We asked the members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which great actors took terrible roles. Here's what they had to say:
1.Robert De Niro as Lieutenant Colonel Richard "Dick" Kelly in Dirty Grandpa (2016)
2.Jeremy Renner and Gabrielle Union as Ned and Rachael in Neo Ned (2005)
3.Al Pacino as himself in Jack and Jill (2011)
4.Adam Sandler as Jack and Jill Sadelstein in Jack and Jill (2011)
5.Meryl Streep as Mary Fisher in She-Devil (1989)
6.Emma Watson as Sam Button in ThePerks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
7.Emma Watson as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2017)
8.Millie Bobby Brown as Madison Russell in Godzilla (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
9.Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark in The Help (2011)
10.Jennifer Lopez as Ricki in Gigli (2003)
11.Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, and every other actor in Jupiter Ascending (2015)
12.Sir Patrick Stewart as the poop emoji in The Emoji Movie (2017)
13.Every actor in Cats (2019)
14.Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan in the Twilight movies
15.Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in 50 Shades of Grey (2015)
16.Scarlett Johansson as Francesca Curtis in The Perfect Score (2004)
17.Penélope Cruz as Valentina Valencia in Zoolander 2 (2016)
18.Natalie Portman as Isabel in Your Highness (2011)
19.Will Smith as Daryl Ward in Bright (2017)
20.Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle in Dolittle (2020)
21.Melissa McCarthy as Michelle Darnell in The Boss (2016)
22.Ben Kingsley as Guru Tugginmypudha in The Love Guru (2008)
23.Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder/Wanderer, aka Wanda in The Host (2013)
24.George Clooney as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman & Robin (1997)
25.Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews in Divergent (2014)
26.And Tilda Swinton as Dianna in Trainwreck (2015)
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarify.
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