Performances that have ruined films/tv shows

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I'm watching Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version not the Keira Knightley version). P&P is my favourite book and I've watched the show loads but I almost have to fast forward the bits with Alison Steadman (Mrs Bennet). Yes, she's meant to be a bit ridiculous and dramatic but she plays her like an overly- shrill screeching pantomime dame. Ruins the show. Brenda Blethyn did a much better job.

Stephen Tompkinson as Det Alan Banks. I can’t watch him RUIN the character. I love Peter Robinson’s books and was really excited they’d been adapted for tv. He’s appalling.

Natalie Portman in Star Wars - to say she is stilted would be generous.

Ewan McGregor - also in Star Wars for his accent, but in Big Fish too, that whole film was just shite because of his plywood performance.

Nick Cage as Capt Correlli. Loved the book, the film was a travesty.

Daphne 's brothers in Frasier. Perhaps my favourite comedy of all time rendered unwatchable every time Anthony La Paglia and crew set foot on screen. The accents can only be outdone by the awful Stephen Graham in White House Farm's Welsh one. I'm dreading what he might consider an American accent might sound like in the Irishman. For me a man who can only act in Scouse

Julia Ormond in Gold Digger, so dull and wooden.

Agree about the mother in The Split.

I looked forward to seeing ‘Australia’ envisaging a huge sweeping dramatic movie. Switched off after 20 minutes of Nicole Kidman’s terrible hammy acting.

A little more recently, last night in fact - I’ve always enjoyed Death in Paradise, though the father ted chap wasnt as good as the first two actors. Sadly I lasted ten minutes last night of Ralf Little saying ‘hmmm’ over and over.

Again, I may be shot down in flames for this but here goes: Audrey Hepburn in everything I've ever seen her in. I love Audrey's style and grace and all that she did for her charitys etc, but she was not a good actress. Her Eliza Doolittle cockney accent makes me cringe!!

I think, though, if you watch a film or TV adaptation of a book, the characters never appear how you imagined them in your head.

YYY to Nicholas Cage as Captain Corelli - reading the book, I’d always imagined Antonio as Ioan Gruffudd...
Didn’t like John Hurt as Dr Iannis either, but found Penelope Cruz (unexpectedly ) credible as Pelagia.

Most of the Harry Potter young actors - Ginny being the very worst Same sort of delivery with KK and Emma Watson, just blank deliveries

Leonardo Di caprio in really most things. Under the theme of “they play the same role/ don’t actually act” you can throw in a few other A Listers...Brad, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep... there are loads where their PR puts them out there so much that I never see them as the character just the actor. Plus the same people getting the same roles getting the same awards (but diversity is a different issue!)

whereas was really surprised by eg Jim Carey in eternal sunshine... some do have secret range! :)

I'd go so far as to say I'm deeply in love with Gillian Anderson but if you've ever tried to watch The House of Mirth...dear god. (Bad directing, I think she is a fine actor.)

Notmyrealname855 - same here. Jim Carrey really surprised me with how good of an actor he actually is when I saw the Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine. I hadn't been able to see past the gurning and goofing and suddenly this incredible actor appeared out from behind all the guff. Have you seen "Kidding"? It's a tv show where he plays a kid's entertainment host of a tv show, who melts down before our eyes. It's beautiful, in a rather sombre and weird way.

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher almost literally the physical opposite of the character and any film/program with Daniel Radcliffe or Keira Knightley.

I didn’t like Emma Stone in La La Land at all. She was either miscast or it was the character as I thought she was excellent as Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes.

Brenda Blethyn in Little Voice. I know her character was meant to be annoying but good grief.
Nicholas Cage in anything. Why is he so famous?
I thought Russel Crowe sang like he was trying to hold in a fart. Strained and nervous sounding.

I agree re the young Harry Potter actors. Emma Watson gets on my tits in the early films

I've only ever seen the first Harry Potter movie. Emma Watson looked like she was reading her lines from an idiot board behind the camera. I've met trees that were less wooden.

Geri Halliwell in Sex and The City. Absolutely fucking awful. And Sarah Harding in Coronation Street was also dreadful.

Russell Crowe's singing wasn't up to much in Les Miserables, but I really liked how he played they character of Javert

Nicolas Cage. In anything. I once read his described as having the expression of a startled moose. Think that just about sums him up. Awful.

Don't you daaaaaaaaare say anything about Nicholas Cage. He is shit, but that's what's good.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Highlander. Christopher Lambert & Sean Connery - couldn't watch. Couldn't get past the accents.

David Harewood in everything Homeland. If you can't do a convincing American accent (there are fucking hundreds of them), don't fucking take the money for it!

David Morrisey in The Walking Dead. Again, accent. Fuck off.

So many more, but bad accents are my ultimate turn off. Watch Andrew Lincoln & Lennie James (and so many more British actors) in TWD compared to fucking Morrisey. Shameful.

There's a film with Nicholas Cage called Adaptation. He is really, really good in it. I know it's almost impossible to believe but he's great.

Tom Cruise in Lee Child's Jack Reacher films. He's absolutely nothing like the character in the book which completely ruins it.

Ricky Gervais in anything except After Life. Nigel Havers in Corrie.
Andie McDowell in FWAAF. My favourite film ruined.