He has been in 28 films which have earned an average $96 million per film, placing him #16 among the all-time highest earning stars.
By some measures his films may be not good, but not by the industry’s measure.
I’m guessing if he wants to go the “develop my serious actor cred” route, he has the clout to push for it. He could always do the Soderberg / Clooney package of doing a big box office movie to finance his own pet project…
