Michael Keaton
After an enviable career in the 80s as the lead actor in Beetlejuice and as Bruce Wayne in the two installments of Batman directed by Tim Burton, Keaton linked the occasional film of notorious critical success with animated films and family films until, finally, being in the forgot. However, the Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu set his sights on him to play the complex role of Riggan Thomson in Birdman, a highly topical film for which Keaton has already received 36 awards while awaiting a more than possible Oscar for Best Actor.
John Travolta
He was the idol of the 70s, of disco music nights and thousands of quinceañeras for whom Saturday Night Fever or Grease was everything more than thirty years ago. After years absent, Look Who's Talking was a moderately notorious success in his career until, finally, Quentin Tarantino made him the protagonist of Pulp Fiction, a film that marked Travolta's comeback, despite the failure of Battlefield: The Land That would once again sink one of the faithful followers of Scientology.
Robert Downey Jr.
Possibly the most powerful comeback of all. The actor who started out as a star on Saturday Night Live, who dealt with 90s comedy in Short Cuts, and flirted with television in Ally McBeal got caught up in the world of alcohol and drugs in the late 90s until he resurfaced as Tony Stark in Iron Man. , the first of many Marvel movies that would make Downey Jr. one of the most sought-after actors of the new millennium. His next round will be Avengers 2.
Drew Barrymore
The girl from E.T. and Spielberg's goddaughter was alcoholic at thirteen and attempted suicide at fourteen, not a pretty record for one of those few exceptions in which a Hollywood kid manages to reemerge after years of oppressive success. In 1995, Barrymore began her shy comeback with an appearance in Batman Forever until she exploded in the film The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler, the first of the films that would catapult the actress as one of the queens of comedy in recent years.
Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey's thing was not a matter of drought, but of a certain prejudice on the part of Hollywood that always saw him as a recurring actor in low-quality films. However, after his role as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club, he would not only get the Oscar but also a leading role in one of the best-reviewed series in history (True Detective) or the role in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster, interstellar.
