10 Actors That Really Need To Stop Repeating Themselves

Once the idiosyncratic poster boy of 1990s American independent cinema, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise scored Johnny Depp his first Academy Award nomination and turned him into one of the biggest movie stars on the planet in the process. Since then, the actor has given very few genuinely memorable performances and seems more content to play dress-up and phone it in rather than re-establish his long-forgotten reputation as one of the finest talents of his generation.

These days, when people catch wind of a wig-wearing, heavily made-up and accent-sporting Johnny Depp their first instinct is usually to roll their eyes. And with good reason; the four Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice In Wonderland and its sequel, Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, Transcendence, Mortdecai and Kevin Smith collaborations Tusk and Yoga Hosers are hardly regarded as career high-points.

While the approach did yield critical acclaim in regards to Sweeney Todd and Black Mass, it has become rather tiresome at this point. After a string of box office bombs and his stock in the industry lower than it has been for over a decade, Johnny Depp really needs to lose all the trimmings and return to the character-based work that made him such an interesting actor in the first place.