Stage Fright: Celebrating the worst performances by musicians in recent films

Jack White, Walk Hard

We’re going to go on record here and say that Walk Hard is one of the most underrated and underseen movies of the last 20 years, and if you haven’t seen it, please rush to your preferred digital marketplace and rent that motherfucker. You won’t regret it in the slightest. However, it has one pretty big misstep in it, and that’s the cameo from noted Von Bondies-assaulter White, who’s playing Elvis. Yes, you read that right. In what might be the most egregious rock star satiation of the modern era, Jack White plays the king himself, and he’s just terrible. With the same kind of nonsensical out-of-era bullshit karate jokes and a god-awful impression of Presley, White’s earned his place on this list, especially with the implications involved here. The fact that he was given more than a minute of screen-time is mind-boggling. But still, watch Walk Hard.