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50 People List Actors Who Were Such ‘Perfectly Hateable’ Villains, They Can’t Stand Them In Any Other Films
Joffrey Baratheon from “Game of Thrones,” or Mrs. Umbridge from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix” (and later books and films) are all examples of characters so detested that they make readers and viewers' blood boil. Sometimes this emotion transcends the screen and we begin to forget where the character ends and the actor begins.
One internet user wanted to know what actors portrayed a villain so effectively that people could no longer see them as anything else. The results were illuminating, so sit down and be sure to upvote your favorites as you read through people’s answers. Remember to comment your own examples if you didn’t see it here.
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#1
For me, it’s Joffrey Baratheon played by Jack Gleeson.
poopface41217 replied:
The ironic thing is I read Jack Gleeson is one of the kindest people and is active in volunteer efforts. I watched an interview where his co-star Sophie Turner said he was the greatest guy.
Tobias Teller 2 years ago
Do someone really think actors who play villains are terrible people in real life?
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
Some do. Most of us don't. But l would get a shiver down my spine if l were in front of Anthony Hopkins. It's a reflex
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The Doom Song 2 years ago
Oh man, he did such a good job making the whole world hate him for playing Joffery. He was outstanding!
Baseball is Life 2 years ago
You have to be a pretty good actor to have so many people hate your character. He was so , so good at being evil.
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
The irony is that it seems to be a trend that the best portrayed cruel/mean characters are by actors who are kinds, good people in real life... and that the people who play dumba**es/idiot/airhead characters the best... have rather high intelligence (eg: Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow - two exceptionally intelligent, educated individuals - played Romy & Michelle)
Cal Jones 2 years ago
I'm not sure if it was because of this or because he wanted to do something different with his life, but he went to study law at uni.
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sinead 2 years ago
Hello. Can someone please tell me what film or show he was the villain in. Thank you.
benstella 2 years ago
Game of Thrones. Joffrey? Most horrible child king.. incredible actor
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Patricia Stilwell 2 years ago
So, he is a great actor then, isn't he? He made that character so malevolent!
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#2
Imelda Staunton, Mrs Umbridge in Harry Potter.
forbiddenmemeories replied:
Honestly the biggest challenge for any new HP series is going to be matching the casting of the movies. Imelda Staunton is one of many who was absolutely perfect for her character and it's going to be hard to buy anyone else in the role.
Lunavixen15 replied:
I can't unsee Umbridge as her, even after reading the books again. She encapsulated Umbridge so well.
Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 2 years ago
He was as lovable as she was hateble ❤️
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David Wambold 2 years ago
Voted the most hated villian in Harry Potter, even above Voldemort. If you did like her though she is also in Downton Abbey movies.
Tetelestai 2 years ago
I saw the Mcgonagall (can’t spell lol) actor in the series!
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Susan Bosse 2 years ago
The casting of the HP movies was probably the most perfect of any movie ever made. Each character onscreen was af they were picked from my own mind. Each actor. Each scene. Each voice. The costumes. Each and every detail was exactly as magical as imagined. Every film is still one of my favorites to watch.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
I didn't like David Tennant as Barty Crouch junior. I loved him in Dr Who and Good Omens etc, but in HP it wasn't a good fit for me.
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️ felixir (he/him) ️ 2 years ago
the biggest issue a HP series will have is y'know not having a lot of racist caricatures and separating itself from the transphobic figurehead who created that world
Doodles1983 2 years ago
It. Is. FICTIONAL. And she isn’t transphobic. She has as much right to be pro protecting natal female as the trans community being who they are and having that same freedom.
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John Lithgow was so terrifying in Dexter that I kept expecting him to murder somebody in The Great British Bake Off.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
He is such a terrific and versatile actor. His portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Crown was so touching and real.
Em 2 years ago
Meanwhile I couldn't take him seriously in Dexter because...I mean...he's John Lithgow.
Christian Fuller 2 years ago
Which is funny, since he was a serious actor before his role in The World According to Garp.
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Watch him in Harry and the Hendersons after Dexter and Cliffhanger. It’s freaky!
Tessa Gregory 2 years ago
Such a phenomenal and underrated actor. He can play literally anything and I love it. He is also a great artist.
Hollywood has a long track record of typecasting certain actors in specific roles. This is pretty prevalent among character actors who people can only see in one role. The cast of Star Trek, particularly the original series, struggled with this issue for the rest of their careers. For example, Nichelle Nichols who played translator and communications officer Uhura, believed that the role so defined her as an actress that no one was willing to hire her for anything else.
Star Trek seemed to be particularly cursed, as even established actors of stage and screen ended up “stuck” with connections to the show. Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Picard in “The Next Generation” was turned down from a role because the director thought Picard overshadowed the actor. It’s worth noting that Sir Patrick Stewart has decades of experience and was and is a fully respected actor in his own right, yet still ended up typecast by this one role.
#4
Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and as Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian. When I saw Giancarlo Esposito in Community, I just about sh*t myself in fear.
ANONYMOUS 2 years ago (edited)
I like this guy, he certainly made me emphasise with him sometimes
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
He's a fantastic actor. I've never watched Breaking Vad but I love him in everything he does. He does an amazing job in Kaleidoscope!!
Giuditta Jones (she/her) 2 years ago
Well.... Adding Moff Gideon to the list makes him even better. That man... Great actor!
Pizzaking, village burner. 2 years ago
I have only seen him in mandalorian but dayum he does well
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AnnaB 2 years ago (edited)
I love watching the Breaking Bad bloopers on YouTube. It's hilarious to see Walter, Jesse, Hank, and Gus cracking up in some of the most intense scenes.
Laura Lett 2 years ago
Yes!! But ,the way Giancarlo portrayed Gusatvo Fring ,those dead eye looks.. WOW!! Then the episode Face off!!! Oh, my GORD!!
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D. Pitbull 2 years ago
And yet... seen him 'live and in action' at a convention (so you know, unscripted, not nearly as 'groomed for presentation' as, say, a talk show or press interview... and if they're super shiny-fake/superficial... it comes out in their speech and mannerisms) - he's AWESOME, good sense of humour, big laughs, nearly constant smiles... it's so. sooooo weird (and kinda hilarious).
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
he's an astoundingly good actor who, IMO, doesn't get the true accolades he deserves.
#5
Sam Rockwell in Green Mile was so disgusting and off-putting and perfect in his role that I still don’t like to look at him.
Siobhan Gournay 2 years ago
The way way back- he's both hilarious and endearing in that movie!
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Sam Rockwell is a good in many roles. Even when playing a small role he shows sincerity and excellence in his work
N Miller 2 years ago
He is amazing. I don't think I've seen him in anything where I'd say his acting was meh. So versatile. Hate the character adore the actor. Even if the rest of the film is utter garbage, he's always worth watching.
