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.

Kelly McGillis in top gun

Keira Knightly in The Duchess.

Both Jamie and Clare in Outlander.

@peridodo watched knives out also recently and completely agree with your view. Daniel Craig is poor. You wonder why they didn't just pick an American??

greenglass whilst I am not a Jack Black fan, he is really good in Jumanji where he plays a woman in a mans body - surprisingly understated!

On the Mamma Mia theme, Cher in MM2 - totally shoehorned in and so smug throughout! She did not deserve Amdy Garcia

Also agree with Jack Black in the Holiday - totally jarred with me and require total suspension of belief that Kate Winslet would end up with him!

James Franco 11/22/63
James McEvoy the remake of 'IT'
Both lead characters are meant to be very tall (King often bases the central male on his own size).

As much as I love her, Emma Thompson in sense and sensibility. Far too old for that part.

Agree about Anne Hathaway in one day, Kenneth brannagh as Lockhart.

Also for me Jude law as young Dumbledore and Katie Holmes in batman begins

@Paperairplane

Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn and Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn. Would have been much better the other way around!

yes, i agree, Scarlett oozes sensuality

@monkeyonthetable

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 thought he was great in the part. And in a bit of a thread detail, that ‘sort’ (trying desperately not to other them) become weasly. He got into jail young- the difference in a heroin addict on sentencing and after a few months of sufficient food and exercise is stunning. The limps, missing teeth, scars and pallor come later.

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. From memory, the book describes that character as very tall, red hair and built like a brick outhouse

I thought Renee was excellent as BJ.

Jamie Dornan (who I find fantastic in The Fall) in all of the 50 shades Films.

He's so clearly uncomfortable

@userbbb

I thought Renee was excellent as BJ.

Me too.

Ben Affleck in Gone girl. I read the book . Knew it'd make a good film. But not him.

Also Meryl Streep in Postcards from the edge. Ridiculous.

Controversial but I'm saying Jennifer Ehle in P&P, she seemed too old somehow (and I found her unlikeable)

Even more controversially, I agree! I watched P & P again in lockdown, she was a tad too old, but really not quite right in terms of looks, and was such a pain in the butt, I wondered what Darcy saw in her, all sardonic looks and up her own arse lectures, admittedly this is partly how Jane Austen wrote the character, but she just wasn't witty or even that attractive!

Hillary Swank in P.S I love you. Totally different from Holly in the book. Also can't believe they moved it from Ireland to New York, so unnecessary.

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I think Vivien Leigh was shit in Gone With the Wind!
I actually think the whole film was crap. Far too long and drawn out! Could've been cut down to 90 mins and not lost anything.
Bette Davis would have been a far better Scarlett!

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Hillary Swank in P.S I love you. Totally different from Holly in the book. Also can't believe they moved it from Ireland to New York, so unnecessary.

Gerry Butler in that too. They should have got someone Irish. His accent was terrible!

Agree with Emma Watson as Belle. She is very meh. Needed someone with more personality.

Controversial and I think he's a great actor but Alan Rickman wasn't my Snape. I pictured him to be oily skinned, tall, skinny and sallow.

Seconding (thirding, fourthing) Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka; he comes across somewhere between Michael Jackson and David Walliams in 'lay-dee' mode. And I know this thread is about casting, but what was the point of the random backstory about his father the dentist? Why?

Tobey Maguire in everything except this 90s film called the Ice Storm where he played a creepy little kid. Rachel McAdams in anything where she's a brunette--she was woefully soppy in the Time Traveller's Wife compared to the character in the book.

And I love Alan Rickman playing Snape in the HP films but Snape is supposed to be very very unattractive and Alan Rickman is hot AF obv.

x-posted with you @Patbutcherismyhero !