermain.
Now, while the CGI and special effects don't age well,
the film wasn't actually a total failure
and actually made money, though a very small margin.
Critics blasted it for it's poor acting and directing
and viewers seem to think that it was okay at best,
even citing Connery's performance was boring.
Almost immediately after, the actor retired,
dissatisfied with the film and rarely
even makes public appearances anymore.
Look, I love James Bond just as much as anyone
and he is a great actor.
But, you guys should be away that there is an interview
with Barbara Walters online where he literally says
it's okay to slap a woman.
It's on YouTube right now, feel free to look it up.
Number nine is Chris O'Donnell in Batman and Robin.
Holy career bomb, Batman.
After getting a Golden Globe nomination
for his performance in Scent of a Woman in 1992,
Chris O'Donnell seemed like a star on the rise.
That was until he donned a leather costume
and became Boy Wonder for the second time
in director Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin.
Everything about the film seemed
to counter the attitude that Batman was known for
and even featured the dynamic duo appearing in public
and arguing over who was going
to bring Poison Ivy on a date.
"Hmm, I've got the deeper voice, I get to take her."
The film was a commercial failure,
receiving scathing reviews from both critics
and fans of the DC franchise and essentially stripping
Chris O'Donnell of any potential that he'd accumulated.
As of today, he's found decent work on TV
but the actor's once promising Hollywood career is deaded.
Number eight is Kevin Costner in Waterworld.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s,
Kevin Costner starred in huge hits like The Untouchables,
Robin Hood, and The Bodyguard, and,
of course, Dances with Wolves.
But, as he found himself at such a high point,
Costner decided to stretch his production muscles
and took on a role as a director
in addition to a star for the colossal disappointment
that was the 1995 sci-fi film Waterworld.
In the movie, Costner plays a mutant man
who can breath underwater but lives on a raft.
Very few people actually went to see the movie
which lost tens of millions of dollars
and often is pointed to as the reason
that he lost his leading man status.
All because he wanted to be a mermaid man,
merman, mermaid, merman, who cares.
More recently, Costner co-starred as Batman's dad
in Man of Steel and back in 2007,
he played the lead in Mr. Brooks.
I've always really liked Kevin Costner,
so I hope that he does return to the A-list.
I think he just needs to really avoid being a merman.
Mer, merman, mer, who gives a crap?
Number seven is Alicia Silverstone in Excess Baggage.
I've literally never even heard of this movie,
so I'm not surprised.
In the mid-90s, Alicia Silverstone finally found
leading lady success in a teen comedy.
The actress who was known for being the center
of attention in Aerosmith music videos,
was suddenly the star of Clueless, the surprise hit
from the summer of 1995.
However, her A-list fame was short-lived
as what followed the breakout hit was dud after dud
up to and including the infamously bad Batman and Robin.
But, when Silverstone's brand new production company
released Excess Baggage in 1997,
it brought more than some bad reviews.
The actress was nominated for a Razzie Award
which is totally unwelcome for what people consider
truly horrible acting as she just failed
to build chemistry with her co-stars.
Though she has tried to rebuild,
it was too little, too late.
Soon, Silverstone was keeping her head down in Hollywood.
I keep my head down in Hollywood, too.
Not for the same reason.
Moreso, I just don't wanna step on, like,
an AIDS needle or glass or just,
there's a lot of nasty stuff on the ground.
Number six is Demi Moore in Striptease.
Back in the early to mid-90s,
Demi Moore was an in-demand actress.
So in-demand, in fact, that in 1996,
she became the highest paid actress
in the history of Hollywood at the time
when she received 12.5 million dollars
to star in Striptease.
A movie about a stripper trying to raise funds
and get custody of her daughter.
Though, it obviously appealed to a mostly male audience
looking to see Demi Moore's stuff,
the film failed to draw on other demographics
and bombed in the box office.
Critics slammed the acting in the movie
with Eric Brace of the Washington Post saying,
"Who told Demi Moore she could act?
"She can't, end of discussion."
Hoo, shade, flames, it's getting hot in her.
That movie was the start of a decline
that ultimately saw Moore taking a long hiatus from acting.
On top of it, future projects failed to make impacts
and she never managed to reclaim her A-list status.
Yeah, you can laugh at her all you want,
but she walked away with almost 13 million dollars.
I would shake my jiggly bits for that much money, what?
Number five is Mike Myers in The Love Guru.
This one hurts me personally,
'cause Mike Myers is my Canadian brother.
Canada's own Mike Myers was an icon
in the 1990s and early 2000s
with memorable roles such as Wayne from Wayne's World
and the Austin Powers trilogy of films,
in which he comedically played multiple characters.
