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Actors or Actresses whose role tainted your view of them

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I am a huge NCIS fan, really like the original better than the spinoffs. However it took me a few seasons to warm up to it because of Mark Harmon. He played Ted Bundy in "The Stranger Beside Me." He was so convincing and so "bundylike" it was really hard for me to watch him in anything. I had liked him in previous roles he had played but it took years to give him a chance again after the Bundy portrayal. Part of that was because I knew one of his Tallahassee victims.
 
For me it was Philip Seymour Hoffman starting his career (as far as I knew, at least) as creepy geeks in Twister and Boogie Nights. No matter how great he might have been in subsequent movies, I hated watching his movies.
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Vincent D'Onofrio will always be Private Pyle, and only Private Pyle.
 
Good topic BTW...without a doubt, it was Bruce Dern for me with his role in The Cowboys...It's my all time favorite movie, and I hated him for years...

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James Spader as the slimy drug dealer in Less Than Zero.

That character always bothered me for some reason.
 
He's not a well known actor, but Andrew Leeds who plays Pelant on Bones. So creepy. He's also in Cristela, a comedy (?).
 
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I read where NB said that was the worst career decision he made. He said that was the only role anyone remembered him for.

For me as much as l like Mark Harmon and the Gibbs role I really feel if I watched the Stranger Beside Me again I would probably quit watching NCIS.
 
Stanley Tucci in Murder One. No matter his roles since, including comedy turns, I still see the oily, snake-charming killer he played.

Very underrated TV series, IMHO. At least, for the first season. Subsequent seasons were meh.
 
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Originally posted by doofy10:
Charlize Theron in monster. Yikes.
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Yeah, yikes for sure...
Yep. Hard to believe they are the same person.
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Has to be the kid who played Joffrey in Game of Thrones. That kid's future as an actor is doomed
 
Originally posted by DFSNOLE:
Originally posted by fsUTampa:
Has to be the kid who played Joffrey in Game of Thrones. That kid's future as an actor is doomed
Did you know any of the actors/actresses in GoT befrore that series?
Sean Bean was in a ton of big films including Lord of the Rings, Lena Headey from a bunch things including 300 . Dinklage from Elf and Station Agent. And Aiden Gillen, Petyr Bealish, from The Wire.

I'm pretty sure the actor who played Joffrey has said he's done with acting. Wants a more normal life and has been acting for a while. He was the little kid Batman meet up with a few times in Batman Begins, for those who remember.
 
William Atherton. (He was the dick EPA guy in Ghostbusters & the reporter in Die Hard.)

I'm sorry, I wouldn't pee on him if he was on fire.
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I love his film persona! - intelligent, neurotic to the brink.




Originally posted by RRtrackdawgson:

Good topic BTW...without a doubt, it was Bruce Dern for me with his role in The Cowboys...It's my all time favorite movie, and I hated him for years...

ec
 
It took me awhile to take Tom Hanks seriously as an actor because I kept thinking of his role in that goofy sitcom, Bosom Buddies.
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Originally posted by squiffynole:
I love his film persona! - intelligent, neurotic to the brink.





Originally posted by RRtrackdawgson:

Good topic BTW...without a doubt, it was Bruce Dern for me with his role in The Cowboys...It's my all time favorite movie, and I hated him for years...

ec
Ummm...he killed Will Anderson...

 
Originally posted by On Iowa:
Vincent D'Onofrio will always be Private Pyle, and only Private Pyle.
What about D'Onofrio in "Men in Black"?

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For me, Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs".

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Or Ted Levine in "Silence of the Lambs", hard to believe he was Bosko in "Heat" or Monk's partner in the TV series "Monk".

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Billy Zane for his roll in Dead Calm, never liked him afterward.
 
mine is Leonardo Decaprio. I hated titanic and thought of him as a prime dg-bag for a long time. I finally forgave him and really enjoy his movies now. I think he may still be paying the price with the Oscar voters though...
 
Originally posted by NDallasRuss:
For me it was Philip Seymour Hoffman starting his career (as far as I knew, at least) as creepy geeks in Twister and Boogie Nights. No matter how great he might have been in subsequent movies, I hated watching his movies.

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I also saw him playing a weird character in the first thing I remember him in. He played the main characters crass fat friend and introduced the world (me at least) to the term sharted. What he did in Capote though turned it around for me.
 
Originally posted by AllNoles:
Kathy Bates in Misery. I've always been terrified of her since.


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This--- incredible acting by her in Misery.
But dang she was scary... and I can't get "Cockadoodie Car!...." out of my mind
 
Originally posted by Formerly Rockymtnole:

James Spader as the slimy drug dealer in Less Than Zero.
Robert Downey Jr. due to the same film but for different reasons. sort of the Ned Beatty of our times.
 
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