Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 13:02     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Julia Stiles
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 12:48     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Saved by the Bell kids.


Seriously? They were all pretty hack actors.


They had a huge platform that should have propelled them forward—especially MPG and TAT.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 12:16     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:The Saved by the Bell kids.


Seriously? They were all pretty hack actors.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 12:01     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:Sam Worthington
Leslie Bibb


Leslie Bibb was never supposed to be the next big thing. She was in the Soft Lips ads in Seventeen, and then waaaay later she was the reporter who banged Iron Man. End of list.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:57     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Sam Worthington
Leslie Bibb
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:44     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:The guy who played Stifler in American Pie.


An actor you don't even know the name of was supposed to be the Next Big Thing.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:41     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Julia Ormond
Sean Young
Keri Hilson (singer)
Shannon Sossaman
Chris O'Donnell


You Must Remember This did an Erotic 80s podcast that was really interesting. One was in part about Sean Young. She was...complex.

Also, I just remembered Shannon Sossamon in Rules of Attraction. I loved that movie.


Sean Young was nuts and tanked her own career through a series of bizarre things she did to try to get the Catwoman role in the late '80's.

https://www.thethings.com/sean-youngs-bizarre-audition-cost-her-the-role-of-catwoman/
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:37     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:Josh Hartnett


I will see you Hartnett and raise you Freddie Prinze Jr.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:36     Subject: Re:Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:After “The Lost Boys” I thought Jason Patric was going to become a huge A-list star but it just didn’t happen for some reason


I thought it was well known that he's a dick.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:36     Subject: Re:Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:Mini Driver She is still out there working. But I thought she would have had a bigger career.



She's a character actor who never fit the pretty ingenue mold. She's done pretty well actually, has worked steadily just not in big flashy roles. Not sure she even was after those though.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:34     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:Katherine Heigl



In terms of movies, true, but her Netflix series was a big hit and headed for season 3.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:20     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Josh Hartnett


Josh Hartnett quit acting on purpose:

https://www.mamamia.com.au/what-happened-to-josh-hartnett/amp/


NP. Don't even care about Hartnett then ended up idly clicking the link and reading that whole piece. He sounds like he realized he needed to exit acting for a time to keep his sanity and not go down the wrong road personally, and has returned to acting with a lot of maturity. Impressive.

Also re: "next big thing," that's someting ginned up by press agencies, managers, studios, etc. Many of those "next big thing" young actors still act or otherwise work in the industry and seem to be doing just fine, if you look them up, like Hartnett. The ones who are actually talented and/or well-trained and seriously trained will keep working, just not in such a spotlight glare.

Others who aren't really very talented at the acting part do still bob up occasionally in stuff and seem rather hungry for their youth and the attention they got (Lindsay Lohan comes to mind).
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 11:02     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
The guy who played Stifler in American Pie.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 10:30     Subject: Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
A number of the ones named so far have reputations for being difficult or mentally ill.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2023 10:00     Subject: Re:Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth
Edward Furlong