12 Actors Who Did Career Worst Work In 2018

11. Taron Egerton (Robin Hood & Billionaire Boys Club)

Robin Hood Taron Egerton
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To be completely fair to Kingsman star Taron Egerton, he's still a young, on-the-rise actor, though after several years of starring in successful star vehicles, his momentum was stunted a little in 2018 with these consecutive duds.

Egerton first appeared in the long-delayed Billionaire Boys Club, which was quietly dumped on VOD in most markets following the sexual harassment allegations levelled against co-star Kevin Spacey.

Given that the film was nothing more than a half-baked The Wolf of Wall Street knock-off, it was just as well for Egerton, really. He was certainly trying to give a charismatic performance, but the material did him no favours.

Egerton followed this up with the big-budget Robin Hood reboot nobody asked for, a wildly over-budgeted, visually repulsive and flat-out lame retelling of the classic tale. Worst of all, though it seemed like the young lead might be a bright spot among the abject awfulness, even Egerton is weirdly flat and charmless throughout.

At least he has a huge opportunity to bounce back next year, as he'll be playing Elton John in the hotly-anticipated biopic Rocketman. Fingers crossed.

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