12 Actors Who Did Career Worst Work In 2018

7. Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades Freed & Robin Hood)

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Poor Jamie Dornan. The rising Irish actor has struggled to be taken seriously ever since he took the role of beloved sexist Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, and it sure saved the worst for last with this year's rancid Fifty Shades Freed.

Dornan's already wooden performance in the prior movies is even more risible here as the series devolves into straight-up erotic thriller territory, and Dornan desperately attempts to make the anodyne, depressingly softcore sex scenes arousing. He fails.

Though it seemed like Dornan's nightmarish penance was finally complete, he followed it up by giving another colossal stinker of a performance as Will Scarlet in Robin Hood.

Despite his striking good looks and charming accent, Dornan was helpless against the movie's hilariously undercooked script, and especially its hysterical sequel-bait ending which - spoiler! - basically transformed Scarlet into Two-Face.

Dornan at least looks to be turning things around, though. He recently starred in the acclaimed HBO TV movie My Dinner with Hervé opposite Peter Dinklage, and is set to star in new movies from indie filmmakers Drake Doremus (Like Crazy) and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless). Good luck, Jamie.

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