But, on June 20, 2008, possibly the biggest flop
of his career was released and it all but erased him
from the spotlight.
That flop was The Love Guru and instead of the laughs
that viewers were used to in Mike Myers movies,
they were treated to some lame and overly vulgar jokes
and borderline racist character portrayals.
And the backlash must've affected the actor
because other than voice work in popular movies
such as Shrek, and the odd cameo,
Myers has pretty much left the acting world.
I guess you could say that that movie
was evil (laughs).
Yeah, it was bad.
Number four is Halle Berry in Catwoman.
After making history as the first African-American woman
to win the Academy Award for best actress in 2001
for Monsters Ball, Halle Berry should've moved on
to epic projects and new heights.
After a couple lackluster performances in Gothica
and Die Another Day, Berry headed back
to the superhero films that she was better known for
and took the lead role in 2004s Catwoman.
Though, many turned out initially,
mostly to see the gorgeous woman
in tight leather outfits (purrs).
The film left viewers upset due to the bad acting,
bad directing, and a plot that made very little sense.
Bombed at the domestic box office,
dragging what was left of Berry's dignity with it.
She has since taken on work in smaller film roles
and on television.
But, her acting career which was once on the verge
of exploding, now finds itself in mediocrity.
Listen, Halle, you fine as heck.
You should call me up.
We'll star in a movie together.
You know, the black African-American strong woman
meets the balding 30-something.
I'm sure there's an audience for it.
Number three is Hayden Christensen in Revenge of the Sith.
Believe it or not, playing Darth Vader
can actually break an actor as it's been well documented.
Hayden Christensen's turn as the dark lord
of the Sith was no different.
Christensen was only 19 years old when George Lucas
made him a young Anakin Skywalker
in 2002s Attack of the Clones.
Then, he reprised his role again
in 2005 in Revenge of the Sith.
Fans that were already disappointed in the first film
in the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace,
seemed to enjoy these two movies more.
Though, the writing for Anakin and Christensen's acting
were both deemed truly awful.
People especially pointed to the romantic scenes
shared with Natalie Portman.
And after his run in the Star Wars series,
Christensen gave up the craft.
He claimed it was his own decision
without any influence from his critics.
Still, if you ruin Vader, people do not want
to see your work.
The bad acting is strong
with this one (mechanical breathing).
Number two is Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls.
See what happens when you just make
an overly sexual movie about shaking your tatas?
Though it has been deemed by many
as one of the worst films ever made,
Showgirls was supposedly a big hit
and even had Hollywood starlet Charlize Theron
asking for the lead role.
I bet she's happy now she didn't take it.
However, the role went to Elizabeth Berkley,
a young and upcoming talent who'd found success
in television as the high school student Jessie Spano
on the hit show Saved by the Bell.
One of my favorite shows growing up
and then this movie just scarred me for life.
Jessie, why you showing your boobies?
As much as beating Charlize for a role
that should've gotten Berkley some points,
they were swiftly eliminated by the fact
that the film was a total flop full
of pointless graphic nudity, plot points
that made no sense, and some absolutely awful acting.
Though, she would appear in numerous films
and television programs as guest stars
or cameos, her leading lady status quickly evaporated.
Please leave it at that.
I will be mentally scarred if I see Zach Morris
on film shaking his twig and berries.
And number one is Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace.
Jake Lloyd was a child actor with a few roles.
His most prominent being Arnold Schwarzenegger's son
in Jingle All The Way.
"Jaime, get your mother!"
That was, of course, until he took his turn
as Darth Vader the dark lord of the Sith himself.
Star Wars is one of the most successful film franchises
the world has ever seen,
with the original three movies standing
as possibly the greatest trilogy of all time.
So, when the first installment of the prequel trilogy,
The Phantom Menace, dropped on May 19, 1999,
the anticipation to see where Vader came from was intense.
But, sadly, for most fans, that intensity
turned to utter disappointment
with many blaming the nine-year-old's performance
instead of how the writers mishandled the character.
Lloyd was even bullied in school for his portrayal of Vader.
So, much so, that he quit acting.
Really, y'all gonna dog on some nine-year-old kid?
I mean, if I was a nine-year-old,
I would take the role of Vader.
I would take the role of Vader right now.
You already know it.
Already bald, just add some fake scars to my face
and we're off to the races.
Well, these people made some awful choices.
But, you know, a lot of these weren't so bad.
I actually liked a lot of these movies.
Not so much the nudity ones.
Those were very, very poorly done (laughs).
But, I'm not gonna criticize, whatever.
These people, these people had a nice career,
not so much anymore.
Anyway, wish 'em the best.