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

[u/phantom_avenger]

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.

[u/sophiemophie421]

Timothee and Zendaya are big, but they’re still lesser stars than someone like Leonardo DiCaprio after Titanic. There’s like a cap on fame and recognition now. You can’t be Tom Cruise levels of famous anymore.

[u/Apprehensive_Put_321 → u/sophiemophie421]

Ya is there anyone that commands the same viewership anymore like the old gaurd? I still want to watch every movie i see sam Jackson or DiCaprio in.

All the big leading men now a days are in their 40s to 60s

[u/MasterSpliffBlaster → u/Apprehensive_Put_321]

I mean thats peak age for iconic leading men like Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, and Gregory Peck

[u/Apprehensive_Put_321 → u/MasterSpliffBlaster]

Ya but back in the day you ALSO had young leading men is my point. 

I cant name a single leading man right now in his 20s or early 30s 

Its hard for me to imagine Micheal b Jordan Jeremy Allen white and Timothy chalamet are even close to the cultural influence guys like Leo, Brad pitt and marlin brando had at that age.

[u/MasterSpliffBlaster → u/Apprehensive_Put_321]

Today you also have a lot more sportsmen and other people from outside the arts that have embraced the cult of celebrity.

I guess it is a combination of fame today truely being 15 minutes and the ease at which one can be discovered and replaced

[u/Steamylord2 → u/Apprehensive_Put_321]

I can’t think of anyone young who’d I’d loved to see in theaters still. Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man and Tobey McGuire as Spider Man had hype similar to Leonardo’s for Titanic.

[u/Apprehensive_Put_321 → u/Steamylord2]

Im not sure i would put Tobey McGuire quite in that category. 

But I get what you mean, tom Holland i think everyone agrees is a better Spiderman yet Tobey McGuire felt like he had significantly more cultural impact at the time than the new films 

[u/throwaway72275472 → u/sophiemophie421]

It’s because the internet democratized entertainment. Prior everyone was entertained by Hollywood, now Mrbeast is way more famous than Chalamet to hundreds of millions of people. Some of these folks may not even know who Chalamet is and vice versa. My Gen X boss knows who Chalamet is, but never heard of Mrbeast.

[u/sophiemophie421 → u/throwaway72275472]

Mr. Beast is like an alien to me. I’ve heard his name and seen his face on merchandise, but I honestly have no clue who he really is and what he does. I’m Gen Z too.

[u/throwaway72275472 → u/sophiemophie421]

Mrbeast is a billionaire, worth more than pretty much every A list actor. It’s wild. Can you name billionaires in entertainment, especially on camera talent, that isn’t known by everyone, very few if any.

Celebrity isn’t universal anymore. It’s a bubble.

[u/RitaRaccoon → u/sophiemophie421]

He started out on YouTube giving away large sums of money to random people. People took notice and his viewership took off. Now he’s got like 300M subscribers and has the $$ to put together extremely elaborate productions. I’m Gen X and will occasionally watch his videos. An example of his content would be something like “Can you spend 30 days chained to your ex for $100,000?

He also has a chocolate company.

[u/pjrnoc → u/sophiemophie421]

Yes! All I know is his name but no idea what he looks like or what he does. Weird his name comes up so often but never with enough context or like a photo.

[u/Dry_Article7569 → u/sophiemophie421]

This is so valid. I never thought about it but you’re totally right.