Hollywood is a tough racket, and there are many good reasons why 99% of actors spend their entire careers struggling to get their big break. Those precious few manage to smash the glass ceiling and enjoy busy, successful careers, but even then, when does it become too much for audiences to bear?

These 10 actors have ultimately ended up over-saturating audiences with their rate of output, and by starring in a streak of over-familiar studio movies – many of them terrible, it has to be said – even their ardent fans might be starting to lose interest.

While not all actors can boast the mind-boggling versatility of, say, Gary Oldman, it’s nevertheless infuriating to see talented performers take a lazy career route and just hope that audiences will continue to show up.

Though most of these actors could certainly enjoy a Matthew McConaughey-style resurgence in the coming years, they first need to break their repetitive work-cycles, take a little time off and give audiences the opportunity to actually miss them…[/nextpage][nextpage]

10. Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy is unquestionably a talented comedic actress, but like many successful comedy performers, she too often dines out on the same, tired shtick, and it’s been immensely dull for years now.

Almost every studio comedy she puts out these days – Tammy, The Boss, Ghostbusters, Life of the Party and The Happytime Murders – sees her playing a boorish, overbearing character whose obnoxiousness is supposed to be funny.

Except, audiences got tired of it long ago, and the best thing McCarthy could do for herself and everyone else is just take a break, especially from these sorts of low-effort comedies (often directed by her husband, Ben Falcone).

To be completely fair, McCarthy’s new drama movie, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, is earning her the best reviews of her career, but considering she’s already hard at work on a new spy comedy directed by her hubby, this is likely to be an outlier rather than an indication of a new career trajectory.[/nextpage][nextpage]

9. Mark Wahlberg

It’s comical at this point how often Mark Wahlberg is cast in the everyman protagonist role despite, well, clearly not being an everyman-type actor at all. And if he’s not playing the Average Joe, he’s usually a cop or a soldier, and it’s just dreadfully boring by this point.

Though Marky Mark has a string of critical successes to his name, in recent years he’s delved into full-on cynical actor mode, appearing in naff comedy sequels like Ted 2 and Daddy’s Home 2, a couple of Transformers movies, and his recent action dud Mile 22.

He’s not a bad actor by any means, but over-saturation is definitely an issue here. When you see Wahlberg in the trailer for a movie, you generally know exactly what kind of performance and what kind of movie you’re gonna get.

Wahlberg’s already busy prepping his next film with frequent collaborator Peter Berg, the Netflix thriller Wonderland, so don’t expect a change of the status quo anytime soon.[/nextpage][nextpage]

8. Bruce Willis

Oh, Bruce Willis. Though he’s carved out a place for himself in Hollywood legend thanks to his iconic roles in the Die Hard franchise and The Sixth Sense in particular, he hasn’t appeared in a critically-acclaimed feature since 2012’s Looper (Split doesn’t count).

And Brucey sure hasn’t been slouching either: he’s been in almost 20 movies since Looper, yet more than half of them have been widely-panned straight-to-video thrillers you’d expect someone like Steven Seagal to star in.

It seems evident he’s lost his love for the craft and is just chasing the money now. He looked visibly pained to be working in Eli Roth’s new Death Wish reboot, which is so depressing for his fans it’s probably better if Bruce just quits the game, retires to a beach somewhere and enjoys his spoils.

Willis could finally awaken from his stupor for M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming Unbreakable/Split sequel Glass, but it’s equally possible he could just sleepwalk his way through that as well. Wait and see.[/nextpage][nextpage]

7. Kate McKinnon

Kate McKinnon is absolutely hysterical on Saturday Night Live, but her cinematic output had sadly been decidedly less consistent (and much more annoying).

She is, in fairness, a relative newcomer to movies, making her mark with her scene-stealing appearance in Ghostbusters, but ever since she’s basically just rehashed the same self-consciously quirky, over-affected shtick.

She was especially irritating in last year’s animated romp Ferdinand – where she played a motormouth goat – and this past summer’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. Considering that both under-performed at the box office, it seems that general audiences aren’t much fussed by her.

McKinnon obviously has talent, but it’d be nice to see her funnel it into different strains of comedy (and maybe even drama), rather than the same warmed-over weirdo act every damn time. If not, she risks leaving herself over-exposed.

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