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Worst miscasting role

  • 19-06-2019 4:16pm
    #1
    redmgar
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    Any suggestions for the worst miscasting for a role?
    Wether it be for insufficient acting skills or wrong look.

    I offer you Ashton Kutcher in Jobs as Steve Jobs.


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  • #2
    antix80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Brie Larson as Captain Marvel


  • #3
    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭El Duda


    If you think Brie Larson being cast as Captain Marvel is worthy of being in a thread like this, you need to watch more films.


    Charlie Hunnam & Elijah Wood in Green Street - Hilariously awful accent from Hunnam. The hobbit becoming a hooligan?! A truly awful film.

    Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry - Again, the accent :eek:




    John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror

    Jason Clarke as John Connor in Genisysys

    Denise Richards in Bond as a Scientist

    Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York

    Vince Vaughan in Brawl on Cell Block and Pyscho

    Hayden Christensen :confused:


  • #4
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Stuart Townshend was originally cast as Aragorn in LOTR. Was in NZ training with all the cast and Pulled from the role 2/3 weeks before filming began and replaced with Viggo Mortensen(who had never read the books at that point)
    The right call.
    We dodged a serious bullet there.


  • #5
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins


  • #6
    banie01
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    Idris Elba as Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower.


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  • #7
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Depp in Willy Wonka


  • #8
    soap1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭soap1978


    The lad that play Harry potter


  • #9
    .......
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    banie01 wrote: »
    Idris Elba as Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower.

    This, a thousand times this.


  • #10
    Peatys
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    Any American to ever play an Irish person.


  • #11
    xabi
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    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.


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  • #12
    vriesmays
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    Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.


  • #13
    branie2
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    I thought he did a good job in the role, but then I saw the first film before I started reading the books


  • #14
    Chicken George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Chicken George


    Will Smith as the Genie in Aladdan.


  • #15
    RoboRat
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    xabi wrote: »
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

    This, if you read the books, he is about 6'5" and a beast. Only reason Cruise got the role is he bought the film rights a long time ago.


  • #16
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    xabi wrote: »
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.
    I'm a fan of the books and I don't mind him as the movie "Jack Reacher". He works as the character in the movie and was never unbelievable. He was less believable as a "young man", as he gets called by Russell Crowe, in The Mummy.


  • #17
    tgdaly
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    xabi wrote: »
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

    Tom Cruise in any film ever


  • #18
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Adrian Brody in Predators


  • #19
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭micar


    Ellen Page in inception.


  • #20
    JohnnyB23
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭JohnnyB23


    xabi wrote:
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

    Completely agree. If I remember correctly he was 6ft 3in and blonde in the books.


  • #21
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia . She was far too old for the role and not a note in her head


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  • #22
    johnnybmac
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    Taron Egerton - Robin Hood
    Charlie Hunnam - King Arthur
    But, the latest crime against casting is again, Charlie Hunnam in Papillion (also as a biker in Sons Of Anarchy, but we're talking about movies)


  • #23
    FortuneChip
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    Chris Hemsworth as a hacker in Blackhat.

    Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins.


    Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton as Moses and Rameses.


  • #24
    Hoboo
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    RoboRat wrote: »
    This, if you read the books, he is about 6'5" and a beast. Only reason Cruise got the role is he bought the film rights a long time ago.

    He's 6'3".......in his heels.


  • #25
    Jamemid
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Jamemid


    Val kilmer, George Clooney and Ben Affleck as batman.


  • #26
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    redmgar wrote: »
    Any suggestions for the worst miscasting for a role?
    Wether it be for insufficient acting skills or wrong look.

    I offer you Ashton Kutcher in Jobs as Steve Jobs.

    I've never seen the film but I thought looks wise Kutcher was very close to Jobs

    1C5077578-tdy-121205-ashton-jobs-combo.fit-560w.jpg

    As for Cruise being Reacher as someone who never read the books he was believable in what Reacher was meant to be, bar the physical aspects.


  • #27
    evilcloud
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭evilcloud


    Anne Hathaway as catwoman in the Dark Knight Rises.

    Just really not suited to that type of role


  • #28
    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭El Duda


    I thought Hathaway was fine in TDKR

    Nolan is the king of terrible casting on paper, turning out to be fine. Ledger. Styles. Hathaway.


  • #29
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Tom Hiddleston as a Rhodesian Mercenary in Kong:Skull Island.


  • #30
    Ave Sodalis
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    johnnybmac wrote:
    Taron Egerton - Robin Hood

    I thought he did as well as anyone could, considering the terrible directing they had to deal with.
    Eve Hewson as Marian though...


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  • #31
    SnakePlissken
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    Peatys wrote: »
    Any American to ever play an Irish person.

    Tom Hanks as a violent Dub in Cloud Atlas was fantastic.


  • #32
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Maggie Gylenhaal in The Dark Knight.


