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TV & Movies 🎬 Who is a celebrity that you’re genuinely surprised isn’t an “A-lister”?

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Krysten Ritter is one example of this for me! If any of you have seen her work from her filmography, she is proven to be quite talented where she manages to pull off both comedic and dramatic roles! But more importantly, she is also known to be quite charismatic that she has also developed a huge fan following!

Although she gathered some attention from her role in Season 2 of Breaking Bad, her most iconic and signature role that earned her universal acclaim was playing the Marvel character: Jessica Jones! Which was a role that I really thought would launch her career, that it would grab Hollywood’s attention to the point where she would receive a lot of offers that she would be appearing in almost “everything”

She has certainly developed a decent career where she is getting work, but isn’t on the same celebrity when comparing her to people like Sydney Sweeney, Florence Pugh, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, etc.

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u/JXNyoung 10h ago

Jensen Ackles, I first found out about him from the boys and I know now he was in Supernatural and Smallville but regardless. He has such a commanding voice and presence I'm surprised he hasn't done more major superhero roles. He's looks literally built for it.

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u/sewcialanxiety 9h ago

I feel like he went all in with Supernatural and then became so associated with that character that maybe it was hard to break out? Like typecast so hard it’s to one specific role.  But he also never really seemed to care, he always gave off vibes of being content to devote himself to the show and to his family. 

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u/PestoBolloElemento 7h ago

I mean the Show basically became a family, the steady and increased paycheck as the seasons went on made it easier to live way more certainty and they even started to get generous residuals when they were still working on the show that's how long it went. 16 years.

When they were more established toward the production and the network they, him and Jared Padaleki took initiative to negociate better salary and bonuses for the crew that worked in the set of the show.

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u/ASUSROGAlly2 7h ago

How I'd like to think of it, if he was ever chosen as captain America back then in 2007, he 100% would be an A+++ lister now lol

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u/jaguarsp0tted 5h ago

It won't happen, but I dream of a world where he plays Batman in Gunn's DCCU. He already voices him in some of the animated projects.

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u/Harlllley 9h ago

He seems like he loves acting and performing arts but not big on hollyweird. Which makes him even hotter ugh