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When Casting Nailed It... Examples?

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  • #62
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,661 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    OK, if we're doing movies as well....

    - Alan Rickman as Hans in Die Hard. Bruce Willis nailed it as well though

    - Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street

    - Someone already mentioned Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, but Joe Pesci as Tommy (and again as Nicky in Casino)

    - Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile

    - Robert Redford and James Gandolfini in The Last Castle


  • #63
    endacl
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    Jerry Seinfeld.


  • #64
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.


    Michael Dorn as Worf


  • #65
    wezzopalooza
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭wezzopalooza


    JK Simmons as Vern Schillinger in Oz, an absolute monster and someone you definitely wouldn't want to share a prison cell with. His feud with Beecher on the show is one of my favourite tv rivalries.


  • #66
    secondrowgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    Kathy Bates in Misery
    Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (the whole cast is a slam dunk but she absolutely steals every scene)
    Tom Hardy in The Revenant
    Mel Gibson in Mad Max
    Carrie Fisher in Star Wars


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  • #67
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    From Longmire
    Robert Taylor as Walt Longmire
    Lou Diamond Philips as Henry Standing Bear

    From Justified, pretty well everyone cast.

    Joelle Carter as Ava brilliant as well as the previously mentioned Raylan and Boyd.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #68
    jefferson73
    Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭jefferson73


    Ed O'neill - Al Bundy



  • #69
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Wasn’t David Jason a late call up to play Del Boy? Forget who was supposed to get the role but totally inconceivable seeing anybody else in it.

    It was Jim broadbent who turned it down(he played slater in later episodes) and yeah they got it spot on with David Jason as Del Boy.


  • #70
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Also I think Linda Hamilton was perfect for Sarah connors in the terminator films. And while Emilia Clarke didn't do a bad job playing her in the last terminator movie she isn't Linda Hamilton so it wasn't the same.


  • #71
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Sam Hain wrote: »
    Television- Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby in Rising Damp
    Film- Richard Harris as the Bull McCabe In The Field

    I'd agree with both but apparently Leonard rossiter was a bollocks behind the scenes. Richard Harris should have won the oscar for it.


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  • #72
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Who else was in the running?

    Bob odenkirk was one.


  • #73
    divillybit
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭divillybit


    Jon Voight as Mickey Donovan in the series Ray Donovan.. No actor does sleazy like Jon Voight...


    Al Pacino as the cop and Robert de Niro as the robber in Heat was great casting...

    Robert Carlyle as Begbie in Trainspotting..

    Heath ledger as the Joker in Batman


  • #74
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    All casting in Margin Call


  • #75
    Poochie05
    Registered Users Posts: 4,203 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Natalie Portman in Leon


  • #76
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Michael McKean as Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul. Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks are excellent too - one or both have already got a mention on this thread I think. I thought McKean did a terrific job playing such a complex, flawed character.


  • #77
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Tatiana Maslany - Orphan Black (several times over)
    /thread


    But to add another recent one,
    Aiden Gallagher - Umbrella Academy (Number 5)


  • #78
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Jason Alexander as George Costanza.
    Ardal O'Hanlon as Dougal Maguire.


  • #79
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Ron pearlman as hellboy


  • #80
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    Clay Morrow


  • #81
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    John Lithgow -Dick Solomon (3rd rock from the sun), I could watch that on mute and just laugh at the facial expressions.

    Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper.


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  • #82
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Remember The Treaty? An RTE production from 1991.
    To cast Michael Collins required someone who could play inhabit the role with the charming humour of a burly bully.

    Brendan Gleeson was perfectly cast.


  • #83
    Duggie2012
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭Duggie2012


    Tracy Jordan > Tracy Morgan


  • #84
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    HBO seem to be pretty good at casting, in general, to whatever extent they influence that. I think the Wire and Sopranos are two shows which have some of the most quality all round casts.

    Frasier, as a whole, was great too.


  • #85
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    rubadub wrote: »
    John Lithgow -Dick Solomon (3rd rock from the sun), I could watch that on mute and just laugh at the facial expressions.

    He was great in Dexter too.


  • #86
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,954 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    rubadub wrote: »
    John Lithgow -Dick Solomon (3rd rock from the sun), I could watch that on mute and just laugh at the facial expressions.

    Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper.

    The young fellow who plays Sheldon in Young Sheldon, excellent casting
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  • #87
    KevinCavan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭KevinCavan


    Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct


  • #88
    blade1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Clint Eastwood as the man with no name.


  • #89
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Television: Courtney B Vance as Johnnie Cochran in the People Vs OJ Simpson. From watching the live court footage each day as I came in from school in the 90's, I think the performance was spot on by Vance and he deserved the accolades received.

    Film: Robert Downey Junior as Tony Stark/Iron Man (to think Tom Cruise was linked to the role for years, ugh). I read there was a huge risk with giving RDJ the role with his chequered past, but the risk paid off.


  • #90
    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever.

    He had only appeared in 2 films previously (but was famous from tv?). He owned it anyway.


    The two actors who play the sociopath gangster Lil Ze in City of God (as a kid and adult). I think these actors were found from the streets?


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  • #91
    KevinCavan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭KevinCavan


    Daithi O’ Shea as presenter of the Rose of Tralee.


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