if you were alive in the mid to
late-1990s there's no way you missed
frakkin Myers memorable heyday in
Hollywood from clueless where he played
the role of a delightfully earnest Gator
boy - road trip where he will forever be
remembered as the sweetest guy ever to
cheat on his girlfriend on video
meyerwitz lost with great comic timing
and a totally winning brand of regular
dude charm so unexpected I didn't have a
speech prepared why then isn't he in the
movies anymore
hang tight as we investigate he peaks in
the 90s
much like Weezer Orange Julius and the
Delia's catalogue record Meyer is very
much in 90s brands and while he did
continue to pop up on screen after the
turn of the 21st century his memorable
turns in movies like clueless can't
hardly wait and the crafts made him
forever synonymous with a certain
archetype of vintage teen hood not only
are these decades-old films still the
ones he's known best for us but Myers
persona and aesthetic was so totally at
home in the 90s that he's practically an
icon of the era great news for a cult
classic reunion tour but not so helpful
when it comes to landing roles in
contemporary Hollywood not their type
add a trim size but five and with the
ageless tans complexion of so many Los
Angeles suits Breckin Meyer is still to
do SFIL looking to be convincing as a
middle-aged dad pipe on screen at the
same time at 42 he's too old to play a
teenager that doesn't mean he's entirely
out of luck especially in comedy where
you don't have to be George Clooney's a
headline a hit movie but it does narrow
the field when it comes to what kind of
roles he can reasonably pursue heard and
not see if breck admirer doesn't show up
on screen much these days it might be
because he's already got all the work he
can handle as a voice actor Meyer has
been a major presence on the stop-motion
animated series Robot Chicken for the
entirety of its seven season front as
well as playing joseph gribble on king
of the hill between 2000 and 2010 and
more recently you might have heard among
super mentioned with so many characters
in need of his vocal talents the spark
admire even needs to make movie upstage
by garfield whether it's a trio of
chipmunks or an iconic orange cat
starring opposite a cartoon animal can
be a risky career move for Breckin Meyer
signing onto the Garfield franchise was
perhaps in hindsight not the greatest
decision not only was Myers charm
totally wasted in the bland role of Jon
Arbuckle but after making one movie he
was then contractually obligated to
appear in a sequel called Garfield a
tale of two kitties
if ever there were such a thing as a
title that could kill a career
you know flippity-flop it's been nearly
a decade since Breckin Meyer made a
feature film and even longer since you
starred in one but the most recent
movies on his resume haven't exactly
been sent from ghosts of Girlfriends
Past the stag night
Myra's projects aren't earning critical
or commercial success in many cases
they're barely even being distributed
and when they do find an audience the
response tends to range from tepid to
downright insulting his last
feature-length movie a mockumentary
called three geezers in which Meyer
played a satirical version of himself
was derided by the few critics who even
bothered to review it as terrible
painful and remarkably unattractive
looking out celebrity insomniac if a
good night's rest is essential to being
camera-ready it's no surprise that
Breckin Meyer isn't turning up on screen
lately the actor is probably the most
famous insomniac on Twitter where you
can frequently be found between the
hours of 1 5 o'clock a.m. composing
poetry about his inability to sleep
despite feeling sorry for his struggle
we all so selfishly hope he doesn't get
a prescription for ambien because his
seed is hilarious the producer Pat many
actors who got started on the young side
find success behind the camera later in
life but Breckin Meyer is brief or way
into creating a series from scratch with
the CBS comedy men at work didn't pan
out as he hopes the show had a cute
premise and a talented cast including
that 70 Show alum Danny Masterson but it
never found its audience instead it was
cancelled by the network after three
underwhelming seasons and minor didn't
make a second attempt at a producing
career primetime Hope stashed the most
adult and serious role of Myers career
was on the TNT legal comedy-drama
Franklin & bash where he played the
titular Franklin opposite mark-paul
Gosselaar unfortunately not even the
draw the 1990s icon and a Saved by the
Bell heartthrob could keep the series of
float long term the New York Times
summed it up best with a middling review
that declared the problem is that
Franklin and bash themselves are
resolutely uninteresting and after his
four season run concluded the show
wasn't enough of a hit to launch a
renaissance for Breckin Meyer on
prime-time how we can turn it around
instruct and Meyer may not need or want
to make any big changes to his
professional life you've got plenty of
work as a voice actor and plenty of
energy left to goof off for his fans on
Instagram but if he's came to get back
in front of the camera he's still a
solid supporting actor and he's got lots
of friends in Hollywood including
festering and mark-paul Gosselaar we can
collaborate with on the kind of light
comedic films he's always been so good
at Meyer might not be a six-foot
chiseled dreamboat but he's still in
great shape and has an adorable face
that would make him a great addition to
one of Hollywood's signature ensemble
romances might we suggest the clueless
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