7 Sport Stars Who Tried To Break Hollywood

3. Michael Jordan

Space Jam Bugs Bunny
Warner Bros

When you're Michael Jordan and you're arguably the biggest sports star on the planet, you'd probably think to yourself "Yeah, movies. I could be in movies." Because why wouldn't you think that? You're Michael freaking Jordan. You can probably do anything you wanted. You could probably walk into a bank, demand all the money and get it too without any hassle, because everyone in that bank probably loves you and had posters of you in their bedrooms when they were kids.

Jordan did of course make a movie. A movie called Space Jam, to be precise, and everyone of a certain age will remember it firstly, because of R. Kelly believing he could fly and not shutting up about it (before someone went and trapped him in a closet). Secondly, because it had all the Looney Tunes characters in it. And Bill Murray as well. It was also a film that was literally made for Michael Jordan to be in it, because again, everyone loves him and wants to do nice things for him.

Space Jam was proof though, that despite Jordan being a basketball legend (and a baseball something-or-other), he wasn't really much of an actor as he was out-acted by Bugs, Daffy and even Elmer Fudd. Despite this, we all still love MJ and if he wants to go rob a bank, I think we can all agree that we'd probably help him do it.

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