Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Every scene is cringeworthy. The fact that she later married Stephen Spielberg probably accounts for her casting in the role. She certainly didn't impress anyone with the screen test.
Side note:
As much as I love Brett Favre then and now I have to admit that his one and only acting cameo in Something About Mary is among the worst of all time. But I don't figure cameos are worthy.
The Star Wars Universe was never the place to go for thespian excellence. Yet in the original trilogy, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and especially Harrison Ford brought great charm to occasionally quite wooden dialogue (as Ford was alleged to say to Lucas, "George, just because you can type this {stuff}, it doesn't mean people can say it.")
But Hayden Christensen brought no charm to Anakin Skywalker and he made the worst prequel, Attack of the Clones, an even more painful sit. He makes Natalie Portman look, in comparison to his performance, like M. Streep in their excruciating love scenes.
This is my final answer, since I'm not going to pick on poor Jake Lloyd. He was only a kid and who had to unfairly endure much scorn in the early days of the internet. Besides, he was even worse in Jingle All the Way.
The girl who played Ruby Gillis in Anne of Green Gables, 1985. The girls think Anne has drowned, Ruby runs off waving her hands from side to side in the worst display of immature pretend hysterics; I am more angry at the director for allowing it to stay in the movie. You kinda have to wonder how many takes they went through in coaching her to be more believable before giving it up as hopeless.
And the winner is Eustace Scrubb with the sad acting of whiny Anakin in Attack of the Clones. Great job, Eustace. You get to choose tomorrow's question.
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins has to go down as perhaps the worst ever. It's a fantasy, but did anyone actually believe his portrayal of Burt? Charity ain't in it.
Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Every scene is cringeworthy. The fact that she later married Stephen Spielberg probably accounts for her casting in the role. She certainly didn't impress anyone with the screen test.
Side note:
As much as I love Brett Favre then and now I have to admit that his one and only acting cameo in Something About Mary is among the worst of all time. But I don't figure cameos are worthy.
The Star Wars Universe was never the place to go for thespian excellence. Yet in the original trilogy, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and especially Harrison Ford brought great charm to occasionally quite wooden dialogue (as Ford was alleged to say to Lucas, "George, just because you can type this {stuff}, it doesn't mean people can say it.")
But Hayden Christensen brought no charm to Anakin Skywalker and he made the worst prequel, Attack of the Clones, an even more painful sit. He makes Natalie Portman look, in comparison to his performance, like M. Streep in their excruciating love scenes.
This is my final answer, since I'm not going to pick on poor Jake Lloyd. He was only a kid and who had to unfairly endure much scorn in the early days of the internet. Besides, he was even worse in Jingle All the Way.
The girl who played Ruby Gillis in Anne of Green Gables, 1985. The girls think Anne has drowned, Ruby runs off waving her hands from side to side in the worst display of immature pretend hysterics; I am more angry at the director for allowing it to stay in the movie. You kinda have to wonder how many takes they went through in coaching her to be more believable before giving it up as hopeless.
Jerry Seinfeld in the animated, "Bee Movie."
In my experience, an actor has to be pretty bad to make their incompetence obvious in an animated work
Jerry Seinfeld is a bad enough actor to accomplish this.
I have never seen that one. Is this a Thumbs Down, Do Not Recommend? 😁
And the winner is Eustace Scrubb with the sad acting of whiny Anakin in Attack of the Clones. Great job, Eustace. You get to choose tomorrow's question.
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins has to go down as perhaps the worst ever. It's a fantasy, but did anyone actually believe his portrayal of Burt? Charity ain't in it.
Worse, it's a musical fantasy. Musicals should be their own category for this question.
I mean it has to be Neil Breen in every Neil Breen movie. I can’t wait to watch his latest masterpiece.
https://youtu.be/rEVW4AY4nJI