Actors Who Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing But Fizzled Out

Edward Furlong

Edward Furlong played John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement, and he won a Saturn and MTV Movie Award for the role. However, despite having such a promising start to his career, he fell victim to alcoholism and substance abuse in his late teens and early twenties.

Erika Christensen

Erika Christensen is probably best known currently for her role as Julia Braverman on NBC's Parenthood. Her breakout role was in the film Traffic, and she won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance. She's only had smaller TV roles since Parenthood and currently stars in Ten Days in the Valley with Kyra Sedgwick.

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The More You Know

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  • During the filming of Star Trek (2009), Zachary Quinto could not manage to properly do the Vulcan salute. Eventually, J.J. Abrams had to glue his fingers together in order for Quinto to do it correctly.
  • Alred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.
  • In the movie Dredd, they slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 times to create the "slow motion" noise.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.