Young stars/starlets you thought would make it big

Alexis Knapp from Pitch Perfect. What ever happened to her?

Who cares if Scott Eastwood can act, or that his dad is a Conservative whackadoodle?? He is hot! 🔥🔥🔥

R2 I agree. I only saw him in that film where he was a bull rider but have looked for other Scott Eastwood projects. What happened?

Peter Glenville

So pretty in front of the camera, so hopeless behind it.

Sam Worthington. He was given chance after chance... Opportunity after opportunity to become a mega movie star... And yet, a decade later... WEHT him?

OP here again...Samaire Armstrong would be my choice for starlet. She stepped away for emotional or addiction issues, as I recall. But she definitely could've been an Oscar contender, given the right project. She still acts in independent stuff.

I thought Kiernan Shipka would have done more by now.

R3 he makes a lot of crappy action films like the Fast And Furious franchise and Pacific Rim. I don’t watch any of his movies for the acting or the plot.

i think Keirnan Shipka's acting is crap. not surprised we haven't seen her in much. She also still looks like a skinny 14 year old. Unless she's Millie-Bobbie-Browned herself recently.

Kellan should have shown his ass and dong

Scott Eastwood and Kellan Lutz are fucking beautiful men but neither of them are strong enough actors or have that 'it' factor/charisma to become movie STARS in my opinion. They will likely continue to work steadily though, perhaps until their looks fade.

Seriously though Kellan was hot as fuck in that Hercules film even though the film itself was hot garbage

I always thought Taylor Kitsch would have been bigger.

I never realized how obsessed this site is with threads like failed leading ladies and actors you thought would make it big.

IRyan Phillippe. I think he’s a damn good actor. I liked him in Breach.

R12 God knows Hollywood tried like hell to make him into a star.

Kip Pardue is another one. He fizzled out even before the sexual harassment claims a few years ago.

r11 A marvel role will quickly change that.

R5 I think he's been kept fairly busy shooting the endless Avatar sequels back to back for the last several years.

Avatar has now reclaimed it's crown of the biggest grossing movie of all time, by the way. So I don't think Sam Worthington is too concerned that you don't think he's 'made it'.

R6 Seems like a drug mess.

Billy Campbell, though Speilberg and Coppola tried hard to make him the next Harrison Ford.

Thora Birch should be a much bigger star than she is.

Taylor Kitsch starred in the Disney bomb John Carter which torpedoed his leading man aspirations. He also starred in the flop Battleship which came out the same year as John Carter.

I thought I understood many people were smitten.

Sometimes I get things wrong, I've been told.

Poor Lee.

Wes Bentley

Lee Pace

Kellan Lutz should just do porn. He fits the hot/dumb profile.

While he's consistently worked, I don't think James Norton has turned out to be leading man material

Who still says "starlets"?

Anthony Mackie...lots of hype about him but not so much now...he’s in his forties, and seems to work in television more often than films.

OP- The person in your photo looks as QUEER as a thirteen dollar bill.

I always thought Dana Ashbrook should have been bigger. I was so turned on by him in Twin Peaks.

Tom Guiry

Seann William Scott

Samantha Mathis

Shannen Doherty

Justin Kirk

Sean Faris

Drew Van Acker

R5..Sam is your typical chilled Aussie, not ruled by the mighty dollar...has a life to lead with the wife and kids...low key guy

Presumably he has a role in the Avatar sequels.

I thought Richard Armitage would land bigger roles in the US after the Hobbit, but I guess it tanked. I know he's find and sends his love from the UK.

He's wonderful.

Who's the hunky guy with Lee Radziwill in R23's link?

R21, she had something different. Shame about her father. I thought Nick Stahl was hot in Carnivale and would have liked to see him more stuff like that.

And R41, he sure is! North and South is one of my favorite mini-series.

r2 Scott Eastwood is actually not hot. His features are small and impish. Like a feminine little boy. Ugly/no lips.

The only nudity Kellan has done is one obscure shot of his fartbox in some bomb. Disappointing

Ray Fisher, but it's just a matter of time.

Sean Faris is hot but can't act

This thread is a who’s who of who cares

Pretty much all of these people were on teen shows on channels that no one outside of the teen demographic watches.

In a few years, you will be able to add all of those Riverdale actors to this thread.

[Quote] Sam is your typical chilled Aussie, not ruled by the mighty dollar...has a life to lead with the wife and kids...low key guy

I was shocked that he got with Lara of all people. But they seem pretty chill now.

^ Lara settled down once the crap with Michael was over and lived overseas. I like him, he doe not give a shit about what anybody thinks!

R51 aside from one scuffle with the paps. Before that she was a mess. And i don't mind Sam, but his Aussie accent always comes out lol

Here’s an oldie: Sean Patrick Flanery of Boondock Saints.

