Hey, that’s nothing. When I was in 7th grade, I was Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, and Young Scrooge was a different race from me. The audience took it in stride, though, since they all knew it was a pretty diverse school.
In one of my grade school plays the role of Martin Luther King was played by a white boy in blackface. It wasn’t minstrely blackface; they did try to actually make him look like a real black person, but the effect left alot to be desired. I still don’t understand how anyone thought it was a good idea in the first place.
The DVD I have of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” has a rather assorted bunch of actors playing the twelve sons of Jacob, with brothers who were born to the same mother (per Genesis) of (apparently) differing racial heritage.
And, casting Teri Garr as Phoebe’s mother was brilliant.
In Suture, Dennis Haysbert’s character is repeatedly mistaken for his half brother, played by the very pale Michael Harris.
One of the worst cases of miscasting IME was a mockumentary about the building of the Pyramids where everyone was obviously Egyptian except the non speaking star of the programme who was so obviously European.
Just to make things worse, his style of acting reminded me of someone on amphetamines who had just had half of a soldier ant colony walk up his trouser legs .
Confused. Was it a mockumentary or a docudrama? Also, I don’t get how somebody is a non-speaking star of the show.
On Raising Hope, Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith were cast as mother and daughter, which they are in real life.
This reminds me that Matt Smith played a younger version of Ralph Fiennes’ character in In Bruges, although if I recall correctly that’s only in a deleted scene on the DVD. Whoever was casting that seemed to be going for acting capability and not physical resemblance.
Good choice of Mayim Bialik playing a young Bette Midler’s character in “Beaches.”
OTOH, I assume his casting went about like this: “Ewan, your Guinness impression is dead on. How about we give you a lorryload of money and you do it for three movies?”
Is there something wrong with me that I don’t even begin to get this?
Actually, it’s probably something right. Or at least, it means you live in a realm where SF action movies and Pokemon don’t intersect. The critter in the comic is called a “wooper”. The joke is that the “younger” one–presumably played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in really heavy makeup–looks so much like the older one (as indicated by the faint wrinkles around his eyes) that just appeared, which I suppose would be Bruce Willis.
Just went through the entire thing. And got the kid to as well, the afternoon has been punctuated with cries of “woohoo, portal!” and “The Xmas chicken, ‘I was not prepared for the responsibility’. Bwahahaha!”
Thanks, you magnificent bastard.
It was not long after the Bible began; race hadn’t been invented yet.
Mr Bean?
I haven’t read the whole thread, so forgive me if this on’e been mentioned, but the 1989 film Family Business with Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery, and Matthew Broderick as father, son, and grandson is even more ludicrous.
I mean, LOOK:
No, Rowan is my brother; we’re commonly mistaken.
I thought they did a stellar job in The Master of choosing Jesse Plemons to play Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son.