Actors Who Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing But Fizzled Out

Hayden Christensen

Hayden Christensen is best known for his role as Anakin Skywalker in several of the early Star Wars films. He won a Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Revelation Award for the role. Despite the high profile saga, his chemistry with Natalie Portman's character was deemed "awkward" and kept him from getting other big jobs.

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The More You Know

  • Alred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.
  • The film industry got its start in New Jersey
  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
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