Most perplexing, WTF movie casting of all times?

he actually looks good in that photo.

But I get your point OP.

Christmas Jones, nuclear physicist played by Denise Richards in The World is not enough

Barbra Streisand as a high priced call girl in Nuts.

Melanie Griffith in "A Stranger Among Us"

Morgan Fairchild as a nun in Gospa.

Mena Suvari is the ugly girl driven to suicide in The Rage:Carrie 2.

Apparently they thought just by putting glasses on her they would make her ugly.

Sofia Coppola in anything.

Didn't la Kidman play a brain surgeon in Days of Thunder or something?

Saw her playing a UN translator in some flick - and that was certainly a stretch...

In fact the only movie I really find her utterly convincing in is the one where she played the venal midwestern TV weather girl. She nailed it. But don't think it was really that big a stretch for her...

Umm..Kevin Costner as Robin Hood?

Playgirl centerfold Don Stroud as a priest in Amityville Horror.

Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams

I loved Sofia in Peggy Sue Got Married, this ethnic girl with two Wasps as parents and a super Wasp sister.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan. "Saddle up, pilgrim Mongols!"

Robert Pattinson as a 'beautiful' vampire in Twilight.

Tom Hiddleston as a straight, butch secret agent in the Night Manager.

SJP as Carrie Bradshaw.

Paul Lynde in every straight role ever.

Leslie Howard in GWTW, he wasn't bad looks wise however 30 years to old for the role.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula, Leo DeCaprio in Total Eclipse.

Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment by Moment.

Leo was great in Total Eclipse, what are you talking about? And I usually don't like him.

r14 I'll raise you one and offer Leslie Howard as middle-age Romeo Montague, lovestruck teen.

R6 Carrie remake was even worse - they didn't even try to make Chloe Grace Whatshername look ugly.

Paul Lukas as Philo Vance in "The Casino Mystery Case" (1935) boggled me. Since when does the gentleman detective have so thick a Hungarian accent to make Bela Lugosi sound positively Dubuque in comparison? Harpo Marx would've been more convincing.

Definitely not the worst example, but I just watched Suddenly Last Summer yesterday and it seemed to me Monty Clift was the one who needed a lobotomy, not Liz.

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire.

Meryl as Nora Ephron in "Heartburn"

How about Gregory Peck's nazi in The Boys From Brazil?

Denise Richards as a starship pilot in Starship Troopers

Denise Richards was awful in everything save for, maybe, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS where she played a calculating bitch, and WILD THINGS, where she played...a calculating bitch.

That skinny troll who so many people here are in love with who somehow got cast in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME.

59 year old Lorne Greene cast as 52 year old Ava Gardner's father in Earthquake

R2 is my spirit animal. 1st thought I had was The World Is Not Enough, Christmas Jones/Denise Richards as a Nuclear Physicist. Hahaha. Love that movie, it is my favorite Bond (probably because it's from my youth), but it's beyond ridiculous. Also, it's literally the last of the good 60s-esque Bond innuendos at the end when Bond says "I thought Christmas only comes/cums once a year"...closed out the Century. THE LAST TRUE BOND FILM.

my first thought was also Denis Richards.

I love her more than my good Fingerhut luggage, but I never bought Cher as a high-powered lady lawyer in [italic]Suspect.[/italic]

[quote]I love her more than my good Fingerhut luggage, but I never bought Cher as a high-powered lady lawyer in Suspect.

And I love that movie!

Miss Joan Crawford as a circus owner/dick magnet in [italic]Berserk![/italic] a world-renowned anthropologist in [italic]Trog,[/italic] and a 29-year-old housewife on [italic]The Secret Storm[/italic]

The Human Stain features Anthony Hopkins as a black guy, Nicole Kidman as a janitor, and Wentworth Miller as a straight guy.

Was the casting person dead?

Lindsey Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor.

Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowdent

R33

" Now be serious Bill; mother & I have to make plans ! "

Tom Cruise in THE FIRM. The very idea of that child outwitting the FBI, the mafia & the crooked law firm for whom he works was an extreme stretch of credibility.

Alec Guinness as a Japanese man in Majority of One.

The answer: You can't.

The winner is: John Wayne as Genghis Kahn in The Conquerer. Fun fact: a lot of the cast and crew died of cancer because they filmed close to an atomic testing site.

Runner up: Liberace as a straight pianist in Sincerely Yours.

Kate Hepburn in "Dragon Seed".

Rihanna as a top hacker in oceans remake, you now she'll be the worst part.

As much as I love her, Diana Ross in the Wiz. Shrill and shrieking, wearing a fright wig, and playing the most dour schoolteacher, it's terrible.

Susan Hayward too, R40.

Hilary Duff as Bonnie in the never-made"Bonnie & Clyde" remake. The news about Duff playing Bonnie even ignited a little feud in the press between her and Faye Dunaway - Faye said something like "Couldn't they find a real actress to play my role?" to which Duff replied "I guess she is so bitter because of the way she looks now", or something along those line. Thank heaven the project was later dropped.

R15 Keanu Reeves was even worse than usual in Dracula. I hope whoever cast him in that movie reconsidered their career after that. Although not a movie, I thought the casting for the second True Detective was awful. Vince Vaughan was like a dead plank of wood. Colin Farrel just played himself. There was no chemistry between characters and the story was shit.

Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's

All the other Asians in Hollywood must have been in [italic]Flower Drum Song[/italic].

Clifton Webb in every movie where he attempted to play a heterosexual.

Wow. 49 responses and no one's mentioned THIS?

Still alive Valerie Harper as Consuelo, Alan Arkin's latina wife in Freebie and the Bean..

Don't forget r40, the problem was compounded when they carted tons of that radioactive soil back for studio shooting (so the location shots would match).

Tina Fey as a slutty white trash mom in Sisters.

Travolta's love interest in Saturday Night Fever.

Karen Gormley lacked any charisma, dancing ability, sophistication or sex appeal. She prevented a good movie from becoming great.

Laurence Olivier as the islamic warrior Mahdi in Khartoum

Awww shucks Yankee performance by Robert Redford as a British hunter in OUT OF AFRICA...

Barbra Streisand as a young, Jewish yeshiva boy in Yentl. Papa can you hear me......... OY!

