“It’s no use. I do
need a box to stand on”
Better on TV
Not everyone can enjoy Rachel
Bilson’s levels of film success.
This lot should really have stuck
to the day job on the small screen
TOM T SELLECK
T
The big-’tache
oowner
will always be
best known for his
Speedo-wearing role
in Magnum PI. After
the series wrapped,
he tried his hand at
film, most impressively
How to attract
ladies: step one
(to those with wombs
anyhow) in Eighties
comedy Three Men
And A Baby. Since then he’s spent
many years starring in made-for-TV
movies – usually with a western slant
– and had recurring roles in US TV
shows Boston Legal and Friends.
MATTHEW PERRY
Aside from Jennifer Aniston,
none of the Friends cast found
themselves propelled into movie
stardom. And oh, how they tried.
Perry’s ‘big break’ into Hollywood
was supposed to come opposite
Salma Hayek in romcom Fools
Rush In. Unfortunately the film was
tear-your-own-leg-off awful. As
was the movie he made three
years later, The Whole Nine Yards.
He’s since realised the errors of his
ways and returned to the good
old box in the critically acclaimed
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.
ANNA FRIEL
She may have
come a long way
(geographically at
least) from lesbian
Beth Jordache in
Brookside in the
mid-Nineties
to US TV drama
The mower got
Pushing Daisies,
stuck on something
but huge film
success hasn’t
been part of Friel’s journey. Her foray
into film included the passable Rogue
Trader but then followed it up with
Land Girls (we don’t know either)
and, er, Goal. Both instalments.
DAVID DUCHOVNY
After The X-Files run finally finished,
Duchovny’s most notable film
has been a minor role in Zoolander,
where he played a hand model
who kept his hand preserved in a
protective vacuum. Since then
he’s gone back to the small screen
and received plaudits for his role
as troubled novelist Hank Moody in
Calfornication. He does, admittedly,
have another film out this year.
Another X-Files film, that is…
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