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I Am Now a Central Part of Your Mind's Landscape Whether You Care or Do Not: The Current Actor of Whom You've Had Your Fill

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Comment Diversions | Comments (67)

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Yes Virginia, you can have too much of a good thing. Today, as I scoured the interwebs for inspiration, one of the first headlines I came upon was about Michael Fassbender considering a Robocop remake script. And as much as I love the man, I’m seriously worried he’s quickly going to wear out his welcome if he keeps up the pace (some of you have already expressed as much at the sight of a Fassbender photo ‘round these parts). The actor is currently promoting Shame, A Dangerous Method and Haywire, he’s committed to or in the process of making Prometheus, 12 Years a Slave and an untitled Jim Jarmusch project…and he’s signed on to do At Swim-Two-Birds. Though I understand striking while the iron is hot, Fassbender (along with his Shame co-star, Carey Mulligan) is already in danger of overexposure. One thing Hollywood cannot seem to get a grip on is the idea that just because an audience enjoys something, that doesn’t mean we want it shoved down our collective throats until we are gagging and puking. Can’t we ever savor something slowly over multiple courses, instead of being forced to feast endlessly at the dessert buffet? It’s the same with television and film; if a certain type of show or film suddenly hits it big and becomes popular, next comes the onslaught of copycats or similarly themed movies or shows. Almost nothing is allowed to be unique any longer, not even actors. And though this theme bleeds over into so many areas (in ways that drive me crazy, like all the brunette actresses who end up highlighting their hair, going to a light brown/dirty blonde and then to full on platinum) today we’ll focus our rage on the actors and actresses we’re already sick of. Is it our beloved Irishman (/German), or someone else?

Name the actor who, if you see him one more time, you will personally reach down his throat and pull his cojones up through his innards before shoving them out his ear.


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Comments

You can never get too much Fassbender.

Posted by: maka at November 13, 2011 2:19 PM

He could bend my fass anytime he wanted.

Posted by: Brian at November 13, 2011 2:26 PM

Adam Sandler

Posted by: The Minn at November 13, 2011 2:34 PM

ben stiller

Posted by: glittergirl at November 13, 2011 2:36 PM

Zooey Deschanel.
Anybody from Twilight.
Any Kardashian.

Posted by: Addicct at November 13, 2011 2:48 PM

Definitely Fassbender. Before him it was Gerard Butler and before that, Jude Law.

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 13, 2011 2:49 PM

Brangelina

Posted by: buell at November 13, 2011 2:56 PM

Jumping in here to get all serious for a minute: while I'd usual agree with the idea of overexposure making movie-going audiences cringe until their eyes bleed, I think you have to consider the kinds of projects an actor gravitates towards, and why overexposure isn't necessarily a bad thing if the films being made are wildly diverse. The thing about a good actor is, if he (or she, for that matter) is brilliant, he can get lost in a role and we forget we're watching, say, Michael Fassbender or [insert other source of brilliance here]. There was a while, sometime after Capote, where Philip Seymour Hoffman started appearing in loads of films, but no one can really argue that the roles he played in The Savages, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, and Synechdoche, New York were different from each other, and, what's more, gave him a chance to flex his acting muscles to great effect. (And okay, okay, I know he did Mission: Impossible 3, but he milked that shitty script for all that it was worth!)

Also, I think there's a huge difference between the kinds of projects Fassbender and other actors of his ilk, like Gerard Butler, gravitate towards. Frankly, I could watch the dude eat a sandwich and be pretty satisfied, but that's just me. (And when Fassbender makes his Bounty Hunter, you all can punch me in the face for saying that.)

Posted by: MidnightTea at November 13, 2011 3:11 PM

Midnight tea, we are definitely on the same page. Overexposure really only applies when the actor is so shitty that he or she is indistinguishable from film to film, and furthermore, the films themselves are piles. I also think a key differential is when you have a truly gifted character actor, who usually is relegated to supporting roles -- Hoffman falls in that category, as does the fabulous Chris Cooper, David Strathairn, Ciaran Hinds, etc. --because they are character actors, that usually makes their stuff varied, and their impact a little less obvious. Fassbender, bless him, has those leading man looks and so gets placed front and center.

And I could never get enough of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He is, after all, my future husband.

I have had my fill of La-Boof. I am so thoroughly sick of that dude. He is a shit lead actor in shit movies. And I haven't even seen half of his recent movies, but I just get tired of seeing his wide-eyed earnest look in the trailers.