[quote]Karen Gormley lacked any charisma, dancing ability, sophistication or sex appeal.

And so did Karen Lynn Gorney. Meanwhile, I had every one of those things and I've had several TV series.

Thanks R58. Too lazy to check she so underwhelmed me.

I don't think Karen Lynn Gorney was miscast. I think some mistake what she's supposed to be. She's impressive to Tony.

Tanya Roberts in A View to a Kill.

Theresa Russell in anything

Nicole Kidman has nailed anything I have seen her in but I never saw her Tom Cruise movies.

Nicole Kidman is ok in "Birth" . I liked her in The Hours as well

I actually think the too old Keanu could have played Rambeau in Total Eclipse.

DiCaprio as Howard Hughes

Ryan Gosling as a prosecutor (Fracture)

Russell Crowe singing in Les Miserables

Middle aged Stockard Channing as a high school student in Grease

[quote] Nicole Kidman has nailed anything I have seen her in but I never saw her Tom Cruise movies.

You've obviously never seen Grace of Monaco, Queen of the Desert, Bewitched, The Stepford Wives, Australia...either. She's a very hit-and-miss actress: when she's good she's terrific, but when she's bad she takes the whole movie down with her.

Jennifer Lopez as anything human.

Well....

Nicole Kidman is not an actress. She is a performer who mimics what she thinks acting is. As shallow as the image in a glass.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as cavalry officer Vronsky in "Anna Karenina". Completely wrong for the character.

And the stylist team must've been high: they bleached ORANGE his hair and mustache for the role!

Michael J Fox as "Marty McFly'.

David Lean was the king of "Wtf was he thinking?!" casting. Examples:

Omar Sharif as a Russian in "Doctor Zhivago",

Robert Mitchum as a milquetoast schoolteacher who lets Christopher Jones take his woman in "Ryan's Daughter",

Christopher Jones in a role that requires acting talent, also "Ryan's Daughter",

Alec Guinness, in blackface, as an Arab - "Lawrence of Arabia"

Alec Guinness, in blackface, as an Indian - "A Passage To India",

Alec Guinness, with prosthetic hook-nose, as Fagin - "Oliver Twist"

[quote]Saw Nicole Kidman playing a UN translator in some flick - and that was certainly a stretch...

The Interpreter....it also had her driving around NYC on a scooter

Anything where Hillary Swank is romantically attracted to a man and vice versa.

Arabs are not black, R73.

Warner Oland and Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. And Peter Sellers as a parody of Chan.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Serena. I read the book and kind of could see Jennifer in the mistress' role, which was greatly reduced in the film, but even if that role had been bigger it was supporting and they studio clearly wanted her to star. BC had no reason to be in the film at all.

R76 Who says so?

Young DiCaprio as young Rimbaud was excellent casting, even if the script wasn't all that.

Bradley Cooper as an Italian in American Hustle was really grating. In the same movie, Jen Lawrence as an embitered old hag, over the hill, was way too young.

R34 - agreed on The Human Stain and it got me thinking, has an actual black man or woman be cast in any movie or TV show where there's the one family member, etc. who "passed" - they've always been white as far as I can recall?

Wentworth Miller isn't white.

The original Tales of the City had a black actress playing a white woman pasding as black. I think a mixed actress played the role in the sequel.

Penelope Cruz for a role of 'a Swedish woman' in new Murder on the Orient Express movie!

In 1974 film Ingrid Bergman played the role of Greta

Try telling any women on urban blogs that Wentworth Miller isn't white.

R83 Speaking of Ingrid Bergman, that recent news that Jessica Chastain is gonna play her in a biopic is pretty WTF, especially when they had a choice to cast someone like Rebecca Ferguson, who isn't only Swedish but also looks a lot like Ingrid.

R73 I can't imagine how offended the Russians must have been by Doctor Zhivago - the Cold War was already at its peak in the 1960's but then Hollywood decided to make matters even worse by filming a grand adaptation of a controversial book that was banned in the Soviet Union and cast an Egyptian as Yuri. I'm pretty sure all of that was intentional, because it was recently revealed that CIA was fully aware of the great importance this book had:

[quote] In 2014 declassified documents show that the United States Central Intelligence Agency used Doctor Zhivago as a tool to provoke dissent in the USSR. A CIA memo from April 1958 described the "great propaganda value" and discussed providing support for having the novel printed in Russian, and distributing Western translations within the Soviet Union. The memo stated that the book was "a passive but piercing exposition of the effect of the Soviet system on the life of a sensitive intelligent citizen." The CIA memo noted that the book is valuable "not only for its intrinsic message and thought-provoking nature, but also for the circumstances of its publication: we have the opportunity to make Soviet citizens wonder what is wrong with their government, when a fine literary work by the man acknowledged to be the greatest living Russian writer is not even available in his own country in his own language for his own people to read".

Daniel Dae Kim as "Chin Ho Kelley"

Grace Park as "Kono Kalakaua"

Polynesian, Asian, close enough I guess.

Kenneth Branaugh's mustache in unnecessary Orient Express remake. It takes up half the screen.

German-Irish domestic abuser Fassbender as Scandinavian Detective Harry Hole. His height and weight are also so wrong for the role.

Tom Cruise as 6-feet-5-inches tall, 250 pounds Jack Reacher

[quote] Kenneth Branaugh's mustache in unnecessary Orient Express remake. It takes up half the screen.

It's actually how Agathe Christie describes and pictured the character.

R85 Speaking of Ingrid Bergman, that recent news that Jessica Chastain is gonna play her in a biopic is pretty WTF, especially when they had a choice to cast someone like Rebecca Ferguson, who isn't only Swedish but also looks a lot like Ingrid.

Agree.

She was also very odd in The Zookeeper's Wife her acting her accent

[quote] The Conquerer. Fun fact: a lot of the cast and crew died of cancer because they filmed close to an atomic testing site.

The several packs a day of unfiltered cigarettes Wayne and most of his contemporaries spent their lives smoking having NOTHING to do with cancer. Honest.

DiCaprio again as J. Edgar Hoover

Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka owns this thread

Lily James - Cinderella

Plastic Angelina Jolie in everything

Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald!

