If you could recast anyone in a film...

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Who would it be? I always thought Belle from Beauty and the Beast would have been hands down Anne Hathaway although I realise she was probably out of the age range

Currently thinking of others because it's Saturday afternoon and I'm bored

Florence Pugh in little women, she was great when the character is older but it doesn't work having a 22 year old play 12.
They all felt too old at the beginning but Amy is the most jarring

Weirdly Susannah Harker looked so much better I think with any other hairstyle!

I do think that Susannah Harker has a very classical beauty that worked for the period of the film.

Another vote for Andie McDowell. She is absolutely appalling in everything she is in! Worst actress ever!

Hayden Christensen in the Star Wars prequels

Tom Cruises in the Jack Reacher films

I'd never clicked that before. Of course you are completely right.

Agreed! He came across as creepy - that odd thing he kept doing with his eyes. DH and me hate-watch that film 😂😂

Another for Andi MacDowell in Four Weddings. It’s a great film every other actor is so well cast

I think Sarah Jessica Parker would have been good for the role

Yes. In fact, Andi MacDowell in any film she is in!

Russell Crowe in Les Miserables replaced by someone who could actually sing.

Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia for the same reason! Although that is at least a comedy so slightly more bearable.

Came to say the same! Jamie Dornan has shown in films and tv since, he is a great actor so was just not the right vehicle for him.

Tom Hardy -who i think is a good actor - as Heathcliff , acted in the style of Bernard Bresslaw from the carry on films.

I agree Anne Hathaway would have been good in Beauty and the Beast. I do like her in most films, but I would definitely recast her in One Day. Her accent completely ruined that film.

Posters mentioning the cast of the Harry Potter films - very difficult when they were all cast as 11 year olds.

Harry, Ron and Hermione I mean - not Snape!

Wolf Hall - ditch Mark 'wet spaniel' Rylance and replace with David Morrisey

I rewatched an old film about Jack the Ripper the other day called From Hell.
Heather Graham as Mary Kelly was just shocking. Half a level above the Dick Van Dyke cockney accent.

I've never quite understood why they put actors in roles in which they demonstrably can't do the accent. There are plenty of English/American/Scottish/Irish/Australian etc. actors that could do the roles in their own accent!

Sharlto Copley in Maleficent is another one!

Lassie should have been played by an XL Bully.

Michelle Pfeiffer is easy on the eye but embarrassing as Cat Wiman.

Leo DiCaprio in Titanic.

He's an excellent actor but I couldn't get behind him and Kate as a couple in it.

Switch Tom Cruise for Gerald Butler in Jack Reacher.

Agree with this.

It didn’t help that he looked about 10 years younger than her (despite being slightly older, I think)

Surely belle should have been a French actress like Clémence Poésy if they were choosing from the HP generation

Emma Watson as belle and in little women.

Perhaps Chris Hemsworth?