and i'm trying to figure out what the
right thing is to do and i don't know
what that is
i don't have any freaking idea how to
get there welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 formerly bad actors who
redeemed themselves
wipe your face otis don't cry from it
we're sorry we called the cops okay
are you talking to me i made a crazy
risk a gamble and it's about to pay off
for this list we'll be looking at stars
whose acting prowess improved as their
careers progressed
the greater the improvement the higher
the ranking who do you think really
turned it around
make sure to let us know in the comments
down below
number 10. ben affleck you wouldn't
expect someone who won an oscar at the
tender age of 25 to end up on this list
even if the oscar was for writing rather
than acting you don't owe it to yourself
you owe it to me because tomorrow i'm
going to wake up and i'll be 50
and i'll still be doing this
however ben affleck's career
post-goodwill hunting
didn't exactly inspire confidence even
as he made the leap from indie features
to big time blockbusters
one only need watch gili for proof in
every relationship
there's a bull and a cow it just so
happens that in this relationship right
here with me and you
i'm the bull you're the cow
all right bull cow
got that however the actor's creative
juices seemed to shift sometime around
2007 when he began directing in addition
to acting the town
and argo were equally thrilling and
taught and his lead performances greatly
grounded the proceedings
this is what i do i get people out
and i've never left anyone behind sure
his dceu movies were relatively
lackluster but his involvement gave us
some of the best on-screen batman we've
ever seen
we're criminals alfred we've always been
criminals nothing's changed
number nine ray romano everyone loves
raymond
right well maybe not always though it's
true that ray romano enjoyed nine
seasons of the hugely successful
everybody loves raymond
sitcoms as a medium are rarely the
pinnacle of thespian mastery hey how do
you know what i've been going through
over here okay
i actually have to live with her all
right so don't don't start with me
because you know what the hell you're
talking about
and aside from that for a long time his
only other major live-action role was
in well welcome to mooseport four ice
age sequels later however and romano
began showing a versatile new side
managing to be both grounded and
endearing alongside on-screen wife holly
hunter in the big sick
love isn't easy
that's why they call it love i don't
really get that here i know
i thought i could just start saying
something and something small would come
out
he continued that success in 2019
appearing in critically acclaimed
streaming giant movies bad education and
the irishman for hbo and netflix
respectively
come to think of it we might love
raymond even more now
you know i don't uh i don't care whether
he did it or not
that makes no difference to me yeah i'm
here to defend you
right right
number eight jennifer lopez you didn't
think we leave out the other half of the
romantic leads from jilly did you
it's turkey time
huh
though thoroughly popular virtually the
entirety of her work from the 2000s was
littered with hackneyed rom-coms
such as the aforementioned film
monster-in-law and everything in between
god this is crazy why don't you just
face it
i am marrying kevin today and there is
nothing you can do about it though she
started the 2010s with more of the same
with the backup plan
she also expanded her genre boundaries
to more of the thriller variety with
parker and the boy next door
still we wouldn't even be talking about
her right now were it not for her
absolutely powerhouse performance in
2019's hustlers
her turn was emotionally nuanced and
even at the age of 50 though it's
neither here nor there
she still got it so to speak why should
we split anything when we can have it
all
number seven dakota johnson as is the
situation with other actors on this list
it can be difficult to strut your stuff
when the material is seriously lacking
there's really not much to know about me
even so dakota johnson didn't make
herself look good in any of the three
fifty shades movies
yet elsewhere we saw glimpses of her
potential in films like a bigger splash
and black mass
he's never gonna be a little boy again
ever
oh he's brain dead he's on life support
he can't move and i don't want him like
that indeed once fifty shades had run
its course in 2018
she surprised us with how
psychologically deep she could get in
thrillers like bad times at the el
royale
and suspiria holding her own with an
acting legend like tilda swinton in the
ladder
is it the head the spine
the sex the heart
the hands
i want to be this company's hands and if
you're one of the many who haven't seen
the peanut butter falcon
do yourself a favor watch it now he
needs to be properly taken care of and
that's my job
i'm sorry to break up your little
primitive gang or whatever is going on
but this is not lord of the flies
number six shia labeouf speaking of the
peanut butter falcon
johnson's co-star shia labeouf has also
received his fair share of criticism
if not more has to do with what's in
here in your heart you got good guy
heart
you can't do about it that's just
who you are you're a hero being brought
up on the disney channel with the sitcom
even stevens la buff turned into a bona
fide movie star in 2007 with the advent
of the live-action transformers movies
naturally being michael bay ventures the
sequels severely dipped in quality and
one can't think of shia labeouf and
sequels without thinking of his much
maligned performance in indiana jones
and the kingdom of the crystal skull
what happened if there's not a damn
thing wrong with the kid don't let
anybody else tell you any different you
don't remember saying that
throw in some personal troubles and it
seemed like you could just write off
labeouf for good
however 2019 saw him wow audiences
playing a fictionalized version of his
father
in honeyboy which he also wrote how do
you think it feels
for me to have my son talk to me the way
that you talk to me
number 5. zac efron another disney
channel alum for a while
zac efron couldn't escape his high
school musical image
it didn't help that he followed the
series up with teen movies 17 again and
charlie saint cloud the latter of which
being particularly derided as a lifeless
melodrama
the more i'm in your world the less i
can be in his however since then he's
managed to shed his pretty boy image
with raunchy comedies like the neighbors
movies
we're sorry we called the cops okay
are you talking to me and sure this
phase in his career gave us duds like
dirty grandpa and baywatch but he
remains a watchably energetic presence
regardless
i'm a tiger bro it wasn't dangerous man
nobody was home
if you wanted proof that he's grown as a
dramatic actor look no further than
extremely wicked shockingly evil and
vile in which he played serial killer
ted bundy
unnervingly and convincingly she was 12.
