Now, we love superstitions over here on Top 10 Beyond the Screen, and as we know, there
are many accounts of cursed movies and movie franchise -- however, we have yet to touch
on the cursed careers of some of Hollywood’s most beloved actors.
So today on Beyond the Screen, we’re going to be counting down our list of the Top 10
Great Actors With Cursed Careers.
Before we begin though, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be
responding to some of your comments.
And with that, let’s jump in.
10 Tara Reid who has the Girl Next Door curse, also known as the Hot Girl curse.
I mean if I was going to have a curse I think I'd want this one.
She was once riding high starring in the wildly successful movie series: American Pie.
Tara played a hot babe named Vicky and even made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine during
that time, which basically confirms that you’re hot shit in Hollywood.
Looking back on her career now, she said she hoped that American Pie would be the springboard
for her entire career but instead it kind of dropped once the series was over.
She was often looked at as the girl next door and only ever booked roles of that nature.
It might not seem like a bad thing to us, being the hot girl in movies, but she admitted
during an interview that no one ever respected her or took her seriously.
This pressure is also what caused her to get plastic surgery which ended up making things
worse.
In 2004 she had a breast augmentation done which left her with rippled skin all over
stomach.
She said: my stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.
I had a hernia, this huge bump next to my belly button.
As a result, I couldn’t wear a bikini.
I lost a lot of work.
Since she could no longer book the hot girl role, she was pretty much out of work.
9 Jerry O’Connell Now this former icon is suffering from the
showkiller curse.
In his early years this star found fame when landing a role in the now iconic movie Stand
By Me, alongside River Phoenix, before landing a slew of successful TV shows.
However, the actor sadly has a longer list of failed sitcoms than almost anybody else.
Back in 1995, he starred in Sliders as Quinn Mallory for five seasons, and then went on
to play a Detective in Crossing Jordan for six.
However, after that, he hit a major streak of bad luck which doesn’t seem to have ended.
It all began in 2008 with the show Do Not Disturb before going on to work his way through
14 failed sitcoms in just six years.
That’s insane.
Worse still, almost all of these failed to get past the first season -- including: Rex
is Not Your Lawyer, Eastwick, and Satisfaction.
8 Orlando Brown who lost his career to the Disney Curse.
It’s no secret that the people who have worked with Disney as a kid have sometimes
gone off the deep end.
Orlando Brown is one of them and has found himself in controversy ever since That’s
So Raven ended back in 2007.
He was making serious headlines in 2018 after his mugshots started surfacing on the internet;
he was arrested 3 different times that year.
The first time he was arrested in January was because of a battery charge, possession
of a controlled substance, and resisting a police officer.
He was later arrested in August because he missed one of his court dates for that.
THEN in September, surveillance cameras at a restaurant caught him trying to shut off
the alarm system and change the locks of a restaurant that he was trying to steal from.
He’s a hot mess you guys.
And we know he’s not the only one who has gone through this curse; it just seems like
he’s the one who can’t break out of it.
7 Cuba Gooding Jr.
Back in the 90’s, Cuba Gooding Jr. was a hot commodity in Hollywood, starring in movies
like Jerry Maguire, for which he nabbed himself an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
And then, of course, A Few Good Men.
However, he began to hit a few road bumps by appearing in a few controversial movies,
such as Pearl Harbor and then god-awful movie Boat Trip, which was generally believed to
homophoic undertones.
Bad move Cuba.
Both of these movies had a huge effect on his career, and sadly not even his charisma
and showbiz personality could save it.
The actor has somewhat appeared to be a one hit wonder than the Hollywood icon everyone
expected him to be after winning the Oscar.
6 Adrien Brody who’s cursed by what’s known as the Oscar Curse.
At one point in his career he was being compared to Al Pacino, which is a pretty big deal.
He became the youngest man in Hollywood to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
He won the award in 2003 when he was just 29 years old.
But in today’s industry, a lot of people don’t even recognize his name.
This doesn’t mean he hasn’t had a successful career, because he has.
He is also known for his leading role in the Academy Award winning movie The Pianist.
It looked like his career was going to continue on that high; he was young, he was talented,
and he already had an Academy Award under his belt.
But a lot of people blame his future movie flops on the Oscar curse.
