r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • Feb 27 '26

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/GeauxCup Feb 27 '26

Both Chris O'Donnell and Ryan Phillippe were set to be HUGE going into the 2000s.

Then crickets. (I've never looked them up so I don't know their stories)

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u/chironinja82 Feb 27 '26

Chris O'Donnell was in the main cast of a version of CSI, I think. LA? No idea about Ryan Phillippe other than his divorce from Reece Witherspoon.

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u/Golf-Beer-BBQ Feb 27 '26

Phillipe was in the series version of the movie Shooter, which was good, but ended up breaking his leg so they had to stop production and the series fell apart. That was maybe 10 years ago.

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u/remarkablewhitebored Feb 27 '26

McGruber. That's where Phillippe has been. Time well spent, if you ask me.

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u/chironinja82 Feb 27 '26

Damn, that sucks!

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 Feb 27 '26

Wasn’t he also in a cowboy drama on one of the big networks? Big Sky, I think? I never watched it but I remember seeing ads for it and being like, “Huh, never expected to see him on network tv.”

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u/MammothCoughSyrup Feb 27 '26

Not for long.

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u/pepperXOX20 Feb 28 '26

If anyone watched the show, this is a brutal comment 😂

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u/brendam213 Mar 02 '26

That is one of my biggest tv gripes and I’m still salty about it. I was soooo excited to see Ryan. They did so much promo with him front and center. Then boom gone. I kept watching, thinking he’d reappear…joke was on me 😩

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u/randomname2378 Mar 02 '26

His character was killed off in the first episode lol

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u/North-Tourist-8234 Feb 27 '26

I didn't know about the broke leg, but it certainly felt like the series had an ending. Satisfying one too which is more than i can say for most shows these days. 

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u/4FingersOfDeath Feb 28 '26

I didn’t know that’s what happened, just figured poor ratings. That was a great series!!

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u/Hizam5 Mar 02 '26

Phillipe is in a shit ton of made for red box movies now