Badly Cast Actors/ Actresses

Just seen this today, about bad casting choices, quite interesting
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/...oices.html

[Post added to thread, Sunday 11.32am]

Which actors/actresses do you think were badly cast in a film role.

Russell Crowe is always being badly miscast as an Englishman.
In 'Robin Hood' he portrays the role with an Irish accent.
And in 'A Good Year' he was playing a role which was ideally suited to Hugh Grant but to Russell ....no way.

What are you examples?

Great idea for a thread Charlemagne!

I'm sure many will come to mind, but the first and most obvious one for me would have to be Daniel Craig as James Bond. Craig was great in Layer Cake and other things, but he just doesn't fit the part of Bond for me. Maybe I'm just being too stereotypical, but I'm sorry, the obvious candidate for Bond was - and still is - Clive Owen.

nate harley as wade in drillbit taylor, he's the only person ive evr seen play a scrawny geeky kid that bad..

(22-01-2011 22:06 )lindor Wrote:  Great idea for a thread Charlemagne!

I'm sure many will come to mind, but the first and most obvious one for me would have to be Daniel Craig as James Bond. Craig was great in Layer Cake and other things, but he just doesn't fit the part of Bond for me. Maybe I'm just being too stereotypical, but I'm sorry, the obvious candidate for Bond was - and still is - Clive Owen.

Now I think that Daniel Craig is OK as Bond... would accept Clive Owen as well.
But there have been some odd choses, we have had the Scotsman, Irishman and the Australian.

I think that Craig fits the bill as an assassin.

Sean Connery in The Hunt For Red October, He is a great actor but he still sounded like a Scottish guy doing a bad Russian accent in that film, i think pretty much any film in which he has to play a non Scottish character has fallen on its ass

Just watching highlander, a film full of badly cast actors

(23-01-2011 13:06 )Chimpy Wrote:  i think pretty much any film in which he has to play a non Scottish character has fallen on its ass

Including his part as an Irish-American in The Untouchables, for which he won an Oscar?

(23-01-2011 18:46 )skateguy Wrote:  

(23-01-2011 13:06 )Chimpy Wrote:  i think pretty much any film in which he has to play a non Scottish character has fallen on its ass

Including his part as an Irish-American in The Untouchables, for which he won an Oscar?

"The Academy Award means fuck-all! That was just a sympathy vote. The Name Of The Rose is but a blip on an otherwise downward trajectory since 007!"

That's a quote from SickBoy, as spoken to Mark Renton in Trainspotting, the greatest film ever made in my humble and probably very questionable opinion. I've not seen The Untouchables, so couldn't possibly comment.

Regards Daniel Craig as 007, he may well fit the bill as an assassin, but it's just the fact that he's blonde I suppose! I dunno, maybe it's just me, but it just doesn't seem right to me!

Sofia Coppola as Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III. In fact, the whole film was pretty shite!