Without repeating what others have said about Liv Tyler and why here career didn’t go further or stalled, the thing that I’ve noticed right away is that outside of Armageddon, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Incredible Hulk, Liv hasn’t been in a lot of movies that have been widely released or were remote hits at the box office. I wonder if Liv actively looks for roles that doesn’t obviously trade on her good looks. Either way, a large part of Liv’s problem perhaps, is that she never really did enough to capitalize off of her appearances in said blockbusters. The end result is a modest career w/o enough traction so to speak. I think if Liv wanted to be a “superstar”, then the right time so to speak, would’ve been after she appeared in Armageddon.
I think another problem w/ Liv is that she perhaps never really had an actual “breakthrough” starring role that could prove that she could carry a movie or be a bankable leading lady. In other words, she unlike her Aerosmith music video co-star, Alicia Silverstone, never had her own Clueless for example (if that makes sense). I don’t know if it’s just lack of ambition or Liv not being a strong or charismatic enough of an actress to be able to do that. Liv has for the most part, been a “star by association”, in that she never really was singled out for praise for her more high profile movies. Thus, it isn’t like Liv at the end of the day, “gained much” on her own for being in Lord of the Rings.
Liv also may have been a victim of bad luck or timing. For example, she did Empire Records, which wasn’t a hit at first (the was horribly marketed and promoted if I’m not mistaken), but has since become a cult hit. She did Jersey Girl during a time in Ben Affleck’s career in which he was becoming “box office poison” due to the whole thing w/ him and Jennifer Lopez. She did Reign Over Me during a time in which it was perhaps “too soon” to want to embrace or care about movies (a rare “dramatic movie” from Adam Sandler no less) concerning 9/11. And she took part in what became a “stillborn” franchise (and the “black sheep” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) in The Incredible Hulk.
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