Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Liv Tyler in The Strangers

Regardless of its mixed reviews, The Strangers made a box office profit nearly nine times over its $9 million budget. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman play a couple on whose romantic getaway goes awry after three masked strangers decide to wreak havoc on their lives. Tyler and Speedman's performances was lauded by Variety for "credibly registering every hue of panic," but accoridng to Tyler, that panic was all too real.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.