10 Actors Who Have Never Made A Sequel

6. Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain has a strange habit of regularly appearing in some major movie sequels, without any of them being sequels to her own films.

Over the last decade, she's been in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, The Huntsman: Winter's War, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and It: Chapter Two, but she wasn't reprising a character in a single one of these projects.

In addition, most blockbuster movies she stars in never lead to a followup. Zero Dark Thirty, The Martian, and Interstellar were self-contained stories, Crimson Peak and Winter's War flopped, Dark Phoenix and It were the final instalments in their series, and Madagascar 4 entered development hell in the mid-2010s.

Her career has clearly contained lots of sequel potential, but none of this potential has ever fully manifested. Given that she's only 44 though, she'll almost certainly get to reprise a movie role one day, but with no sequels currently on the horizon, it's going to be a couple of years - at minimum - before that can happen.

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