Actors Who Inexplicably Disappeared

[Web-Head]

I've heard Klein is a bit of a D-bag too

 

[Lily Adler]

I feel like Jeremy Renner would be on here if it weren't for The Avengers.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I feel like Jeremy Renner would be on here if it weren't for The Avengers.

I don't know... American Hustle, MI: Rogue Nation, Arrival, Wind River... He's gotten quality work with name directors and franchises. And I would wager had he never been cast as Hawkeye he would have just gotten jobs on other projects. I certainly don't think he was cast in the films I named because of his role as Barton, so likely I suspect he would have just kept chugging along. That said, there's no doubt that having a role in the MCU has kept his profile pretty high. Once the Hawkeye show drops we'll see how he does going forward but I'm guessing he'll always pop up in films ranging from serious drama or art house pieces to films with broad block buster appeal.

 

[Schlosser85]

If anything Renner gets more roles outside of the MCU than Chris Evans does.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah he does. Renner is one of the most steadily working Avengers.

 

[scarlet-witch]

JGL has a podcast now too. Otherwise he's been working on hitRECord. He's my favorite actor so I'm hoping he does another surge of movies, I'm having withdrawals.

Jason Segal is one I haven't seen in ages. The last movie I saw him in was End of the Tour, and it looks like he's only sporadically done a few smaller projects, but does have a show coming up.

Nick Stahl too, though he's not really inexplicable because drugs but dud was a talented actor. It's a shame it went that way for him.

 

[Zyraquis]

Some just got more involved in theater. That aforementioned Jeff Daniels, who I quite like, is one of them, who also happens to have received Tony nominations. Also some choose to take a slower work gear as they age, I can tell from my own experience.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

JGL is definitely a weird one... He was being pushed as the next big thing for a while then just fizzled out.

 

[terry78]

I think he chose that route tho.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Maybe, but it's still a bit odd. I mean, it's difficult enough to shake the "kid actor" stigma, but he was one of the ones that pulled it off and became a major star as an adult. And then he just... disappeared.


Also, here's a funny bit of trivia I just remembered. I remember seeing a lot of reports that he was in consideration for the lead in Guardians of the Galaxy, but he supposedly turned it down. I'm not sure if that's true but the role obviously went to Chris Pratt. What's funny is that Chris Pratt is the name of his character in The Lookout.

 

[chamber-music]

You could argue that all of the American Pie cast have fallen off a cliff. Jason Biggs does the odd thing here & there but the ones who played Kev and Finch & Oz have literally disappeared!

Klein (OZ) had a drink problem and isn't a good actor. He was a villain on the latest season of The Flash.

Seann William Scott (Stifler) had some undisclosed issues and was in rehab for a bit. He was in the last season of Lethal Weapon on Fox before kit was cancelled.

Eddie Key Thomas was a main character on CBS show Scorpion until it was cancelled last year. He has a recurring role voicing Barry on American Dad.

Tara Reid was co-lead in the Sharknado films on SyFy.

Thomas Ian Nicholas (Kevin) dropped off the map.

It is funny to see how successful John Cho went on to become after the American Pie films in which he was the milf guy.

Natasha Lyonne has been successful recently with her Russian Doll Netfilx show she wrote and stars in.

 

[chamber-music]

Someone like Taylor Lautner doesn't count as "inexplicably" disappearing. He disappeared because the franchise that made him a heartthrob to twelve-year-old girls ended and he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag to get any other roles after that (or not hardly any), so he faded away. Nothing inexplicable or mysterious about it.

Lautner was in the UK starring BBC sitcom Cuckoo for awhile. He replaced Adam Samberg as the lead after Brooklyn 99 took off.

 

[chamber-music]

I'm not sure Renner even needs big franchise checks anymore since he makes millions on his successful side career hustle flipping houses.

Renner has been successfully flipping houses for millions of dollars on the West coast for almost twenty years

Maybe, but it's still a bit odd. I mean, it's difficult enough to shake the "kid actor" stigma, but he was one of the ones that pulled it off and became a major star as an adult. And then he just... disappeared.


Also, here's a funny bit of trivia I just remembered. I remember seeing a lot of reports that he was in consideration for the lead in Guardians of the Galaxy, but he supposedly turned it down. I'm not sure if that's true but the role obviously went to Chris Pratt. What's funny is that Chris Pratt is the name of his character in The Lookout.

JGL was also up for Scott Lang (Ant-Man). It was between Rudd and JGL for the role.

 

[Schlosser85]

I miss JGL too. He hasn't done a movie since Snowden in 2016. Though he filmed a sci-fi movie with Jamie Foxx for I think Netflix, and also supposedly has a more one-man show type project where he's a pilot locked in the cockpit of a plane being hijacked or something.

 

[terry78]

Renner flips houses, has a band, and does the occasional acting gig, he's set. It's always good to have a side hustle in any industry

 

[Deck Rickard]

It is funny to see how successful John Cho went on to become after the American Pie films in which he was the milf guy.

Natasha Lyonne has been successful recently with her Russian Doll Netfilx show she wrote and stars in.

Yeah, John Cho and Lyonne have done well in recent years; she was also on Orange is the New Black. Her career turnaround has been especially good to see, because she struggled with substance abuse issues for years. Glad she got clean and is doing so well now.

I'm not sure Renner even needs big franchise checks anymore since he makes millions on his successful side career hustle flipping houses.

Renner has been successfully flipping houses for millions of dollars on the West coast for almost twenty years



JGL was also up for Scott Lang (Ant-Man). It was between Rudd and JGL for the role.

Crap, I never knew Renner flipped houses on the side. Good for him for having a successful side hustle. Never knew JGL was up for Ant-Man.

 

[Schlosser85]

Daniel Radcliffe owns multiple multi-million dollar pieces of real estate in NYC.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Oh, really? Good for him. Putting that Potter money to good use!


Maybe we should elect him president. Apparently the only qualifications now are being famous and owning real estate in New York.

 

[terry78]

He could have just had a to scale replica of Hogwarts built with what he probably made from those flicks.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Haha yeah he could have. I do wonder how much money he made. Because he was in eight total movies but those multi-movie contracts were written when he was just a kid and him and his family probably would have signed on the dotted line for any reasonable sum of money. Though maybe they weren't for the entire franchise.

 

[Schlosser85]

Haha yeah he could have. I do wonder how much money he made. Because he was in eight total movies but those multi-movie contracts were written when he was just a kid and him and his family probably would have signed on the dotted line for any reasonable sum of money. Though maybe they weren't for the entire franchise.

Supposedly his net worth is $90-$112 million.

 

[Ninjablade]

Renner flips houses, has a band, and does the occasional acting gig, he's set. It's always good to have a side hustle in any industry

He also started doing music this past year. Dude’s keeping himself busy.

 

[bapi]

To be fair, I think Norton being difficult caught up with him. It also hurt Russell Crowe. He's still around, but he was never again the hot leading man he once was after he roughed up that producer backstage. And it may even be part of why Tom Hardy has slowed down.

I agree. Think Motherless Brooklyn is Norton's last chance. Crowe had two ambitious movies in last five years and both failed. Hardy has Fonzo, Taboo S2 and Venom 2 next so who knows how his career will look like in '21.


JGL, miss that guy. But now when he's almost 40 I don't know what type of roles he'd fit.

 

[terry78]

Superhero?

 

[bapi]

Personally I miss Josh Hartnett. But once he turned down $100m for Superman and returned to his mother's house in Minnesota his career was over. Think 2-3 years back he said maybe it was a good thing because he'd become a different person and probably a bad person but who knows. Maybe he was just lying to himself.