Wrong Casting?

[GuildfordGal]

As I read The Shipping News for the 250th time, I'm reminded again that Gerard Depardieu (questionable person, brilliant actor) should definitely have been cast as Quoyle.

The rest of the cast - Julianne Moore and Judi Dench were perfect. Kevin Spacey was all wrong ('a great, damp loaf of a body')

Which other film roles have been so completely miscast as this brilliant example

@Clawdy

Virtually every Heathcliff and Cathy I have ever seen.

Tom Hardy was really bad as Heathcliff , also Olivier .

David niven was good as edgar

@Arbadacarba

People mentioning Jane Eyre - I was impressed by the stage version shown on Sky Arts recently - Rochester was quite odd-looking and Jane, while certainly not unattractive in her way, was not the conventional big-eyed beauty you tend to see in film versions.

I love the Mia Wasikowska version , she looks plain as in her description but gives the viewer a really good sense of her strength of character and you know why Rochester falls in love with her. Its beautiful .

I absolutely love the Mia version of Jane Eyre - it's wonderfully shot and the music is perfect.

But the line "You are no more pretty than I am handsome" made us both burst out laughing. They're both beautiful people!

Carey Mulligan in The Dig. Don't get me wrong, great performance as always, but the real woman was 6 years older than the main male character not 30 years younger. Really boiled my piss. If you're telling a true story be honest about the main protagonists ffs.

@BruceAndNosh

Way back, but Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith as the leads in Bonfire of the Vanities. They were both Big names at the time, hence the casting, but both totally different than the characters in the book.

That's the one film that my husband walked out of the cinema, I've never seen the film but he's adamant that the casting is sooooo wrong. It's great to see another who thinks this way.

Oh, and meryl Streep and clint Eastwood in bridges of madison County...
Just no chemistry at ALL
It was supposed to be this great love...

Not quite what you were asking but Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Salander was great casting . I held my breath until she appeared and thught Yes! But saw her in another film - one of the pre-Alien things I think and she was all silly and girly over a bloke. Ok she should be allowed to act as another person but it just felt wrong!

I think Cillian Murphy is great but he wasn't particularly believable as the shaken soldier in Dunkirk. He seems to have a sort self assuredness that he didn't quite drop fully.

I was thinking about this thread last night - and the post up thread that criticised Elizabeth Debiki’s casting in the Night Manager - because DH and I watched Tenet, and she plays almost exactly the same role! The trophy wife of an arms dealer who teams up with the good guy to take the arms dealer down (Kenneth Branagh, with an iffy Russian accent this time). DH turned to me and said “This is basically just the night manager with time travel, isn’t it?”