Why, R95? It worked for me.

R93 is right, though. I love Leo, but Hoover, he ain't

And R97 just won the thread.

R90: It's actually how Agathe Christie describes and pictured the character.

Colonel Hastings describing Poirot in first book: "an extraordinary-looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound."

In what army would that be an acceptable mustache? Not many hipsters in the army.

Super scientist Anne Hathaway in Interstellar

Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough

All Black cast new Spider-Man

Tara Reid is holding that pen like a pro, I totally believe that she's a nerd.

Asian Emma Stone in Aloha

Ghostbusters (2016)

Impregnated Linda Darnell as the Virgin Mary in pious classic The Song of Bernadette. Darnell had such a bad girl reputation back then that Franz Werfel (who wrote the book the movie was based on) threatened to remove his name from the project. Daryl Zanuck said to him that another, unknown actress was chosen to play the Virgin but he really kept the footage of Darnell in the finished project.

Rooney Mara as Indian princess Tiger Lily

Female Doctor Who #crying

What is next? Black trans Jane Bond?

Bryce Dallas Howard (with Matt Damon) in "Hereafter." Like the worst high school play actor getting a line on Love Boat playing with a journeyman actor. I felt so bad for Matt. Journeyman's job of controlling the eye roll.

Tom Hardy in many of his films he can't do accent for shit and keeps ruining every fuckin film with his shitty accents

Kate Winslet - The Dressmaker

Fassbender - Steve Jobs

[quote]Penelope Cruz for a role of 'a Swedish woman' in new Murder on the Orient Express movie!

The character in the new movie was renamed Pilar Estravados and is Spanish, not Swedish.

Glenn Close closer to 60 than 20 playing Nellie Forbush.

The character in the book is Swedish how dare them to change that for diversity's sake

R104

She's squinting though.

(She's really trying!)

[QUOTE]DiCaprio again as J. Edgar Hoover

Why ? I mean they're both, um, male.

DiCaprio - The Revenant

Zsa Zsa as Talleah, a Venusian scientist in "Queen of Outer Space". Now I've never been to Venus but I doubt scientists there have Hungarian accents and are dressed in high heels and chiffon dresses with leg slits and matching scarves.

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned along with all the other ditzy blond bimbo doctors--- Carmen Diaz as a orthopedic doc in Something about Mary.

Jennifer Lawrence in Silve Linings playbook. Way too young to play a world weary widow.

'Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook'

And her overacting #scream

Johnny Depp as Tonto. That's when I finally started wishing for Johnny Depp to go away.

Any of Babs Streisand's roles in all of her self-directed movies. Someone else shoulda been looking through that viewfinder.

[quote] I've never been to Venus but I doubt scientists there have Hungarian accents and are dressed in high heels and chiffon dresses with leg slits and matching scarves.

Well if they don't, they SHOULD

The new movie coming out "The Mountain Between Us" starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Both roles are outrageously miscast. Neither character is British. The doctor dude isn't black and the woman is a tall, wiry, brunette athlete.

It seems they just cast actors by their popularity and don't care about anything else

Bye bitch!

Jennifer Lawrence in everything

That is a weird looking kiss in R16. Lily Tomlin looks like she is sucking on his tongue. Who on earth thought those two would make a good couple?

Kelly McGillis is Top Gun. She looked like an Amazon woman next to Tom Cruise. Like when Sly was married to Briggite Neilson.

^ Agree she's very manly too

I have no doubt that Margot Robbie's legendary-in-the-making turn as Queen Elizabeth I will leave audiences raving "Cate Blan-who?"

Couldn't they find a British actress? Why they cast her #crying

Kevin Spacey in the king of all vanity projects, as Bobby Darrin.

American Beauty had me wanting to see him in anything and everything. The B Darrin fiasco cured me off that right quick.

White actors in blackface playing blacks in Birth of a Nation

Richard Barthelmess pretending to be Chinese in Broken Blossoms

Ava Gardner as Julie in Show Boat

Gene Kelly in Marjorie Morningstar (as Noel Airman)

Fred Astaire as a romantic lead (Easter Parade, Daddy Long Legs, etc.)

Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz.

Surprised that Laurence Olivier as Othello wasn't mentioned earlier.All kinds of wrong.

Judy as a hungry chorine in A Star Is Born.

R134 wins this thread: 45-year old Kevin Spacey (and he looks even older) playing a 20-year old heartthrob has to be seen to believed.

Apparently he first tried to get this movie made in 1994, when he was 35, but was told even then that he was too old for the part.

Every blackwashing in cinema and TV history

Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood in the 1990 version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. It an act of stupendous vanity, and at the age of 36, she took the role of the 19 year old sister of Marianne Dashwood played by Kate Winslet, who was still a teenager at the time. Thompson was simply too old for the part. She looked too old and acted too old, it was very distracting. She would have been better as the girls mother. Sorry, bitch, you don't look 19 in that part (Thompson is on the far right with Kate and the actress who played their younger sister).

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan

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R132 Was mick hucknall unavailable?

Richard Gere and Wyona Ryder as lovers in some romantic movie which flopped big time.

I actually thought SJP was perfect or Carrie Bradshaw

Scarlett Johansson - Ghost in the Shell

R98 Because she's not blonde and not beautiful and Her eyes are not blue. Would have preferred a blonde French actress instead of her. Her acting was not bad she was ok but she did not have the look for the part.

R141 Sense and Sensibility came out in 1995.

Julia Roberts as Tinkerbelle. So tiny, so graceful and dainty.

^ So high and strung out she delayed shooting for days.

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R113 - if Bergman could play a Spanish peasant girl in Ror Whom the Bell Tolls, why wouldn't Crus be cast as Swedish?

Do TV movies count?

Matthew Broderick as Harold Hill in The Music Man.

R153 Bergman was a wrong choice for playing Spanish girl

true r19.

All these Carrie castings kind of point out how brilliant Spacek was in the original. She was kind of unattractive at times and then pretty at the prom. In the book the character is pretty at the prom due to extreme weight loss over the stress of going to it. Spacek showed the change just by bugging out her eyes and her expressions and other physical stuff.

