

Ten nobodies battle to become the next Bruce Willis. Spoiler: none of them did.
Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestNext Action Star is an American reality television program shown on NBC from June to July 2004.
Production
NBC actually greenlit this. Someone's job was this.
Acting
Contestants 'acting' at acting. Meta-catastrophe.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during NBC's desperate 2004 summer lineup, the same era as The Restaurant and The Contender. Reality TV was eating scripted alive.
A time capsule of pre-social media fame hunger—contestants wanted movie stardom, not Instagram followers. Archaeologically fascinating.