In your opinion, which roles were miscast?

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I’ll start off with musicals:

Russell Crowe in Les Miserables
Piers Brosnan in Mamma Mia

I don’t think their singing was strong enough. There were enough star names so I wished the producers had been braver and cast unknowns who could act and sing.

There's so many Jane Austen adaptations that don't quite get the casting right. P&P, most have been said and whereas the definitive version for me is the inspired BBC Jennifer Elle/Colin Firth one I thought Lydia and Jane weren't quite right. Julia Sawalla's voice is too 20th Century and the Jane actress looked too old. Apart from that, superb! Especially Mr Collins!

Hugh Grant's roles are all just Charles (4 weddings) with different words to say. So no no NO to Edward Ferrers in S&S and Alan Rickman wasn't right either for Colonel Brandon. No way would Marianne have settled for him!

Looking forward to the new Emma, adaptations so far have been hit and miss. Gwyneth Paltrow/Jeremy Northam - no chemistry at all and as mentioned, Toni Collette not right either.

Hugh Grant really is more than the. see About A Boy and his incredible performance as Jeremy Thorpe. Also Paddington 2.

@Kokeshi123

Whoever played Mr Collins in the Keira Knightley version of "Pride and Prejudice." He played Mr Collins as this little short man who was inept but endearing. Mr Collins was supposed to be on the tall side and thoroughly obnoxious and just a tad malevolent. You are not supposed to feel sorry for him!

I think David Bamber did it so much better in the BBC version.

The boy who owned the horse Joey in War horse.
Couldn't really see the bond

Whoever played Harry's parents in Harry Potter. They were far too old! They die at 21 in the books

Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Love him, fab actor, but watching him get it on with Winona and she is supposed to be under his thrall etc is all shades of no! It's a daft movie anyway with a number of bad choices in casting - Keanu (ahem) Anthony Hopkins (ahem) but this one really jarred!

@Gubbeen I completely agree about Simon Russell Beale! Particularly as Ariel. The man is extraordinary. He was an incredible Richard III too.

Miscast: Narcissa Malfoy. I can't imagine what they were thinking.

Ben affleck as Batman

@NastyBlouse

Armie Hammer in Call Me By Your Name.

The character's supposed to be 24. But Hammer was 30 when it was filmed, and looked it (if not a bit older). Which makes the whole thing look like a man in his 30s chasing after a teenage boy. Gave me the squicks.

Yes I thought that, when I watched it I had to pause and google to see how old they were both meant to be.

James Norton in Happy Valley. Great actor but he never looked like a malnourished, gutter-raised weaselly psychopath. He always looked like the radiantly healthy rugger-playing Old Etonian that he is

I found him terrifying! I thought it was good that he was so conventionally good looking, as it somehow seemed harder to accept how evil he was.

I always thought Kate Winslet looked like she could eat Leonardo di Caprio for breakfast in Titanic. She looked way too old for him. I would have thought a slightly older rougher Jack to Kate's Rose or a younger more delicate Rose for Leo's Jack.
An example of great casting for me would be the whole cast of Versailles. Perfection!

@PuppyMonkey Was Donald Trump better in his brief appearance in Home Alone 2, as the nice man who gives Kevin directions?

I didn't think I'd like RZ as Bridget, but she was perfect, and I'm someone who used to read the column occasionally.

I also liked Andie MacDowell in FWAAF.

I didn't like Notting Hill much and I didn't see Love, Actually.

I'm going to get eaten alive but... Alan rickman in everything but especially as snape. Just totally wrong. Far too old, and he wildly over acted as he did in everything. It was like a second rate am dram production. Sirius and lupin as well. The kids go without saying. All terrible apart from a couple.

Idris Elba as the Gunslinger in the Dark Tower.

Actually, everything about that movie was dogs**t

Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele in 50 Shades really didn’t gel with me.

@killerofmen

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

What??

No one could play that part as well as Jackman

@shesmadeatwatofmepam you need to watch An Awfully Big Adventure. Alan Rickman (and Hugh Grant) on top form.

Of all the Harry Potter miscasts the worst for me is Julie Walters as Mrs Weasley. Just terrible. Love Neville, Luna, Malfoy, Prof McGonagall and Hagrid though.

Keira Knightly in everything. I watched Bend it like Beckham, laughed at her acting and declared her career over she was so appalling. Little did I know.

Pretty much the entire cast for season 3 of The Crown, Coleman especially. An absolute travesty in my view. Why they couldn't have 'aged' the original cast I don't know.

Fleur in Harry Potter; did not resemble the character at all.

Radcliffe in The Woman in Black - too young to be reasonably considered a widowed father.

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher - I rate him as an actor but he is a whole ft shorter than the character and just didn't have the physical presence required.

Oooh...Kevin Costner - Robin Hood

An American in merry old England hundreds of years before "America" ever existed!

@Hyperion100

Idris Elba as the Gunslinger in the Dark Tower.

Actually, everything about that movie was dogs**t

Oh gosh yes agree completely. Such a disappointment as I loved those books.

So...
Highlander...

Where Sean Connery plays a Spanish man but doesn't bother to even try a Spanish accent.

An American, Christopher Lambert, plays the Scottish lead, with THE WORST Scottish accent in cinema history.

However I still love it because of The Kurgan 😁

@sobersides

I always thought Kate Winslet looked like she could eat Leonardo di Caprio for breakfast in Titanic. She looked way too old for him. I would have thought a slightly older rougher Jack to Kate's Rose or a younger more delicate Rose for Leo's Jack. An example of great casting for me would be the whole cast of Versailles. Perfection!

Yes, I always thought the sexual dynamic between Rose and Cal was better because he was older. Jack looks too delicate himself!

Mmm, yes she is pretty, but still strapping, and although she was about 26 when she played Jane, I did think she came across as a little too old for the role.

Rosamund Pike 'strapping', @DelphiniumBlue??? She's a wisp of a thing (we coincided at university) -- maybe she has an inch or two on Keira Knightley in height, but she's very small-boned and delicate. Or was.