# Most Stunning Miscasts Of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644 "2003-05-26T22:20:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/21 "2003-05-27T01:57:53Z")
Woody Allen and any film in which he romances a woman 40 or more years his junior. Daryl Hannah as an astrophysicist in Roxanne, the worst of the 1000 or so recent movie roles in which a brainless beauty has been signed to play a Ph.D. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/22 "2003-05-27T02:02:53Z")
Jake Lloyd as Annakin Skywalker. Hell, Jake Lloyd as ANYBODY. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/23 "2003-05-27T02:33:51Z")
I don’t know, **Exapno** , I kind of thought that was the point … she was beautiful (which Stud Fireman Guy could only see) yet she HAD brains, which Steve Martin appreciated. For the premise to work, the character HAD to be beautiful. I love that movie, though; Steve Martin is at his hysterical best. My favorite scene is when he’s chasing the old ladies, pretending to be an alien who prefers older female earthlings. No, I thought Daryl Hannah was miscast in _Wall Street_, where she was briefly the love interest of Charlie Sheen. They had absolutely no chemistry and looked about as right as a couple as, oh, I don’t know, Boris and Natasha. 😉 Maybe that was the point, though, since she was only into him for his money. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/24 "2003-05-27T02:52:25Z")
Whoever that putz was in “Always” alongside Richard Dryfuss, John Goodman and Holly Hunter. Tom Hanks should have done that role. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/25 "2003-05-27T02:53:33Z")
Keanu Reeves in _Twelfth Night_. In the right role, the guy is very good. This wasn’t the right role. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/26 "2003-05-27T02:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by refusal \* > \*\*And Kenneth Branagh in just about anything. \*\* I shall have to duel you to the death unless you retract your implied dis on his _Hamlet_. As the only Shakespearean (or Shakesperean-inspired) movie worth anything at all, I feel the need to defend it. (If any of you know any Shakesperean films worth seeing, let me know.) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/27 "2003-05-27T03:15:49Z")
Sofia Coppola was absolutely dreadful in **Godfather III** ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/28 "2003-05-27T03:18:07Z")
Denise Richards as nuclear weapon expert in _The World is not enough_ ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/29 "2003-05-27T03:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*I shall have to duel you to the death unless you retract your implied dis on his _Hamlet_. As the only Shakespearean (or Shakesperean-inspired) movie worth anything at all, I feel the need to defend it. > > (If any of you know any Shakesperean films worth seeing, let me know.) \*\* After you’re finished with him, then I get a crack at you for _your_ implied dis on his _Henry V…_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/30 "2003-05-27T03:26:44Z")
Andie MacDowell. I have no idea why she gets movie roles. Nice [body](http://www.rp-online.de/news/journal/2002-1105/dekollete/dekollete%5B8%5D.html) Rotten acting: "[Maybe it’s her; something about MacDowell…is profoundly air-headed"](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1049695/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=34291) ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/31 "2003-05-27T03:26:58Z")
**5 time champ** I completely agree with you re: G3. That poor girl couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. Another Godfather miscast: Diane Keaton as Kay. Blech! Lisa Kudrow didn’t work in Analyze This (and the sequel). She’s too young to be believable as Billy Crystal’s love interest; they looked ridiculous together. ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/32 "2003-05-27T03:47:50Z")
Martin Sheen as Gen. Robert E. Lee in **Gettysburg**. WTF! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/33 "2003-05-27T03:54:52Z")
My vote goes to any actor over 50 paired with a love interest in her teens/twenties. Hello - Hollywood? Reality here. Women in their 40s and 50s and on are gorgeous, and seeing Grandpa Russell with Gwyneth had an extremely high yick factor. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/34 "2003-05-27T04:03:47Z")
I have not even seen the movie yet, but the trailer for that new **Harrison Ford** move, _Hollywood Homicide_ looks awful. It looks like Eddie Murphy should be in his place. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/35 "2003-05-27T04:08:51Z")
I want to say that casting Charlton Heston as an (ethnically, mind you) _Mexican_ cop in _Touch of Evil_ was a stunning miscast, but somehow the movie ended up being flawless anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/36 "2003-05-27T04:40:15Z")
Meryl Streep in “Postcards from the Edge.” I am willing to concede that she is a fine actress, but she just didn’t work in that role, perhaps because she was too old, perhaps because she had a little too much personal gravitas to convincingly portray a crack-addled child of privilege. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/37 "2003-05-27T04:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Wrong \* > \*\*Oh, and Tony Curtis in (I think) _Spartacus_: > “Dere is da home of my faddah, da Caliph.” \*\* That would be “Yonda lies da castle of my fadda,” from _The Black Shield of Falworth_. 1954. I haven’t seen it myself, but it is infamous. (Oddly, it’s not listed in the IMDB’s quotes for the film.) ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/38 "2003-05-27T05:14:22Z")
The whole cast of Dune (the eighties version). ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/39 "2003-05-27T06:13:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*Woody Allen and any film in which he romances a woman 40 or more years his junior. \*\* Um, well, that doesn’t seem to be a mis-cast it seems to be right on target. Marc ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644/40 "2003-05-27T07:47:41Z")
Ben Affleck in _Sum Of All Fears_. I know they were trying to make the character younger to keep the franchise going. But poor Bennie is such a lightweight I couldn’t buy him as a CIA analyst, action hero, or dramatic leading man in a movie involving a nuclear explosion. He was outclassed by everyone in this turkey, and the film still stunk. Julia Roberts in _Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind_ as the exotic femme fatale agent Patricia. Not exotic, not sexy, not dangerous. A lesser role, but she was also all wrong as the wife in _Michael Collins_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stunning-miscasts-of-all-time/177644.md?page=3)