When casting made a balls of it

Capt'n Midnight

mistersifter wrote: »

Jaden Smith as The Karate Kid.

If you haven't seen After Earth, don't.

Capt'n Midnight

Gregory Peck as Ahab in Moby Dick

Patrick Stewart as Ahab in Moby Dick

Danny Glover as Ahab in the Moby Dick cover Age of the Dragons. A truly awful film.



The best Ahab is of course Ricardo Montalbán in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

razorblunt

There's actually a bunch of actors that seem to rotate around tv shows and I groan every time I see them.
Not really a miscast, more of a lazy casting kind of thing.

Red Lightning

They have made a hames of the Jafar casting in the Aladdin live action remake. He could play the role well but he does not look anywhere near sinister enough. That was the whole point of Jafar.

Wil Wheton in TNG

Billgirlylegs

coredev123 wrote: »

He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.

He was also brilliant as John-Boy in Love/Hate.

No No No

He plays the same character everytime I see him

CJH, Game of Thrones, Dave Allen and some new thing that I see previews for.

same school of acting as Lena Headey

Billgirlylegs

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

No No No

He plays the same character everytime I see him

CJH, Game of Thrones, Dave Allen and some new thing that I see previews for.

same school of acting as Lena Headey

You leave Carcetti alone

Gimme A Pound

Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ Simpson - wtf?! Talk about "any black guy will do..."

batistuta9

batistuta9 wrote: »

Robert Sheehan as Darren in love/hate.

Couldn't really take him seriously as the that type of character.

Aiden Gillen was unbelievable too

Elijah Wood as a football hooligan in Green Street. I actually haven't even seen but it just seems so wrong for Frodo to be a hooligan.

mistersifter

^^
I think he was meant to be an unlikely hooligan - a nerdy american who arrives in England and gets mixed up in that scene. It felt a bit strangely cast nonetheless.

Zaph

quickbeam wrote: »

Linda Hunt, a woman, playing Billy Kwan a man, in The Year of Living Dangerously

You mean the role she won an Oscar for? Surely you jest?

ziedth

Deleted User wrote: »

Elijah Wood as a football hooligan in Green Street. I actually haven't even seen but it just seems so wrong for Frodo to be a hooligan.

To be fair the character is an american tourist who isn't a hooligan but having said that he's dreadful in it, like really really bad. Fight scenes are pretty well shot though.

Hal3000

It's gotta be Jimmy Rabbitte's younger son in The Commitments... Can I borrow your hairdryer ? That accent is definitely not Barrytown.

https://youtu.be/92nBF9qLr1w ( minute 1. 43)

yourdeadwright

Jared Leto as the joker can fu*k off

Goodluck2me

DS Steve Arnott in Line of Duty. Surprised to see three pages go before this...

mistersifter

Hal3000 wrote: »

It's gotta be Jimmy Rabbitte's younger son in The Commitments... Can I borrow your hairdryer ? That accent is definitely not Barrytown.

https://youtu.be/92nBF9qLr1w ( minute 1. 43)

nor is Andrea Corr's very convincing!

still a great film though :cool:

quickbeam

Zaph wrote: »

You mean the role she won an Oscar for? Surely you jest?

No jest. I don’t doubt her talent as an actor but casting a woman to play a man makes no sense unless it was in a trans context. Like, why not have Jack Nicholson play the lead in The Iron Lady. He’s an excellent actor, I’m sure he’d pull it off.

mistersifter

quickbeam wrote: »

No jest. I don’t doubt her talent as an actor but casting a woman to play a man makes no sense unless it was in a trans context. Like, why not have Jack Nicholson play the lead in The Iron Lady. He’s an excellent actor, I’m sure he’d pull it off.

Then you get the usual offended brigade giving out that a non-trans person portrayed a trans person, as happened with Boys Don't Cry.

I haven't seen that film yous are talking about but gender cross acting was normal once upon a time mainly due to women not being allowed to perform. It's also common in animated stuff. Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan too in the film I'm Not There (havent seen it either)

So at what point does it become unacceptable for an actor to portray a character? Surely it must depend on what the film itself is trying to achieve.


Edit: actually I know where I draw the line - when Tom Cruise plays an Irish man in Far and Away! now THAT's Offensive

quickbeam

mistersifter wrote: »

Then you get the usual offended brigade giving out that a non-trans person portrayed a trans person, as happened with Boys Don't Cry.