R141 - when the film was made, Thompson herself, almost obsessively, talked about how too old she was. And indeed she is, for Elinor as she's described in the Book. But I'd like to offer a different take. The book, as its title suggests, is about two opposing views on life, representing by 19 yo Elinor and 17 yo Marianne. In her screenplay, Thompson chose to flesh out the very minor character of Margaret, the youngest sister, and introduced her as a free spirited tomboy, obliviant to social conventions. In this very sophisticated way, she managed to offer a very modern, feminist take on the novel without making it anachronistic. In the film, by having preteen Margaret who's happily ignorant of the way women are supposed to conform, late teen Marianne who knows the rules, defying them and then succumbing to them, and finally an Elinor who appear to be (let's be kind, it's 1800 we're talking about) in her late twenties, as the one who has the social structure totally internalized, Thompson tells us that the different take of the sisters has a lot to do with the different stages of Life they're in. The longer a female is being subjected to the Paternalistic nature of society, the more obedient she becomes. And by being older than the character was in the book, this point is made far more clearer.

good one r121, and to think she won an Oscar for it.

She's just too young to be a cop's widow who has had all this stress after he died. In the book the character is actually older than the Bradley Cooper character and he is repelled by her when she keeps following him around. It is only after he gets to know her that he starts to like her.

In the film it is sort of like of course a 33 year old guy would be happy to have this pretty young thing fall for him.

RDJ as Iron Man, very few people thought he could pull this off.

If I'm not wrong Jennifer Whorelence is playing Javier Bardem's wife in new Aronofsky film 'Mother'

ROFL

Goop as Miss Peggy Lee in INFAMOUS

Waiting for Peggy Lee biography film by Todd Haynes starring Witherspoon for years!

Javier will act circles around JHo. He is still one of my favorite actors although personally I think he is an idiot and a big hypocrite.

[quote] Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Serena.

I didn't read the book version of "Serena". Could R78 (or anyone else) provide more info about why that casting might be wrong for the characters?

Faye Dunaway as the daughter of Gene Hackman in The Chamber. They are only 11 years apart in age.

Angelina Jolie as Colin Farrell's mother in Alexander

Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman in Julia.

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury! :|

K. Branagh as Hercule Poirot (and everyone else in the film)

Debra Paget, although a 1950s WASP beauty, in a a bevy of ethnic roles:

Broken Arrow Sonseeahray 1950

Bird of Paradise Kalua 1951

Princess of the Nile Princess Shalimar / Taura 1954

The Last Hunt Indian Girl 1955

Omar Khayyam Sharain 1957

Tiger of Bengal Seetha the Sheeva dancer 1959

The Indian Tomb Seetha 1959

Cleopatra's Daughter Shila - Cleopatra's Daughter 1960

There were three or four more, but I'm tired of typing.

R169 even Dame Judi?

Agree the casting of that film is horrible

Angelina Jolie in whatever-it-was-called,where she minstrelled it in blackface, like the Republican-in-'liberal'-costume, dimwit that she is.

Gal Gadot as The Wonder Woman

Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanov

Scarlet Johansson as cybernetic Japanese woman

Angelina Jolie - Her Filmography - All roles

R172 Are you talking about that movie she looked liked Jennifer Lopez?

I noticed these two ugly creatures look the same

Amy Adams as a cold, frigid, rich beyond belief bitch in Nocturnal Animals

Miss Cillian Murphy in a male role.

Ooh, A MIGHTY HEART, R172. I forgot about that. I am still astonished Angie did that. Or that people allowed it. They look nothing alike.

This is Angelina Ho's blackface film. A Mighty Heart.

Am I the only one who thinks both Angelina and JLo has bleached their skins? They looked darker 20 years ago

Kyle McLaughlin as a casino executive in Showgirls.

Jared Leto as the alt/punk/whatever Joker in Suicide Squad.

That's it! A Mighty Heart.

Diane Lane as Christina Cotter in The Perfect Storm. Too pretty and her Boston accent was laughable. Bobbie's mom, the crew of the Andrea Gale, Rusty Schwimmer as Irene (aka Big Red,) and others, were well cast and very believable as the people they portray. Yeah, the leads had to be big bankable stars, but at least Wahlberg was from MA, knew the types in Gloucester who'd be crewing on the fishing boats and didn't have to be taught the accent. By contrast with all those who gave excellent, believable performances with decent Boston or New England accents, Lane sticks out like a sore, albeit pretty, thumb.

Donald Trump as the President of the United States.

WAIT-- you mean it's not a movie? OMG!

Sure R164. Jennifer Lawrence has pretty much become a go-to actress for emoting to the extreme and in the book Serena doesn't really have emotions. She's a psychopath with an icy aristocratic blonde exterior. Her performance in Winter's Bone was understated but still made me think of Rachel, who was impregnated and then abandoned by Serena's husband. In fact Rachel kind of felt like a Ree Dolly 70-80 yrs before before Ree's time. But the film had to be restructured to be more about love and less about power and showcase Jennifer expressing emotions that Serena never ever would have expressed, and I question would have even felt.

Far too busy being a respected neurosurgeon to make it all the way to R2, R101?

R84, you aren't an anthropologist so I'll make up my own mind about what Wentworth's ethnicity is, given that his ancestry is African American, Jamacan, German, English, Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese.

Most of the cast of The House of the Spirits. Jeremy Irons (who has never been able to play a human being, much less a Latino) and Meryl Streep? Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Grace Gummer, Teri Polo and Vanessa Redgrave. Those must have been some heavy-duty drugs the casting people were using.

I made sure I watched it to see if it was as bad as I expected. It was.

Natalie Wood in "West Side Story."

Richard Beymer in West Side Story.

Stockard Channing, Grease

Natalie Wood, West Side Story.

R142, Richard Gere was far far worse, and I worked on the film.

Shit, @ R191, thread did not load completely.

of course someone already said Nats playing a Puerto Rican.

Luis Rainier as a Chinese peasant, THE GOOD EARTH.

It bears repeating.

R159 Better RDJ as Iron Man, than fellow contender miss Tammy Cruise, who would have ended the marvel franchise years ago as Tammy went on in the pursuit of other franchises like Jack Reacher, Mummy, etc.

