Actors who are perfectly cast

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Following on from the discussion about actors who are not, who are the ones who are?

To me, Gone Girl was beautifully cast. Ben Affleck as Nick, Rosamund Pike as Amy, all of the minor characters...

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool obviously.

@SerafinasGoose I'd definitely be up for a TV/movie location porn thread! I'm always hitting the pause button and having a Google.

John cleese as Fawlty

And Prunella Scales as Sybil, of course!

Christopher Eccleston as the grandad in The A Word.

The girl who plays Tori in Heartstopper

Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley

Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester.

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads Agree with your first one.

Kate Winslet in Mare of East town
Sandra Oh in The Chair
Ruth Wilson, Dominic West and Maura Tierney in The Affair
Ali Wong and Steve Yeun in Beef

I watched Mare of East Town before I watched Happy Valley. Should say I enjoyed both, but was quite pissed off when I watched the latter as surely Mare is a rip off of it?

A bit like Only Murders in the Building feels like a bit of a rip off of Richard Osman books?

Definitely! I honestly had no idea he is actually American.

I like him as an actor too. But you're definitely new to him, google 'Dominic West and Lily James' lol see what that does to your image of him.

Robert Hardy AND Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small. I thought Robert Hardy's shoes would be impossible to fill but Samuel West is also perfect in the role.

Craig Cash as Dave in Royle Family.

John Thaw as DCI Morse. Bill Nighy as Charles Paris. Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Michael Caine as Charlie Croker. Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch. Dame Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie and the Dowager Countess of Grantham. Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian. Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper..... enough already !.

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby. Perfect!

Olivia Newton John as Sandy in Grease.

I came here to say that these two were such a good choice. Glad someone else agrees!

Kyra Scoladario as Effy in Skins. A mesmerising actress.

Watched Nyad on netflix the other night with Jodie Foster and Annette Benning and at the end they showed clips of the real Bonnie and Diana and I thought wow they did a great job casting these two!

Can’t believe no one else has said Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar! Also agree with Alan Rickman as Snape just brilliant

Claire Foy in The Crown

Obvs a huge fan but Sofia Helin as Saga Noren in The Bridge. Clemence Posey in the UK/ France version is ok but once you've seen Sofia Helin play her, nobody else comes close.

Gary Oldman in Slow Horses.