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Nate Parker racked up a number of movie roles within the 2000s and 2010s earlier than directing and starring in The Start of a Nation, which appeared poised to grow to be a mega-hit and Oscars bait. After its premiere at Sundance in 2016, Fox Searchlight paid $17.5 million — a record-high — for distribution rights to the movie. After which, in 2017, earlier than the movie’s huge launch, outdated rape allegations towards Parker resurfaced.
When Parker was in school, a feminine pupil had accused him and his pal Jean McGianni Celestin (who was additionally credited in The Start of a Nation) of rape whereas she was intoxicated and unconscious. Parker was in the end discovered not responsible, and Celestin was discovered responsible, although this was overturned on attraction. The girl additionally claimed Parker and Celestin had harassed and intimidated her after her accusations; she later died by suicide. As Parker’s fame grew, reporters started to ask concerning the particulars of his previous in interviews, and lots of felt Parker’s responses inadequate. He typically referred to the accusations as a “painful second” in his life.
Controversy over Parker’s previous and feedback led the movie’s momentum to fizzle out. It carried out far under expectations on the field workplace and didn’t obtain any Oscar nominations. Since then, Parker has solely appeared in a single movie — which he wrote and directed — and one quick.
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Doug Hutchison started his profession within the ’80s, starring in films equivalent to A Time to Kill, Con Air, and The Inexperienced Mile. By 2010, it appeared like he had transitioned extra into TV, however his profession was nonetheless going robust, with recurring roles in Misplaced and 24…after which he married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden. Hutchinson was 51 on the time, and the wedding generated important controversy.
Whereas Hutchinson initially claimed that the wedding had really given him extra profession alternatives, in actuality, he is solely appeared in three one-episode TV roles and a Christian movie since his marriage 13 years in the past (although he has made a number of actuality present appearances). Lately, Hutchinson has confronted even additional backlash as a consequence of Stodden calling him a “predator” and claiming he groomed them.
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Randy Quaid labored steadily from the Nineteen Seventies into the 2000s, however a number of authorized points within the 2000s and 2010s introduced his profession to a fast halt. In 2010, after skipping a courtroom look relating to felony vandalism fees, Quaid moved to Canada along with his spouse and sought asylum and later everlasting residency. His spouse gained citizenship, however Quaid didn’t and was later set to be deported. Re-entering the US earlier than he may very well be despatched there, Quaid and his spouse have been arrested in Vermont. They’ve since been launched, however the one undertaking starring Quaid that is been launched since then is the low-budget movie All You Can Eat.
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Jeffrey Jones additionally labored steadily from the ’70s to the early 2000s — he was most likely greatest recognized for starring within the movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Beetlejuice — however that each one got here to a halt in 2002, when he was hit with baby intercourse abuse pictures fees and with utilizing a minor for intercourse acts, having allegedly employed a 14-year-old to take nude pictures. Jones denied the fees and in the end pled no contest. He was sentenced to 5 years of probation and was pressured to hitch the intercourse offenders registry. Jones was later arrested and charged with a felony after not registering as a intercourse offender when he moved to Florida.
Whereas Jones did handle to proceed working in TV (notably, within the HBO collection Deadwood), his work in youngsters’s media was totally ended, and he is solely had a single theatrically launched movie since then. His small 2019 look in Deadwood: The Film (his most up-to-date position — a TV movie) was referred to as “jarring” by Vox in gentle of the convictions.
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As a former baby star, Shia LaBeouf appeared set to grow to be a serious star within the 2010s. Not solely had he starred in main blockbuster franchises like Transformers and Indiana Jones, however he’d damaged into the indie scene with Honey Boy, which was loosely primarily based on his personal childhood. Whereas he was a polarizing determine with many run-ins with the regulation, he was nonetheless having fun with crucial success.
Nevertheless, issues took a flip for LaBeouf in 2020 when ex-girlfriend FKA twigs accused him of sexual assault, battery, and infliction of emotional misery. She sued him in a lawsuit that additionally claimed he had knowingly given her an STD. Different previous girlfriends echoed FKA twigs’s claims with tales of comparable habits. LaBeouf initially claimed that “many of those allegations will not be true,” although in 2022, he acknowledged, “I harm that lady. And within the technique of doing that, I harm many different individuals, and lots of different individuals earlier than that lady.”
Simply earlier than the allegations got here to gentle, LaBeouf was dropped from Olivia Wilde’s Do not Fear Darling, with Wilde claiming after the allegations that he had a “combative vitality” and didn’t create a secure and trusting work atmosphere. “Loads got here to gentle after this occurred that basically troubled me, by way of his habits,” she added. LaBeouf later claimed he had left the manufacturing on his personal. He was changed with Harry Kinds.
The one undertaking LaBeouf has acted in since 2020 was the minuscule price range Italian-German movie Padre Pio. Whereas LaBeouf is slated to look in Francis Ford Coppola’s ensemble movie Megalopolis, public notion of the as soon as beloved baby star has drastically modified. His case with twigs is about to go to trial on the finish of this yr.