  • #33
    evilcloud
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭evilcloud


    El Duda wrote: »
    I thought Hathaway was fine in TDKR

    Nolan is the king of terrible casting on paper, turning out to be fine. Ledger. Styles. Hathaway.

    Yea i know she was generally considered fine in the role. It's more a personal thing for me.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
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    Peatys wrote: »
    Any American to ever play an Irish person.

    Anjelica Huston?


  • #35
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    I love Green Street! Hunnam's accent is woeful, but love the film, and I generally hate frodo, but in that one he's decent.


  • #36
    Dades
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    One recent one I remember being so angry about was Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman.

    The movie I thought was miserable, but he was just awful.


    As mentioned already, Hayden Christensen in the SW prequels and Katy Homes in Batman are next top of my list. *Shudder*.


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  • #37
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    I have so many vague memories of moaning to my GF about pants casting. And now I can't remember any of the specifics :(


  • #38
    .......
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Adrian Brody in Predators

    That was a weird one.

    And he sort of became, not bulked up, but leaned and ripped for it. He actually looked like someone who had a believable gym physique (as opposed to a Wolverine type physique). But Adrien Brody, in Predators? Just.....why?

    Also badly cast in that film was Topher Grace (yer man out of That 70s Show).


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    ....... wrote: »
    That was a weird one.

    And he sort of became, not bulked up, but leaned and ripped for it. He actually looked like someone who had a believable gym physique (as opposed to a Wolverine type physique). But Adrien Brody, in Predators? Just.....why?

    Also badly cast in that film was Topher Grace (yer man out of That 70s Show).

    On that
    Topher Grace as Venom!

    Sweet jaysus but that guy was no Eddie Brock


  • #40
    venomousfrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭venomousfrog


    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal, playing the part of Martin Cahill aka the General, what were they thinking....


  • #41
    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭El Duda


    Alistair McGowan was rubbish in Predators, agreed.

    Piers Morgan in Hereditary

    Steve Bruce in Home Alone 2


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  • #42
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    El Duda wrote:
    Vince Vaughan in Brawl on Cell Block and Pyscho

    I thought he was great in both.


  • #43
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    anything involving Hulk Hogan.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    B_ecke_r wrote: »
    anything involving Hulk Hogan.

    You apologise to Suburban Commando, right now

    Seriously though there is a difference between bad actors (or bad films) and good actors playing the wrong role.
    Hogan was not miscast in most things that he was in, just that he was terrible in them (excepting Gremins 2, his cameo was perfect in that)


  • #45
    Small Wonder
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    El Duda wrote: »
    I thought Hathaway was fine in TDKR

    Nolan is the king of terrible casting on paper, turning out to be fine. Ledger. Styles. Hathaway.

    He also said that he had Matthew McConaughey in mind for Intersteller long before the 'McConaissance'. He was actually quite humorous about it, saying that he accidentally ended up looking like the "smartest guy in the room".


  • #46
    Small Wonder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Small Wonder


    El Duda wrote: »
    Alistair McGowan was rubbish in Predators, agreed.

    Piers Morgan in Hereditary

    Steve Bruce in Home Alone 2

    Brilliant. :pac::pac:


  • #47
    yermanoffthetv
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    I thought casting Tom Hardy was a mistake for the role of Mad Max. Eric Bana would have been a better fit imo (or even Mels son Milo, seeing as it was mostly a silent role).


  • #48
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    yermanoffthetv wrote: »
    I thought casting Tom Hardy was a mistake for the role of Mad Max. Eric Bana would have been a better fit imo (or even Mels son Milo, seeing as it was mostly a silent role).

    I like Bana but just because it was not a speaking role didn't mean it needed a certain type of actor.
    Hardy was able to play right along with the mayhem and even his grunting/movements worked in what was being smashed at the screen


  • #49
    Small Wonder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Small Wonder


    I think we all have varying opinions about what miscast means. For me miscast doesn't mean a dodgy accent, a poor performance or simply a bad actor being given the role. There has to be something more, some intangible factor that means that the actor in question was never the right choice, even if he or she nailed the accent and turned in a good performance.

    Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys is one that comes to mind. Too prim and proper and carrying too much outside baggage from her association with another huge franchise. Take a look at Linda Hamilton's portrayal of the character in T2 (which I did on Saturday at the IFI, in glorious 70mm no less). She's a nasty curled-up-fist lashing out at everything that isn't her son. She isn't sexy and she's not written or positioned within the frame to appear sexy. She's Sarah Connor and she'll put a bullet in your head (except, she wont ;))

    Clarke is just about okay as a detached regent lording it over Westeros, but she doesn't have enough dirt under her fingernails to play a role like Sarah Connor.


  • #50
    Hangdogroad
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    Kevin Spacey as a Dublin gangster loosely based on Martin Cahill in Ordinary Decent Criminal.


  • #51
    .......
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    Small Wonder wrote: »
    She isn't sexy and she's not written or positioned within the frame to appear sexy.

    I beg to differ!


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