To ask for your BEST TV/movie casting?

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Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner, menacing and scary!

Alan Rickman as Snape/in Die Hard, the sheriff of Nottingham (I may be biased, I think he was amazing in most things)

Bruce Willis in Die Hard, just the right amount of snarky humour.

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black.

Do you have any ‘bang on’ castings?

John Candy as Uncle Buck.

Dan Akroyd and John Belushi in the Blues Brothers.

Tom Cruise as Maverick.

I wonder whether most of these people are just really good actors. We think they are perfectly cast because they have the ability to become another person entirely.

The cast of West Wing - all brilliant.

Leonardo Dicaprio in everything!

Also agree Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge
Heath Ledger as the Joker
Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator
Tom Holland as Spider-Man
the whole cast of the Good Place

Just about everyone in Harry Potter, Game of a thrones and Breaking Bad. Masterclasses in casting and make each scene so satisfying to watch. Well,they are all masterclasses in film and TV production as a whole I guess. I’d be so proud to say I’d been involved in the making of any of those.

I actually can’t imagine anyone else as the Friends characters either but maybe that’s just because they are so familiar and iconic.

Elaine C Smith as Christine in Two Doors Down

Voices too - the cast of Toy Story.

Alan Arkin as Yossarian

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman

You beat me to it! It’s as though Stephen Fry was born to play Oscar Wilde, also Jude Law made an excellent Bosie.

The cast of Doubt

Jennifer Jason-Leigh as Dorothy Parker

Gary Oldman as Joe Orton

John Goodman as Fred Flintstone

Another vote for James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano; also Tony Sirico as Paulie 😀

Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad.

Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter - far more scary.

The entire cast of Detectorists 😊

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. The man is actually Deadpool.

I forgot two of my favourites! Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough as Dawn and Pete Sutcliffe 😂 in Gavin & Stacey.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Jason Issacs as Jackson Brodie

The casting for Chernobyl was uncannily good.

Bit niche but Julie Walters as Adrian Mole's Mum in the first TV adaptation of the diary - absolutely perfect casting.

Tom Hardy as the Kray twins

Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24

John Travolta in grease

Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries

Pierce Brosnon as James Bond

Hugh Jackman in Swordfish

I watched I Care A Lot the other day and Rosamund Pike was just outstanding as Marla

Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo in Fargo
The Motherland cast - superb!
The Ghosts cast - also superb!

Tom Hardy in Legend

Yes!

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt
Robbie Coltrane as Cracker
David Jason as “Jack” Frost
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara

The entire cast of The Wire were brilliant!