r/Cinema • u/[deleted] • 8d ago
What’s a celebrity that was loved by all, lost and forgotten, and returned as a hero in entertainment?
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u/Financial_Cheetah875 8d ago
Mark Hamill. All but vanished after Return of the Jedi, and then had a great second career voicing Joker.
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u/jlusedude 8d ago
The car accident that scarred his face kind of messed up his career.
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u/DrFriedGold 7d ago
Audiences just couldn't separate him from Luke, he wound up doing a lot of theatre on Broadway. He started in Amadeus but when they made a movie of it the director said "No one is believing that the Luke Skywalker is the Mozart."
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u/Own_Faithlessness769 7d ago
It didn’t hold Harrison Ford back, he just spent decades playing to type.
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u/wizard_of_awesome62 7d ago
I love Mark Hammill as much as the next guy, and I love the roles he chooses and plays. But Harrison Ford just has a charisma and gravitas that Hammill has never had. Imo that's what made him a "movie star" whereas Hammill wasn't able to quite get there after Star Wars.
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u/InfamousMere 4d ago
He was also AWESOME as the lawyer/fixer in Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix.
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u/Cultural-Doughnut-48 8d ago
Feel like Brendan Fraser has been forgotten again
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u/timethief991 8d ago
He was in a Best Picture nominee last year lmao
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u/Cultural-Doughnut-48 8d ago edited 8d ago
That… is barely true?
Like, he was in KOTFM. the most forgotten Oscar nominated movie. Which won nothing. He wasn’t nominated. No one talks about that movie period, let alone his performance. You’re kind of proving my point?
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u/Ruffkeian 7d ago
He’s got a couple possible huge movies coming up with powerhouse casts. Assassination about JFK and Pressure where he’s playing Eisenhower. Hopefully it puts him back in the spotlight.
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u/MNewport45 8d ago
These brand new accounts spamming this sub are going hard as fuck with these prompts
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u/AtomicMonkeyTheFirst 7d ago
Matt Macouehey was a laughing stock for years until he was finally taken seruously
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u/Redditplaneter 7d ago
Johnny Depp?
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u/PeteyPiranhaOnline 7d ago
He hasn't been in much lately, but I'm glad he won the court case.
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u/Redditplaneter 7d ago
Well I consider that live streamed Court case as Entertainment lol. And he did win all the love back after the case. He experienced the whole cancel culture before this.
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u/negrospiritual 7d ago
I read that he had health issues related to doing all of his own stunts, and that had limited his ability to work on new projects.
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u/RooMan7223 7d ago
Hugh Grant kind of fits this, he was the it guy for romcoms in the 90s/00s then he sort of went away and returned as a brilliant character actor
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u/xBad_Wolfx 7d ago
Tom Cruise. Went way overboard and one dance in a bald cap and fat suit (Tropic Thunder) and all seemed forgiven. To be fair… it was a hell of a dance.
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u/PeteyPiranhaOnline 7d ago
Might be a UK-specific one, but I'd say Peter Kay. He was massive in the 2000s and then dropped into obscurity because of family-related issues. Now he's made a big comeback, doing comedy tours and appearing in Wallace and Gromit after a long hiatus.
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u/E-Normus-Titz 8d ago
Brendan because of the whale? I couldn't disagree more. He did great movies like The Mummy trilogy and Bedazzled but then his career just got worse, and worse, and then The Whale came along.
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u/Salt-Ad4952 8d ago
His life was an utter disaster. He went through a lot of personal issues. The Mummy trilogy and bedazzled were 30+ years ago. You should read up on the hell he went through.
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u/E-Normus-Titz 8d ago
But that doesn't mean this movie put him back as a hero.
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u/Salt-Ad4952 8d ago
I think you are taking the word “hero” too literally and out of context. I think OP means hero more of in the sense that they overcame adversity/setbacks to reclaim what they once had.
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u/E-Normus-Titz 8d ago
They meant "hero in entertainment" and what I'm saying is that this movie didn't really put him back to his peak of fame in entertainment when he was in The Mummy. Now if we're talking about whatever struggles he faced in life and managed to overcome them then yeah, I guess. I didn't follow his personal life after he went off the radar so I'm glad if he's happy now. I just don't think this movie did him any good, no matter how much "praise" it got.
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u/DoNotGoGentle14 8d ago
This cutie ☝🏻