5 actors you didn’t know were on the verge of music careers

Actor slash singer. That sigh-worthy double career has a way of bolstering a star’s profile or bludgeoning it to near-death. Unlike film, there are no take-backs in music. For every actress-first-singer-second like Jennifer Lopez there’s a dozen Jennifer Love Hewitt’s out there who’s names are but a tiny groan in pop history. Lopez was able to magically make us all forget about Gigi and land herself an endless array of Rom Coms after that cinematic calamity. In contrast, Hewitt unleashed four no-hit albums and got dropped from her label after the record company deduced that a return on investment was nowhere to be found.

Although the stakes are so high in the music game—what fool wants to take on Taylor Swift? —a brave new crop of movie men and women are still trying to climb the Billboard charts. Some Hollywood names seem totally legit in their pursuit while others… not so much. Here, we evaluate 5 actors looking to get into the music game for reals.

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