Posted by: linny at November 13, 2011 3:29 PM

I just don't get the Fassbender thing. He and his shovel-head do nothing for me. Although, from reading all the fangirling around the interwebs, it's not the head on his shoulders that you ladies are swooning over.

I'm sick of Bradley Cooper. I used to like him during and for a while after Alias, but he's working my nerves now. Ditto Ryan Reynolds.

And Blake Lively can take a flying leap into obscurity, like, yesterday. Or sooner.

Posted by: natalie at November 13, 2011 3:30 PM

This is actually a strange irony, one that, in a very left-handed way, points to yet another difference between actors and movie stars.

When Antonio Banderas came to the US from Spain, his handlers had to put the brakes on his work, because he was used to non-stop filmmaking from back in his Almodovar days, wherein an actor would finish one project and move on to the next one immediately, and it was basically left to the distributors to sort it out. Here, Banderas was encouraged to work less frequently.

Posted by: Jerry at November 13, 2011 3:41 PM

Overexposure really only applies when the actor is so shitty that he or she is indistinguishable from film to film...

Nope, I don't agree with that at all. Granted, Gerard Butler has turned into a joke but he was a pretty decent actor at one point in his career. Same with Jude Law. It seems once these actors went "Hollywood" versus their native Britain, their careers went in the crapper from over-exposure. It's probably hard to turn down the huge paychecks.

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 13, 2011 3:57 PM

TIMBERLAKE GO AWAY

Posted by: dinka at November 13, 2011 4:01 PM

For the sweet love of cheeses will somebody put the Kardashians out of my misery?

Posted by: wsapnin at November 13, 2011 4:11 PM

Maya Rudolph, absolutely.

Posted by: Jordan at November 13, 2011 4:35 PM

That broad from "30 Rock" what's her name? Yeah, Tina Feyyyyyyyyyyyy:(

Posted by: dl at November 13, 2011 4:44 PM

She's not an actress, and I'm sure I'll get pilloried for this, but I'm pretty much over Adele.

Also, Alexander Skarsgard. Dude's everywhere and he just isn't all that.

Posted by: Another Kate at November 13, 2011 5:05 PM

Angelina Jolie. I don't even think of her as an actress anymore. I feel like her movies are just excuses for Vanity Fair covers and 'candid' family pictures, and I could do without seeing any of that ever again.

Posted by: Kate at November 13, 2011 5:07 PM

I never really understood the attraction to Michael Fassbender either. That being said, I don't think I've been exposed to him enough to have a set opinion one way or the other. As for actors/actresses I'm done with (and I may burn for this) - Jason Seagal and the Muppets. If I have to see either of them, I will literally rip their puppety bodies apart.

Posted by: darmatugan at November 13, 2011 5:13 PM

I think it's kind of an unfair thing to blame on Hollywood, or even to complain about. As an actor, he probably set out just wanting to be able to make a living. Now that he's successful, he has a chance to really work and do what he wants to. An actor who goes out of work for a long time often gets restless or rusty. I think Fassbender is simply taking advantage of the fact that he doesn't have to struggle for that anymore, and I respect him for it.

Posted by: A-schaef at November 13, 2011 5:42 PM

In what universe do the Kardashians count as actors?

Overexposed, yes, but don't dignify what they do by calling it acting.

Posted by: TheOtherGreg at November 13, 2011 5:55 PM

I completely agree with Adele. She's got a beautiful voice but for the love of god stop playing her songs.

Having said that, I'm over Zooey Deschanel. She's too quirky for her own good.

Posted by: greenblue at November 13, 2011 6:34 PM

This is different from actors you hate because they suck who keep showing up despite their inability to act, no? I think this was dubbed the Guttenberg phenomenon circa 1985.

Oh well ... whenever Bruce Greenwood appears (usually as Bruce Greenwood ... owing to his utterly uncanny lack of ability to act) I typically want to vomit.

Posted by: Johnnyboy at November 13, 2011 6:35 PM

Kim Humphries nee Kardashian just finished filming a movie ironically "The Wedding Counselor" and her mother dabbled in acting over the years.

Plus, I maintain that whatever goes on on their stupid show is scripted and thus acted.

Posted by: wsapnin at November 13, 2011 6:36 PM

Not an actor but zombies are incredibly overexposed and it hurts me to say this but I'm pretty much over the genre. Enough already.

