The one actor most likely to star in an awful movie, according to science
Since their careers usually last for decades, every actor is going to make at least one bad movie, and most actors are going to make many more.
John Cazale is one of the few exceptions to the rule, but if he’d stuck around for longer, there’s every chance he’d have left a blemish on an otherwise perfect filmography. That said, who makes more awful films than anyone else? It’s a dubious honour, but science has provided the answer.
There are stars who play themselves every time, like Jason Statham and Ryan Reynolds, but at least they’re popular, and some of their credits aren’t crap. There are also people like the endlessly frustrating Adam Sandler, who’ll make five atrocious comedies and then make up for it with a knockout dramatic performance in an acclaimed picture.
Heading much further down toward the bottom of the barrel, numbers were crunched, metrics were measured, and terrible movie after terrible movie was analysed, reaching the conclusion that, out of any established thespian in Hollywood, one unfortunate soul has the weakest filmography of them all.
To dish out the dubious honour, the methodology was fairly simple: you take every film in which an actor has played a credited role, you weigh that against the critic and user-generated scores of those films on several aggregated platforms, and you separate them into five categories, with every 20th percentile from 0 to 80 as the entry point for counting them as awful, bad, OK, good, and excellent.
To that end, with over 60% of her filmography slipping into the ‘awful’ bracket, that makes poor Alexandra Daddario the actor most likely to appear in a woeful movie, according to science itself. Having a quick glance at her back catalogue, you can’t exactly say it’s an upset and demand a recount.
The star of such masterpieces as The Layover, Die in a Gunfight, Songbird, Baywatch, Texas Chainsaw, Hall Pass, San Andreas, and more, Daddario has been in dozens of films in a career that’s approaching its 25th anniversary, but seeing as science has given her the unfortunate title of being closer than anyone else to a guarantee of shoddy cinema, it’s clearly built on quantity over quality.
Feel free to point out that she’s an Emmy nominee, having been shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie’ category for The White Lotus, a nomination that she fully deserved, but we’ll simply point out that’s a TV show, so it’s got fuck all to do with her big-screen credentials.
We’re not going to argue with science, and you shouldn’t, either. Unfortunately, that means Daddario has been outed as the one actor more likely than any other to signal a big-screen disaster is incoming, based entirely on her involvement alone.