RDJ totally reshaped the physicality of Tony Stark though, who in the comic books is 6 feet 2 with blue eyes. Just like what he did to Sherlock Holmes.

If Iron Man movie came about before 2008, lanky and eccentric Jeff Goldblum would have been interesting

Gotta love these casting directors who think adding a pair of black glasses is going to make some bimbette look studious.

Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon. Of all people Kubrick could be a real star fucker at times.

John Travolta and Joan Allen as a married couple in Face Off.

Michael Keaton as Batman

Elizabeth Taylor as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A 33 yr old actress considered one of the most beautiful women in the world cast as a middle-aged profane battle-ax! Horrible bit of casting. Everybody at the time was screaming WTF!!!!

It turned out brilliant!!!!

Diane Kruger as Helen Of Troy

Winona Ryder as Lady Anne in the "Richard III" play-within-the-movie, "Looking For Richard". In the famous act I, scene II (with Pacino as Richard), she goes from slightly miffed (you can almost hear her saying "Eeww--as IF!") to blushing, love-struck teenager. Pacino seemed to think she was right for the role, but then again, his only prerequisite was that the actress needed to be "very young".

Rosie O'Donnell, "Exit to Eden."

Madonna in ANYTHING.

Pia Zadora in ANYTHING.

R203 That's the stuff that nightmares are made of....

Rita Hayworth as a hausfrau in The Story on Page One, married to Alfred Ryder. Director Clifford Odets has a shot of her sitting with legs akimbo attempting to look like a slob, but her natural elegance works against the role. Here's a still for the film, with Rita in a gown she doesn't wear in it.

Not perplexing WTF but low-key creeper-weed WTF:

Julia Roberts in [italic]Steel Magnolias [/italic]—a native Atlantan who turned out to be totally wooden and cringey as a Southern girl. She was way more natural as a Portuguese New Englander in [italic]Mystic Pizza.[/italic]

I love how everyone is trashing the remake of Orient Express and none of you have even seen it yet.

Macaulay Culkin as Michael Alig.

Tom Cruise Interview with a Vampire

but at least he acted well unlike Pitt who was horrible

[quote]I love how everyone is trashing the remake of Orient Express and none of you have even seen it yet.

Surely you don't have to stick your nose in a garbage can to know it stinks. Then again, maybe you do.

Jack Warden as Tiberius Caesar's assistant Nerva in the mini series A.D.

R208 Those of us with a functioning brain cell are astute enough to realize that some movies should never, EVAH be remade because they will invariably be a pile of steaming turds.

Tony Curtis in those 1950s costume epics even including Spartacus in 1960. He never actually said "Yonda lies da castle of my foddah" but he might as well have.

Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera. He can't sing.

Bette Davis as Fannie Skeffington, the most beautiful girl of her time.

MR. SKEFFINGTON (1944)

R211

Like Gyllenhaal in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, the role came naturally to Tom.

R188 R191

Most thought that she did a decent job. It's only in recent years with all of the PC bullshit that now some lament that they didn't cast a real Hispanic in the part.

Michael Fassbender - Macbeth

Can he ever speak with another accent not his own Irish accent? and mispronounced a lot of words too and was either mumbling or shouting

How Michael Fassbender got Macbeth wrong

The WSS producers offered Tony to Elvis Presley without asking for an audition or a screen test. Col. Parker wouldn't even consider having Elvis portray a "juvenile delinquent" and never passed the offer along to him. Elvis was very upset when he found out about it much later.

Elisabeth Shue as the sexy electrochemist scientist who discovers cold fusion, in The Saint movie.

Oh yes, Val Kilmer as The Saint. Inexplicable.

I saw a screening of Virgina Woolf at the 92nd Street Y where Albee was interviewed after.

He still thought Taylor was miscast and did not seem happy she got the role though.

Albee wanted Bette Davis and James Mason. Davis wanted the part badly and campaigned for it (she wanted to do it with Henry Fonda). But Mike Nichols bought the screen rights and he was only interested in Burton and Taylor.

It should have been Tallulah and Vincent Price. With Ann Miller and Carleton Carpenter as Honey and what's his name.

Russell Crowe playing a genius in A Beautiful Mind. No way in hell.

Hedy Lamarr in her mid-40's playing Joan of Arc in "The History of Mankind".

Cary Grant in The Howards of Virginia. Too modern for a historical film and his accent changed by the second.

Brad Pitt - Troy

Diane Kruger - Troy

Orlando Bloom - Troy

For those who have seen Aloha, did Emma Stone's character have to be 1/4 Asian? He should have just made her white.

Way back at R2, that was the one that immediately came to mind for me.

Bryce Dallas Haward as Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. She replaced Rachele Leffevre.

Emmet and Rosalie in The Twilight Saga

Dakota Fanning and Martin Sheen in The Twilight Saga

* Michael Sheen

Amy Adams - Nocturnal Animals

Amy Adams - Sharp Things

Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies

Lily Collins - Snow White

Richard Madden as Prince charming - Cinderella

Ben Affleck as Daredevil in Daredevil

Russell Crowe as Javert in Les Misérables

Paul Bettany was considered for the role of Inspector Javert, before Russell Crowe was cast.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan

Robert Redford as someone named "Denys Finch Hatton"

Olivia Wilde as Justin Timberlake's mother in "In Time."

Joan Crawford as Rachel Jackson in "The Gorgeous Hussy." Period costumes did not become Joan.

[quote]I love how everyone is trashing the remake of Orient Express and none of you have even seen it yet.

Are you new here? It's what we do!

R232, how do you explain George Clooney in THE DESCENDANTS? His character was supposed to be part Hawaiian. But George is white, and no one said jack squat about it.

^ He was nominated for Oscar for playing himself for 50th time

Yup r246.

Keanu in any period piece. ANY period piece.

Back when producers were casting their hot chicks from the pages of Maxim magazine (remember that cultural low point?) and we had Heidi Fleiss girls getting cast as nuclear physicists.

DiCaprio, whom I can't picture as anything but an overindulged, video game playing brat on mulholland as J Edgar? Or a fast-talking Jewish guy in Wolf of Wall Street? Or a rugged outdoorsman in Revenant? No, just no. The closet part to him was Gatsby... if Gatsby was a little more femme.

