12 Actors Who Did Career Worst Work In 2016

4. Marlon Wayans (Fifty Shades Of Black)

Ben Foster Warcraft
Open Road Films

Marlon Wayans is such a frustrating actor: we know from Requiem for a Dream that he can do serious drama, and we know from Scary Movie that he can actually be hilarious.

He seems mostly content phoning it in on limp parody movies like A Haunted House and his new Fifty Shades of Grey send-up, and while his commitment can't be faulted, it's just depressing to see him performing such horrible material, especially as he wrote it himself.

Playing rich-boy Christian Black, Wayans is all over-the-top screeching, and it's just immensely grating to the ears. It doesn't help that the same racial humour from his last few movies feels totally played-out and boring by this point.

Still, Wayans can always one-down himself as Fifty Shades Blacker will probably end up getting made sooner rather than later.

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