Why did Tobey Maguire’s career go straight down the shitter?

He became an old boy. Squeaky voice too. No lips.

Ugh, the Shitter troll is back.

Cocaine

Don’t we just do him?

He married into money and lost the incentive to work (Ron Meyer’s daughter.)

Wasn't it his own decision?

What r4 said and also he’s a bad actor and a complete and total asshole. REALLY stupid too. Dumb white trash who made good.

As charming as he seems, he's actually an aggressive asshole.

I was surprised. One of my friends worked on Seabiscuit.

A total douche.

He used to be quite fetching.

Never should have had a career to start. Ugly boring actor.

He's a terrible person who treats people horrifically.

The whole "boyish" thing becomes creepy once you hit 40.

Rumored to be really stinky. Why are so many entertainers so reluctant to bathe regularly?

At least he's got That 70s Show money.

He’s a gambling addict and psycho

What R14 said, watch Molly’s Game - the psycho in the movie is Based on him. He tried to get the book/movie not made but it happened anyway and now everyone knows what a douchebag he is.

His acting skills are limited and once he became known as Spiderman his career was pretty much frozen in time. Not terribly handsome either.

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He's friends with Leonardo DiCaprio and is seen with him in public. That seems to be his main claim to fame these days.

r13, are you making a joke? He wasn't in "That 70s Show." After I saw him in "Cider House Rules," I tuned him out because there is no way in real life someone like Charlize Theron would do him.

I always thought he was adorable....and doesn't he have a huge dick?

I always assumed he made a mint off of Spiderman and was lazy; then married money. Why work?

I liked him in Wonder Boys and Seabiscuit.

He aged out of teen, young adult roles and could not transition to more mature roles. End if story. But he is basically set for life, so boo hoo.

What a dick.

I read an excerpt of the book Molly's Game is based on (In Vanity Fair, I think, back when it used to be decent). I can't recall specifics, but he sounded kind of chilling and cheap, if I'm not mistaken. I'm kind of surprised that I haven't seen McGuire named and shamed in any of the HW gossip threads.

Found the link.

Huge Penis - say no more

No, R19, I confused him with Topher Grace. Twenty years, you'd think I'd get it right.

I hope he has a comeback.

I wonder what the deal is with Tobey and Leo. In their early days it seemed like a genuine friendhip to me, but now I got a feeling Leo only keeps Tobey around because he knows too much about him. In the article linked at [R23] it sounds like Leo wasn't really interested in the game and just attended to do Tobey a favour. Not that it isn't normal for friends to support each other, but Idk ... something about that friendship seems off to me. The whole pussy posse thing is weird if you ask me.

A few years ago there was an interesting blind about a (former?) movie star who had a side business. I don't remember the details, but his business model was about helping other actors to cover up their dirty secrets. It sounded like that person a) made a shit ton of money and b) had a lot of dirt on people in the industry. It was never revealed, but I instantly thought of Toby.

Seems like a drug buddy situation to me r29.

When you make your mark doing vaguely elfin, vulnerable, doe-eyed, hot-bodied, twinkie softness, and then you suddenly mature, there's no place to go.

Toby was never anything to look at to begin with. I think that everyone has a stock boy at their local grocery store who is twice as hot as Toby ever wished to be at his peak. I was always shocked that he even landed leading man roles, much less Spider-Man. He appeared in artsy films like The Ice Storm and The Cider House Rules and doing so seemed to give him a very undeserved aura of acting cred. He forged surprisingly good connections early on which were also pivotal to his career. The icing on that cake is that he is known to be a jerk as well (as many above have mentioned). The guy did VERY well with what little he brought to the table, but his days are over.

His twink looks left him behind

Spiderman & Iron Man Fan Fiction

He was so good in Donnie Darko and October Sky.

He was decent in “Pleasantville”

Ugly but now instead of boyish ugly he is just straight up fug. Plus from that gambling story he sounds like a real ass.

[quote]He married into money and lost the incentive to work (Ron Meyer’s daughter.)

I assumed they were still married, but I just saw they've been split for over two years. Maybe he pissed off her father.

He was great in Pleasantville.

Terrble actor, bug eyes, mouth breather. Good riddance.

He's divorced from his rich wife.

She's gushed about what a great co-parent and friend he is, blah, blah, blah. His career decline coincides both with the publication of Bloom's book and movie development and the unraveling of his marriage to the daughter of one of the most powerful men in HW. Lots of men in the industry get away with being dicks for careers longer than Maguire's, but not mistreating a powerful man's daughter especially if there are drug issues.