There have been some WTF castings that I think worked out well: Taylor in Virginia Woolf, Sharon Stone in the Scorsese movie (she's done nothing but crap and preen before that), Melanie Griffith in Working Girl (an LA movie star daughter playing a secretary from Staten Island... think about that)

Kirk Douglas in Man From Snowy River. Just....wtf are you doing there, Mr Douglas?

I'm sure this will be defended but Shelley Duvall in "The Shining."

Julia Roberts as an Irish maid in "Mary Reilly". Her accent kept going from really bad Irish to something from down south.

Olympia Dukakis as a southern bell in "Steel Magnolias"

Not to throw off the discussion too much, but a few words about the portrayal of scientists in movies. It's not so much the attractiveness which is an issue but the apparent age of the characters. Scientists, like doctors, have to do their usual 4-years of higher education, then graduate work and then usually more post-graduate work AND THEN considerable time spent at a place of employment until you reach a high level position often shown on film. It's not that there aren't attractive scientists (or doctors), but you wouldn't see one in their 30s (even early 40s) unless they some managed to skip any or most of the above.

Uhm, hello? Some ancient Egyptian realness, anyone?

Umm, hello #2.

[quote]Michael Keaton as Batman

I thought he was great.

Your tongue will dig your grave, R254!

casting Scarlett Johansen as some Japanese cybernetic mutant. Really? They couldn't just find a Japanese/Asian actress for that part?

Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl

Spot on R248 DiCaprio, whom I can't picture as anything but an overindulged, video game playing brat on mulholland as J Edgar? Or a fast-talking Jewish guy in Wolf of Wall Street? Or a rugged outdoorsman in Revenant? No, just no. The closet part to him was Gatsby... if Gatsby was a little more femme.

Kate Winslet - Divergent

Emilia Clarke – Terminator Genisys

Russell Crowe – Noah

Sofia Coppola as Mary Corleone – The Godfather Part III

Miss Squishyface Renner was the low point in the Avengers cast.

They couldn't find a more conventionally handsome guy as the archer?

Okay, has this thread really gotten to 265 posts without a nod to Emma Watson for Beauty and the Beast? Or did I miss it.

R266 you have no idea how many straight males beat it to Emma Watson.

R183 for the win.

Christian Bale as Moses

Amy Adams - The Man of Steel

Amy Adams - Nocturnal Animals

Michael Crawford-Hello Dolly

Haggard-looking, 46-year old Judy Davis as 22-year old Judy Garland in Me and My Shadows. Bitch should have left Tammy Blanchard to portray Judy in the Trolley Song sequence, but just like deluded Kevin Spacey mentioned above she obviously thought she could convincingly portray someone more than half her age.

Johnny Depp and his moustache in Mortdecai

Kenneth Branagh and his moustache as Hercule Poirot

R250, are you joking? Who would you have cast in the Shining that would have been, from the getgo, as spooky and outre-looking as Shelley?

Jodie Foster in Sommersby pining away for Richard Gere

Diane Keaton in Reds (la did dah, la did dah, oh is there a revolution?)

Woody Allen in anything in the last 30 years where he gets the girl

Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as mother and daughter in Panic Room

Everyone in Mamma Mia

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks in Larry Crowne

Taylor was only 33 in Virginia Woolf‽ Jesus...

I'll add Kevin Spacey as anyone straight post-The Usual Suspects.

Jim Carey in Eternal Sunshine. Far too old. No charm.

Allison PILL as Zelda Fitzgerald. Fuck that.

Tom Cruise as a human being in, well, anything.

Most of the supporting cast of Hello, Dolly. Babs was miscast herself, but she managed to make it work and is the only reason to watch the movie.

Bette Milder in Gypsy. It sounds great on paper, but it ended up being one of the hammiest and most embarrassing things I've ever seen. Not once did she ever make Rose feel like a real human. Roz Russell was no prize in the earlier film either, but she at least resembled a human being.

Both Julianne Moore and Patricia Clarkson as Margaret White in their remakes of Carrie. How they managed to make that character boring and unthreatening is beyond me. Plus, they're both excellent actresses. What happened? Add Chloe Moritz in Moore's version to that list as well. Did they even try to make her look unattractive in that movie?

But the supporting cast in Dolly is not bad except for Crawford who is the worst casting in a movie musical from the beginning of sound up until that time and that includes a helluva lot of movies.

It would then become the standard in films such as Lost Horizon and Mame.

R277 Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as mother and daughter in Panic Room

Why?

Nicole Kidman - Cold Mountain

Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet

I'm with R282. I think Foster and Stewart were an excellent match at the time.

Not a superlative WTF, but a lesser comparative WTF movie casting: Robert Montgomery as the prizefighter in "Here Comes Mr. Jordan."

Eddie Redmayne as Matt Damon's son

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as younger version of Bruce Willis in The Looper. I know lots of CGI was used on his face, but he still looked nothing like Willis.

[quote] Eddie Redmayne as Matt Damon's son

I never understood that one. Eddie looks nothing like either Damon or Jolie, his parents in the film. And Redmayne's young liver lips are particularly evident in this film.

Eddie Redmayne would be a lot more believable playing Rita Tushingham's son:

I disagree strongly with r276

Diane Keaton was great in Reds. She should have won for it. (but I also like Hepburn in On Golden Pond.)

George Clooney as Batman. Sinful.

r178, It's called diamond cream facials. If you want to see skin bleaching see nicki minaj or rihanna, though she has stopped lately and is back to her beautiful cocoa complexion.

I second r288. What a weird fucking casting choice. Neither were roles they couldn't have cast someone, anyone who at least vaguely resembled the other.

Joseph gordon was brilliant in the role, and they did a great job with the effects making him look just like Bruce Willis. I suspect the actor who was turned down for the role, I won't name names, PR shills are posting here.

Lorne Greene & Ava Gardner as father & daughter in Earthquake.

Cybill Shepherd as Daisy Miller

R240, Oh man, Wayne as Genghis Khan reminded me of Marlo Thomas as a Chinese woman on Bonanza.

Rod Steiger in Dr Zhivago.

Every time he comes on screen I'm like what the hell is Rod Steiger doing in Russia during the Russian revolution?!

No one else in the international cast makes me ask what are they doing there.

