10 Terrible Actors Who Won The Hollywood Lottery

6. Charlie Day

Pacific Rim Uprising Charlie Day
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Of all the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia actors who could've broken out and made it big in Hollywood, would anyone have expected it to be Charlie Day?

When you've got the handsome, charming Glenn Howerton chomping at the bit for his big break, it's absolutely baffling that Day's literally one-note, shrieking shtick would become so in-demand in Hollywood.

Day made the leap to the movies with 2011's hit comedy Horrible Bosses, before winning lucrative voice roles in Monsters University and The Lego Movie, and also playing a major supporting part in the Pacific Rim franchise.

All of these movies save for Monsters University have brought Day back for a sequel, netting him some extraordinarily easy paydays despite basically playing a lazy variation on the same hyperactive, loud, annoying character every single time.

Day is of course perfectly cast in It's Always Sunny, but his movie work mostly just feels like an uninspired rehash of that role.

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