I remember reading a few years ago how he almost got fired right before they filmed Spider-Man 2. He was being a total jerk - refusing to do his own stunts, complaining his salary (he was pissed the director was getting paid more than he was), not showing up for rehearsals. He had to ask his father in law (a Universal big-wig) to step in and pull strings so he wouldn’t be fired. His father in law did but made him apologize to the director and crew face to face. Also, the gambling party stories...ugh. He needs his ass kicked.

Yeah, after Molly's Game hit theaters - which coincided with the breaking of the Weinstein scandal - he was finished.

I just ordered the DVD thanks to this thread. Why do you guys think "Molly's Game" got so little Oscar love? Only Sorkin for screenplay.

Can’t speak for other people r45 but I can’t imagine anything more dull than watching a bunch of dumb rich drug addicts sitting around tables playing cards. Could not give a shit about the subject matter either. It’s supposed to be an interesting story, but the movie sounded boring af.

Wow - I had heard he was a dick - but man did he throw his power and friend/family influence around. What an asshole

Molly's Game got ignored by the Oscars because it was a bad movie. When the only interesting character is some psychopathic entitled celebrity (Player X/Toby Maguire) you've got a bad script on your hands. Sorkin is notoriously bad at writing sympathetic female characters, which was the other problem. Molly bordered on unlikeable. By the end, I didn't care what happened to her. Chastain was miscast. The real Molly was 24 when all of this want down. Chastain was 39 or 40. The reasons it got snubbed are endless.

His ex wife is now dating a black guy; he reps LaBron. That's probably weird for Tobey; being he has 2 kids with his ex.

Wow, thanks everyone. I was expecting people just to say he aged out of his roles, but I didn’t know he was such a douchebag. Interesting stuff!

R35 Tobey Maguire was not in Donnie Darko. I’m not sure who you were thinking, Noah Wyle?

[quote]His ex wife is now dating a black guy; he reps LaBron. That's probably weird for Tobey; being he has 2 kids with his ex. —But maybe not; who knows

Oh, horrors! Clutch those pearls!

[quote]Tobey Maguire was not in Donnie Darko. I’m not sure who you were thinking, Noah Wyle?

Jake G (the guy who almost got Maguire's CBM role) was in DONNIE DARKO.

I worked at a NYC boutique hotel way back in the day, and I distinctly remember Leo and a bunch of his male friends staying at the hotel. Leo's hair was so long at that time that he wore a girl's headband to keep the hair out of his eyes. I distinctly remember Tobey Maguire as one of the guys staying with Leo -how can you not remember those beady eyes of his? They called down to the front desk for a gay porn video, although for the life of me, I can't remember the title of the movie!

r53 it was the William Higgins classic "Pizza Boy -- He Delivers"

You fraus are so fucking stupid. You think maybe it was a joke about Donnie Darko? Do you know what a joke is? No one can do anything playful here anymore because you're so fucking tone deaf you take everything at face value. You're incapable of critical thought. If you're not gay, you do not belong here.

Harvey Weinstein

R55 Do you have to be gay to understand the clever joke?

R55 ➡️ Triggered!

r58 = idiot fraupotomus

He reminds me of jug-eared Fred from Channel 1 on Captain Kangaroo's TV.

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Well, I guess we should congratulate the Shitter Troll for finally picking on a MALE ACTOR instead of the thousands of irrelevant women he's stalked with threads in the last year or two.

We still need to F & F the OP for polluting Datalounge with irrelevant name-dropping and OCD Aspie cyber-stalking / enpsychopeida writing.

Please visit the thread below, where we're counter-cataloguing all of the OP's desperate ploys for attention through name-dropping and gratuitous bullying of harmless, innocent and irrelevant celebrities. You can see his entire career of WASTING HIS LIFE, how many times he's polluted the DL and how it talks to itself and switches accounts:

r62, just block her. And it's a her. She's the LSA freak.

R58 please give us some more joke material.

Shut up cunt R64. You're even more irritating. I enjoy these threads. Nobody died and made you Queen Bee.

Too much talk of him liking the homosex. The stickiness always on his hands wasn't spiderwebs you know.

He is so blandly unattractive, who cares anyway? I mean, is Toby really some sort of gay fantasy for anyone? Or straight fantasy for women?

Why did that rich woman even want him for a husband?

He was great as Mister Peepers.

R27 personally I always figured Tobey was fucking Topher. They have that type of energy.

I never got that thing about them looking the same. They really don’t.