And of course in Oklahoma he's in an entirely different non musical movie all together.

Sean Connery as Cathy's 'love interest' in "Entrapment."

The Academy later awarded her Oscar-winning performance in said film with an Oscar for "Chicago."

R2 wins!

Someone mentioned Pitt and Cruise in Interview With the Vampire. Cruise is somewhat better, though they're both awful. I just rewatched it and the movie is terrible. I remember thinking it was so cool and grand and gothic when it was released. Kirstin Dunst acts circles around everyone in the movie. Even Banderas is bad.

Tom Hardy whispering in Taboo reminds me of Papa Lazarou from The League of Gentlemen. He even has a similar top hat and coat!

Redmayne said they cast him as Jolie's son because he has big lips like Jolie

The entire cast of Alexander

Emma Watson as Belle

Mark Walhberg playing an English Professor in "The Gambler"

Chris Hemsworth playing an expert computer hacker in "Blackhat"

It is just like Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist, you can't just take some hottie that doesn't project intelligence whatsoever and try to have them play some intellectual. The results are embarrassing.

Thank god Lionel Barrymore was too sick to do GWTW.

Every time he would have appeared on screen I would have been like oh shit Lionel Barrymore again.

Freddie Prinze Jr as Fred in Scooby Doo. Needed a natural blonde.

R307 I'm glad real-life dumbo Mark Ruffalo was so well-received as Dr. Bruce Banner, gamma radiation physicist genius, in Avengers.

Ruffalo got daddy-hot/cute again these days.

Warren Beatty and George Hamilton as Italian playboys in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone," and "The Light in the Piazza," respectively.

I'm another one who loves Keaton in Reds. She was on a roll, giving great dramatic performances in Goodbar, Interiors, and Shoot the Moon. Reds seems largely forgotten today despite the number of nominations. But Keaton is terrific in it.

Jared Leto as a Victorian English gentleman in this montrosity:

^ And Christian Slater in the same monstrosity

When teen-pop Brit band McFly were inexplicably given actual speaking parts in the fluffy Lindsay Lohan vehicle JUST MY LUCK (2006) just because they contributed a couple of song to the soundtrack.

Linds designed to fuck the greasy drummer during wrap, must have been the pinnacle of his career.

Oh, Fuck yeah, R283.

You can add Renee Zellweger to that. For a Texan to mangle a Southern accent like that, there's no excuse. Maybe it's like expecting English actors to be able to do Scottish accents because they're next door.

Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair.

Zosia Mamet and Matt Smith in the upcoming Patti Smith/Robert Mapplethorpe biopic. I hate to sound shallow, but that's gotta be the ugliest onscreen duo ever created. He looks like Boris Karloff and she's very simian-looking.

well neither mapplethorpe nor smith were "movie star" attractive

I googled that Smith/Mapplethorpe project and apparently Zosia had dropped out and was replaced by Marianne Rendón - I have no idea who she is but she's definitely much easier on the eyes.

patti and robert

Costner as Robin of Locksley.

It's been over 20 years since and I'm still hacked off about it.

The "greasy" drummer from McFly became very hot - Harry Judd. He's probably had to get hair implants but hot bod and pretty decent face. Leagues above poor dear sad old Lohan.

Judd and his bandmates ought not to have had roles in a film, R323. They have a certain silly charm and ease being themselves in front of an interview camera, but film is an entirely different beast. Slam Lohan's chops, but she has the movie-star IT-factor.

Saw Brad Pitt's old shame THE DEVIL'S OWN last week, and while his casting is at first blush utterly perplexing and his accent indeed slippery Pitt was good enough back then to engage the viewer in spite of these faults (and the flimsy script). When playing opposite real Irish actors at the start, Pitt basically holds his own. The technical aspects of character only fall apart later.

Pitt has said that he wanted to make a gritty I.R.A movie in Ireland, no cops-and-robbers or Celtic-Americana involved. Shame no-one listened to his gorgeousness back then, and instead Harrison Ford threw his hoary carcass around to the movie's detriment.

Billie Burke as Glinda the good witch of the north. She was 55 years old at the time.

[quote] Asian Emma Stone in Aloha

I think this was completely overblown. The character herself talks about how she doesn't look Asian. I had a co-worker who was half Irish (father) and half Indian (mother). She had red hair, peaches and cream complexion and looked like she stepped right out of a Kilkenny pub.

Elizabeth Barridge in AMADEUS. I win.

I was watching Death Becomes Her the other day though Bruce was ok I think another actor would have been better for the role Idk maybe Kevin Kline?

r327 = Republican alert

People here complain about straight actors playing gay roles but apparently it's okay to cast white people as Asians

George Hamilton as a mafia consigliere in Godfather III.

Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman

Kate Winslet - The Dressmaker

I thought Kate was excellent in the Dressmaker

What about Mel Gibson as Hamlet?! This casting choice had Laurence Olivier spinning in his grave so fast he turned into a smoothie.

Valerie Bertinelli in "The Haunting of Helen Walker" which was really "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James

R54, R58, R60 - IIRC, the rumor was Karen Lynn Gorney was cast as Travolta's love interest because she was fucking the director.

I liked James Wilby as Maurice in the Merchant-Ivory and do think he made the part his own, but for sticklers he was all wrong for the part physically and psychologically (too fair & slight, a bit gormless).

As I say though, personally I loved him in it and I've never seen the harm in artistic license for adaptation.

I thought Wilby was great in Maurice, don't see the miscasting there

Sam Waterston in everything he is cast in.

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[quote] IIRC, the rumor was Karen Lynn Gorney was cast as Travolta's love interest because she was fucking the director.

She could have been giving him anallingus, she was still fine in the role. Stephanie was low class with ambition, desperately trying to claw her way out. Gorney played that just right. It wasn't about Stephanie. it wasn't about Tony & Stephanie. The movie was Tony discovering who he was and what he wanted out of life. The object wasn't to get him and Stephanie together as a couple.

Jennifer Lawrence and BCoops - Serena

Emma Watson as Belle

Emma Watson was fine, except according to bitchy queens who are jealous of all women

Emma Watson is a piss poor actress.

[QUOTE]Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as mother and daughter in Panic Room

Divine casting

[quote] Divine casting

Did someone mention *me*?

