Your personal Best and worst casting ever

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I think Billy Crudup and Kate Hudson are fantastic casting in Almost Famous - as is the casting of the whole film.

Daniel Day Lewis in everything is brilliant. And Julianne Moore is great in everything.

I have never recovered from the wrongness of Cameron Diaz in Gangs Of New York or Anna Hathaway in Interstellar.

Worst - Michelle Pfeiffer as cat woman.
Best - Peter Falk as Columbo.

Best - Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones

Worst - Rupert Campbell black in recent adaption of Riders

all of the Breaking Bad cast
Bob Odenkirk
(oops sorry not films)

Best
Tim Curry as FrankNFurter
(he’s fab in most things though)
Jodie Comer as Villanelle - just awesome
Al Pacino- in anything
Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon

Worst
Emma Watson as Hermione- I read there’s a screenshot somewhere of her mouthing a character’s lines behind them
how does she get the roles??
Nicolas Cage as Captain Corelli- hated that film

Emma Watson as Belle was probably the worst. She's consistently terrible at acting but I don't know why they had to extend that to being terrible at singing too.

I was going to say Helena B-C can’t act, particularly in anything where she is trying to be ‘common’!

Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Rhys in Death comes to Pemberly, both great actors but woefully miscast in this, dreadful storyline anyway.

No she’s not so good at common that’s true.
But horses for courses and all that… I’ve enjoyed a lot of her work.

Cannot understand the Emma Watson hating on this thread. Am I missing some trend to diss her … It was when they said she was unattractive I started to think it just wasn’t being objective or fair.

She was just the first person that jumped into my head as soon as I saw this thread.

She is (imo) very pretty and a very intelligent and principled lady and I have a lot of respect for her as a person and her charity work.

In terms of her career as an actor, it's not entirely her fault. She was cast as Hermione as a child and it wasn't until she was in her mid-teens that it became clear she was not developing as an actor and in fact was becoming more wooden as the emotions she needed to portray got more complex. The best case scenario would have been for her to have walked away from acting and make a career from one of her many talents and abilities.

Instead, she got cast in a series roles, each that showed up her lack of talent more, and for me the pinnacle was Beauty and the Beast where on top of portraying no emotion whatsoever, they also had to autotune the fuck out of her voice because she also can't hold a tune to save her life. Belle doesn't even sing that much in comparison to most Disney Princesses and the vocal range expected for that role isn't that much.

Nice person, lots of good qualities, can't act, can't sing.

As much as I like Helena Bonham Carter, she is always Helena Bonham Carter and you can never forget it, no matter what role she plays.

Well her looks are strikingly beautiful so there’s that.

I always felt Johnny Depp was like that too: you couldn’t do enough with wigs or make up to disguise who it was.

Tom Hanks in Bonfire of The Vanities, completely wrong as a ruthless yuppie type, should have been James Spader.

Billie Piper.

As Fanny Price.

When I first started watching His Dark Materials I thought Ruth Wilson was miscast as Mrs Coulter who is supposed to be beautiful. By the end of the series I thought she was the heart of the series and the best thing in it. So she went from worst to best.

I totally agree Tom Hanks was miscast.

I agree about Billie Piper - she has a very modern face, in an Austen she looks like using cars instead of carriages - all the wrong aesthetic; just like Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York.

Billy Piper is phenomenal in the National Teatre production of Yerma. In the right setting she is an amazing actress.

I agree she's a very good actress

I do agree.

I think there are 2 types of great actor...the ones that are transformative and just turn into each character they play so you almost forget it's actually them - I'd put people like Gary Oldman, Russell Crowe, Michael Sheen, Joaquin Phoenix here.

Then you have the 2nd type...those who are always 'the same' but are just great at delivering their roles, getting the emotion across. I'd put Helena here, as well as Judi Dench, Olivia Coleman, Leonardo Di Caprio, Stephen Graham.

Both types are great though.

I agree with that. I’d also put Meryl in the second category, and Maggie Smith. Interestingly I would say all my favourite actors probably fall in the latter category though I do think Russell Crowe can be good at times.

@Calliopespa Yes tbh I love the 2nd group too tbh, I think there is something amazing about being able to put across emotion so genuinely, and deliver lines as if you're just genuinely talking from your own thoughts.

Russell Crowe was incredible in A Beautiful Mind, great actor. (Miscast in Les Mis!)

I can't watch Billie Piper in anything. She looks like a monkfish.

I don't agree that Andrew Scott was miscast in Fleabag. I thought he was perfect as the Priest but he was so miscast in The Talented Mr Ripley. I couldn't watch it as it just wasn't credible

I agree re Andrew Scott, I thought he was brilliant in Fleabag. Really got across the intricacies of the character, made him someone who had lived a life but had chosen priesthood and god, but still struggled with it. I thought he was brilliant.

Best:
Jodie Comer as Villanelle. In fact, Jodie Comer in anything.

Hugh Grant as Fletcher in The Gentlemen. Surprisingly brilliant.

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. I know he’s been dissed on this thread but I thought he added an amazing depth and quirk to the character.

Johnny Depp as Captain Black.

Worst:
Leo DiCaprio as Richard in The Beach. He was meant to be a typical, slightly awkward and bumbling gen X Brit but in the film was portrayed as (and acted by) a pretty boy American womaniser. In fact the whole cast of that film should have just got in the sea.

Andie Macdowell in Four Weddings. So deeply unlikeable, I couldn’t understand why the lovely Fee played by KST was passed over for her 😢

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