Posted by: TylerDFC at November 13, 2011 6:41 PM

Fassbender isn't making countless romcoms like Butler or stupid Michael Bay action films. The films that he is promoting now are small and will be seen by a very limited audiance. He is not overexposed. He is now in the media because of the awards season. You dont' see him on tabloids with daily reports about set up romances like Ryan Raynolds, the Twilight duo, or Bradley Cooper.

Leonardo DiCaprio's ridiculous relationship with that blonde TV actress is overexposure or Brangelina who are caricatures.

Posted by: WTF at November 13, 2011 6:47 PM

She does not seem to be as ubiquitous as she was say 2 years ago, but Nicole Kidman and all her sycophantic fans can go blow. Go awaaaaay and take your weird botox-ness and your overratedness with you. She looks like a match.

Also Go away Skarsgard. I don't think you are everywhere but damn you are so very very overrated, especially in the looks department. One expression: Dazed.

Owen Wilson go home.
Kate Hudson go home.
Steve Carell go home (and I like him)
Will Ferrell needs to go into a coma for a while.

Posted by: klingonfree at November 13, 2011 6:51 PM

I don't know about in the media in general but there are several performers I'm really tired of reading about on this site, including:

Alison Brie
Ryan Gosling
Michael Fassbender
Christina Hendricks
Timothy Olyphant
Ryan Reynolds

I have nothing against them in particular. I just wish this site would expand its horizons a bit. There are a lot of pretty and talented people out there beyond these six.

Posted by: abby at November 13, 2011 6:52 PM

just because an audience enjoys something, that doesn’t mean we want it shoved down our collective throats until we are gagging and puking.

is someone forcing you to watch every movie he's in? unfortunate. I get to pick and choose the movies I go see.
(also, I wouldn't qualify all of these projects - like Shame - as "Hollywood") I don't even see ads for most of his movies.

That crazy actor! Why can't he just coast on one project/paycheck a year instead of doing what he loves.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at November 13, 2011 7:34 PM


I don't know about in the media in general but there are several performers I'm really tired of reading about on this site, including:

Alison Brie
Ryan Gosling
Michael Fassbender
Christina Hendricks
Timothy Olyphant
Ryan Reynolds

I have nothing against them in particular. I just wish this site would expand its horizons a bit. There are a lot of pretty and talented people out there beyond these six.

Posted by: abby at November 13, 2011 6:52 PM

Sing it sister! I been saying this for awhile.

Posted by: logan at November 13, 2011 8:05 PM

Amen, abby! (regarding those six)
I'll also have to add Jon Hamm. Seems like a decent, nice enough and good looking actor but never got all the hysterics!

Posted by: Spartacus at November 13, 2011 8:53 PM

If I did not frequent this site I would not know who Fassbender is. I still kinda don't. Where are you all seeing this man? I am a teensy bit Amish but still, I do get out. Who the hell is this man?

Also:

Christina Hendricks and Jon Hamm BIG TIME and I have never seen one episode of Mad Men. Not one. I am just sick of them on this site fer starters...

Posted by: klingonfree at November 13, 2011 9:03 PM

Wait:

Ryan Gosling
Beyonce (FUCK!!)
Johnny Depp (sorry...just too much)
Will Smith (Gahhh!)
George Godtdamn Clooney
Whatshertits...Scarlett Johansen

Posted by: klingonfree at November 13, 2011 9:07 PM

When I mentioned some actors going Hollywood, I meant Butler and Law however I could see the same thing happening to Fassbender. I've only seen him in a few projects but none of them were prestigious, award winning films. I'm not sure where this 'great actor' label is coming from, nor do I understand the hysteria this guy seems to generate here. The first time I ever saw him was on a really shitty Brit show called Hex where he was supposed to be a seductive demon or something and I remember thinking "really? why did they cast him in that part?"

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 13, 2011 9:11 PM

"The current actor of whom you've had your fill."

The correct answer is Jonah Hill. As Dustin would stay,there is no denying this fact.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at November 13, 2011 10:05 PM

*stay

He'd probably also "say" that.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at November 13, 2011 10:05 PM

Yes, it's Hollywood that's shoving Fassbender down our throats. Damn you Hollywood!

Posted by: superasente at November 13, 2011 10:22 PM

Off-topic, nice Morrissey reference.

Posted by: edgartronic at November 13, 2011 10:51 PM

I recently had to explain to my mom who Michael Fassbender is (she's in her early 50's and does not live under a rock). I think he gets way more exposure on Pajiba than he does in other corners of the media world.

