# Best casting magic contrary to actor's physical type?

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**Created:** [December 24, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-casting-magic-contrary-to-actors-physical-type/645061 "2012-12-24T22:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-casting-magic-contrary-to-actors-physical-type/645061/61 "2012-12-30T14:19:32Z")

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> [@Namkcalb](#):
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> You know Vasquez, the tough muscly hispanic space marine in Aliens? Here’s[her actress](http://www.jenettebras.com/).

Better picture: [http://www.jenettebras.com/about/](http://www.jenettebras.com/about/)

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-casting-magic-contrary-to-actors-physical-type/645061/62 "2012-12-30T15:56:15Z")

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> [@Wiki](#):
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> The disparity in heights between the 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Loren and 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Ladd led to complications in filming. Some of their scenes together required him to stand on a box, while another forced a trench to be dug for Loren when the pair walked along the beach.

> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> I don’t know why I find that mental image so funny…

You’re in [good company](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVc0EZl3AfU).

> [@Namkcalb](#):
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> You know Vasquez, the tough muscly hispanic space marine in Aliens? Here’s[her actress](http://www.jenettebras.com/).

If anyone remembers _The John Larroquette Show_ (where he was the night manager of a bus station (I think), the actress who played the shy, mousy police officer [Eve Eggers](http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/589/14549johnlarroquette3.jpg) was also the buxom, bubbly [Constanze](http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/Drama/Drama/AmadeusWolfgangConstance.jpg) in _Amadeus_.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-casting-magic-contrary-to-actors-physical-type/645061/63 "2012-12-31T14:49:49Z")

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Another Stephen King one: Sissy Spacek as the overweight, ugly Carrie White.

And you ever notice how John Travolta barely dances (and is never dancing by himself) in _Grease_. Watch it some time with that thought in mind. Jeff Conway totally blows him away in the dance numbers.

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