Actors in roles that weren't all that convincing

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And this is not an actor/actress bashing thread, an actor can be hit and miss depending on role,dialogue and other factors. And it's ok to agree to disagree.

Me too. Has he seen the TV series? It's great.

Keira Knightley in Love Actually: ‘Munchies? Banoffee Pie? It’s all blue and wibbly. I look quite pretty’ Aaaaarrrggghhh!
Maybe it’s not her fault, it’s Richard Curtis’ script with more of his ‘shittety brickety’ nonsense. Noone speaks like that. Except, possibly, Richard Curtis.

Sean Connery in the Hunt for Red October

Oh no he hasn't where is it at ?

Emma Watson in Little Women. I don’t know why but she was the only unrealistic one.

The only thing I’ve really liked her in is a very young Hermione (because she was basically herself) and Beauty and the Beast.

What was she like? I actually like her in that although physically she looked totally wrong.

Quite a while ago now but Tom's midnight garden was ruined by casting a teenager as Tom. No amount of dressing him younger was going to make it work.

I thought her Beauty was a somewhat bossy prefect at a highly academic girls’ grammar…

I did think Rupert Grint was the only natural one of the three main child actors in the HP series, but it’s a big casting problem — they were casting 11 year olds to play 11 year olds, and (I assume) hoping they would develop as actors to meet the demands of the later films, because they realistically couldn’t recast the leads half way. Alan Rickman’s diaries are wonderfully bitchy about working with the kids.

I had an issue with Florence Pugh’s Amy in Little Women. She’s a brilliant actor, but looked far too mature to play Amy at 13, especially given her distinctive deep voice. By the Laurie courtship scenes, I was thinking he really didn’t deserve someone that sorted and intelligent, especially as played by Timothée Chalamet, who brought out all his dopy self-indulgence. I mean, I think that reading the novel too, but this adaptation made Amy falling for Laurie as unlikely as clever, resourceful Hermione falling for dimwit Ron.

Laurie did look like an absolute child I agree

Another vote for Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher. A mis-casting that will go down in history. Jack Reacher is “extremely tall, extremely broad, long-armed and long-legged” with “hands the size of dinner plates.” Reacher is supposed to be visibly scary, 6'5" tall and muscular. Tiny Tom on the other hand... 😅

Totally agree. Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher was so wrong on so many levels!
For anyone who has read the books, it was such a disappointing casting.
But I do love him in the majority of his other films.

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John Malkovich in anything. He sounds like a Speak and Spell.

Thanks I'll let him know.

@IsGoodIsDon yes, I came on the thread to say Anne Hathaway in One Day! I loved that book and wish I hadn't seen the film to ruin my memory of it!

Emma was meant to be fairly plain/average, a bit chubby, a sensible northern lass with a no nonsense attitude... Not a lithe, beautiful, delicate-featured American woman!

Jack reacher the series is great.

emma Watson was apparently very rude to the other cast and wouldn't talk to them when the day filming was done

Emma Watson ruins everything she's in. She just can't act.

She’s definitely a much better director than she was an actor

I know people who worked on that film, and yes she was very snotty with the crew.

I love Gambon as Dumbledore!!

Emma Wooden Watson thank you for making me laugh out loud @muchalover !

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge.
The man and woman in the main police roles in Irvine Welsh's Crime series.

So agree with this! I always thought Karen Gillan would be perfect as Ginny!