I haven't seen that film yous are talking about but gender cross acting was normal once upon a time mainly due to women not being allowed to perform. It's also common in animated stuff. Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan too in the film I'm Not There (havent seen it either)

So at what point does it become unacceptable for an actor to portray a character? Surely it must depend on what the film itself is trying to achieve.


Edit: actually I know where I draw the line - when Tom Cruise plays an Irish man in Far and Away! now THAT's Offensive

True. And I don’t know the artistic reasons to cast her. I’m Not There was different as it was a deliberate artistic and thematic choice.

quickbeam

IMDb says:

Director Peter Weir cast Linda Hunt in the role of Billy Kwan, after failing to find an actor who could play the part in the way he wanted.

Capt'n Midnight

Shmuel Red Gate wrote: »

Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ Simpson - wtf?! Talk about "any black guy will do..."

Watch Men of Honor instead.

Red Lightning

yourdeadwright wrote:

Jared Leto as the joker can fu*k off

He was awful imo. A friend of mine thought he was good but I can't see it. Worst Joker by a mile.

Sardonicat

quickbeam wrote: »

IMDb says:

Director Peter Weir cast Linda Hunt in the role of Billy Kwan, after failing to find an actor who could play the part in the way he wanted.

I was only a teenager when I saw the film first. I had no idea that Billy was played by woman then. A fantastic performance of such a poignant character. The only memorable thing about that film is Billy

_Kaiser_

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

same school of acting as Lena Headey

What now? She has been consistently one of the best actresses and characters on GOT over the years and arguably one of the few reasons to watch S8

(haven't watched the finalé yet - that's tonight's viewing)

yourdeadwright

Goodluck2me wrote: »

DS Steve Arnott in Line of Duty. Surprised to see three pages go before this...

He is a good actor but its his look he looks like a lad making his communion most of the time

Venom

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

What now? She has been consistently one of the best actresses and characters on GOT over the years and arguably one of the few reasons to watch S8

(haven't watched the finalé yet - that's tonight's viewing)

She was also great in the last Dredd movie and the Terminator TV series. For all the many problems the last two series of GOT had, Headey was not one of them.

Irish94

Could be on my own here - Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. I thought he was really poor in the latter seasons.

pinkypinky

Tom Hanks in the Da Vinci Code plus sequels. Shocking piece of casting.

odyssey06

Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire just didnt work for me. He can be great in certain roles so thats a miscast to me.

Michelle Ryan in remake of Bionic Woman... epic fail there.

odyssey06

Genuine screwup... Babylon 5 showrunner wanted Everett McGill from Dune and Twin Peaks for a military role. Ended up with Bruce McGill from MacGyver...

Heckler

I don't get the current wave of railing against an actor cast in a role that they aren't in real life. e.g. a straight actor playing a gay, trans whatever role.

Hey just maybe they couldn't find a gay, trans, one legged whatever actor good enough or well known enough that a studio would bankroll.

Its called ACTING.

Tom Hanks character in "Sully" should have been played by a real pilot yadda yadda yadda....

Lady Spangles

Plastik wrote: »

I am 100% behind the contribution of Aiden Gillen to this thread. ****ing brutal. Same one brooding look, same flat monotone voice regardless of role. A one trick pony that should have been put down after the first trick.

He wasn't like that at all in Queer as Folk, though. Admittedly, it was yunks ago now, but Gillen was fantastic in it.

Lady Spangles

Irish94 wrote: »

Could be on my own here - Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. I thought he was really poor in the latter seasons.

I really can't decide whether Harington was miscast or it was just the way the showrunners handled the character. Nothing like the book version, at all.

JP Liz V1

Ashton Kutcher in Two and a Half Men

Caryatnid

Tom Cruise in Far and Away

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Gerard Butler in P.S. I love you.

Irish94

Irish94 wrote: »

Could be on my own here - Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. I thought he was really poor in the latter seasons.

I didn't think much of Emilia Clarke from the get-go and never improved. I never bought her as the alleged charismatic leader.

Irish94

Deleted User wrote: »

I didn't think much of Emilia Clarke from the get-go and never improved. I never bought her as the alleged charismatic leader.