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wfnb1 2 years ago
He isn't The Green Mile character I hated. Doug Hutchison as Percy Wetmore was perfectly detestable.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Tbh I no longer think DH was acting that hard. But, yes. Worse. Wild Bill provided some almost comic relief in a very beautifully intense film.
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Lyndsey Shir-McDermott-Pour 2 years ago
He was amazing in Galaxy Quest. That's his default role for me.
SarDemMin 2 years ago
Came here to say that. He did justice to his character in that movie.
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Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton. I tell a lie as he was so cute in Vicious as Ash Weston.
sporkabork replied:
He freaked me out so much as Ramsay Bolton that I’m pretty sure I’d cross the street if I happened to see him out walking around. That’s a good actor.
ScrapieChick 2 years ago
If you want to not hate him, he appeard in a uk TV series called "Our Girl" and he's the sweetest character I've seen in years
Nay Wilson 2 years ago
I was so happy when Ramsay Bolton got eaten by his own dogs. It was karma
Ewa Drygas 2 years ago
irl, he sings these really romantic songs. his whole album is on yt, really cool. great actor.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
He's bloody awful in Vicious, I was amazed by how great he was in GoT
Moosy Girl 2 years ago (edited)
There’s this youtube video of him and Robert Sheehan on lunchbreak during Misfits shoots, where they’re pretending Iwan only speaks Welsh. He looks soooo innocent there.
Dina Anastasakos 2 years ago
100% true for me. l cannot stand this guy now and refuse to watch anything he's in.
It seems like the inability to see an actor as separate from the character is just as present among casting directors as the audience. John Hamm, of Mad Men fame, recalled getting basically only pitches for films and shows set in the 1960s or about advertising. Despite his range, one excellent performance was enough to force him into the same role over and over again, with diminishing results and, no doubt, motivation.
#7
Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List.
Milkweedhugger replied:
Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort also!
anotherkeebler replied:
I've been scared of him all my life. I was so happy to see him play such a different character in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Rondawg 2 years ago
Worked in high-end restaurants in San Francisco for over 20 years...some of those scenes made me laugh my a*s off...I'm slightly ashamed. 😏
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Irish woman abroad 2 years ago
But he was so wonderful in The English Patient! Don't mind admitting I bawled my eyes out at the end.
Kim 2 years ago
He was also in Red Dragon of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy and I haven't been able to see him as anything but the bad guy since
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
He was amazing in Red Dragon. He played the serial killer the audience was meant to both feel sympathetic towards/feel bad for and be totally skeeved out by long before Dexter appeared on air.
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norabest321 2 years ago
I guess one of the Holocaust survivors started shaking uncontrollably when she saw him in costume.
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#8
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Bastards.
crateofkate replied:
See his role on Basterds influenced my perspective of him so much I spent the entire movie waiting for him to betray Django and when the credits rolled and he hadn’t my mind was in denial
DeannaZone replied:
I loved that movie because of him, but unfortunately if I ever see or hear him in something I am like this is the bad guy ... he did is sooo good!
Laura Lett 2 years ago
Christoph was Perfect for the role! He's the only reason I watch the movie. The whole story line was stupid.
Giuditta Jones (she/her) 2 years ago
Dear lord, that man keeps freaking me out. First in IG. Then the Consultant even more. Man that guy gives me bad shivers.
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Johnny Gregg 2 years ago (edited)
This should be number one to me, the way he did it so politely and seemingly kind was more terrifying to me than someone who is just mean, he came in like, I'm here to help, when really he's talking about hawks, squirrels and rats, loved how it was the start of the movie, because you see the swastika and know he's a bad guy but then it's smiles and tea
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Totally freaked me out when he strangled the Diane Kruger character. He was wonderful, but really f*cking scary.
#9
Jack Nicholson did such a good job as Jack Torrance that he gives me the creeps every time I see his face now.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
He's always given me the creeps, no matter what role he played, because of his dead eyes. He may be a great actor and certainly has earned a lot of praise and prestige, but those emotionless eyes never change.
October 2 years ago (edited)
He is magnificent in The Shining, but Nicholson is one of my least favorite actors. He plays the same role over and over, even if the script seems to call for something different.
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I see some pretty silly responses here. "Dark eyes"..."Dead Eyes"...he's an actor! A damn fine one at that! Watch some of his other films. Goin' South, Prizzi's Honor, Chinatown, Terms of Endearment, Easyrider, About Schmidt. The guy has depth. You may not like him, and that's personal prefernce and completely understood.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
'You make me want to be a better man." Who else could say that line with such finesse?
Laura Lett 2 years ago
That character is the reason I will Never go to a ski Lodge! Never ,never ,never!!!
Giuditta Jones (she/her) 2 years ago
Nah I love that man. I know too many roles with him as the nice and good guy.
Richard Thomas 2 years ago
Jack Nicholson is the master of playing someone who could fly into a rage at any moment xD
Patrick Linnen 2 years ago
I commented that he was great playing the Joker in 'Batman'. I got a response that he was was not portraying Joker, only himself. To this date I wonder if I should have comeback with, "The point being ... ?"
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Leon Kokorev 2 years ago
The Shining is my favorite movie of all time, mainly because of his performance. He perfectly shows a deranged person trying to stay normal (I have some experience with people like that)
There are historical examples of this as well. Soviet actor Mikheil Gelovani played Stalin no less than twelve times, which perhaps wasn’t quite as challenging range-wise, but the pressure to portray the murderous Premier of the Soviet Union no doubt added a certain level of difficulty. Regardless, both Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization and the idea that Gelovani could not depict “mere mortals” after playing Stalin all led to him being denied any other roles.
#10
How is Joaquin Phoenix not on here for Commodus in Gladiator?
Mud_Landry added:
Took me quite a while to watch Joaquin Phoenix in anything after Gladiator, his Commodus was so f*****g evil I couldn’t stand him in anything for years
Giuditta Jones (she/her) 2 years ago
And then watch Walk the Line, where he portrays Johnny Cash. This man is a legend.
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RedMarbles 2 years ago
Apparently this was the inspiration for Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon. Both did such a fantastic job being vile and arrogant.
Karen Jones 2 years ago
See him in "Joker", l cried my eyes out , a life so damaged, so hopeless, so sad . Yes he did some bad things. But like Ned Kelly he was pushed to the brink. Also reminded me of someone l know
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Aw, Commodus was full of c**p. (It's Latin for "toilet," and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
Laura Lett 2 years ago
That's the perfect description of the character!! He was a bad, bad man.
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Adam Belaire 2 years ago
He was such a great villain in Gladiator that I could not watch Ladder 49 without seeing Commodus.
Rodney Johari 2 years ago
When Commodus got his comeuppance in Gladiator, I was physically restraining my hand from assisting Maximus in stabbing him to death.
#11
Charles Dance in well everything... Golden Child, GOT.
He could cure cancer tomorrow and he would still ring villain to me.
Sue User 2 years ago
I always think of his prostectic eyes ( he had several with different patterns ) in Last Action Hero.
