In your opinion, which roles were miscast?

[Lonoxo]

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.

JL was perfect in The talented Mr Ripley. That’s all though really

If we are doing TV too (please) I would’ve had Stephen Dillane as Ser Davos and not Stannis Baratheon in GOT. Hideously miscast

Keira Knightly usually plays herself in most things. Occasionally this results in success

I thought Emma Thompson was to old for character in sense and sensibility

All of the cast in the recent version of Emma

I agree! Why cast a singer with Wurzels hair as Knightley? Why waste the excellent Josh O'Connor as creepy Elton? Was the casting director on glue to have Bill Nighy as Mr Woodhouse? (Again, many other questions, like why we were intimately acquainted with both Emma and Knightley's asses? Why does Knightley, who is a bluff English gentleman landowner who only talks about his crops, wander through his house shedding garments and being helped out of more by a valet like some lavish pre-Revolution French aristocrat?)

I laughed all the way through Juliette Binoche's Cathy in that 90s Wuthering Heights. It's like casting Sarah Lancashire as Edith Piaf. She's also an excellent actor, but it would make zero sense...

@gottastopeatingchocolate

Gwyneth Paltrow in Possession.

An absolutely brilliant book.

The film had a stellar cast but there's a reason why noone has heard of it.

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

Exactly! He just looked too healthy and wholesome, like a posh rugger bugger after a night on the lash. I love him though. Those lips.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula. I love him but just so wrong as Jonathan Harker.

@WerkHorse

Anne Hathaway in One Day (also the male lead ? name escapes me)

Anne Hathaway in Les Mis and Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe

Agree Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia but also Meryl Streep (sorry!)

Totally agree about Meryl Streep - amazing actor, but way way WAY too old

It's like casting Sarah Lancashire as Edith Piaf

All the Harry Potter kids, especially Ginny. But not Neville.

Pierce Brosnan redeemed himself (a little) in Mamma Mia 2 which was way superior to the original imo.

Peter Capaldi in Dr Who.

Most "career" child actors are pretty bad imo. The kids that I remember being good in films like your wee boy in kes or that kid from Grimsby Thomas Turgoose, they all sort of fell into it. The rest are mostly unbearable. I blame all of those bloody overpriced drama academies. Horrendous places.

Definitely Keira K in P&P but then I'm a Jennifer Ehle girl!

It's an old grievance but Rachel Ward as Meggie in the Thorn Birds, the character was supposed to have red hair, red! It's a big thing in the book that the Cleary family are red-heads. Actually, maybe I should blame hair and makeup, Richard Chamberlain was terrific though as Ralph de Bricassart

@AntiHop

Renee Zellweger in bridget Jones. Not believable at all. I would have much preferred Kate Winslet.

No, Kate’s far too mature and sensible. Renee has that confused innocence that makes her so funny to watch. I dont associate Kate with humour (although I’m sure she can be funny given the right circumstances).

Oh & another one, Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films, unforgivable.

Everyone in the series of The Handmaids Tale

James Norton is the psycho one, right? If so, true, he's way too healthy looking

Ian McShane as Merriman Lyon (Merlin) in the Dark is Rising film. So wrong for that part, although good in other stuff, like American Gods.
No one but Christopher Lee should ever play Merriman. (More time travel needed)
The whole film was awful, transposed to America, losing its magical Albion aspects. Such a disappointment. I live in hope of a good British remake.

Young Lily Potter, she was supposed to have green eyes but hers were brown - very small but important and spoilt the film for me.

Nicolas Cage in Captain Correli’s Mandolin.

Totally agree - that accent
WHAT were they thinking?!

Yes, @Theworldisfullofgs! But macho Aaran Eckhart as meek, mole-like post-doctoral also-ran Roland Mitchell was an even weirder bit of casting!

They should have had someone more imperious and 'county' as Maud a younger Helen Mirren/Vanessa Redgrave/Emma Thompson? And for Roland someone who can play 'wet' and emotionally-constipated Martin Freeman?

@areyoubeingserviced

Sofia Coppola in Godfather 3 Excruciating

100% agree. She was such a striking beauty in the film but unfortunately not an actress. Such a pity that Winona had to pull out at the 11th hour.

Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra. It wasn’t until I looked into the story afterwards that I realised he was supposed to be 18 at the start of the film.

Ewan Mcgregor was good in Trainspotting but he didn't really look rough enough. The lad who shit the bed was brilliantly cast

I can't watch meryl Streep in mama mia. I just cringe inside out

Haha love that @wtfdidwedo

Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall definitely. Cromwell needs to be physically threatening and also fanciable.

I loved Steven Dillane as Stannis Baratheon but you can’t cast someone that age as Mark Addy’s younger brother.

Ditto Alan Rickman in Harry Potter, the ages were all over the shop.

And Toni Colette in the Paltrow Emma. Great actress but lacks the obvious Barbie doll beauty which is a key feature of the character. The plot makes zero sense unless Harriet is the prettiest girl Emma has ever seen.