In the same way that you can't separate some actors or actresses from a great role, you can't separate others from a poor one. And while it might seem harsh to disregard a performer for one role out of many, sometimes they're so hate-worthy that you just can't help it. Most of the actors and actresses on this list, with a few exceptions, have good roles on their CV, both before and after the ones in question. However, the ones in question are so bad that it makes the better ones hard to remember. This isn't Robert De Niro getting away with Rocky and Bullwinkle because he was Travis Bickle, this is, for the most part, Hayden Christensen in the Star Wars prequels (to use an example not on this list but which easily could've been). Here's 10 performers and their most hate-able roles, you may never be able to look at them the same again.,,
10. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Boat Trip
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Six years after winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his energetic performance in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire, once-likeable actor Cuba Gooding Jr. starred in this, Boat Trip, surely one of the worst roles for a former Academy Award winner in film history, and perhaps the only time in a commercial movie where one has had to shoot semen on an unsuspecting sailor's face in the hope for - or for the sake of - laughs (please, if you know of any other examples of this, let me know.) Plenty of performers have starred in absolute trash (Cage, De Niro, Cage) and yet they don't bring on the hate quite like this one - while they're undoubtedly bad, they rarely sully the memory of their best roles. Something about CGJ in Boat Trip does, however, and the fact that he hasn't atoned for it since (or even tried) doesn't help. What also doesn't help is that the film is downright offensive, with everyone from gay people, to African Americans, to Latinos getting slaughtered for a cheap laugh. It makes you wonder what in the hell Cuba Gooding Jr. was thinking. Even if he ever does match his work in '96, I fear this will still linger far more in the memory.