Dan Flo 2 years ago
"Hello? I've just shot somebody, I did it on purpose!" Such an underrated movie villain, and movie.
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Id row 2 years ago
Let's be honest, every actor in GoT absolutely nailed their role. That show, despite the last season, is arguably the best series in history. Nothing has come close to it.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
It really was impressive in that regard. Such a shame that all the ways it was great have gotten overshadowed by the later plot decisions and the truncated way those decisions were executed. Still an absolutely incredible work of art overall (minus a few scenes I didn't need to see) and it's the only TV show so huge worldwide that a soccer/football stadium audience "sang" the instrumental theme song en masse when it was announced one of the actors was present. I forget what country that happened in, but I doubt I'll ever see such a thing related to a TV show again.
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AliJanx 2 years ago
That's exactly where I went, too. Even in that role, I felt an undercurrent of calculating coldness.
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Somebodys grandmother 2 years ago
It is problaply because you haven't seen "the kiss of a spiderwoman" first. It is SO good that I can't unsee him fra that performance...
Lorraine R 2 years ago
I've always liked him, because the first thing I saw him in was "Jewel in the Crown".
#12
Tom Felton reportedly gets a ton of hate for his portrayal of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series.
trisharae_88 replied:
But also a super chill dude in real life.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I odn't often read books like that, but I read this one, and Wow! What a guy.
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Troy Parr 2 years ago
Here in the UK, Mark Savage played Gripper Stebson, the bully at Grange Hill school. But playing Gripper soon turned sour. With all the adverse publicity, Gripper was written out of the show. But while his TV character died, Mark was left with the real-life legacy of playing the bully. Twenty years later he said: "It was a nightmare," he explains. "I was attacked so many times - on the bus, in the street - I lost count. It was open season on Gripper. People would pick up all sorts of weapons - snooker cues, baseball bats. I even had knives pulled on me. I know how a fox feels. I seemed to spend half my life running away from people. Once, we were at a football match, minding our own business. Suddenly a huge chant went up: `Gripper, you're going to get your f****** head kicked in.' It was absolutely terrifying and I became really nervous and jumpy as soon as I stepped out of the front door." There's more,but these replies are limited for space.
Frances Pitchounetta 2 years ago
And yet, all the actors who have worked with him say he is adorable in real life.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I'm wager he gets just as much love from thirsty fans as he does hate tbh. xD
Chandra Durham 2 years ago
Everyone knows someone like him though. Just wait till my father hears of this!
Some actors actually end up “bonding” with a character so deeply that they begin to do public appearances as them. Clayton Moore, best known as the Lone Ranger, liked being the masked, former Texas ranger so much that Jack Wrather, who actually owned the rights to the character, had to issue a cease and desist letter. The dispute was ultimately resolved and Moore would continue to go out in public as the ranger.
#13
I've never forgiven Jeffrey Dean Morgan for killing Glenn. I used to really like him.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I fell in love with him on Grey's Anatomy and in P.S. I Love You, and when he killed Glenn he broke my heart forever.
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
I'm still kind of mad at myself that I went from hating Negan's character to actually liking him as time went on and he worked to redeem himself. The writing is so d*mn good on that show.
Jennifer_Crowley_Luci 2 years ago
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is AMAZING!!! Yeah, the Glenn thing sucked, but he is SO great!! The Comedian, Papa Winchester, Negan, Denny Duquette... the man is gold.
JLN 2 years ago
I only finished watching walking dead because of Negan/JDM, he was so good at being bad and being so hot while doing it
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CG 2 years ago
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a very nice guy IRL. He's good friends with Norman Reedus, and if you've ever watched Ride with Norman Reedus, you can tell they get along just fine. Also, funny unrelated side note... Negan is DLC in Tekken 7, and the trailer is basically recreating Negan's scene with Glenn and Abraham.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Before the question comes up: He played Negan in "The Walking Dead"
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
I think Negan is the greatest villain in movie history (i consider TWD to be cinema). Negan has so many contradictions and is so well developed as a character, so complicated. Other villains might be more evil or imposing, but they lack the depth TWD used in creating him, Negan is 3D while most movie villains are 1 or 2 dimensional.
#14
Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and as Kai Winn in "Deep Space Nine".
LitherLily replied:
She is excellent at playing the villain. You are helpless against the tide of hate that washes over you.
kate h 2 years ago (edited)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of my favorite movies of all time. All of the actors were great, but Louise Fletcher was incredible. She played her part SO well - I think the fact that there are real people out there like this makes it extra terrifying.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
The fact that she is a Shakespearean actor of high repute has much to do with her ability to cast menace--- theater actors have to be able to portray without the gimmicks of film-- she is a maestro of theater--one of the few who transfer it to film sublimely
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Johnny Gregg 2 years ago
I mean, I didn't see her as a villain, she was doing her job, Jack Nicholsons character was a multiple felon trying to game the system. Yeah you feel for him but in real life, no one would care about him. Things like that happen all the time in the justice system and no one cares unless it's a movie. Nurse Ratched would have been called a hero in real life.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
She looks like how the nurses in Silent Hill would have looked before Alessa f****d everything up.
#15
Lena Headey in GOT. She's actually super nice when I've seen interviews but damn she was too perfect as Cersei.
Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
She played Sarah Connor in The Terminator TV series before 300 and Game of Thrones, she was also in The Purge and Judge Dredd
Fred L. 2 years ago
Dredd, not Judge Dredd. Different and very different films, both great in their own way.
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Heather Resatz 2 years ago
Perfect and gorgeous!! If she's as sweet as everyone says then she must be an angel
AlizStarlet 2 years ago
She's my favorite casting and one of my favorite characters in the book series
Fester Sixonesixonethree 2 years ago
She and her brother were denied the unlivings that they richly deserved. They weren't even covered by the rubble... just lying there like a couple of mannikins.
Ultimately, more creative directors will try to play “against type” by taking an actor best known for a specific genre or role and casting them in something very different. Bruce Willis was mainly known for romcoms before his career-making time in “Die Hard,” while rapper Ice-T was an unusual, but inspired choice for a police detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
#16
Rosamund Pike played a sociopath so perfectly in *Gone Girl* that I have only recently been able to watch shows or movies that she is in.
._. 2 years ago
But she was so good as Moirane (sp?) In the Wheel of Time series! (The content is a different story)
GettingCereal 2 years ago
But she was also perfect as lovely, sweet Jane in Pride and Prejudice.
Laura Lett 2 years ago
I still haven't seen the movie. The book was so freaking complicated and intense.
Lp Johnson 2 years ago
"Mainly known for 'rom coms' ?! @the author of this piece: how you gone throw that kind of reference to Bruce Willis and not mention Moonlighting by NAME?! Die Hard made his career, but that VERY popular 'rom com' let him enter the franchise as an WELL known badass. Lol
Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago
One of my favourites is Doom. She of course is not a sociopath in it. Great cast.
