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I've read somewhere that his ex-wife took him to the cleaners and that was when he started taking crap roles, so he could keep up with child support payments. He also seems to have gotten the hair plugs to fend off the premature hair loss, which would inhibit his chances at the 'leading man' roles he was famous for.
I loved him in the Mummy movies and thought he was perfectly cast. Maybe he couldn't successfully break from that association?
I've read somewhere that his ex-wife took him to the cleaners and that was when he started taking crap roles, so he could keep up with child support payments. He also seems to have gotten the hair plugs to fend off the premature hair loss, which would inhibit his chances at the 'leading man' roles he was famous for.
I loved him in the Mummy movies and thought he was perfectly cast. Maybe he couldn't successfully break from that association?
Don't see why "hair plugs" or wearing a *rug* would have stopped BF from getting roles. Nearly every male actor in Hollywood over age 40 or so does one or the other. Tom Cruise most certainly wears a wig or something and yet he is one of the most bankable top rated film actors.
To name a few more Burt Reynolds and Robert Redford long have used "hair". Guys who don't wear wigs or get plugs simply have their heads like Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson.
Well, he started losing his looks early and maybe he didn't have the talent and/or connections to keep getting decent work.
It is not uncommon nor unheard of for actors to "peak" after a few short years in Hollywood. BF is not the first nor certainly will be the last actor who burst upon the scene, had a few good movie roles, then that was an end of things. Could say the same about Cuba Gooding, Jr. who won an Oscar and has done very little worth noting since IMHO.
Anyone who follows "Hollywood" knows or should know very well that after the old studio system died it left actors and actresses to pretty much fed for themselves. No longer under contract that at least paid them regardless, so studios put them in films (good, bad or whatever) to at least get something for their money, today it is all about roles, box office draw, and of course politics (studio, not government).
Ryan O'Neal by anyone's predictions should have had a huge career as a leading man in Hollywood, but it didn't turn out that way.
For the record plenty of people are asking WEHT BF, and or wanting him back in films.
All this being said BF is not exactly doing *NO* work. Like many actors from film he is working in television on shows like Texas Rising and The Affair.
He appeared in the Affair as a creepy prison guard and was good n the role. Many actors have had stalled careers and later had a resurgence. Micheal Keaton and Mickey Rourke are good examples. We may see Brendan new active in the future.
I've read somewhere that his ex-wife took him to the cleaners and that was when he started taking crap roles, so he could keep up with child support payments. He also seems to have gotten the hair plugs to fend off the premature hair loss, which would inhibit his chances at the 'leading man' roles he was famous for.
I loved him in the Mummy movies and thought he was perfectly cast. Maybe he couldn't successfully break from that association?
Odd that you mention that. I just happened to watch the final mummy film he did, I liked the first one and have it on DVD. Sorta liked the second one. But, despite some great special effects, I thought almost everything about the third one sucked.
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