Josh Duhamel gets undersold as an actor because he’s spent two decades being reliably good without ever picking a single lane. He started as a soap villain, became a network procedural lead, got handed the thankless job of the human anchor in a giant robot movie, worked his way through three separate Nicholas Sparks-adjacent tearjerkers, then turned around and played one of the more disturbing villains Stephen King has ever put on screen. That’s not a typical career trajectory, and it’s why fans keep coming back to his filmography instead of writing him off as a rom-com guy who got lucky with Transformers.

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