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December 28, 2024

A great performance can make you believe lots of illogical things: Samuel L. Jackson is afraid of anybody, Sandra Bullock isn’t an incredibly desirable woman and perfectly nice guys are cold-blooded jerk-asses. In fact, if an actor is really convincing, you might hold a lifelong grudge against them based solely on things they only pretended to do.

“For me, Matt Damon in The Departed was so absolutely hateable that even when I see him in things like The Martian, for example, I’m still like, ‘Oh, absolutely not. Just leave him there,’” user TheToughestHang told r/AskReddit. They then asked, “What actor or actress was so perfectly ‘hateable’ in a role that you actually can’t stand them in other films now?”

The hate that followed from their fellow Redditors really was quite something to behold.