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

Re Andi McDowell in 4WAAF, I agree, she seems quite cold and unlikeable rather than the very confident woman I think they were going for. I read somewhere once their top pick would have been Marissa Tomei for the part, who I think would have been perfect. I actually really liked AMcD in Groundhog Day mind you.

OP, Belle was my first thought when I read your thread title, thought EW was awful for the part, but I would have had Lily Collins as Belle.

Nepo in it's purest form! Ditto her cousin N Coppola Cage in most things, although he is very funny at timss.

I like JB in the holiday , actually I like him in everything!

She was amazing as cat woman!

Wasn't she cast at the very last minute for some reason?! I'm sure I heard recently about that

Or Daniel Craig!

It would have to be Jane (Susannah Harker) in the BBC series Pride and Prejudice. Also Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) in BBC series North and South

Always difficult with a film of a book as you picture the characters when you read and they are never as in your imagination .

Personally, I cannot stand Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity.

@FloofCloud such an odd choice for a fluffy rom com!

@AllIsWellish see people either like him or don't. Jack Black plays Jack Black in various degrees in everything. So you like him in them all or you dislike him in them all!

Yes this!

Yes he does, I thought the same.

Many of the Harry Potter cast did not match the physical descriptions of the characters in the books.

Alan Rickman was too old and too broad-shouldered.
Maggie Smith's hair was all wrong.
Gary Oldman was too old, and everything about his physical appearance was wrong - tattoos, hair, body shape.
Daniel Radcliffe was too neat-looking as well as too healthy-looking.
Emma Watson was too pretty.
Conversely, both David Tennant and Timothy Spall were too exaggerated (the former more in manners than looks). Come to think of it, so was Emma Thompson.
Warwick Davis looked the role before they for some reason decided to de-age him.

Spoiled the films for me, really.

Oh no! I really like Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary. I think he does a great job.
Though the closest Sherlock to the books is Jeremy Brett in my opinion.

Yes, Alan Rickman twenty-odd years younger would have been ideal.

I'd also recast Dumbledore. Didn't mind Michael Gambon but thought Richard Harris was awful (always thought he was overrated in other films, too). How anyone could muck up "Alas! Earwax!" I don't know. Such a pity Ian McKellen was all wizarded out.

I'd also have recast everyone in Interview with the Vampire, though I don't think anyone could have saved it - I hated the book and the film was no better.

Not a film a series but, Claudia Jessie as Eloise Bridgerton. The over-acting is jarring and she doesn't suit the part anyway. Not sure who I'd replace her with tho.

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter = all the personality of an oak tree. Charisma-free. His parents must have been mates with the casting director otherwise, how on earth did he land that part? They'd have been better off giving the part to Ron Weasley really

@sprigatito I had to google her as couldn't put that name to a face, but now I realise I know who she is I agree with you! 😁

Or you love him in School of Rock and High Fidelity but cringe at him as a romantic leading man in The Holiday (as I do)

Going back a bit, but Gregory Peck is absolutely not Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is older, bearded and less handsome.

I think the woman who plays Marian in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was a bit of a letdown. Can't put my finger on why. Much preferred the series Robin of Sherwood with Judi Trott and Michael Praed - she had such an ethereal beauty and grace, and he didn't have an American accent!
Can't abide Eddie Redmayne in anything other than the Stephen Hawking thing - his frozen-fish face, weirdly angled gaze and tendency to lean over in a strange way.
Also, don't like Uma Thurmann in anything at all. She has a scary look.

Wasn’t keen on the actress who played Daphne. She wasn’t feisty enough.

Julie Andrews was first choice to play the lead in My Fair Lady but she was already contracted for another film.
Think she’d a have been so much better than Audrey Hepburn who’s cockney accent was dreadful & who’s singing voice had to be dubbed by someone else.

Tom Conti made a terrible Greek in Shirley Valentine

Russel Crowe as Javert. The acting was fine but the singing??? Appalling.

A Goodyear.

Russel crow is absolutely awful in the lead part.