10 Highly Successful Actors Who Don't Actually Act

3. Kevin Costner

There was a time where Kevin Costner was the main man of Hollywood, you simply could not escape him. He starred in a string of extremely successful summer blockbusters and became the go-to guy for any dialogue driven action movie, with notable hits being Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and JFK. However, there is a trend in every appearance that Costner has made which seems to go largely unnoticed: he frowns and offers sagely advice at every opportunity. Whether or not Costner is being specifically picked for the parts of a slightly crotchety hero will remain known only to the casting teams behind the movies, but his reputation for looking at things in a greatly disapproving manner seems to have won him a great deal of success, providing he's not some bizarre man-fish in a Dennis Hopper ruled Waterworld. Costner's film appearances thinned out somewhat in the noughties, perhaps thanks to the unmitigated failures of films like the aforementioned Waterworld, The Postman and Wyatt Earp, and even in films he did appear in, his roles were not the front runners that they used to be. So when Costner was given the chance to return to a very big picture, he took it in the ballsiest way possible. Playing Superman's father on Earth, Jonathan Kent, Costner seized his opportunity to remind people of who he was and what he does...not by acting, but by frowning, telling Superman not to use his powers, and dying a massively pointless death. Way to stick to your guns.