#17
I don’t hate him but after watching Primal Fear and American History X if I saw Edward Norton in a dark alley I’d turn around and walk the other way.
Kathy T 2 years ago
The curb scene in America History X has had a long lasting effect on me. That was just so twisted!
Nenya 2 years ago
This! Normally, I’d watch the same movies several times over the years, but because of that one scene, I’m never gonna watch that a second time..
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Joseph Grimmett 2 years ago
He's a very arrogant and entitled person IRL. I walk away from him too.
Maja-Stine Foged 2 years ago
He is also perfectly unlikeable in Rounders. I admire him for being such a good actor whilst at the same time... find him completely unsympathetic.
#18
Billy Zane in Titanic.
Fly_By_Orchestra added:
It's too bad; he's a cool dude.
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
Nope, Billy Zane in "Dead Calm." Epic. That movie still puts the frighteners on me.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I have a theory that Billy Zane makes such a good villain because he seems so perfect, tall, athletic, handsome, great smile, charming, people want to see him as the slick villain. Maybe jealousy making people think he can't be that perfect. There are a few actors that are like that for some reason.
Jennifer_Crowley_Luci 2 years ago
Demon Knight... He was awesome in that one! Love that movie.
Java Addict 2 years ago
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight. Plays the villain, but is also quite funny and charming at times.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
Billy Zane was cursed-blessed to look like an a*****e. It has kept him working, though!
Bonnie Buttons 2 years ago
I loved that moment when his face twitches because Rose refuses to leave with him and chooses Jack instead. Perfect expression of "irked".
CalamityOne 2 years ago (edited)
I always end up watching "The Phantom" if I catch it while I'm flipping channels... Also the move "The Kiss", which has a great story with great actors, but sadly you won't find two romantic leads with less chemistry, lol...
#19
Pam Ferris as Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda.
Minerva McGonagall 2 years ago
I loved her in The Darling Buds of May & in Rosemary & Thyme. But she was horrid Aunt Marge in Harry Potter
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I used to hide behind a cushion the entire scene that Matilda was in her house because I was scared of Trunchbull lmao
François Carré 2 years ago
And she's obviously having so much FUN at playing that awful character. I show that movie to kids once in a while, and always point out to them how she is portrayed as a real ogre and filmed similarly to the T-Rex in Jurassic Park.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Hahaha! I never saw that. To me she will always be Sister Avengelina or Laura Thyme.
#20
Kathy Bates in Misery. It makes me sad because she is a great actress, but I can't get past it.
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
For me it's kinda opposite. She's usually the likeable character and when l watch Misery is just admiration at how good she is.
SheHulk 2 years ago
Steven King wrote the character "Dolores Claiborne" with her in mind. The acting in that movie blew me away and Kathy Bates plays the character with depth and complexity.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Meh. She's fine, but the character's all over the place. Some episodes she's just evil, others it's "let's wheel out the comedy racist!"
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I find her performance absolutely FANTASTIC and delicious in everything she's in. It also helps that I looked at some of the behind the scenes trivia for 'Misery' - and she apparently freaked the heck out of James Caan (she's Theater, he... was never theater) just because she was working hard and being intense ... and I LOVED that.
Cara G 2 years ago
I agree, she really is among the upper most echelon of actors, current and past. Also Misery is one of the most accurate book to film adaptations I've ever seen. The only other examples that remained that faithful to the source material were Peter Jackson's LOTR series and the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches. IMO.
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#21
Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained. DiCaprio had a certain insane charisma to him in that movie, not Jackson. Perfectly portrays someone who sold out their own.
FlatEarf2.0 2 years ago
Fun fact about Mace Windus name actually, it's Windu because of that Window seen for him to end it all. I am probably wrong I just made that up but I like the idea
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Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
I LOVE Samuel L Jackson!!!! He can be crazy evil, he can be absolutely hilarious (like in The Hitman’s Bodyguard). But you HAVE to watch The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey!!!! It’s probably his most impressive work yet.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Ah, But he IS one BAd MFer (sorry, couldn't resist the Pulp Fiction reference)
#22
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. I watched No Country for Old Men in the theater and studiously avoided Javier Bardem until last year when I watched Dune. He’s a great actor; otherwise, Anton Chigurh wouldn’t have mentally scarred me for a decade.
Christian Fuller 2 years ago
Also as Silva in Skyfall. Scarily sympathetic, but after that one scene, it's hard to look him in the face.
Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago
I like him the most from all post 2000 Bond villains.
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I was lucky to have watched a lot of his work before No Country for Old Men or else l'd have been really scared. Some psychologist said it's the most accurate portrayal of a psychopath.
Karen Jones 2 years ago
One of the best movies ever made, sucks you right in to the story, like you're trapped in the movie
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
That was absolutely brilliant casting. I can't imagine anyone else playing the role of Chigurh. "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"
#23
I will never ever forgive Paul Reiser for betraying those Colonial Marines on LV426.
daddyvs replied:
I have hated Paul Reiser since the 80s because of Aliens.
billions_of_stars replied:
I remember Paul Reiser being on a talk show many years ago after he was in the movie Aliens. He talked to Jay Lemon or whoever it was about how he was doing standup once and before he even started people were booing him because they hated that character so much. He said something to the host along the lines of “they realize I’m not actually that guy, right?”
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I was so torn about which Paul Reiser to see his character as when he starred in later seasons of Stranger Things. EXCELLENT casting.
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
I liked him in Mad about you with Helen Hunt. He apparently told Lisa Kudrow that Friends wouldn't work!
Jeff White 2 years ago
I never like his characters, and when he was such an incredible (believable) douche in Aliens, that sealed my permanent dislike of "him"
Son of Philosoraptor 2 years ago
Came here for this. It's so ironic... He did such a great job acting like a complete douche that I can't help but hate the guy.
Lydia Languish 2 years ago
Hé is great in the Kominsky Method - and totally unrecognizable. I was shocked when I realized it was him
#24
Tobias Menzies who played Capt Randall on Outlander. Every movie and film he is in, I always hope his character dies. I think I would spit on him if I saw him in real life. He's actually really nice guy but was so good in his role that I just hate him.
Cal Jones 2 years ago
Although as the husband, he was a nice guy. He did a good job making both characters believable despite their identical looks.
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Ban-One 2 years ago
A very good actor, very versatile. Played the complete opposite in GoT as Edmure Tully. Also strong performances in "Rome" or as Prince Philip in "The Crown".
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
I think he has an amazing speaking voice as well. I keep hoping he will narrate some audiobooks.
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Billie Templeton 2 years ago
I freaking LOVED The Outlander until that f***ing s3xual assault they did at the end of season one. I just can't watch the rest of the show now. I'm too traumatized for the victim. Ruined a really great show, for me anyways.
