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Why Hollywood won't cast Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (19416)
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https://www.looper.com/213916/why-hollywood-wont-cast-bridgette-wilson-sampras/

If you were the moviegoing type in the mid-'90s, it was easy to assume that Bridgette Wilson-Sampras was going to be a major movie star. The former pageant queen starred in a range of hit movies during this period, from the original Mortal Kombat to Adam Sandler smashes like Billy Madison. Whether you went looking for satirical bombast in The Last Action Hero or schlocky horror in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wilson was impossible to miss.

The hot streak wouldn't last, however. Bridgette Wilson-Sampras hasn't been seen in a movie since 2008's B-list boxing biopic Phantom Punch, an exit that would be impossible to predict for someone taking in House on Haunted Hill from a movie theater's upholstered seat in 1999. The question, of course, is why.

Where did Bridgette Wilson-Sampras go and why haven't we seen her onscreen in over a decade? The answer is actually rather simple. But before we get to that, it helps to know just how much of a sensation Wilson-Sampras was.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 4 years ago

Oh a long thing

[–] Cheepshooter (672) 4 years ago

What's the tl:dr version?

[–] TMC-4 (19416) 3 years ago

https://www.looper.com/411625/what-the-cast-of-the-wedding-planner-is-doing-now/

In "The Wedding Planner," Bridgette Wilson-Sampras plays Fran, the woman that the leading man Steve is supposed to marry. For the part, Wilson-Sampras brings depth and likeability to the role of the woman in the way of the main couple. After "The Wedding Planner," Wilson-Sampras continued playing minor roles in various films and TV episodes, such as the 2005 film "Shop Girl" and a 2002 episode of "Frasier."

After a few more years of acting, however, Wilson-Sampras stepped back from acting roles, and she hasn't appeared in anything since 2008. Her last film role was in "Phantom Punch," the biopic about professional boxer Sonny Liston, and her last TV role was on the short-lived ABC sitcom "Carpoolers" in a guest role.

The only recent project of Wilson-Sampras' listed on IMDB is a voice role for the video game, "Mortal Kombat." she voices Sonya Blade, the same role she played in the 1995 live-action film of the same name. Wilson-Sampras also doesn't appear to have any social media and seems to live quite the private life, so it's unclear what she has been up to since her acting days.