He went on to be in movies like The Village and The Singing Detective, both of which were
torn apart by critics.
He’s continued to book movie roles but overall his career has been patchy compared to when
he was the next Al Pacino.
It’s almost like the Oscar set the bar too high- too soon in his career.
5 Kristen Bell Now, you may all be a little annoyed that
Kristen Bell is on our last, but hear me out.
Kristen is often labelled as Hollywood’s sweetheart, ever since she hit it big on her
sitcom Veronica Mars, which was sadly cancelled.
She is a good actress, there is no denying that, but the films she picks leaves a lot
to be desired.
She appeared in trainwreck movies like: When in Rome, Pulse, Fanboys, and Burlesque -- all
box office flops that were severely panned by critics.
Now, there was a movie spin off of her hit series Veronica Mars which was largely appreciated
by critics, but flopped at the box office, proving that Bell can’t really seem to catch
a break in Hollywood these days.
She did land everyone’s dream role though when she appeared in Frozen as Anna, however,
the kicker is, she never appeared on screen -- it is simply her voice.
Perhaps this is a loophole in the Hollywood curse.
4 Christopher Reeve who suffers from the Superman Curse.
This curse is believed to be so intense that it has ended multiple careers, not by being
blacklisted, but by death.
There has been an on-going belief that there is a curse cast on every actor who takes on
the role of the hero.
It started with George Reeves who took on the hero from 1951-1957.
He was associated with the role so closely that it was almost impossible for him to land
a successful role in anything else.
He was found dead in 1959 just a few days before he was supposed to get married.
It was reported to be a suicide but a lot of controversy followed his death- hence,
the Superman Curse.
But a more modern Superman felt the curse as well: Christopher Reeves.
He first took on the role in 1978 but in 1995 he was competitively horse riding when he
was thrown off the horse and paralyzed.
He was able to continue in a rehabilitation process but died of heart failure in 2004.
The death of the second Superman actor is what intensified the legend of this so-called
Superman curse.
3 Marlon Brando Like our previous number, this is yet another
actor who suffered from the Superman Curse -- that things goes around.
Marlon Brando is an indisputably acclaimed actor, known for roles such as A Streetcar
Named Desire, On The Waterfront, and of course, The Godfather.
However, back in 1978 he became a victim of the Superman Curse after he appeared as Superman’s
Father alongside Christopher Reeve.
Following this, Brando had a tumultuous life, especially private life.
His son was sent to prison for 10 years for murdering the boyfriend of his half-sister,
and five years later that same sister, Brando’s daughter, committed suicide.
In the years that followed, the actor began to let himself go physically, and eventually
passed away from respiratory failure and heart failure in 2004, just four months before Christopher
Reeve passed away.
2 Matthew Perry with the Friends curse.
The same curse went around for the Seinfeld TV series; apparently it means that those
involved in a long-running sitcom can’t seem to book successful roles outside of it.
But that’s not totally true seeing as Jennifer Aniston, who worked on Friends, is one of
the biggest actors in Hollywood.
But Matthew Perry, also known as Chandler, didn’t have as much luck when trying to
break the curse.
After the series finale in 2004, he returned to TV but had a short-lived experience on
the show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
I’ve never even heard of it.
Since then he has been able to book some jobs like the movie 17 Again back in 2009 and the
TV series Mr.Sunshine back in 2011.
But his resume is pretty bare for someone who had such a successful career for 10 years
straight.
That’s probably because people can’t take him out of his role from Chandler.
He will always be Chandler to me.
1 Halle Berry Oh Halle Berry, you guys know I’m not a
fan of hers, which I also know angers a lot of your, surprisingly so.
Anyway, there’s no denying that Halle is a good actress, she even made history in 2002
when she became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar in the Best Actress
category for her role in Monster’s Ball.
Her speech was of course unforgettable, going down in history as one of the best.
Of course, following her epic win the actress had her pick of all the movies, however, she
fell into a rabbit hole of bad, bad movies.
Including: Gothika and Catwoman, for which she picked up a Razzie Award for Worst Actress.
I mean, we all saw the basketball scene, she deserved it.
Now, she has reprised her role as Storm in three X-Men movies, but at this point, we’re
over it.
They rebooted X-Men, I’m only here for
Sophie Turner and her crew.
And that’s the tea.