Actors Who Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing But Fizzled Out

Edward Furlong

Edward Furlong played John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement, and he won a Saturn and MTV Movie Award for the role. However, despite having such a promising start to his career, he fell victim to alcoholism and substance abuse in his late teens and early twenties.

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