Rebecca O’Donnell 2 years ago
Read all the books, Billie Templeton. That assault was one the worst things I ever read. But don’t let that stop you from enjoying the rest of Outlander, the show and/or the books. This saga is unbelievably fabulous and you would be missing out on so much. It brings the histories of Scotland and the new United States to life. I felt like I was living in the moment.
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Giuditta Jones (she/her) 2 years ago
This needs more upvotes. I couldn't even under Capt Randall when he played Frank. Damn dat face. Brrrr. Nope. Probably a great guy, but I'd get shivers if I were to run into him 😂
#25
Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and as Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot. Gotta say, he excels at portraying despicable villains.
Pippin Nepenthe 2 years ago
And the Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels! He has the perfect sinister voice
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Grace Note 2 years ago
He's brilliant in The Death of Stalin. Absolutely hilarious as is most of the cast. It's a great film well worth watching.
#26
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix. Krampsport replied: This!!! Agent Smith and he was forever a sinister and scary mf.
Rachel Reynolds 2 years ago
Every time we watch Lord of the Rings and Weaving's character says "Welcome to Rivendell," my husband adds "Mr. Smith."
CG 2 years ago
Man, Hugo Weaving has played some good villains in film. Agent Smith, Red Skull (Captain America: The First Avenger), and Megatron (first three Transformers movies). I think another underrated role he's had was in Hacksaw Ridge, as the father of Desmond Doss. Not exactly a villain there, but definitely no saint of a character.
Just another idiot 2 years ago
He is one of those actors that are in so many fantastic movie franchises and does a mind-blowing job at it! He's in The Lord Of The Rings/Hobbit movies, The MCU as Red Skull, The Matrix etc,etc...
#27
This is gonna be a throwback but Robert Knepper as T-Bag in Prison Break. He played that character EXTREMELY well...like jeez. I've never been able to see him the same way since watching Prison Break.
Aimee Luffman 2 years ago
he had a role on an episode of star trek TNG. he played a sweet young guy.. totally threw me when I realized why he looked familiar
Megan McFarland Estepp 2 years ago
I expect him to be a terrible person in everything I see him in.
Thomas Olsen 2 years ago
That surname is just surreal for Danes, it means f***ing in Danish, gave an extra dimension to him lol
#28
I've never seen her in anything but The Office, but it's always such a mind‐f**k when I see an interview or something with Angela Kinsey and she's smiling and seems somewhat likeable.
I got to meet her at a convention once, and she is incredibly sweet IRL. So are Oscar Nuñez and Brian Baumgartner.
I went to the convention dressed as Dwight and, when it was time for my picture with Angela, she exclaimed “Dwight!” Then she told me she was going to go “full Angela” for the photo, and she did.
GonzoThompson replied:
Brian was extra careful to make sure I got all the photos I wanted with him. We had already taken three or so when he asked me if I was sure I got everything I wanted with him.
All three of them are super nice people.
elijah fisher 2 years ago
yea she seems awesome but any interview or whatever i've seen w her i fully expect her to actually go full angela
Rapunzel With The Loced Hair 2 years ago
I first saw her in "Haters Back off" and I haven't been able to reconcile her with anything else she plays, I can't take her seriously. But I love her
#29
Jesse Plemons (poor man's Matt Damon) as Todd in Breaking Bad. overmonk replied: Same. It took years for me to see past his dead-fish sociopathic Todd and recognize his immense acting talent. He’s really very good.
Tim Nicebutdim 2 years ago
He's lost a lot of weight and now looks odd, he suits a slight paunch
Patricia Stilwell 2 years ago
I knew him from (the TV show) Friday Night Lights. I always think of as Landry, a loyal friend to Matt.
#30
Chace Crawford as The Deep in The Boys. I see him in actor interviews and get the heebie-jeebies even though I know it’s just a character.
Cara G 2 years ago
This intrigues me. I'm not aware of any of his post-GG work so I only see him as the lovable, loyal Nate Archibald who never sent in a single tip.
Ankylosarus Wrecks 2 years ago
The Deep is incredibly loathesome and betrays the trust of just about everyone. But in a very darkly hilarious way.
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Doug Hutchison (Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile). Although I haven't seen him in much since, Lost being the only thing that comes to mind. He has some real-life issues though as well, having married a 16-year-old when he was 51.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
He is divorced now and his ex-wife has since come out and said he groomed her and convinced her parents to let him marry her.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Is it legal to marry at 16? Did they marry in the US? But still most countries have 18 as legal age of marriage.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
https://pagesix.com/2022/03/25/courtney-stodden-calls-ex-doug-hutchison-predator-pedophile/
Amber Kaul 2 years ago
He always creeped me out because he seemed a little to much like the character
#32
Adam Scott could play the sweetest guy ever but I would still wanta punch his face in because all I'd be able to see was Trevor from the Good Place.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Adam Scott DID play the sweetest guy ever in "Parks and Recreation."
Leon Kokorev 2 years ago
In the good place he was just doing his job (Michael makes me angrier)
#33
Mo'Nique when she played the mom in Precious. SmellyCheeseDiseass replied: Oh this is a good answer. Funnily enough Mo'Nique is apparently one of the biggest sweethearts in the world.
k sand 2 years ago
I remember the scene where they have to put on a false front for the social worker. When Precious's baby throws her bottle or knocks it to the floor and Monique just looks at the baby and in a quiet restrained voice just says 'UH oh'. I wondered how difficult it must have been to play her role during scenes with a real-life baby because you don't know to what extent they know the difference between acting and real life.
#34
Kiefer Sutherland in Stand By Me.
Theresa Stephenson 2 years ago
Yeah those early roles were super evil lucky for him he got play nicer people later.
#35
Antony Starr Homelander in The Boys. ballplayer0025 replied: 100% He is so good at it that initially I was like "holy s**t where his this guy been hiding?" But ultimately because of it I will never be able to see him as anything but homelander.
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
I relish that the most douchey 'Murica!!!!! character... is played by................an Australian. hahahahhaha
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
I love the memes of his facial expressions in the show. Very good casting all around
#36
Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly Holbrook in The Help, after that I can't stand her in anything else...
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
🤣🤣🤣 I hated her character, but I loved watching her eat that pie!!!
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Susan Teter 2 years ago (edited)
Yep. Two slice Hilly. Ya know, the dil*o of consequences seldom arrives lubed.
AK to LV 2 years ago
I've never heard that expression. I woke my dog up with my laughing!
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Cat Mom times 11 2 years ago
I make a mean chocolate chess pie, I use that good vanilla from Mexico lol
#37
For me, Matt Damon in The Departed was so absolutely hateable that even when I see him in things like The Martian, for example, I’m still like “oh, absolutely not. Just leave him there.”
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
Holy. Moly... did NO ONE like him in Good Will Hunting?????? I can't be alone in this. wtf. I think Matt Damon ROCKS.
