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  • The bigger they are the harder they fall

  • celebrity is a tough business all around and the pressures of fame and wealth can

  • be too much for some actors to handle. While these are problems that most

  • people with envy these actors might beg to differ

  • they came close to derail in their careers but we're glad they were able to

  • rebound back into the spotlight

  • Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman has never really left the public eye

  • but she sees it differently

  • she told New York magazine " I was in the biggest grossing movie of the decade and

  • no director wanted to work with me" which makes it sound like most of Hollywood

  • agreed with a hate that hardcore fans have to the Star Wars prequels.

  • " I can't fight a war for you"

  • "Jar, Jar Binks"

  • "Me sir, ya highness"

  • "yes"

  • I need your help

  • but with the help of some friends in high places she bounced back a series of

  • roles in movies like Cold Mountain

  • Garden State, Closer and Black Swan. Now Portman is once again considered one of

  • Hollywood's top actresses

  • she appeared in the first two Thor movies and her role in Exmachina

  • director Alex Garland of Annihilation suggest she still knows how to

  • pick a script.

  • Paul Reubens, you probably know him is Pee-Wee Herman and the scandal that

  • derailed his career has been a punch line for years. In 1991 Paul Rubens was

  • arrested for "indecent exposure"

  • inside an adult theater because of apparently most watched adult films for

  • the thrilling plots. In the fallout from the incident CBS stopped airing reruns

  • of Pee-wee's Playhouse and Rubens retreated from the public eye for many years.

  • After years out of the limelight,

  • Ruben's reclaimed his famous character donning the gray suit and red bowtie

  • once again for the 2016 Netflix film, Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

  • Nearly 30 years after the character's last major film, Big Top Pee-Wee

  • The new release was positively embraced by fans and critics alike.

  • Robert Downey jr.

  • He had promising beginnings in a number of critically acclaimed big-budget films

  • not to mention a stint on SNL but Robert Downey jr.'s sudden fame, mixed with an

  • undiagnosed bipolar disorder, resulted in a number of drug and alcohol related

  • arrests in the late nineties

  • After cleaning up his act, Downey started to roll out the hits, appearing in

  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

  • Gothika, A Scanner Darkly and Tropic Thunder. He's most known for his ongoing

  • lead roles in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock home series and

  • in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Tony Stark also known as iron Man

  • nothing like staring at multibillion-dollar franchise to

  • pull you out of a little personal slump,huh?

  • Mike Tyson. The terrifying Tyson didn't start his career as an actor but founded

  • renaissance is one

  • known best as a boxing champion, Tyson's controversial life is included multiple

  • accusations of violence against women

  • longtime drug and alcohol abuse. "But I knew when I was in that court and

  • when I was gonna get that verdict, the verdict was gonna be guilty."

  • and biting off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in their 1997 rematch.

  • after retreating from the public eye in shame

  • Tyson found a new life by appearing in the Hangover from 2009

  • Since then he got his own cartoon series,Mike Tyson Mysteries.

  • Holyfield and Tyson appeared together in a post-credits scene during the 2013 boxing movie,

  • Grudge Match

  • you can also catch Tyson taking on martial arts and action star Donnie Yen in Ip Man 3.

  • Drew Barrymore. Child actor Drew Barrymore's career was almost over before it began.

  • After starring in the nineteen 1982 hit E.T. at age seven

  • barrymore became notorious for abusing alcohol, marijuana and cocaine

  • by her own admission,starting at the age of eight

  • Fortunately, thanks to rehab and the unlikely help of a family friend

  • "I have to live with David Crosby for two months, which is crazy

  • because David has his own problems"

  • I know he is he was an interesting character.....in itself."

  • Barrymore found sobriety and started her wildly successful second act

  • starting movies like Scream,The Wedding Singer and Never Been Kissed

  • Barrymore also focuses on her family and charity work while appearing in ads

  • as one of the faces of Covergirl

  • but that doesn't mean she's slowing down in terms of acting despite the fact that

  • she only took four roles from 2009 to 2016 because

  • if she could come back from being a teenage addict and

  • the train wreck that was Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

  • she can come back from anything

  • Fred Willard. Comedian and actor Fred Willard's

  • career was marked by nothing but funny movies... until his 2012 arrest for a lewd act

  • in an adult theater.The arrest cost him his job hosting Market Warriors but

  • Willard was quick to recover after an honest interview on late night with Jimmy Fallon

  • in which he showcased his legendary sense of humor

  • Jimmy, what do you want to talk about first

  • Ya know, let me say this,it's the last time I'm gonna listen to my wife when

  • she says why don't you go out and see a movie"

  • Since then he's appeared in

  • Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

  • Fifty Shades of Black and a handful of television roles

  • and most likely discovered the joys of "private browsing mode"

  • Mickey Rourke, former boxer and semi-reluctant actor.Mickey Rourke enjoy the

  • successful career and till he was arrested for spousal abuse in 1994

  • after assaulting his then-wife Carre O'tis

  • oh yeah, and he was responsible for getting her accidentally shot

  • in the chest once -

  • just a guess but he probably didn't get a World's Best Husband mug that Christmas.

  • As a result, Rourke almost gave up the spotlight completely,returning a boxing,

  • then to acting,then to the boxing again

  • Wait, is he boxing in a kilt? Anyway he bounced back to acting for good

  • with a lead role in 2005 Sin City

  • "Let's go"

  • This major return which he had attributes to his manager and his dogs

  • , led to Rouke appearing in The Wrestler

  • Iron Man 2 and The Expendables.

  • Rob Lowe, in the age of the Kardashians

  • it's hard to remember that a sex tape could once ruin someone's career and

  • Rob Lowe had one of the first. Only a few years into his career-Lowe was filmed with at least

  • three different women.One of whom was barely above legal age

  • sparking a wave of media controversy

  • when the tape was made available for sale against his will

  • Lowe quickly recovered, thanks to the apparent indifference of Hollywood

  • and a willingness to own up to the situation.

  • During the years since he rebounded from a scandal

  • Lowe as appeared in dozens of movies,including the Camera Diaz and

  • Jason Segel movie, Sex tape, which was a nice meta joke in the form of stunt casting.

  • Even more impressive, his television resume spans hundreds of episodes

  • across dozens of noteworthy shows including the likes of The West Wing

  • Parks and Recreation

  • Californication, Moonbeam City and The Grinder.

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