Actors and actresses who are just terrible in everything

[Smeraldina Rima]

ah good~ I thought I was alone in thinking that. I found his Hamlet shockingly bad. He was mugging all the way through it.

He was good in Takin' Over The Asylum and as Touchstone in As You Like It. Might be that he was so talented as an anarchic and sweet character actor that he got put into bigger roles where his exuberance falls flat.

[Mister Six]

Skipping a couple of pages to throw in the kid who plays young Octavian in HBO series Rome. Unfair, perhaps, because I don't think - rightfully - he ever actually managed to get another TV acting job ever again, so maybe "everything" isn't quite right. But my god, he's shocking.

I've had friends try to convince me that he's actually trying to play an emotionally deadened psychopath, but his is not the thousand-yard stare of a cold, emotionless killer, but the hundred-yard stare of someone flatly reading a cue card with no idea of what the words actually mean.

I can only assume he was related to, or fucking, or both (method acting!) One of the producers.

[small minded cretin]

Dominic West. He nearly managed to ruin the wire.

[Dannyhood91]

Dominic West. He nearly managed to ruin the wire.

Stop this

[colacentral]

Nah, he's bang on. Dominic West is atrocious. It's not just him either; there's bad acting all over the place in The Wire

[greenman]

The plot in the last season was just dodgy all around really, Clarke Peters ends up more over the top as well.

Generally though I think the Wire was somewhat misrepresented as an ultra realistic drama, there was always clearly a larger than life element to it.

[Attila]

Skipping a couple of pages to throw in the kid who plays young Octavian in HBO series Rome. Unfair, perhaps, because I don't think - rightfully - he ever actually managed to get another TV acting job ever again, so maybe "everything" isn't quite right. But my god, he's shocking.

I've had friends try to convince me that he's actually trying to play an emotionally deadened psychopath, but his is not the thousand-yard stare of a cold, emotionless killer, but the hundred-yard stare of someone flatly reading a cue card with no idea of what the words actually mean.

I can only assume he was related to, or fucking, or both (method acting!) One of the producers.

He also plays one of the young officers in Master and Commander.  Another problem in  Rome was he looked about 12 for the duration of playing the character.  Simply couldn't believe that he'd grow up to be Brian Blessed.

Huh -- those two were pretty much his only roles; went off to college then uni.

[greenman]

I don't remember him being that bad in Master & Commander although I spose it wasn't exactly a demanding role.

[Jake Thingray]

On present form in real life rather than acting, am tempted to add James Woods, though of course he was terrible, as was everyone else, in An American Carol.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

On present form in real life rather than acting, am tempted to add James Woods, though of course he was terrible, as was everyone else, in An American Carol.

Yeah, it's not been a good week for him...

[Shaky]

Yeah, it's not been a good week for him...

That is amazing. I'd heard about the Woods & Hammer exchange but Amber Tamblyn's reply is the icing on a suspiciously creamy cake.

The tragic thing is, of course, his fellow nutbags will say Woods was just being a bit of a lad or whatever.

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

She has also provided confirmation from her friend and published an open letter to Woods in Teen Vogue.

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/amber-tamblyn-open-letter-james-woods

[mothman]

Oh, an open letter. Er, that'll show him?

Nah, just joshing. Love the overall burn though.

[George White]

The plot in the last season was just dodgy all around really, Clarke Peters ends up more over the top as well.

Generally though I think the Wire was somewhat misrepresented as an ultra realistic drama, there was always clearly a larger than life element to it.

Then again, Peters is naturally OTT. Began his career on the West End, playing stereotyped Americans in British films i.e. David Essex's mechanic in Silver Dream Racer and the DJ in the Music Machine.