None of the people on this list knew they would actually become ridiculously rich and famous. They had to start somewhere. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and if you’re a starving actor and receive any kind of an offer, chances are you’re going to take it. But, I’d bet looking back now, these are all moves they wish they could make magically disappear from their IMDB pages.
7 Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man
If you were shooting a movie with Sylvester Stallone and it wasn’t called Rocky, you were probably aware that you had quite the crapfest on your hands. Toss in Rob Schneider and Denis Leary, and you had to know you wouldn’t exactly be winning an Academy Award for that performance. At the very least, Sandra Bullock can always look back and say, “At least I wasn’t in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.” That it in itself is something we can claim and should all be proud of.
6 Brad Pitt in Cool World
This raunchy rip-off of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is almost as painful to sit through as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The only reason it’s not is because, even as a cartoon, Kim Basinger is more pleasing on the eyes than the live-action Cate Blanchett. Still, a movie with a storyline that includes humans and cartoons getting it on isn’t exactly the kind of film you’d like people to connect you to. Luckily, Pitt is currently too busy adopting kids to make anymore bad career decisions.
5 Scarlett Johansson in Eight Legged Freaks
Forget for a moment that this cheesy movie is all about a small town being attacked by giant spiders. I don’t care how desperate you are for an acting gig, if you’re told the film will be starring David Arquette, run the other way. Having a porn flick on your resume would be more respectable than this mess. No… seriously, Scarlett, how about a porn movie in the near future?
4 Leonardo DiCaprio in Critters 3
Cheesy horror movies are bad enough as is, but if you’re starring in the third installment of a Gremlins rip-off, you’re probably going to regret it. That being said, as embarrassing as this movie is, I would gladly star in Critters 27, if it meant there would be courtside Lakers tickets and Bar Refaeli in my future.
3 George Clooney in Return of the Killer Tomatoes
It’s true that George Clooney pretty much runs the world these days. But even everyone’s favorite middle-aged bachelor has a few embarrassing notches on his resume. Co-starring in a sequel with a bunch of killer tomatoes isn’t exactly something anyone would highlight on their list of accomplishments. Even if those tomatoes did happen to have more acting range than his costar in From Dusk Til Dawn (Quentin Tarantino).
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2 Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun
The sad thing about this credit is that, aside from Office Space, this is easily the best movie that Jennifer Aniston has ever made. If that isn’t an embarrassing fact, I don’t know what is. Starring in a horror movie that’s centered around one of the least scary things on the planet (a pint-sized Irishman with a temper problem) is something you’d probably just like to forget altogether. Aniston has the SyFy channel’s repeat showings of Leprechaun to thank for making that an impossibility.
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1 Mark Wahlberg’s “Marky Mark” Phase
Mark Wahlberg as a white rapper is almost as hard to believe as his acting is in The Happening. Knowing how ridiculous it was, Wahlberg says he would never get on the mic again, unless Justin Bieber asked him to. Damn that Bieber and all the power he has. Although, as embarrassing as it is for Wahlberg, I do have to admit that Good Vibrations is an excellent, excellent song. Here it is in case you get the uncontrollable desire to do the running man after you read this…