DippityDooDerp 2 years ago
Matt Damon is one of my all time favorite! Good Will Hunting, Dogma, The Bourne movies, Rounders, The Rainmaker, The Informant....just everything hes played in is amazing.
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My brother-in-law's brother is in this movie, in this exact scene. He was one of the other recruits at one of the desks.
fs 2 years ago
Less a villain to me. For certain roles I will always associate him with "not the brightest light in the box".
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Or the damsel in distress - The Martian, Saving Private Ryan, Green Zone....
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ScrapieChick 2 years ago
Oh but The Martian is amazing, it's a huge testament to an actors skill to carry off that amount of screen time just talking to themselves. It's one of my top ten go too movies when I'm feeling a bit down
Amy Taylor 2 years ago
I think his portrayal of Tom Ripley in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was flawlessly evil.
#38
The Mist (2007) has a character named Mrs Carmody who was a religious nut they were all trapped in the grocery store with. She was played by actress Marcia Gay Harden, who I still can't stand to this day because of that character.
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
YES! She also had a recurring role as an FBI undercover agent on Law & Order: SVU. I saw her two episodes that came out before The Mist that made me hate her character with a passion, so when I saw her character in The Mist I despised her so much I almost turned the movie off. Glad I didn't, because I enjoyed the rest of the movie (and I did a little happy dance when they shot her, I have to say). Her character on L&O eventually redeemed herself in the two episodes that came out a few years after the movie, but I almost skipped the episodes when I saw she was going to be on them.
Marnie 2 years ago
She also was in How To Get Away With Murder and I had the same reaction seeing her there. She's so good at being bad!
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Oh she was good! I still see her as that lady from The Mist. Also the ending haunts me.
Cat Mom times 11 2 years ago
I got pissed off at the ending of the movie, I'm a huge Stephen King fan and The Mist is one of my favorite short stories but I hated it when they changed the ending like that.
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Bonniebluebutler 2 years ago
Lest we forget her portrayal of Celeste in "Mystic River"...whose lies got an innocent, sexually abused child murdered.
#39
David Schwimmer as Cpt Sobel in Band of Brothers. I swear his O3 character caused me to have flashbacks of bad company commanders.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
He was really good as Captain Sobel in the "Band of Brothers ".Thanks for reminding me of BoB. It's time for my annual rewatch.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
I never found Friends to be as good as people claim it is. But he was so good in BOB. I too am due for another rewatch.
Manuel Delgado 2 years ago
I think he was a total miscast in an otherwise fantastic series. And not because he played Ross so well and for so long. He just wasn't believable for me.
JJ 2 years ago (edited)
For me it was quite the opposite: After seeing him in Friends (I was a kid in the 90s), I couldn't take him seriously in BoB. BoB created a bunch of other actors that I can't see in other roles now, though. I always see those soldiers.
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
I can't take Elliot Gould seriously in the Oceans films because he's Ross and Monica's dad.
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#40
Kirsten Dunst as Amy in 1994’s Little Women. I will never forgive her for burning that manuscript. Then her character grew up married Laurie?! What. A. B***h.
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
Me, too. Little Women was the first book I ever threw across a room in frustration/anger because of what an author wrote. The movie just intensified that feeling, but TVs were much bulkier back when the movie came out, and throwing it across the room was beyond my ability. So I sat on the couch instead, arms folded and pissed off because I knew this was coming.
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Ridiant 2 years ago
The upset at the Amy-Laurie plot is vaguely amusing, as it was reportedly done that way as Alcott was apparently rather annoyed at people wanting Jo (who was somewhat based on Alcott, and the other March sisters on Alcott's own) to get together with Laurie, and quite literally chose to sink the ship in spite of "adolescent ideals". (It may be worth mentioning, here, that Alcott herself never married.)
Cara G 2 years ago
This isn't Kirsten Dunst's fault, it's Louisa May Alcott's. Amy March is supposed to be an insufferable brat and her marrying Laurie is a plot device. If we dislike Kirsten, then we would also have to dislike Florence Pugh, Elizabeth Taylor, and numerous other actresses who have played Amy. BTW I can't stand Amy.
ScrapieChick 2 years ago
It's not the characters she plays that make me not want to watch her, it's that she plays every character the same, just brings out an irrational anger in me.
SandraG_lak 2 years ago
I thought Kirsten was a fantastic Amy. Kirsten was also fantastic as Peggy in the tv show Fargo - that is the character she played that messed me up.
#41
Major Frank Burns from M*A*S*H, His lack of empathy and overall ego made me hate the guy. They tried a couple of times expressing on why he came out the way he did...but it just wasn't enough. Always getting in the way of Hawkeye treating patients, leading on Hotlips, and just being an overall shithead the way he treated the locals in Korea. That being said Robert Duvall did a great job.
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
Larry Linville hated the character. He actually quit the show because Frank had not grown or changed at all. Linville is (was?) a nice guy with a good sense of humor.
JP Doyle 2 years ago
Linville was such an accomplished actor. Frank Burns was so different from his past characters. He played a handful of excellent villains of the week in Mission: Impossible
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Tessa Gregory 2 years ago
All I could think of is that he did look like a ferret after they started calling him that lol
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#42
I actually had this issue this morning. I was watching Breaking Bad and Jesse's AA leader was on. Perfectly softly spoken gentle man. Hate him on sight. Had to Google him. Turns out he was a character in Sabrina the Teenage Witch that I watched as a child (Zelda's husband) and he was such a bastard I've apparently carried a dormant instinctual hatred for him ever since.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Jere Burns also played a compulsive liar and womanizer in Dear John for five seasons in the early 90s.
Rupp 2 years ago
They thought he was a liar, until the helicopter picked him up from the window for his secret agent mission.
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MichelleDonut 2 years ago (edited)
So you Googled him, found his picture and the show he was in, but won't bother giving us his name? Well, I will: he is Jere Burns. He did an amazing job portraying a sleazy criminal through several seasons of Justified.
britainknee 2 years ago
Yes! I was gonna say, he's that squirly mf from justified! What a great show.
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I first saw Jere Burns way back in the day on "Dear John" (a series from 1988-1992) and had an instant dislike for him then. Well, for his character. He's been in loads of shows since, a lot of one-offs, and a multi-episode stint on "Burn Notice" that made me want to throttle him and lock him in a dark room somewhere (his character was very, very awful), and I have yet to see him play an honestly likeable character. He has to have played some at some point since he's got loads of credits to his career, but I've not seen him in any yet.
May Au 2 years ago (edited)
Yup. Hated him on Burn Notice. Was thrilled when he got dead but super upset that Nate was “collateral damage”. Damn you to the 🔥 pits Tom Card and Tyler Grey.
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Nay Wilson 2 years ago
This. The first time I saw Atticus Lincoln on Grey’s Anatomy I hated him, even though Link is a really good guy. It took me a few episodes to remember that years earlier he’d been in an episode of NCIS. He played a man who killed his ex fiancée’s father in the hopes that her grief would send her running back into his arms. He played that nutter perfectly.
