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Worst miscasting role

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  • 19-06-2019 4:16pm
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    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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    antix80
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    Brie Larson as Captain Marvel


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    #3
    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭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:


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    Stop moaning ffs
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    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.


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    branie2
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    Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins


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    banie01
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    Idris Elba as Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower.


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


    Depp in Willy Wonka


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    soap1978
    Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭soap1978


    The lad that play Harry potter


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

    This, a thousand times this.


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    Peatys
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    Any American to ever play an Irish person.


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    xabi
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    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.


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    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.


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    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


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    Chicken George
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    Will Smith as the Genie in Aladdan.


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    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.


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    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭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.


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    tgdaly
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    xabi wrote: »
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

    Tom Cruise in any film ever


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    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Adrian Brody in Predators


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    micar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭micar


    Ellen Page in inception.


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    JohnnyB23
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    xabi wrote:
    Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

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


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


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    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)


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    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Chris Hemsworth as a hacker in Blackhat.

    Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins.


    Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton as Moses and Rameses.


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    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    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.


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    Jamemid
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Jamemid


    Val kilmer, George Clooney and Ben Affleck as batman.


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    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,141 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.


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    evilcloud
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭evilcloud


    Anne Hathaway as catwoman in the Dark Knight Rises.

    Just really not suited to that type of role


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    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭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.


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


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    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,547 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    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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    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.


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