I would agree up until Season 8. I thought she was the best of the cast this season, albeit she didn't have much competition due to the writing being as poor as it was.

odyssey06

Maybe a little obscure here, but there has been some very poor casting in Sherlock Holmes TV adaptations over the years.

In Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), probably for co-production reasons, they had an Australian actor Richard Roxburgh as Holmes & Richard E Grant in a supporting role. It should have been obvious to any director that Grant should have been Holmes!

And then there some BBC adaptations with Rupert Everett as Holmes, Everett can be great but he was a poor Holmes, not just in comparison to Jeremy Brett.
Edward Woodward (The Equalizer) as Holmes was another disappointment in Hands of the Murderer.

Ian Richardson (House of Cards UK) did a good job in his Baskervilles adaptation so I can accept people other than Jeremy Brett as Victoria era Holmes.

Continuing the detective theme, before landing the role of Poirot himself, David Suchet played Inspector Japp in one of the Peter Ustinov adaptations. He said it was the worst job he's ever done and I'd agree with him.

d8491prj5boyvg

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Julia Roberts in Michael Collins

It was the strangest Longford accent I ever heard.

Caryatnid

Donald Trump as President of the USA

gordongekko

gordongekko wrote: »

When i have the misfortune of watching fair city i despair that this is the level of actors we turn out from our colleges. All acting schools in this country should be banned

Can you name a soap that is known for its high level of acting craft?

I know a good few ex members of fair city cast, and they all took it for the paycheque (as meagre as it was) and moved on when it was time to move on.

Current (within the last 3 years) grads from acting colleges are on the west end, Broadway and touring internationally.

Most acting colleges are focussed on theatre, which is where you'll find the good ones, focussed on a craft.

A lot of actors (and especially the better ones) have no interest in appearing in something like Fair City. They may as well work in a factory for how a show like that treats their craft.

Back on topic

Candice Patton as Iris West in The Flash.

Total guilty pleasure of a show with some completely OTT acting performances, but she is awful and makes the character really dislikeable. Instead of eliciting sympathy, her Iris comes across as being incredibly needy.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Back on topic

Candice Patton as Iris West in The Flash.

Total guilty pleasure of a show with some completely OTT acting performances, but she is awful and makes the character really dislikeable. Instead of eliciting sympathy, her Iris comes across as being incredibly needy.

Totally agree. She's just not good, but the writing definitely did not help here. Iris is being put into that situation by the writers but not helped, at all, by the acting

I'm still salty that Wally (and Isis, by extension) was not a redhead, but Joe was great and Wally really turned up in Legends, as opposed to moping around on Flash.


Edit: Thinking about it Red heads seem to be the sacrifices, when characters are getting race swapped, for comic adaptions.
Mary Jane: MCU Spiderman
Jimmy Olsen: Supergirl
Wally West: Flash (New 52 line comic started and undid this)
HawkGirl: Legends of Tomorrow (New 52 again)

All a different conversation but I guess I have to admit I understand Asians shouting about whitewashing, if the above bugs me a bit...

LandoCalrissian

Cant agree more with Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher - an absolute joke!!


A couple of additional

Charlie Hunnam & Jude Law in King Arthur (Brutal Film but they didn't help )

Tom Hardy in anything just plays everything as a mumbling mass of muscles

Aaron Taylor Johnson in Kick Ass movies - always kinda glad to see him get a good hidin' in those movies

gabe1977

Andie McDowell in the TV series, Cuckoo!! Awful

sheroman01

coredev123 wrote: »

He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.

He was also brilliant as John-Boy in Love/Hate.

Not doubting his acting but I think this is a perfect case where he really didn't fit the character. He was great in The Wire though.

camz09

Recently, I was looking forward to the new Narcos season in Mexico. Totally underwhelmed, I just didn't buy Diego Luna (a pretty good actor imo) that much as a menacing cartel guy although the writing of his character didn't help, too.

Now, let's talk about Michael Pena as Kiki Camarena. Of course, if you are around the internets you've got to have heard of his character's name already and his fate.. but the performance was so ehhh for me, damn it felt weird not to feel anything for him at all. Maybe they should've gone for a lesser known actor? Idk, wouldn't pay money anyway for a Pena movie (trying my best to divest from Scietologists hehe) But compared to the "lesser known" actors of Season 2, the Mexico season cast (and writing) was lacklustre.