Cara G 2 years ago
He also plays the racist piece of living shìt police chief in season 4 of Dead to Me. The guy who is always messing with Nick. And he is so convincingly hateable in that role that you want to curl up your fist after grabbing several rolls of quarters, smearing it with dog shït and hot sauce, and punching the living hèll out of him. He's THAT much of a príck.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
He was in a show in the late 80s that I watched…Empty Nest? One of those. Anyway, I hated him for the way he spelled his name!
#43
Kevin Bacon in Sleepers, when he played [character] who killed Magneto's family I was like, 'that was good casting'. _Goose_ replied: Haven’t been able to enjoy him in anything since.
Vic 2 years ago
Yes Bacon rules!! The actor with the same last name isn't too bad, either..
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ScrapieChick 2 years ago
That was a hard hard film to watch and his ability to instil that revulsion is testament to his genuine acting skills
Justin Rogers 2 years ago
Tremors, footloose, air up there and a bunch of others I am forgetting
#44
Shooter McGavin.
#45
JK Simmons after watching him in Whiplash. mrstonewallin replied: 'Not quite my tempo' just echoes through the head.
Keith T 2 years ago
Watch OZ… his portrayal of a white supremicist is amazing and creepy. To this day that’s all I think about when I see him
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
You beat me to it. Only TV show l haven't been able to rewatch. It was just too hard. The entire cast was on point.
Load More Replies... Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Ugh. One of my favorite actors. I love love LOVE to hate that man. I also have a weird crush on him.
Hei Hei 2 years ago
That performance was a tour de force. He received the BAFTA, the Golden Glove, and the Oscar for that role. He is one of my all-time favorite actors.
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
I'd always seen him as the sympathetic psychologist from "Law and Order" and had a hard time seeing him as the villain in "Whiplash" until I watched some clips. WOW!!!
#46
Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey as Christian Grey.
DeVille 2 years ago (edited)
Serves you right for watching it frankly. Now as for The Fall, he was frighteningly good in that.
Caro Caro 2 years ago
A Dutch journalist once said "housewife porn" and I can't disagree 😉
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Hollerfloozy 2 years ago
Didn't you know, everyone wants a 25 year old conceited stalker in their lives. The books were a disasterpiece..glad I skipped the movie.
Nina 2 years ago
I saw him as the sheriff in Once upon a time before all this, liked him in that role. Tbf I only watched the first 50 shades movie, stopped after that because I thought it was so bad..
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
He terrified me so much in The Fall I can't watch him in anything else! Now granted, I have absolutely no desire to watch 50 Shades of Gray, but every time I see him listed in the cast of something else, it's a big nope for me! And that is saying A LOT, because usually I easily shrug off what actors other characters have been.
May Au 2 years ago
I watched the movies (all of them) and read the books (also all of them). Everything books and movie were super awful. Anna Rice’s sleeping beauty set were much better. Way more erotic than what these books were trying to be. (COULD NOT even begin to compare. Try harder next time Stephanie.) She (Anne Rice) wrote them under a different name, The movies were extremely bland.
#47
Michael Fassbender's role in 12 Years a Slave made me want to punch him. Had to remind myself hes just a great actor. Where is he though? After the X Men films he doesn't seem to be doing much.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Looks like he took a break during covid. Nothing since 2019. But he's got 8 upcoming projects coming out in the next year or so.
CG 2 years ago
From what I saw on Wikipedia, and looking on Youtube to make sure I wasn't going crazy, he's been doing Motorsports/car racing since 2020.
Load More Replies... Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
He's also a wicked villain ( David ) in " Prometheus " and " Covenant " ( Alien films)
#48
Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo in the Fargo TV show. He actually played him *too* well, do much so in anything else he does I can't get past it.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
No, Billy Bob Thornton is ALWAYS creepy as hell, even when playing the good guys. The fact that he could be a good guy ("Pushing Tin," for instance) when being so creepy is a testament to his acting skills.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I thought Karl Childers was lovable in "Sling Blade". Dwight Yoakam in that movie, however made me want to cram his face in a wood chipper.
Load More Replies... Tim Nicebutdim 2 years ago
The problem with that season was any time BB wasn't on screen it lagged, he just shredded every scene.
#49
Idris Elba as Charles Minor. kiwimag5 replied: God he was so good in this role. The period of time when Charles thought Dwight was a reasonable person was perfect. So well done.
Bent Screw (she/her) 2 years ago
I don't care what role Idris Elba is in, odds are, he looks hot doing it
Deidre Westover 2 years ago
That's not really fair. I'm fairly certain that the Scranton branch was in a parallel dimension.
#50
I always hated Steve Zahn, but I couldn't put my finger on why. It was because he was such a convincing s**t in "Riding in Cars with Boys." I almost forgot about the movie entirely and him being in it, but my impression of him stayed.
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
I hated Riding In Cars With Boys. I love Drew Barrymore, but I couldn't stand her character.
DrLivingstonipresume 2 years ago
I hate, hate, HATE that movie. It is a trite, slow, painfully dull journey through the mind of a self-centered egotist who got knocked up by a junkie and thought everyone needed to hear that story. Ugh! The worst!!
#51
It’s a show but Ron Livingston as Jack Berger in Sex and the City. He plays such a whiny, insecure p*ssy in the show that I hate him and his stupid face haha.
#52
Michael McKean in "Better Call Saul" Aka,"Chuck McGill" He was perfectly cast and was excellent in his role. I know it's just great acting and he is a nice man and a good musician. But he just reminds me of my older brother as well. A man that asks,"How are you?" ,Then when you speak he goes blank and you can read it in his face that he goes blank and doesn't give a f**k about you or what you say because you are beneath him. He lights up like a f*****g Xmas tree when around people he wants to impress but for normal people he's just a bland,uppity,elitist snobby prick. (Omg! that felt. good to say that)
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
I couldn't help but feel compassion for him (at times). He was so obviously incapable of having functional emotions that it was pity worthy for me. But yeah, primarily an a*s.
LJeanne T 2 years ago
Chuck was a sad character. And Jimmy loved him anyway.
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Saoirse Ronan in Atonement. limepompom replied: I commented the same thing. I cannot rewatch that movie because I get so mad. And I haven't watched any of her new stuff.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
With those eyes, I wouldn't be able to hate her even if she killed a guy right in front of me. /hj
#54
Laura Linney as Wendy byrd in Ozark. I hated wendy in that show and now hate her in other show.
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
She was also some work in Mystic River. The parade scene was unnerving.
#55
I watched Dragonheart as a very young child and I have never been able to fond David Thewlis likeable ever since. When they cast him as Remus Lupin I was so upset--he was a comfort character when I first read the books but casting David Thewlis ruined it for me.
Katie Fink 2 years ago
I struggled so hard with this too!! I had to work very hard to rewrite my brain and for give the whiney little s**t he played in dragon heart to my favourite DADA prof!
