Daytime Actors Who Use To Be So Good, But Then Started Phoning It In.

[Matt]

No mention of Drake Hogestyn yet? For shame.

[dragonflies]

DEAD

[Khan]

He has to get good first.

I wouldn't accuse Robin Strasser of phoning in even her hotline. Does she exaggerate (i.e., chew scenery) in order to overcome subpar material? Definitely. She's someone who is always in need of a good director who knows how to reel her in. But phoning it in? I'd have to respectfully disagree there.

[cassadine1991]

I think it also was the writers didn't know what to do with Greenlee or had a grasp on the character when Budig returned

[cuzIsaySo]

Did he ever try to act to begin with? He isnt on my list for the Who used to be good but now phones it in list for the same reason Ronn Moss isn't. Because they NEVER were good to begin with.

[soapfan770]

Michelle Stafford and Beth Ehlers both own this thread.

[Cheap21]

I love her but Kelly Monaco

[koos]

I thought Alison Sweeney was better as a teen.

[marceline]

I gotta do the same...

Michael Easton.

[reallyhateskateonlost]

GH: Kimberly McCullough

[All My Shadows]

Van Hansis.

[SFK]

With her incredible talent and delicious voice, she could get away with delivering her lines with just the required amount of energy, but towards the end of her GL run, Beverlee McKinsey seemed exhausted. And she was, we'd find out.

[Titus Andronicus]

Beat me to it.

However, Hogestyn wasn't bad in some stuff I've seen from 1987-88 and I like a lot of his work with Genie Francis. I'll give him credit for the start of RoboJohn, too. He dumped all of his familiar catchphrases and twitching and the smarmy character actually worked ... until they let him start warming up to Marlena again and the Paul Hollingsworth storyline.

After Wayne Northrop's depature, Hogestyn and Dee Hall brought out some of the worst in each other.

[Sindacco]

Drake was good in his own special way up until 2004-2005. After that he has been awful most of the times.

I agree with those who said Deidre Hall and James Scott. I would also add John Aniston.

[cuzIsaySo]

For some reasons I dont thinki Jon Aniston is phoniing it in but playing the character the way he thinks he is supposed to play it.

He doesnt have much range tbh but there is a little something that makes his noticeably limited portrayal kind of endearing somehow.

Dont ask me to explain it better than this because I really cant but he wouldnt be the first one i would single out on DAYS as a "phoner"