Actors Whose Careers Were Ruined By Twilight

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Ashley Greene was best known for a blink-and-you'd-miss-it part in Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd before becoming Bella Swan's BFF Alice Cullen (a consolation prize of sorts, as she had originally auditioned for Bella). Though Greene's career wasn't exactly flourishing before she landed a role in the unexpected blockbuster franchise, it's been middling along ever since. Her potential star-maker TV series Pan Am (2011-12) was axed in its first season, followed by another small screen disappointment with Rogue (2013-) and a series of movies that were dead on arrival (count Butter (2011), The Apparition (2012), and CBGB (2013) among her dramatically under-performing post-Twilight pics).

Greene's career could stir up some much-needed attention with James Franco's In Dubious Battle (2016), a historical drama about the California labor movement of the 1930s based on a John Steinbeck novel, though the film may do little more than help her rub some elbows and walk a few carpets. Variety called the movie "scrupulous and watchable," though The Hollywood Reporter said most of "the enormous cast doesn't really have all that much to do."

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