I dunno, I seem to get burnt out on musicians way faster than actors. If I want a break from an actor or filmmaker, I can just skip their next few movies. If a musician or group really blows up, I'm going to hear their same 2 or 3 songs about 5,000 times whether I want to or not.

Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at November 13, 2011 11:07 PM

Out in the world: Johnny Depp. I've never liked the guy THAT much but ever since Disney got its claws on him I've just come to intensely dislike him.

NPH. Awesome guy, too much everywhere these days.

Betty White.

On Pajiba: JGL, the Doctor Who people, Olyphant, Jason Segel (the muppets are already awesome without him), Fassbender.

Posted by: figgy at November 13, 2011 11:46 PM

Cindy you make this too easy for me. I don't think I even have to write the last name out. It starts with an 'H' and ends with a 'Y'

Posted by: Candy at November 13, 2011 11:57 PM

P.S. DITTO TO Dinka!

Posted by: Candy at November 14, 2011 12:04 AM

When I mentioned some actors going Hollywood, I meant Butler and Law however I could see the same thing happening to Fassbender. I've only seen him in a few projects but none of them were prestigious, award winning films. I'm not sure where this 'great actor' label is coming from, nor do I understand the hysteria this guy seems to generate here. The first time I ever saw him was on a really shitty Brit show called Hex where he was supposed to be a seductive demon or something and I remember thinking "really? why did they cast him in that part?"

Have you seen Hunger and/or Fish Tank? Because that's where my opinion is coming from. Fassbender clearly had fun with his Inglorious Basterds and X-Men: First Class roles, but neither compares to the work he did in those smaller films. For me, he has a quiet intensity not often matched by a lot of Hollywood's leading men, and, as linny pointed out, that character actor quality that makes him fascinating to watch. He's not just some statuesque hunk. I'd liken him, instead, to someone like Christian Bale: a fellow with distinguishable features that play second fiddle to an ability to fully embody a complex character.

Posted by: MidnightTea at November 14, 2011 12:27 AM

SJP

Posted by: , at November 14, 2011 12:28 AM

Bring on the Fass.
All Fass, all the time. The same goes for Alexander Skaarsgard, there is no such thing as too much. (am currently in a quandry re: significant other and the establishment of the free pass. He insists I chose one, while I plead Sophie's Choice. First world problems eh?)

Posted by: Clairenz at November 14, 2011 2:54 AM

Alison Brie for sure. Great in Community and Mad Men, but I am so sick of seeing her boobs.

Posted by: Ashley at November 14, 2011 4:39 AM

Alison Brie for sure. Great in Community and Mad Men, but I am so sick of seeing her boobs.

Posted by: Ashley at November 14, 2011 4:39 AM

That's crazy talk.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at November 14, 2011 6:03 AM

Yes, it's Hollywood that's shoving Fassbender down our throats. Damn you Hollywood!

Posted by: superasente at November 13, 2011 10:22 PM

Hollywood and Pajiba?

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 14, 2011 6:48 AM

I want to watch a beautiful theater

Posted by: yemek odasi at November 14, 2011 9:11 AM

Jonah Hill. Zach Galifianakis. Neil Patrick Harris. Melissa McCarthy.

I have major cinema fatigue from all of these actors, but bring on Fassbender. I don't understand how someone who makes indies could be considered OVERexposed. What?

Posted by: TD Sims at November 14, 2011 10:09 AM

Maybe I don't understand what "indies" means but after taking a look at his imdb page, he's been in more big budget crap than not. Jonah Hex?

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 14, 2011 10:26 AM

Emma Stone. She's okay, but hell if I know why she has to be in goddamn everything lately. If I hear her whiny voice say, "It's like you're photoshopped!" (in reference to Ryan Gosling's abs) one more time, I'm going to throw a spear through the TV.

I only watch TV on Sundays, and I've seen the commercial for that movie so many times I almost want to murder Emma Stone.

Posted by: CrystalW187 at November 14, 2011 10:29 AM

Gosling and Fassbender. Sick of them both. Gosling is a good actor who desperately tries to play up his "quirky and weird" personality to the point of caricature, and Fassbender, well, let's just say those reports of him physically beating up his ex ring pretty true.

Posted by: Hil at November 14, 2011 11:14 AM

"and Fassbender, well, let's just say those reports of him physically beating up his ex ring pretty true"

Wow, I hadn't heard that before, but I have to say I wouldn't be surprised. He gives off the creep vibe.

I would also like to see less Alison Brie. Her boobs aren't THAT great. Much like Olivia Munn, if she were really as funny and smart as she thinks she is, she wouldn't have to rely on her tits and ass to get attention.

