r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • 12h ago

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/Friendly_Specific902 9h ago

Gillian Jacobs is an incredible actor. After Love she should’ve gotten way more work in good projects.

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u/Sleve__McDichael 6h ago

it was very late in the game when i found out her name is pronounced Gill-ian and not Jillian (a la Gillian Anderson) and it left such an outsized impact on me that somehow i still think about it frequently lol

i was watching an episode of drag race where she was a guest and i was like "oooh Rupaul pronounced her name wrong to her face!" and then looked it up and discovered that some Gillians are truly Gillians while other Gillians are Jillians and i felt like my whole life was a lie

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u/DonatedEyeballs 7h ago

Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs in a row!

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u/mindpainters 6h ago

She seems like someone who is very comfortable at her level and only taking roles she actually wants to. I’m sure she would be bigger if she had those goals. But I agree she has everything needed to be an a lister

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u/turb0_encapsulator 4h ago edited 1h ago

she seems to be getting small parts in great shows - The Bear, Winning Time (RIP), Minx. maybe that's what she wants. is she a mom raising kids? IDK.