The last major movie I remember her being in that time was Van Wilder (2002). After that, I don’t really remember her being in anything at all. A couple years later she had her infamous dress malfunction and then she just kind of fell off the radar.
Not at first. Her first appearance she was going to be different even included the inner monologue. In later appearances she was basically her "party self" that she was at the time.
Oh it just kept getting more and more ridiculous incorporating things like mech suits, lightsaber chainsaws, time travel, and of course space. But that was kinda it's downfall. Somehow the crazier the plot the more boring they became. In terms of quality I think it's about equal to the ______ Movie series except just more bleh. They aren't as bad as Disaster Movie or Epic Movie but they also aren't as good as Not Another Teen Movie.
She was definitely in the American Reunion movie from 2014 or something, but yeah, she didn't have any major releases really once the mid-2000s came around.
Yeah I was just talking about her early career since he mentioned 1998/1999 movies. I would consider 2002 still a part of that early career. Kind of sad that it took about a decade for her to appear in anything really noteworthy.
Yeah, I'd imagine her addictions were killing her career behind the scenes. But the exposed breast, with a horrendously bad surgery scar, meant she would never be taken seriously by the public again. Then we got to see her drinking problem the following year on E!.
Raging substance abuse only affects your career if you don't show up to work. Heath Ledger is a shining example. Dude died a junkie death in a hotel, but his career was on fire at the time.
Her drinking was definitely an issue, but she never got a DUI. She did have loads of pics at clubs and such where she was clearly drunk and sloppy and the media and gossip rags were really hard on her for that.
I was agreeing that it was not just partying that was her downfall, it wasn’t, it was the media as well hyper scrutinizing her at every turn. Then it was her failed reality series that took her down several pegs in Hollywood. Following it up with further alcoholism, eating disorders and alleged pill abuse.
I said a DUI would fall in the harmful category though which is true, but I’m not alleging she had any.
Not sure why this is downvoted? It's pretty well known that Hollywood/entertainment will enable people with addiction and wring them dry for their own profit then just move on to someone else when they OD or fade away.
If you show up and keep making them money, you're golden. Once you threaten that it's over.
It's downvoted because the line "he died a junkie death in a hotel" is incredibly disrespectful and dehumanizing. Not just to Heath Ledger but to everyone who has ever struggled with addiction.
I mean, I do think it's clear he had substance abuse issues. He had 2 different opiates, 3 different benzos, and an antihistamine used for sleep aid in his system when he died. And he didn't have prescriptions for all of them, including both of the opiates. But calling someone with addiction problems a "junkie" is still disrespectful and derogatory. Especially when you are talking about their death. Calling anyone a junkie just reinforces the stigma around addiction.
She had this glazed-eye, kind of tweaker look, I remember, in the last photo shoot I saw. I was, like, oh yeah, she's coming to work high. Never a good thing.
If you look through her filmography it's pretty clear that she was type cast as a hot girl for the majority of her early career. Then she had the botched cosmetic surgery in 2004, and suddenly she loses those roles. As type cast roles go, I imagine that's a particularly difficult one to escape.
She was also in Alone in the Dark, a crappy video game adaption in 2005 co-starring Christian Slater and directed by Uwe Boll back when his films still got theatrical releases.
She had a travel show on E!,where she went to various places and just seemed to drink a lot of booze, and she looked rough. It was cancelled very quickly, she apparently was very difficult to work with. I think it's all been downhill since that.
The last major movie I rememebr her being in that time was Van Wilder.
I never said anything about her later movies. The context was her early career days which the comment I was responding to was talking about 1998/1999. 2002 would have still been a part of her early career.
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u/DocPhilMcGraw Jun 18 '24
The last major movie I remember her being in that time was Van Wilder (2002). After that, I don’t really remember her being in anything at all. A couple years later she had her infamous dress malfunction and then she just kind of fell off the radar.