Lorraine Gary in JAWS

Michele Pfeiffer in Frankie and Johnny - they should've stuck with Kathy Bates who did the play. No matter what they did they couldn't make Pfeiffer look unattractive.

R285 yeah if they were playing baby dyke and her sugar momma

Diane Lane as a Jewish housewife in "A Walk on the Moon". She's a great actress but was completely wrong for the role.

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Julia Roberts in "Hook" owns this thread. How Spielberg thought that she could be an adorable pixie with her horse face, flat-footed gait Is beyond me. And I happen to love Julia but she's no Tinkerbell.

G as a woman a man had an affair with. I forget the name of the film. Fatal or Banal something

Nope r345. Emma Watson is not that talented of an actress or that great of a singer. Other actresses could have done better with that role.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in LA LA LAND

[QUOTE]Lorraine Gary in JAWS

Originally actress Linda Harrison (Nova in PLANET OF THE APES) was cast as Chief Brody's wife but Sid Sheinberg who was the head of UNIVERSAL used his clout to get his wife, actress Lorraine Gary the role.

R353

I still maintain that playing Yunioshi is the one role in which I find Rooney tolerable !

R351

Well, that's the joke son !

Zosia is just plain ugly.

Vince Vaughan as the bf of Jennifer Aniston in The Break-Up. We were even fed the media story that this was based on the couple's real life romance of the time. He is such a slob in the movie that you never believe that they could be a couple, even if you believe that she likes men.

Another Aniston one is her as a femme fatale in Derailed.

Fassbender - Macbeth

Fassbender - The Snowman

Fassbender - Steve Jobs

Tom Hardy - Legend

Child 44 the whole cast

Vince Vaughn in every drama film

Vince Vaughn in Four Christmases

He's not even good in comedy films he's unfunny

Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique

Who cast this ugly fatilla for playing Mystique? and her acting in X-Men films was just horrible #overacting

What world are you living in if you think Jennifer Lawrence is fat or ugly?

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. He looked like Michael Jackson in it and was a terrible actor on top of that. I think he's the reason that movie never achieved classic status.

He looked NOTHING like Michael Jackson. Are you kidding? He was also gay and reportedly a very nice man.

The biggest WTF----Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore in "Six Weeks".

If they were going for the two actors with the worst chemistry but with the same last names, then they hit the jackpot.

R141- Same type of thing happened in The Stepford Wives. Bryan Forbes wanted his wife, Nanette Newman in one of the roles but it threw off the whole concept of the storyline - men getting Playboy-bunny type wives. They couldn't dress Newman as that, so then all of the wives had to be dressed like they were on their way to an 18th century tea party. Hats, white gloves and long skirts. William Goldman explained how it destroyed the whole concept of how men would voluntary trade in their real wives for something sexier.

R371, but as later argued, having the women dressed in 18th century tea attire suited the concept well. These men didn't want their women in bikinis at the supermarket. They wanted whores in bed and ladies in public.

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They could easily have sexed her up if they'd wanted.

Joel Grey as Chiun in [italic]Remo Williams[/italic]

Christian Slater has turned in some good performances, but I can't forgive him for drunkenly hitting women and I can't forgive him for starring in the heinous BROKEN ARROW. He wasn't even right for the part he erroneously took.

He works better cast in darker roles: as a knowing character as he was in KUFFS & 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND; a downbeat reluctant hero as in TRUE ROMANCE & HE WAS A QUIET MAN; or an 'outsider' as in HEATHERS & PUMP UP THE VOLUME. He's also very good as the racist asshole turncoat role which he donned for YOUNG GUNS II.

Dustin Hoffman in Runaway Jury. With that Southern accent he sounded like Dorothy Michaels.

Angelina Jolie in "A Mighty Heart" was controversial at the time - unthinkable today.

R352 it honestly would have been a lot more realistic to make her character a blue collar Irish gal who intermarried.

R32 I agree, although I would like to see more Asian representation in Hollywood. The character was only part Asian, it is completely possible she could look like Emma Stone. I'm not saying casting her was the best idea but it was not as outrageous ae people made it to be.

380 here I meant that for r327

I couldn't for even a nanosecond feel Kevin Costner as Robin Hood.

This is an old thread that got bumped by the anti-Jolie troll. None of your refer backs are going to read this.

Sam Worthington in the debt. Csokas and Chastain were very good however

Ryan Gosling in every movie he’s been in.

R45 Duff is an uppity talentless little Frau cunt. A few months ago she published her neighbors name in a rant on facebook and had her boyfriend beat him up. Why? Because the poor guy had the nerve to smoke in a NYC apartment DESIGNED for smokers. At least Faye had talent and accomplishments other than opening her fat legs to various trashy baby daddies.

r386 sounds like a prissy church lady, most gay men probably have more sexual partners in a month than Duff has had in her whole life

I’m a lesbian feminist and hated Halle Berry as Storm in X-MEN. She was wrong for Ororo. I also despised Taylor Kitsch as Gambit in ORIGINS, a casting decision so tone-deaf it was offensive (Channing Tatum will be the next Gambit so that casting situation isn’t getting any better anytime soon). I thought Anna Paquin’s Rogue was backwards though that wasn’t her fault in any way, and Kelsey Grammer as Beast failed. I like Shawn Ashmore’s Iceman but tbh his portrayal is nothing like the character is in the books.

Yet somehow that franchise got it so right with Ellen Page as Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde, Alan Cummings as Nightcrawler, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Marsden as Cyclops (who they’ve now replaced, boooooo) and ofc Sir Patrick as Prof X. I can’t accept anyone else playing those characters now, even in the prequels.

Jared Leto and Christian Slater as 19th century Englishmen in Basil

Jeremy Renner as a math genius in Arrival

Jeremy Renner as a smarmy family man in Age of Ultron

Jeremy Renner as an Italian mayor or whatever he was in American Hustle

Tom Cruise as Jack in Legend- wtf was that?

"Lorraine Gary in JAWS"

I watched Jaws this week because it was on Prime video. I'm not sue Gary was miscast - in terms of her age and her looks - she's a believable wife for Chief Brody. But, her acting is very affected and try-hard.