Posted by: natalie at November 14, 2011 12:42 PM

I agree with Candy about La Hathaway. I never liked her to begin with, but then Hollywood decided that she was the answer to everything. Thank goodness she's been a little less in evidence since the Oscars debacle.

Posted by: jimbob at November 14, 2011 1:08 PM

I think the only overexposure Michael Fassbender seems to be getting is from the posts on this website...and anyone who doesn't seem to get him as a fantastic actor has clearly not seen Hunger, or didn't remember him stealing the basement scene in Inglourious Basterds.

The list:

Jennifer Aniston
Cameron Diaz (think I've hated them both from the beginning though. Are we only doing guys?)
Keira Knightley
Matthew Mcconaughey
Mickey Rourke

Posted by: Theseus at November 14, 2011 1:09 PM

@natalie - his "people" have done a good job of making people forget, it was just a couple years ago. If I remember correctly the lady was given a restraining order, but it was later dismissed. But he gives off MAJOR creep vibes to me, especially after his whole thing with Zoe Kravitz, who looks like a 12 year old girl.

Posted by: Hil at November 14, 2011 1:39 PM

The actors don't usually have any control over when movies shoot or are distributed to theaters. So it's not like Fassbender or anyone else (except maybe Cruise, who probably does have that kind of power over when his films go out) wants to have 3 movies going at once.

So, no, not sick of Fassbender. Nor am I sick of anybody who makes decent movies. I AM sick of people making crappy ones.

I am sick (and have been for some time) of Adam Sandler. He needs to retire. Like, yesterday.

Posted by: Slash at November 14, 2011 1:41 PM

Johnny Depp
Will Ferrell
Zach goddamn Galifianakis
Ryan Reynolds
Cameron Diaz
Jennifer Aniston

Posted by: Colin at November 14, 2011 1:44 PM

George Clooney.

Posted by: Ballymena Bob at November 14, 2011 2:08 PM

Tom Cruise (have had no use for him since Risky Business)

Jennifer Aniston (Jeez, what has she done besides get divorced)

Jonah Hill and Zach Galifianakis (acting stupid is not funny)

Blake Lively (cannot act)

Posted by: Rum Cove at November 14, 2011 2:24 PM

I think Fassbender (and Ryan Gosling, the casts of Community and Mad Men, and Timothy Olyphant) get *way* more play on the internet than they do in the real world. I made a Fassbender reference at a party the other night and had to take five minutes to explain it to a room of about forty people who do not live on the internet. They had no clue who he was. "Young Magneto" barely registered.

I think he's on the verge of overexposure *here*, but not in general. And since 3 of 4 movies he made this year play squarely in the art house, I don't think he's in danger of overexposing himself to the world at large.

Although he's welcome to overexpose himself to me, any time.

Posted by: Crimson & Clover at November 14, 2011 3:48 PM

Well of course you like to see Fassbender over and over you're Crimson & Clover. You like everything over and over.

Posted by: logan at November 14, 2011 6:24 PM

Enough with the Justin Timberlake already. I have devoted all the attention to Justin Timberlake that I am willing to for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Craig at November 14, 2011 6:54 PM

Sorry, but Fassbender is a really good actor making hay while the sun shines. After toiling in relative obscurity, he'd have to be an idiot not to take his shot. He's making interesting role choices and has magnetic appeal onscreen. Nothing to be ashamed of, & he is generally not well-known.

I nominate Justin Timberlake, primarily because I hate his face.

Posted by: mona sterling at November 14, 2011 10:59 PM

Jessica Chastain. She's another one that should really consider taking a break after having seven movies come out this year. That's not happening though. She has already three films being released next year.

Posted by: Gurov at November 15, 2011 9:30 AM

I love Fish Tank, Inglourious Basterds, and Hunger too much to be embittered about Fassbender's post-Xmen overexposure, and a lot of his upcoming projects are potentially great. Same for Ryan Gosling - sure, he's everywhere, but he deserves to be.
I'm really sick of Leonardo DiCaprio at the moment, to be honest. I feel like he has the same nasally voice, moral ambiguities, dapper outfits, and dead wife problems in all his recent movies. I mean, I liked Shutter Island and Inception and his performance in What's Eating Gilbert Grape will always be amazing, but lately he's been way too "Give me an Oscar goddamnit!" for my tastes.

Posted by: Talia at November 15, 2011 9:19 PM