In 2008, The Love Guru hit theaters, and it was a huge misstep. With terrible reviews and abysmal box office receipts, it was the first sign that Myers was no longer a sure-fire hitmaker. Outside of a brief cameo in Inglourious Basterds and 2010's Shrek Forever After, Myers has seemingly vanished from Hollywood. Was it all because of that one terrible movie?
In a 2014 interview with GQ Magazine, Myers talked about his escape to New York, noting that his absence had nothing do with The Love Guru, which he's actually proud of. Instead what happened was he remarried and welcomed two children with his second wife and began working on small passion projects that he was in no rush to complete. However, after reprising his career-making character on SNL, things seem to be heating back up. He appeared as Tommy Maitland, host of The Gong Show in 2017, and he's even expressed an interest in appearing in Austin Powers 4 zimpler Ireland. "Yeah baby!" Before that, though, he'll be returning to the big screen to star in the upcoming noir thriller Terminal. Gene Hackman Thanks to a career stretching all the way back to the '60s, Gene Hackman has starred in at least 79 movies, including Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection, Hoosiers, Unforgiven, Crimson Tide, and a slew of others that have stood the test of time. Plus, who can forget Hackman's iconic role as Lex Luthor matching wits with Christopher Reeve's Superman. In 2001, Hackman gave one of his most beloved performances of all time in The Royal Tenenbaums, so it came as a complete surprise when Hackman starred in the 2004 lackluster comedy Welcome to Mooseport and chose that to be his final film. While Hackman never officially announced his retirement, he confirmed he was done with acting in a 2008 interview with Reuters. However, this fan favorite is not finished with the creative world yet, as the former actor is doing a formidable job trying to "hack" it as a writer -- no pun intended. Rick Moranis After making a name for himself on SCTV, Canada's answer to Saturday Night Live, Rick Moranis became a staple of '80s comedy classics, starting with a small little movie called Ghostbusters. After that, Moranis had starring roles in Little Shop of Horrors, Spaceballs!, and the Disney franchise Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Moranis also continued to steadily work in the '90s, which included landing the plum role of Barney Rubble in the 1994 live-action remake of The Flintstones. And it seemed like this guy was going to be a Hollywood mainstay for years to come … until he was gone. By 2015, Moranis had virtually vanished from Hollywood for nearly 18 years, but when word got out that he wouldn't reprise his role as Lewis Tully in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, he granted a rare interview to The Hollywood Reporter to explain where he'd been. As it turns out, in 1997, Moranis' wife, Anne, died of breast cancer. While he originally planned to take a small break, Moranis ultimately devoted himself to raising his two young children, and the actor couldn't be happier be with the decision. He explained: "I was working with really interesting people, wonderful people. I went from that to being at home with a couple of little kids, which is a very different lifestyle. But it was important to me. I have absolutely no regrets whatsoever. My life is wonderful." Apart from a couple of voice-over roles in kids movies along the way, Moranis' hiatus appears to be permanent. Bridget Fonda Thanks to her famous dad, Bridget Fonda made her first acting appearance at age 5 in the 1969 classic Easy Rider, but it would be a few decades until the actress became a Hollywood fixture. In the early '90s, she made a big splash in Single White Female, but despite working steadily in notable '90s flicks such as Point of No Return, Singles, and Jackie Brown, Fonda's career didn't fare so well in the 2000s. For starters, Fonda had made a name for herself as a film actress, so when the lead role for a television series came her way, she turned it down. That show ended up being the smash hit Ally McBeal, which rocketed Calista Flockhart to fame. Fonda starred in the 2001 box-office bomb Monkeybone, and a year later, she quit acting altogether after starring in the forgettable Hallmark channel movie Snow Queen. But Fonda had a good reason to walk away from Hollywood after a solid body of work. She started a family with husband and famous film composer Danny Elfman, and she hasn't looked back. Sean Connery While Sean Connery rose to fame during the '60s as the first James Bond, the prolific Scottish actor continued to be a formidable box office presence through much of the '80s and '90s thanks to roles in Highlander, The Untouchables, The Hunt for Red October, and The Rock. Being Indiana Jones' dad probably didn't hurt his continued fame, either. By the early 2000s, Connery was still white-hot after the success of Entrapment, but behind-the-scenes, a series of mistakes would lead him to walk away from Hollywood. While it's known that Connery retired after filming the disastrous The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it wasn't revealed until years later why he starred in a movie he hated so much that he literally got into a fist-fight with the director. According to Entertainment Weekly, Connery had turned down roles in both Lord of the Rings and The Matrix – both of which came with sweet back-end deals that would have made him a fortune. When League came around, Connery thought he had this one figured out, saying: "I got offered The Lord of the Rings, and I turned it down because I didn't understand it. I was offered The Matrix — twice — and I turned it down because I didn't understand it. I don't understand this movie, but I'll be damned if I'm going to turn it down." Obviously, that didn't go as planned, but hey, at least Connery doesn't have to make these kinds of decisions in retirement. Thanks for watching! Click the Nicki Swift icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. 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