10 Actors Who Desperately Need Their Own Netflix Movie
7. Clive Owen
It's still pretty shocking that Clive Owen never became a fully-fledged movie star, considering he was nominated for an Oscar in 2005 for his role in Closer, oozed grizzled cool in Sin City later that year, and in 2006 appeared in acclaimed thrillers Inside Man and Children of Men.
By 2009, Owen was mostly starring in low-key thrillers and dramas, and it wasn't until he joined Steven Soderbergh's TV show The Knick in 2014 that people started paying attention to him again.
Still, in the wake of his acclaimed TV stint, Owen's movie career is still pretty stagnant: he had a supporting role in last summer's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and not much else.
With his handsome, chiselled looks and suave accent - not to mention his actual acting talent - it's a damn shame Owen's not leading multiplex fare anymore. What's the cinema's loss, however, can be Netflix's gain.
After all, like Brendan Fraser, Owen is a well-liked actor who people wouldn't necessarily pay ticket money to see on the big screen anymore, but in a Netflix Original as part of their monthly subscription fee? Absolutely.
Owen wouldn't even need to pick something outside his wheelhouse, honestly, because his run of action movies never lasted long enough to feel stale. Serve up another Shoot 'Em Up-esque B-movie and that's really all you need to make Owen relevant with streaming audiences.
How Likely Is It?: Technically speaking, Netflix has already acquired some of the streaming rights to Owen's upcoming Andrew Niccol-directed thriller Anon, so the lack of reliance on box office success that the Netflix model allows could be right up Owen's street.
After all, many of his films - even his good ones - have failed to hit commercially, so this would take the pressure off while still allowing Owen to work with renowned directors such as Niccol. He's probably one of the more likely prospects on this list as a result. 7/10