To ask for your worst TV and movie castings

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For me it’s Alan Rickman (who I absolutely love in everything else) as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility. He came across so unbelievably creepy and repulsive and not the gallant kind soul he is in the book.

Everyone in the latest series of the Crown

really? I thought they did quite well and I particularly thought Diana actress nailed it. Charles actor was too handsome but he still played it very well.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Harden Scott in thé After series.

Michael Maloney as the new love interest in Truly, Madly Deeply. I would have stuck with Alan Rickman even if he was a ghost

My daughter would definitely agree, she loved that book and was horrified that Emma Watson got the part of Pauline!

Elijah wood as the football hooligan on green street.

Vince Vaughn in Psycho remake.

Nancy actress in Eastenders was always awful bad as is Shane Richie. I no longer watch but just recall how bad the acting was.

The actress who played lisa on 6 feet under was really annoying although the writing in the season she was in was bad so not all her fault.

Vanessa Williams on Desperate Housewives. Such an unnecessary addition.

Meg Ryan on In the Cut. It was a bad film anyway but the material just didn't suit her. I envisioned Kate Winslet or Julianna Moore doing it as I watched.

Denise Richards as the Bond Girl- just noooo.

George Clooney as Batman and Jim Carrey in it too-nooo.

Alot of people used to say Teri Hatcher in Desperate Housewives and I can somewhat see where they are coming from with that but it might have being that the writers gave her weak storylines for arcs of the show that made her annoying.

This! A thousand times this!

Also this. Hands down the worst adaptation of a stupendous book the world has ever seen! And they changed the ending!! Which was the whole fucking point!!

Never been so angry at a film.

David Suchet just is Poirot. Case, mom amis, is closed.

John Hannah as Rebus.

It's come up a number of times already (Renee Zellweger, Daniel Craig, Kevin Costner): other than casting Americans to appeal to American audiences 🙄 I've never understood why they don't just hire a native. For e.g. Hugh Laurie might well have been brilliant as House (don't know, didn't watch it, haven't the will to sit through a two-part Taggart) but... why pick a Brit?

Gosh I so agree! And he won an Oscar for basically howling through a movie!

I agree. Plus in some scenes he attempts an English accent and in others, it's pure California. Makes it more fun to watch.

He is supposed to be a parody character. He's doing a form of bad exaggerated Southern accent that used to be popular in low budget movies a few decades ago. I really liked it because he is playing against type.

Nooo! Atonement is my favourite ever book and the movie was a travesty unfortunately.

Supposedly, Hugh Laurie did his audition tape in an American accent and at least one of the producers didn't know he was American. He was brilliant in House, and only once that I recall, did his native accent peek though: on the word "placard."

I am now wondering if Ray Winstone would have been good?

It's not "casting" as such, but Paddy McGuiness was a really odd choice to host Question Of Sport.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse in Emma. Too old, too arch, too American. Romola Garai was much better.

In the 1940 Pride and Prejudice Mary Bennet and Charlotte Lucas are both played by absolutely beautiful movie stars but Mary wears specs and Charlotte's dresses have fewer flounces than the other characters. It's annoying.

The actress who plays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films. She doesn’t portray book Ginny AT ALL!

Ewan was originally cast. And then Titanic came out and made Leo a huge star, so Danny Boyle fired Ewan for Leo. Ewan didn't speak to Danny for years afterwards because of it.

Ray Winstone has played Henry VIII (opposite Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn, if I remember correctly) and the answer to your question is ‘no’’

I often think sone actors can only play one role and that’s usually not far from who they are. Same in every role. Leonardo Di Caprio is a prime example.
Kristen Stewart is another example.
Thousands of actors in the world and look who they cast.
Nicholas Cage is another one with extremely limited range.

I find his eyebrows very distracting, not sure what’s going on with them.

You dont need charisma for the films they are in- they know what they are good at and do it well :)