#56
Tim Roth as Cunningham in Rob Roy. So hard to not see him as a complete bastard in anything else.
#57
Pablo Schreiber. He is such a good actor and was so convincing in his role as William Lewis in Law and Order SVU. So every time I see him in anything else, I still see him as the evil pos he portrayed for at least the first few scenes.
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
Pablo Schreiber... what a mind f**k. Yes, in Law & Order... oh good grief heebie jeebies!!! Then I see him as Mad Sweeney ... and I'm laughing my a**e off. THEN... I read up on him... and he's .. he's Canadian... from my province!!! Born in a place with a population of like... 10 people?????? AND... cousin of Sabretooth (Lieve Schreiber). The absolute wtf-ness of it all... I just have to admire the entire cyclone of it all.
Aimee Luffman 2 years ago
Pablo and Liev are actually half brothers.. both are great actors and very convincing in their roles. Pablo is playing Master Chief in the Halo show.
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#58
I hated Robin Wright's character in House of Cards so much it ruined the Princess Bride for me.
François Carré 2 years ago
I beg to differ. When she was 20 she played in that crappy soap "Santa Barbara". I was only 10 but couldn't wait to grow older and marry her, and I have loved her ever since, from Princess Bride to Claire Underwood. She can play the worst b***h in any movie, she will always be my Kelly.
#59
Not a huge role, but Parker Posey in Dazed and Confused. She played a mean girl so well that’s all I can see her as in everything now.
Betsy Ray 2 years ago
And in You've Got Mail. She's so good at these roles.
Load More Replies... Karen Startz Richardson 2 years ago
She wasn't well cast in the remake of, "Lost in Space", either. She didn't make a very good Dr. Smith. 😕
#60
We're not going to mention Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in Election (1999)? She was so perfectly insufferable that this role literally almost torpedoed her career before it ever really started.
#61
John Huston in ‘Chinatown’. CluelessNoodle123 replied: Oh God. I watched that movie once, like 10 years ago, and still haven’t been able to watch it again.
#62
Jason Sudeikis in Colossal. He and Anne Hathaway are childhood friends and he helps her out when she moves back to their hometown (and there’s stuff with giant monsters). The way he goes from nice on the surface to jerk to horrible… whenever I see him I think that he’s probably mean in real life and don’t get how he could be the lead in a feel-good show like Ted Lasso (I haven’t actually watched it). I even thought he was pretending to be nice on The Mindy Project, and there’s no reason given on screen why that would be the case. Pretty irrational but yes, he did it so well in Colossal that now I think he’s a mean guy pretending to be nice.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
I thought this movie was a typical alien invasion movie and then i watched it and really liked it.Hated Jason Sudeikis's character but he found redemption (in my eyes) with Ted Lasso.
#63
Tony Dalton was so unnerving as Lalo that everyone doubted him the moment he showed up in Hawkeye. Of course, that was the idea: to cast him as a red herring.
#64
Beth Grant in Donny Darko, she is definitely a type cast actor for a hateable character, the scene in darko where she is teaching a course on morality is a great exchange and only so good because the actors were great, But every time I see her I still have bleed over hate.
#65
Olivia Coleman in Fleabag. Cant look past it now. keestie replied: Watch some interviews with her; IRL, she is an absolute treasure.
The Milk In Your Fridge 2 years ago
she’s an incredible actress, although I love her as Anne in The Father :)
#66
Penelope Cruz in Blow. El_Pasteurizador replied: This is the one for me. Absolutely could not stand her in any other film after that. I know it's ridiculous, but god. f**king. damn... What a c**t she plays in that movie.
François Carré 2 years ago
Quite the same as Robin Wright. I will always love Penelope Cruz no matter what.
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
I can't stand her in practically any role. Sorry to say this, but l don't like her acting and her voice sets me off.
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Colin 2 years ago
I avoid Tom Cruise movies. Not because of a particular role, I just can't watch him. He comes of as smarmy on screen and in interviews.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I mean his brain has probably been turned to mush by Scientology….
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Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Obviously from a younger audience. Anyone around 60 who saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a 5-7 year-old will still be traumatised by Robert Helpmann as the Child Catcher. I still get shivers when I think of him.
JP Doyle 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. Also, Margaret Hamilton influenced an entire generation as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. It always astounded me seeing that lovely little old lady selling Maxwell House Coffee
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SailorLex 2 years ago
Did I just miss Zachary Quinto as Syler, or was he not on the list? I was terrified of him for a time. Seeing him in Star Trek came as a shock. Since then I learned to love him hugely because of his portrayal of Spock.
Silre 2 years ago
I loved Sylar. I named my Death Knight in Wow after him.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago (edited)
I'm a little surprised no one mentioned Russell Crowe from Romper Stomper. Maybe it's because it was before he was really famous. Same goes for Eric Bana in Chopper. Oh and Temuera Morrison from Once Were Warriors. He is freaking terrifying in that.
madbakes 2 years ago
Oh my gosh I forgot about Romper Stomper. I saw it once so long ago and Gladiator really took away any negative associations
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Amelia Jade 2 years ago
For me it was John Noble as Denethor in Lord of the Rings. I almost missed out on Fringe because he was in it, and I did not want to watch something with him in it. Thankfully, I moved past hating the actor (he's actually brilliant) but I still absolutely hate Denethor.
Colin 2 years ago
I avoid Tom Cruise movies. Not because of a particular role, I just can't watch him. He comes of as smarmy on screen and in interviews.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I mean his brain has probably been turned to mush by Scientology….
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Obviously from a younger audience. Anyone around 60 who saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a 5-7 year-old will still be traumatised by Robert Helpmann as the Child Catcher. I still get shivers when I think of him.
JP Doyle 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. Also, Margaret Hamilton influenced an entire generation as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. It always astounded me seeing that lovely little old lady selling Maxwell House Coffee
Load More Replies... SailorLex 2 years ago
Did I just miss Zachary Quinto as Syler, or was he not on the list? I was terrified of him for a time. Seeing him in Star Trek came as a shock. Since then I learned to love him hugely because of his portrayal of Spock.
Silre 2 years ago
I loved Sylar. I named my Death Knight in Wow after him.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago (edited)
I'm a little surprised no one mentioned Russell Crowe from Romper Stomper. Maybe it's because it was before he was really famous. Same goes for Eric Bana in Chopper. Oh and Temuera Morrison from Once Were Warriors. He is freaking terrifying in that.
madbakes 2 years ago
Oh my gosh I forgot about Romper Stomper. I saw it once so long ago and Gladiator really took away any negative associations
Load More Replies... Amelia Jade 2 years ago
For me it was John Noble as Denethor in Lord of the Rings. I almost missed out on Fringe because he was in it, and I did not want to watch something with him in it. Thankfully, I moved past hating the actor (he's actually brilliant) but I still absolutely hate Denethor.
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