They need a new agent or someone to advise them better when accepting a project.
The ways of Hollywood, like those of the lord, are inscrutable. The formula for success in the film mecca has no apparent logic: Today you are the next James Dean and a couple of films are enough to turn you into a plague who ends up shooting direct-to-video projects or TV movies on Antena 3 on Saturday afternoon.
At IGN Spain we wanted to compile a good handful of actors who, for one reason or another, have been on a tightrope for years. Some have talent in abundance, others have shown it little by little, but all of them can boast of having been missing in action for a season or of being capable of taking any project in which they participate to indifference. Get your handkerchiefs ready because some names are especially painful.
Jude Law
At the turn of the century, she was one of the pretty faces of Hollywood. Coming from the United Kingdom, he made a name for himself among the general public in 2001 with Enemy at the Gates and Artificial Intelligence and began to chain gourmand roles one after another: Cold Mountain, Alfie, Closer... In the middle of the last decade, he seemed to lose the favor of the directors and his appearance in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes was already suspicious: what was Jude Law painting playing the companion of fatigues of a disgraced guy like Robert Downey Jr.? Dom Hemingway, his last important role, gives us an idea of his current prestige.
Eric Bana
He was the first Hulk, he came to star in one of Steven Spielberg's best films —Munich, that blood orgy following the attacks on the Olympic Games— and he even faced off against Brad Pitt in Troy. Eric Bana seemed to have everything to become a leading actor of our time and has ended up relegated to supporting Mark Wahlberg in The Sole Survivor, which is to say or to star in horror films such as Deliver Us from Evil.
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly is a story of constant comings and goings. Not everyone can boast of having a film like Inside of the labyrinth at the age of 16 or of having worked with Sergio Leone in the early eighties. It wasn't until 2000 that she made a comeback thanks to Requiem for a Dream and in 2001 she was lucky enough to star in A Beautiful Mind alongside Russell Crowe. After the Hulk and an attempt to make a name for herself in terror with Dark Water in 2005, the actress has returned to the background. If we save Noah from burning, her latest works have been more than forgettable: A Winter on the Beach, A Winter's Tale, Don't Cry, Fly...
Nicolas Cage
Of Nicolas Cage, it cannot be said that has fallen into oblivion. But it can be said without fear that he is one of those guys who hits the box office again and again. It should not be forgotten that the actor has found himself in very serious trouble with the US treasury — laugh at the Monedero accounts — which has led him to overexposure in recent years where quality was the least of the problems. . Tokarev, Outcast, Caza al Terrorista or Left Behind are some of his latest projects. Does anyone remember any? Related at some point with success, today Cage is synonymous with absolute oblivion and has lost much of the claim that he had in the face of the great masses.
