andthestarsappear said: Example of a someone being called ‘great actor’ cause of one role? I’m not being sarcastic or anything, btw.

• that moriarty guy from sherlock who is a major overactor if i ever saw one
• armie hammer
• james franco
• aaron paul (i love him BUTTTTT jesse pinkman is like his only role so far and it’s pretty hard to imagine him as anything else)
• basically every tumblr boyfriend from every flavor of the month tv show
  

at least that’s what i gather by tumblr and ontd standards. actresses just have to prove themselves a lot more and not have missteps in order to be considered great in general by the interwebs (read: be meryl streep or cate blanchett).