In the world of filmmaking, the process of casting is widely acknowledged to be a make-or-break factor for a production’s success. Recently, an internet poll was conducted to determine which actors audiences deemed unfit for certain roles, and we’ve rounded up the top 24 from that poll for you below.
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets – Dane Dehaan
“He’s got the angsty teenager role down. Anything else, and he’s the wrong guy for the part.”
“His character was clearly supposed to be charismatic and sexy, but Dehaan seems only to be capable of the school-shooter vibe.”
The Lone Ranger – Johnny Depp
“Depp’s Tonto is just one of the worst. They could have done so much with it and chose ‘comic relief’ instead. Terrible choice.”
“To be honest, the writing stunk too, but putting Johnny Depp in as tonto was a HORRID choice.”
The Mummy – Tom Cruise
“He’s supposed to be an army sergeant, but he’s about 25 years too old for that role. That scene in the desert was enough to ruin the whole movie for me.”
“Let’s try for someone who is younger than 55. I think it’s fair to say that casting is at least partially responsible for torpedoing their entire ‘universal cinematic universe.'”
The Hateful Eight – Channing Tatum
“The most egregious miscast in modern times; he’s too pretty for the role. You needed a dude who could credibly pull off that slimy charm, like a Viggo Mortensen.”
“Nothing against Channing; it just didn’t work.”
Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Keanu Reeves
“It’s because he’s usually acting with Oldman as the Count. Everything in the production is working so well, and Reeves is just distracting from it all. I’m puzzled why Coppola couldn’t just cast a young English actor.”
“Any time Keanu is a Victorian, it’s weird. There’s just something very modern about him.”
Les Miserables – Russell Crowe
“He sure didn’t have the vocal range for songs that were almost operatic.”
“The music didn’t work with his voice. He has a rock n’ roll voice, not a classic show tunes voice. He also played the character wrong; he’s supposed to be rigid in his beliefs, but Crowe played it as a physical rigidity, which looked awkward.”
Much Ado About Nothing – Keanu Reeves
“I’m glad he found his niche later in his career because it ain’t period dramas.”
“That movie is so good, but there are a couple of casting choices that are SO misguided.”
“I was so distracted by Keanu that I’d forgotten how awful Michael Keaton also was. That movie had such high highs and such low lows.”
Catherine the Great – Helen Mirren
“She was bizarrely out of place as Catherine the Great. I couldn’t get past her being way too old for the part. It was all I could think about.”
“Agreed! I love her, but she’s playing a character that’s 20-30 years younger than her. It was impossible to suspend disbelief.”
Elvis – Tom Hanks
“He ruined Elvis for me. It’s a shame because Austin Butler is great.”
“Tom Hanks as a Dutch or American (or something) guy in Elvis doesn’t work.”
“For a recent example, I thought Tom hanks, as the colonel in Elvis, was insanely miscast. He even spoke in the wrong accent for some strange reason.”
The Conqueror – John Wayne
John Wayne as Genghis Khan was widely considered a bad casting choice because it was a clear case of whitewashing. Genghis Khan was a Mongol, and Mongols have distinct physical features and cultural backgrounds that are vastly different from those of Western Europeans, which is John Wayne’s heritage.
Spiderman – Joe Manganiello
“He looks like a grown man, but they’re in high school.”
“I don’t care how bad that dialog is, it still makes me smile every time.”
The Irishman – Robert DeNiro
“Great movie but the Uber boomer movie. Why not put someone else over and cast an unknown as a younger De Niro. Just like in godfather two.”
“You didn’t like watching old Joe Pesci call 75-year-old De Niro kid? I loved that movie but hated the use of CGI to make an old actor look younger.”
Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Mickey Rooney
“The gold standard for bad parts to me will always be Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi. There is a lot of casting that is bad. There is a lot of casting that is offensive. But casting that is both bad and offensive? That is worthy of notice.”
This is the stock answer these days on Reddit, and yet I always wondered what the response was when the movie debuted 60 years ago. So I checked the Times review, and this is what it said about Rooney: “Mickey Rooney’s bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic.”
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice – Jesse Eisenberg
“Came here to say this. Thank you. Every scene with him is woeful.”
“Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor! Why would you allow my brain to remember this horror?”
X-Men – Halle Berry
“I hated Halle Berry as Storm. She didn’t look anything like her, and her personality was gone. Storm is imperial, soft, strong, and talks like a Queen. Berry sounded like a model.”
“And bad editing reduced her role, according to what I’ve read.”
Spider-Man 3 – Topher Grace
“Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3 is pretty bad.”
“Physically, Venom is supposed to be big and menacing, and Topher Grace is not that.”
Uncharted – Mark Wahlberg And Tom Holland
“Mark Wahlberg as Sully infuriated me. I couldn’t last more than 20 minutes into that abomination.”
“Plus, Tom Holland is nothing like Nathan Drake, either.”
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves – Kevin Costner
“Don’t forget Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. That film is salvaged by Rickman, but it took everything he could give.”
“I am a fan of Kevin Costner and Christian Slater, but they were both horribly cast in this film.”
The World is Not Enough – Denise Richards
“Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Christmas Jones? Me being cast as James Bond would make more sense.”
“Denise Richards is absolutely awful and as far from a nuclear physicist as you can get.”
All Eyez On Me – Demetrius Shipp Jnr.
“I feel like he only got cast due to the passing resemblance to 2Pac.”
“2Pac was one of the most naturally charismatic individuals to come along in the last 50 years. It was clearly difficult to find anyone talented enough to take him on in a biopic.”
American Hustle – Jennifer Lawrence
“I felt she was miscast in American Hustle. She just didn’t sound believable at all to me. The accent, and her demeanor, weren’t right for the role.”
“Anytime Jennifer Lawrence is cast as a mom character, she is just too young in the face to make it believable.”
The Human Stain – Anthony Hopkins
“He plays a light-skinned black man who passes as Jewish. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and one of the worst films.”
“It has to be someone who could, potentially, be black. There’s no way Anthony Hopkins is the right person for this role.”
Ten Commandments – Charlton Heston
“Charlton Heston was cast as Moses because Cecil B. DeMille thought he resembled Micheangelo’s statue of Moses. So a WASP actor playing a Jew, as visualized by an Italian.”
“That movie has the biggest collection of over-the-top hammy performances ever in one single film. Heston was the worst but by no means the only!”
Jack Reacher – Tom Cruise
“You may even enjoy the movies, but anyone who loved the books couldn’t believe casting read the description of Jack and thought Tom Cruise.”
“Jack Reacher is supposedly always the biggest guy in the room, but Tom Cruise is the average size of an American female.”
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