Better Keep Singing: 5 Famous Musicians’ Awful Roles In Movies
These 5 examples prove that sometimes it's better for singers to just be singers.
Some musicians are talented enough to excel beyond the studio or the stage.
Many of their fans believe that their idols are good enough to succeed in Hollywood, especially on the big screen. But as we know, this is not always the case.
Taylor Swift in Cats
Taylor Swift is an excellent singer. On the other hand, her image as Bombalurina in the Cats remake was quickly forgotten and shelved. It is possible that a certain pathos and exaggeration of Taylor's game was to blame.
Cats was a huge box office flop, grossing $75 million against a budget of about $100 million, and is arguably one of the worst movies of all time.
Mariah Carey in Glitter
Carey, who played aspiring singer Billie Frank, who is looking for her big break, proved that she was not destined to show her talents in acting. The movie Glitter was panned by critics and ignored by fans. At the same time, Mariah Carey herself received the Golden Raspberry Award for this role in 2002.
Madonna in Body of Evidence
Madonna can certainly captivate anyone, whether on stage or on screen. However, Body as Evidence cannot be considered one of her best movie moments. Perhaps trying to replicate the success of Basic Instinct, the filmmakers hoped that Madonna's sensuality would be explored in this erotic thriller.
She barely appears fully clothed for most of the movie, and the script and story as a whole make it impossible to take her murder suspect character seriously.
Ringo Starr in Caveman
Ringo's attempt to become a movie superstar turned out to be a failure. Ringo played a puny caveman who dreams of a beautiful but otherwise unremarkable woman.
Starr's character somehow tries to make the viewer laugh in a comedy where there is nothing interesting. Starr was criticized for his lack of acting skills, although he was the most artistic of all The Beatles.
Britney Spears in Crossroads
Britney Spears quickly became one of the biggest stars in the world before she was 20 years old, and naturally, show business bosses decided to make a movie star out of her.
Spears landed her lead role in Crossroads, a raunchy movie that showed Spears that she was better off not making movies at all, which she did.