Mis-casting: Which actor did you feel did NOT best represent the book character?

[chipmonkey]

Mine are:

Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
Winona Ryder as Jo from Little Women ( she did a nice job but I wouldn't have cast her!)

Jim Carrey in A Series of Unfortunate Events! So so wrong!!

hurrah!

@ Lotster

Op - I agree about Winona Ryder in Little Women, just didn't quite cut it. Neither did;

KK in P&P nor the Darcy
Tom Hanks in Da vinci code

I think I agree about the new Dumbledore, the first one was just about how I imagined him I think, it's ages since I've seen it.

Didn't realise there had been a film of The Dark is Rising, just been reading about it, OMG what have they done? I loved that book.

Does anyone remember the BBC Lion witch and wardrobe? The Lucy was awful nothing like she should be. In fact looking back they all were probably but I loved that at the time.

Rob Pattinson as Edward Cullen in Twilight. Edward is supposed to be absolutely stunningly beautiful and RP is not, although he is good looking. Also Edward was supposed to have a cheeky sense of humour which RP didn't portray at all.

Richard O'Brien should have been Snape. It's how I always pictured him in my head reading the books. Alan Rickman too clean and glossy-haired.

Emma Watson as Hermioneeee is awful, they gave her frizzy-ish hair in the first but by the third she's got massive styled curls - wtf?!

I have always thought of Sean Bean as Sirus, can't stand the chap who played him in the third and refused to watch any of the others because Prisoner of Azkaban was changed so much from the book that I can't see any of it making sense when it gets to the end of the series.

RPatt as Edward Cullen is wrong but to be fair no one is going to be as gorgeous as he is portrayed in the books, although I seem to imagine him to look a bit like Ryan Phillippe for some reason! I've just seen some pics of RPatt in the Twilight discussion though and he's seriously hot so maybe I'll have to watch New Moon with more of an open mind!

He looks loads better in New Moon but still not a patch on book Edward.

Having just re-watched part of Twilight (I saw it before I read the books last time) I can see that the miscasting of the centuary has got to be the woman that plays Rosalie - in the books she's supposed to be the most stunning woman alive - errrrm, the acrtess is not too far short of a complete dog!

I wouldn't go that far, she's reasonably attractive but not nearly stunning enough to be Rosalie. Alice was well cast though. She's really beautiful, especially in New Moon.

Read somewhere the other day that Angelina Jolie is going to play Kay Scarpetta which has got to be the worst casting ever.

Hate Renee Zellweger - her Bridget Jones was shocking

All the casting in Interview With a Vampire was awful. Love the book, was gutted by the film. I heard Ann Rice ended up having nothing to do with the film because she hated what they were doing to her book so much.

Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the chocolate factory. Absolutely awful and about 25 years too young.

I am still disatisfied with both of the actors that played Rebus.The first one (skinny Scottish bloke that was in 4 weddings) was too young and Ken Stott wasn't attractive enough to play the Rebus that inhabits my head (Sorry,Ken)

I can't belive they cast Gabriel Byrrne as the caretaker in Miss Smillas Feeling For Snow.
I was also astounded by Nic Cage in Captain Corelli

Mattbellamy- agree alice is good casting - rosalie as an actress gets it right but picture her as uma thurman in her dangerous liaisons day. Do think kirsten stewart is well cast tho

leo di caprio in the beach

I'm glad to see a few other people slating the abomination that was QUite Ugly ONe Morning. Not only was James Nesbit completely wrong but whoever adapted it fucked up the plot and relationships completely. One of Brookmyre's great strenghts is the smart, independent female characters in the books, this awful TV version turned both Jenny and Sarah into simpering twats.

Not once seen a decent Mr Rochester. Ciaran Hinds was close-ish.

All this Alan Rickman talk has got me thinking he might be a good Mr Rochester, he's kind of dead sexy and a bit menacing and not being 'conventionally handsome'.

Most Jane Eyre's have been pretty crappy too, usually far too pretty and wet. Ruth Wilson was pretty good though, a great actress.

Ok i know its not exactly the same thing as live action films but i was very sad when George Clooney was cast as the Fantastic Mr Fox, he was nothing like the fox i had had in my head since i was 6

He wasn't bloody American for a start!

Bridget Jones - i picture her being a little bit chubby but v v attractive. RZ was nowhere near either...

I quite liked KK's Elizabeth Bennett - i found the actress in the Colin Firth version a bit too smug and matronly.
And can i just give a shout out to the lass from Playing the Field and more recently, Larkrise to Candleford who played Charlotte in this adaptation - she is a fantastic actress IMO.

I agree with Alice in Twilight, she looks the part and she chirpy so she's got it right.

Even Edward's car is cast wrong - why couldn't they just use the same car is in the book, it's a car ffs!

I just finished watching Cold Mountain. Jude Law, despite earlier reservations, was well casted. Nicole Kidman was ok although she was nothing like book Ada.

don't know if anyone's already said this but - matt damon in 'the talented mr ripley', just a whole bowl o' wrong! whereas john malkovich was a brilliant tom ripley in the later film.

And Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge in the talented Mr Ripley - just too perky. Marge was meant to be dough-like

As someone mentioned before, Kevin Spacey in Shipping News, very wrong - should have been Philip Seymour Hoffman.

And I know it wasn't a film but David Tennant as Casanova completely mystified me - he had a fair stab at it but really what were they thinking??