9 Actors Whose Big Break Movies Almost Ruined Their Careers

1. Topher Grace - Spider-Man 3

Only Mila Kunis has really emerged from That 70s Show with the kind of career the young cast was expected to have when it all ended (though Ashton Kutcher has a lot of films to his name too). But the star of the show - the affable Topher Grace - was probably the cast's most surprising dud.

And it should have been a lot different: just a year after That 70s Show ended, he was cast by Sony in Spider-Man 3 (even though Sam Raimi didn't exactly agree on the use of Venom), which was about as cool a job as any young actor could get.

Sadly, Venom was almost consciously badly handled and Grace was scapegoated for the film's comparative failures and what should have been a golden ticket ended up stalling his career badly.

Did He Survive It?

It looked precarious for a long time there, but an appearance in Interstellar in 2014 seems to have revived him somewhat as a big project actor (which is what Predators should have done four years previously).

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