We all know that Taylor Kitsch's Hollywood career didn't happen and everyone always lists him as the flop king of Hollywood. But I don't get WHY it did not happen for him. He is good looking, talented (he was incredible as Tim Riggins on FNL and good in the Normal Heart or Lone Survivor) and John Carter was a good movie. Was it a marketing failure? Too many big budget movies while he was still fairly unknown and not a household name? Bad advise from his management to star in 3 big budget movies in one year? I mean he is better looking and more talented than Mark Wahlberg and somehow that motherfucker has not had a flop in years.

Is Kitsch still working? I've also never seen him with a female. Is he gay?

Lutz had his chance with that Hercules movie he starred in. DIdn't work.

No second chance though. I guess it was a disaster.

It's ironic that no one is mentioning DL fave Taylor Lautner. He was definitely also given a few chances, to abysmal results. Patrick Schwarzenegger also comes to mind, and ironically he and Taylor are friends. (And also friends--and in Patrick's case, in-laws--with Chris Prine, who's the least likely movie star ever.)

Milizia Korjus

Matthew Daddario

Joanna Going

James Wolk. Handsome and charming with a killer smile. I feel like they might have known what to do with him during the studio system days.

We have people like Adam Driver and Timothee Chalamet thriving. What happened to Hollywood?

R61, there were plenty of people less talented than Adam Driver who succeeded in the past, so what's your point?

Julia Whelan

Devon Sawa

R56 I can't think of anything he did, other than "Abduction," where he was supposed to be the main star. He would have been really good in it if it was made as a straight action movie, rather than the weird hodge podge it ended up being. Personally, I think he should try to get some comedies released, because he was really funny in Cuckoo and even the failure that was "The Ridiculous Six."

Jennifer Morrison

r59 Joanna Going showed up in a few episodes of Mad Men as the aging actress that tries to get Megan to have a threesome with her husband and her.

r65 Jennifer Morrison had a pretty darn good run on House. I think i've seen her in a movie or two since then but titles are not springing to mind.

Jennifer Morrison was the star of Once Upon a Time for several seasons, and has also been on This Is Us. She is utterly forgettable and generic to me. I can’t figure out how she has landed several hit shows.

Mila Kunis after Black Swan. I can't believe she didn't capitalize on that better, I thought she was so compelling.

I [italic]am[/italic] "big"!

It's the teenage mopey vampire movies that got small...

[Quote] Is Kitsch still working? I've also never seen him with a female. Is he gay?

He was in the terrible American Assassin. And apparently there was some drama with an actress during promo for Waco.

[Quote] Personally, I think he should try to get some comedies released, because he was really funny in Cuckoo and even the failure that was "The Ridiculous Six."

He was funny as one of the frat bros from Grown Ups 2.

[Quote] She is utterly forgettable and generic to me.

She isn't to SwanQueen shippers.

Hunter Parrish. Remember him?

R70 one of the weirdest women I’ve ever known, a former College roommate, was an ardent OUAT fan and self-avowed SwanQueen shipper.

She talked about it constantly to friends and strangers alike, and used to tweet and email the OUAT creators daily about more content for her ship to the degree it was probably harassing. She managed to crowbar entire pages of fanwank about the show and the couple’s story arc into her final year Literature dissertation. She even dressed our other dormmate up like Emma Swan so they could go to a costume party together as the couple, and act out kissing etc.

All this was compounded by the fact she talked in this infantile twee baby-voice, dressed like a 1930s secretary and decorated her room like a Cath Kidston store, and somehow called herself a hardcore Catholic and believed in creationism (I once called the Bible she kept in our living area ‘fanfiction’, and she exploded in rage and broke down crying lmao). She hated when I would put on adult music (like say, Prince), or watch movies with *gasp* violence or swearing in them.

It was just a little much, the way it seemed to consume her every thought but also contradict everything else she was about. It was Trekkie/Twihard/Marvel fanboy/Supernatural-stan levels of freaky delusion. And I’m an autistic lesbian who’s had some weird fixations, saying this, so believe me I understand wanting to see sapphism everywhere. I suspect wasn’t about the gay aspect for her, though, but rather about the thought of being a Queen in a fairytale land and having power over both men and other women.

Oh my God, R72. I had to cringe reading that. Sounds like a lot to deal with in a roommate.

R72, she sounds craaaaaaazy

Yeah, she sure was R73/R74.

A few months before we all left College, she started trying to find out where the actresses for SwanQueen lived/hung out/went on vacation, and trying to find out their social media handles. I just tried to distance myself and stay out of our shared space as much as possible, then went home early after my exams. Needless to say, I ghosted and we didn’t stay in touch.

Usually I don’t like making fun or deriding other womens’ interests, because I think media and culture do that too much—the ‘crazy stalker fangirl’ or ‘OCB bitch’ trope is lazy and offensive. But honestly, sometimes it is true to real life (just not as often as people think).

Monica Potter

Andrea Riseborough.

Linda Fiorentino.

Gretchen Mol, obviously.

Kristy Swanson

R72 she sounds like a trip.

Tatum O’Neal