Why Hollywood Won't Cast Jennifer Love Hewitt Anymore

#1 Women hate her

It's a truth universally acknowledged that most women hate Jennifer Love Hewitt. It's really not about HER. At least, not her as a person. It's not because she's hot. It's not women at large who have a problem with her. To ladies in their late 20s/early 30s, J. Love represents a darker time.

Late 20s to early 30s is an important demographic for Hollywood producers, and taking a risk on an actress who is decidedly unpopular with this age group isn't worth the gamble when the actress in question seems to rile the ladies on a regular basis. Hewitt is regularly slammed in the celebrity gossip columns, though she has also been accused of being a hypocrite.

In 2008 Hewitt responded to some unflattering paparazzi photos that showed she had gained some weight by making a statement on body image: "To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini. Put it on and stay strong." It was a sentiment echoed by her female followersthough those same fans were shocked when Hewitt then lost 18 pounds in ten weeks and showed off her new body in a controversial magazine shoot.

#2 The critics hate her, too

Jennifer Love Hewitt, is the worst reviewed actress since 1985, according to a Slate.com analysis of RottenTomatoes.com scores.

So what did she do to deserve this dishonor? The sex symbol starred in the critically panned "Garfield" movies, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer."

While some of these movies were hits commercially speaking, she has never starred in a movie that was deemed "fresh" (scoring above 60 percent) on Rotten Tomatoes, and she has an average of 18.9 percent for all her movies. Sixteen of her feature films have Tomatometer scores, and every single one has been deemed Rotten.

Her latest effort to swap the small screen for the big one came courtesy of 2013's Jewtopia, a romantic comedy that scored a measly 10 percent and was described as a film that "manages to be offensive to almost everyone, including people who like to laugh at something because it's funny." This isn't her lowest-scoring film, either, with slasher sequel I Still know What You Did Last Summer holding a terrible seven percent approval rating and The Suburbans and Truth About Love both sitting on embarrassing critical goose eggs.

#3 She isn't profitable

Hewitt's most successful film in terms of box office return remains the one that shot her to stardom to back in 1997. I Know What You Did Last Summer was put together for an estimated budget of $17 million and returned a massive $72 million from the domestic market alone, with a further $53 million banked overseas. Hoping to see the same margins of profit with the sequel, producers allocated a budget of $65 million, though the writing was on the wall after the first weekend's receipts amounted to less than $17 million. The film only took $40 million domestically, the first of Hewitt's many high-profile box-office blunders.

Other bombs include action comedy The Tuxedo, which cost $60 million but only brought in $50 million domestically, and the animated Delgo, which, at the time of release, was officially the worst box office opener in history. The ill-fated fantasy adventure opened in 2,160 theaters and grossed just $511,920, a shocking per-venue average of just $237.

#4 She has a reputation for being difficult

People love to talk in Hollywood. A bad reputation will follow you around like a bad smell on the streets of Tinseltown, and getting into a drawn-out spat with producers is a sure fire way to earn one. Hewitt's Lifetime drama series The Client List was due to be renewed for a third season in 2013, though the network put it on hold when the actress got pregnant. Her pregnancy wasn't the issue, however (her character in the show was actually having a baby too), it was how she wanted to incorporate it into the show that put her at odds with Client List producers.

The actress reportedly wanted her co-star Brian Hallisay (her partner in real life and the father of her real child) to play the father of her baby on the show. The producers had other plans for the story, which put them at an impasse with Hewitt, who apparently wouldn't budge over her request. The show was axed on November 1, 2013, with the former star's first child being born later that same month.

Hewitt openly admits that her many quirks don't make it easy for producers, especially if their office happens to be on a high floor: "The trouble is that many of the Hollywood meetings I have to attend take place at the top of tall buildings, and I simply cannot set foot in [an elevator] if there are too many people in it."

#5 She can't handle criticism

Developing a thick skin has always been critical to success for actors and actresses. No director wants to work with someone who can't handle some criticism (constructive or otherwise), and this is another reason that Hewitt isn't inundated with offers anymore. For example, she made a huge deal of quitting Twitter over the sheer "negativity" that users were sending her way, writing, "Unfortunately with all the negativity people choose to send on Twitter as well as threats to their own well-being I'm sad to say Twitter is no longer for me. Life should be filled with positivity and holding each other up, not making threats and sending bad vibes, to those of you who made it a joy thank you from the bottom of my heart."

All Hewitt did by making a show of leaving Twitter was highlight how unpopular she was with a number of users on the social media servicenot something she should be advertising if she ever wishes to return to the big time. Her grand exit was all in vain anyway, as later returned to tweet as much as ever.

#6 She's been considered for a Razzie award, twice

As one might expect, Hewitt's stardom has been accompanied with some criticism, both of her acting and her looks. Citing her performances in The Tuxedo and Garfield (2004), she was discussed as a possible Worst Actress nominee for the Razzie Awards, an annual ceremony dedicated to "saluting the worst that Hollywood has to offer."

In the end, the awards in question went to Britney Spears and Madonna (joint Worst Actress winners in 2003 for Crossroads and Swept Away), and Halle Berry (who won in 2005 for the much-maligned Catwoman and became the first actress to actually collect her award in person).

#7 What's next for JLH?

Hewitt has been absent from our screens since her character was written off Criminal Minds after just a single season (much to the delight of fans who petitioned CBS to give her the boot), though this coincided with her giving birth to her second child. She doesn't seem to have any acting projects in the works at the moment, but that's bound to change sooner than laterand in the meantime, she's likely penning the follow-up to her New York Times bestselling dating advice book The Day I Shot Cupid, which has been in the works for a number of years.

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