12. and i let you be alone with molly i
did not do these things liz
now what's that about his netflix series
number four
kristen stewart much like fifty shades
of grey tarnished dakota johnson's
reputation the twilight saga did that
and then some to kristen stewart
it was nessie who wanted me there nessie
you nicknamed my daughter after the walk
this monster granted the role was
poorly written but her lack of verve and
outward interest didn't make her look
too great either
couple that with a pretty underwhelming
snow white and the huntsman and stuart
didn't need much more incentive to step
away from hollywood
i'm valuable that's why you're here
isn't it
proving she's a better fit for the indie
scene she gave a trio of nuanced
performances in 2014
with camp x-ray clouds of sils maria and
still alice
in this world there's a kind of painful
progress
longing for what we've left behind and
dreaming ahead not stopping there she
also made a methodically reserved
psychological thriller like personal
shopper feel wholly personable
in short k stew is back if you know
where to find her
so we made this oath
whoever died first would send the other
sign number three adam sandler
even during his heyday in the mid to
late 90s adam sandler couldn't be
counted on for much more than his usual
brand of wacky and unrestrained
performances
okay mercy you win i give game over
then an interesting thing happened in
2002 when he shocked audiences with just
how grounded he could be as a dramatic
actor in paul thomas anderson's punch
drunk love
who knows how long it'll last then it
was back to the usual stick for a decade
and a half giving us aggravatingly
unfunny caricatures in jack and jill
and that's my boy new kids on the black
holy their heads are all walked out
but he came back hotter than ever in
2019 with
uncut gems giving an oscar-worthy
performance as a gambling addict in over
his head
it can't figure out what i'm supposed to
do everything i do is not going right
everything i do it's not going right we
don't expect experimental sandler to
stay for long
but we eagerly await his return number 2
channing tatum now here's an actor who
really learned to be good by doing
with little acting experience outside
commercials tatum was thrown into the
romantic dance drama step up in 2006
which was hugely successful yet
critically derided i know and i'm sorry
i just wanted you to be able to do this
the way you imagined it from there he
continued to struggle
not being convincing enough in such
serious works as fighting and dear john
and i'm trying to figure out what the
right thing is to do and i don't know
what that is
i don't have any freaking idea how to
get there then his career took a much
needed detour in 2012
surprising everyone with his comedic
sensibilities in twenty one jump street
one particle of undeterminium has a
nuclear reaction with the flux capacitor
carried the two changing against atomic
ice toner into a radioactive spider
pair that with his semi-autobiographical
magic mic and suddenly
tatum flexed some serious range among
other things
perhaps his best performance came in
2014's fox
catcher wherein he played a wrestler
grappling with the pressure to succeed
good on you channing
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number one robert pattinson robert
pattinson found himself squarely in
hollywood actor jail as a result of the
twilight curse
i can't ever lose control with you even
a somewhat well-reviewed movie like
water for elephants made many of his
detractors grown
much like his twilight co-star kristen
stewart pattinson stepped away from the
blockbuster scene and eventually earned
high marks as early as 2014 for movies
like the rover
because i believe in god and i know
henry believes in god doesn't there's no
harm henry won't see me come to
not believe in that and just like
sandler with uncut gems pattinson teamed
with the safety brothers on good time
and essentially washed away the bad
taste of twilight
leeching off mommy or leeching off
welfare or living off the government in
jail
that's you need more confirmation that
he's grown
he got picks to play the title character
in matt reeves the batman
a role that doesn't go to just anyone
the hell are you supposed to be
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