10 Exact Movie Moments That Killed A Career
8. A Venomous Fall From Grace - Topher Grace
More recently, audiences have been given Tom Hardy’s take on Eddie Brock, aka Venom. The film itself may have split opinion, but the consensus was that Hardy was phenomenal as Brock. Previously, though, Topher Grace played the very same character in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3.
At the time, Grace was one of the fastest rising stars in the industry, largely down to his success on That ‘70s Show. But Eddie Brock? Topher was fighting an uphill battle from the moment he signed his Spidey 3 contract.
Comic book fans were accustomed to an Eddie Brock who was a hulking, heavy-lifting reporter who always had a mean steak lurking below the service. While he may be great in certain roles, Topher Grace was just not cut out to match the image these passionate fans had of Brock. And that translated through to the reception towards the threequel, with Venom feeling anything but like the all-knowing, uber-dangerous threat to Spider-Man that fans were accustomed to.
After playing Venom, Grace's career entered a downward spiral that the actor has only recently started to recover from with roles in the likes of BlacKkKlansman and Black Mirror. In those wilderness years, Topher actually kept himself busy by editing his own hugely entertaining versions of the Star Wars and Hobbit movies.