Is Hilary Duff a disgraced actor?

Answer 1

Hilary Duff is a product of the new media age. Only and precisely because of an already established fanbase on the Disney Channel, did any powers that be allow her to go forward in order to milk every drop of revenue they could from that Disney public awareness.

She is a marginally cute, nice girl, with very little talent. Her foray into music to cash into her Disney Channel base was planned as such. She cannot sing, she is a stiff and unnatural performer onstage. They place her with the songwriters of the moment and Pro-Tools her remarkably dull voice and performance into something that 10 years olds can pallet. Her 15minutes are nearly up. Acting.....get real! There are kids coming out of RADA USC, NYU, Drama that could eat her alive. All she has is the Disney factor and its running out. Of course she has made enough to never work again, and that's probably what will happen...marraige babies...

Producers have a name for her and her type......Disney Channel Widget (almost wholly replaceable with the next one) ie Ashley Tisdale (who you could plug into anything I've written here.)

What's really perplexing is why C to D-listers like Duff, The Olsens, Nicole Ritchie etc. are followed around by the tabloid press, to be sold to rags that are bought by housewives that don't work.

Pretty nuts!