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.

Keira Knightley in Prode & Prejudice

Knocka I know someone else who did too! Small world!

Rosamund Pike is 174cm tall, so about 5'8". I only know this because she's playing Moiraine in the Wheel of Time TV series, and Moiraine is written as a tiny woman. Otherwise I think she's a fantastic choice.

She's not what I'd call strapping, though, despite her height. She seems delicate.

Against the idea of the thread but the best casting has to be Claes Bang as Dracula. Oh, momma......

Only on MN could Rosamund Pike be called strapping.

She may have been a tad old for Elinor in S and S but it is my absolutely favourite film. It is so beautifully shot, and very witty in parts with mostly great acting ( though Mrs Jennings overacts shamefully, only matched by Alison Steadman in the BBC P and P version ).
I think Emma Thompson is an incredible actress but I say again that Hugh Grant was no match for her. He just didn't inspire any romantic sentiments at all. I couldn't imagine what she would ever see in him !

Daniel Radcliffe in everything I've seen him in. He's always the main character, meant to be the hero and love interest. I think he looks like an awkward little boy and can't get over it.

I also didn't like Emma Watson in the Harry Potter films or in Beauty and the beast.

I think maybe it's that I initially loved the Harry Potter books but the films ruined it for me. I wish Id never watched them

@flapjackfairy

She may have been a tad old for Elinor in S and S but it is my absolutely favourite film. It is so beautifully shot, and very witty in parts with mostly great acting ( though Mrs Jennings overacts shamefully, only matched by Alison Steadman in the BBC P and P version ). I think Emma Thompson is an incredible actress but I say again that Hugh Grant was no match for her. He just didn't inspire any romantic sentiments at all. I couldn't imagine what she would ever see in him !

I can't think of Sense and Sensibility without thinking of Dawn French on The Vicar of Dibley, talking about her reaction when she realises Hugh Grant is not betrothed to another .

@JadesRollerDisco

Daniel Radcliffe in everything I've seen him in. He's always the main character, meant to be the hero and love interest. I think he looks like an awkward little boy and can't get over it.

I also didn't like Emma Watson in the Harry Potter films or in Beauty and the beast.

I think maybe it's that I initially loved the Harry Potter books but the films ruined it for me. I wish Id never watched them

Also, everyone who was cast in the film version of The Phantom of the Opera!

Sorry, I didn't mean to quote in my last post .

I can't watch anything with Keira knightly in. I find her unbearable to watch. I don't believe in any of her characters, her words seem hollow and she only has one facial expression

Not film but tv adaptation of wuthering heights -Tom Hardy as Heathcliff , i think he is a brilliant actor but not in this role .

@dementedma

Yes I loved Dracula, I know not everybody did but now when I think of vampires I think of him as Dracula. I've seen a lot of vampire movies/series and he nailed it

Changing Tatum in anything except for magic mike

Recently watched Beanie Feldstein in How to build a girl. Wanted to love it but her accent was very annoying. I also hate Anne Hathaway in One Day because of her accent. There are so many great English actors and making money seems to come above authenticity.

Melanie Griffiths in Lolita.

Her plastic surgery jars with the time period the movie is set in.

David Schwimmer in the new Netflix film about OJ Simpson - he just didn't cut it as a hot shot attorney. In fact, I think it would be a stretch for him to play anything but goofy/slightly nerdy/comedic characters.

Nancy Travis in the ‘Three Men’ films. Dreadful accent, why not just get a British actress or have Mary’s mum be an American?

If we’re talking TV; Helen Baxendale in Friends, I often wondered how it would have turned out if Patsy Kensit had taken the role or HB hadn’t wanted to leave. I just didn’t see any chemistry at all between Emily & Ross. Though it did give us Jennifer Saunders in a hilarious role.

Robert Carlyle as Hamish Macbeth; in the books he’s described as 6’ plus with red hair and well-built (if memory serves).

@LivingDeadGirlUK

David Jason as Rincewind in the Discworld adaptations. I love him but I've invested a lot of time reading Discworld and he just isn't right!

Have you seen the casting for the BBC America Watch series? Lady Sybil is young and slim, Angua is a teensy little pixie and Cheery Littlebottom is a strapping six-foot gender-bending human. Vetinari, CMOT Dibbler, Dr Cruces and the Patrician's secretary are women too.

This whole thread just makes me LOL. Do you guys know how/why actors are cast in films/TV?
Google 'bankability'

Kiera Knightley in anything. She's like a plank with feet.

Andie McDowell in 4 Weddings. I just can't forgive the godawful 'is it still raining ... I hadn't noticed' line at the end.

And let's not forget Ray Winstone as Henry VIII. Bloody horrible.

ThatLibraryMiss Rhianna Pratchett has been very keen to make sure people know the family have had nothing to do with it. The casting is just bonkers! I am point blank refusing to watch any of it.

Daniel Radcliffe in everything I've seen him in. He's always the main character, meant to be the hero and love interest. I think he looks like an awkward little boy and can't get over it

I have to say that he plays an awkward dimwit in Miracle Workers and does a very good job of it. Another one who’s found the right role eventually

thatlibrary that makes me so sad, sounds appalling!

@TitianaTitsling

thatlibrary that makes me so sad, sounds appalling!

Allow me to introduce Angua and Cheery. Angua's a werewolf, daughter of an aristocratic family, noble, terrifying and, as a wolf, pretty large and impressive. Cheery's a dwarf with a beard. So of course that frail-looking little slip of a thing on the left with an excess of eyeshadow is Angua, and the dwarf is looming above her on the right.

Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins threw some lovely shade when they tweeted a link to an interview with Ursula le Guin about an adaptation of her Earthsea books, in which she said, "It’s full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense."

I don't care if BBC America want to make a steampunk detective noir series with a mixture of races and genders. Go for it! It might be good. But don't call it Discworld 'cos it ain't. Peter Jackson didn't make well-loved and-known characters like Bilbo or Frodo into women because TLoTR has very few female characters, did he? BBC America could profit from his example.

Ahem. Apparently I feel quite strongly about this.