The Film: Terminator 2: Judgement Day was easily the best and most well received movie of the ever decreasing Terminator franchise, becoming an instantly recognizable action blockbuster classic of the era, picking up four Academy Awards in the process. The supporting star of the show, Edward Furlong, played the rebellious teenage John Connor, a role he would become synonymous for throughout his whole career. Winning a prestigious Saturn award for Best Young Actor, Furlong was slated to be the next teen sensation of the big screen. What Happened Next: As this article focuses on careers destroyed by a great movie, Furlong didn't exactly have a career to be destroyed in the first place; Terminator 2 was the 14 year old's very first acting gig. However, whatever career he may have had afterwards was crushed under the pressure of recreating his first role. Like most on this list, he was unable to live up to the hype of his big break and the child star fell into a life of hard drugs and alcohol while still in his teens. The Terminator film threw the impressionable young man into the party scene of Hollywood and he is yet to turn away from it. Following a few, we'll say not too bad roles, in the 90's, the young man struggled with his career moving into the new millennium. In 2001 he even took a role in I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, a tiny Italian production that was obviously thrown straight to video. What Now: The saddest downfall of Furlong's promising young career has been his drug and alcohol addictions, as well as his numerous brushes with the law including a 180 day jail sentence in 2013. Having struggled with hard drugs throughout his mid twenties, the courts have since handed him a three year probation, 52 weeks of domestic violence counselling and 90 days of rehab for drug addiction, that's all on top of the jail sentence and various domestic violence arrests. Let's hope Furlong can shake his drug addiction and move towards a better life in the future. What did you think of the list? Would you add any others? Share your own picks below in the comments thread.
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