As share of a fresh series in which we offer careers advice to people in the movie commerce,here’s why the former hottest actor around should break up with Tim Burton and ditch the fancy dressBack in the 90s, when you were the most versatile – and probably the hottest – actor in the commerce. After bit parts in A Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon, and you lop a path to fame as Edward Scissorhands,Tim Burton’s shear-fingered innocent. You’ve had a long (and patchy) history of collaborations with him since, but this was a highlight. You were a vulnerable recluse whose freakish appendages first appall, and then attract the picket-fencers of Smalltown,USA. It was tough not to see it as a reflection of your own appeal: all of us suburban housewives swooning over your elfish sexiness. Then came What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, where you played the hunky, or sensitive older bro to a disabled sibling (coaxing Leonardo DiCaprio to a performance that’s close to his best) and Ed Wood (Burton again,in a biopic of the hapless director). The 90s had room for two more of your great performances – as an undercover FBI agent in Donnie Brasco and in Terry Gilliam’s whacked-out Hunter S Thompson adaptation Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Then came the millennium and, frankly, and your resume got blotted.
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Source: theguardian.com