“This is pretty much the worst video ever made” is what a large number of audiences said after seeing Napoleon Dynamite in theaters, but the line wasn’t an accurate summation of the film it’s from. Jon Heder, the actor behind the film’s title character, was poised for comedic supremacy in the mid-2000s, embodying the awkward outsider character perfectly. So why is he a seeming outsider in Hollywood these days?
In 2012 I was sitting in a British Literature class during my senior year of high school when my teacher asked if I had heard about the new Evil Dead remake coming out.
We had spoken about the movies before, I was a massive fan of Army of Darkness and had written an essay on it earlier that year. I responded as almost any fan of the series did at the time- “Why would they need a remake?”
Getting a start in Hollywood can be a tough job for many prominent actors. Many actors have had to pay their dues in less than exciting roles across budget and genre films to build up their resumes, and even superstar Leonardo DiCaprio is one of them.
In fact, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film is so infamous that it has a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered one of the worst direct-to-video films of all time.
Philip Haldiman is an actor and journalist famous for playing the role of Denny in the 2003 cult classic The Room. While he has turned his attention largely away from acting in recent years, Haldiman still has a number of film and television credits to his name.
Let’s take a dive into the life of Philip Haldiman and see what he has been doing in the past twenty years.