# Name the most horribly mis-cast actors(or actresses) here! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530 "2001-06-04T15:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/21 "2001-06-04T22:13:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tom Taylor \* > For that matter, Keanu Reeves as anybody with an IQ higher than a turnip. Liked him fine in _Matrix_, then, I take it? 🙂 I’ll have to put in a vote for Cleavon Little in _Blazing Saddles_, but only because I know that Richard Pryor would have been _so_ much better. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/22 "2001-06-04T22:21:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by David Cronan \* > \*\*Dick Van Dyke as a Cockney in Mary Poppins. What an accent!! \*\* Yeah, he was so badly miscast he actually won an Golden Globe by people who should have known better (toungue-in- cheek). ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/23 "2001-06-04T22:27:53Z")
Yes, but it was a shockingly bad accent. ---
**Author:** ![gadgetgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gadgetgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gadgetgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/24 "2001-06-04T22:38:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \* > \*\*JMO: > Keanu Reeves in “Dangerous Liasions”. Can you say “How art thou, dude?” > \*\* Oh yeah, that is such a great film otherwise. Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with a Vampire. Come on, Tom as an aritocrat? Please. I keep picturing him sliding across the hard wood floors in his underwear. Catherine Zeta-Jones in High Fidelity as Charlie. Yawn. Winona Rider as Annalee Call in Alien: Resurrection. WHAT?!?!?!?! Geena Davis as Sam/Charlie in Long Kiss Goodnight. OK, wait, let me get this straight, Geena Davis, the one from Earth Girls are Easy, as a lethal secret agent, yeah, right. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/25 "2001-06-05T00:37:55Z")
Kevin Costner as Robin Hood :rolleyes: Almost every popstar in an acting role David Bowie, Sting, Micheal Jackson, Mick Jagger Best Performance by an Inanimate Object: Keenau Reeves Then again Keenau Revees and Matt Demon are miscast in any role that would mean anything other than standing still and/or breathing I would add Robin Williams but that would mean i’d actually have to look the man up on the IMDB :eek: ---
**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:** [June 5, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/26 "2001-06-05T01:17:51Z")
Thank you, **monster** , for reminding me of one of my favourite books and (IMO) a darn good mini-series. My big problem wasn’t with Corin Nemec (although somebody with a litle more depth, a little more brooding would have been preferable, like Johnny Depp, perhaps); my biggest problem was with the Gary Sinise/Molly Ringwald pairing (I can barely type the two names together!). I love Gary Sinise; I think he nailed the Stu Redman character, but pretty, spoiled little Molly as Fran, one of the most admirable female characters to come down the pike in a long time? Please. I think a young version of Lauren Bacall would have been perfect; I don’t know who this would be, though. (For the record, I actually liked Jamie Sheridan as Randall Flagg; his crazy, cold, blue eyes seemed fairly appropriate. But Laura San Giacomo as Nadine the ice-princess was not right - her skinny co-star on “Just Shoot Me” would have made a better Nadine.) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/27 "2001-06-05T01:29:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*I love Gary Sinise; I think he nailed the Stu Redman character… \*\* He did a fine job, but you know that the character he played was nothing like the one in the book. The one in the book was a much older man, tall too (IIRC). Sinise was neither. Again, he played it well, but let’s not say he ‘nailed’ the role when he neither looked or sounded like the guy in the book. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/28 "2001-06-05T01:42:32Z")
I am a great fan of the Clive Cussler “Dirk Pitt” series of adventure novels. I rented _Raise The Titanic!_ a few years ago to show it to a few friends of mine who were also fans, and we were not able to sit through it to the end. Dirk Pitt is supposed to be a big, strapping, exuberant legend capable of Bond-like feats and Cecil-like reasoning. Richard Jordan?!? The man has the emotional range of a raw potato, and is as exciting as Martha Stewart on Valium. ---
**Author:** ![tsunamisurfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@tsunamisurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsunamisurfer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/29 "2001-06-05T01:52:58Z")
Jodie Foster in “The King & I.” John Malkovich as Javert in the recent version of “Les Miserables.” (Philip Quast owns the role.) Sylvester Stallone in ANY comedy. All three of the butt-ugly, not-even-with-a-ten-foot-pole skank-o-ramas in “Charlie’s Angels,” especially Drew Barrymore and the cosmetically challenged, bug-eyed, incredibly homely Cameron Diaz. (Thankfully, I only had to endure the commercials.) Sorry to say it, but John Saxon in “Enter the Dragon.” Yes, he was mildly amusing, but waaaay undertalented as a martial artist. Chuck Norris (“Return of the Dragon”) would have been a better choice, wooden delivery and all. (As would have martial arts legend/street fighter, Joe Lewis and Bong Soo Han.) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/30 "2001-06-05T02:01:13Z")
Jar Jar Binks, as himself. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/31 "2001-06-05T02:05:24Z")
Angelica Houston in **The Grifters**. The character wasn’t supposed to look old enough to be John Cusack’s mother. She looked plenty old enough to me. And how the hell is someone going to mistake Angelica Houston for Annette Benning? ---
**Author:** ![TexasSpur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@TexasSpur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasSpur)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/32 "2001-06-05T02:06:18Z")
Oh my God! You are crazy if you don’t think Cameron Diaz is hot. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/33 "2001-06-05T02:17:20Z")
You owe me a new monitor **Buckner**! Elisabeth Shue as Dr. Emma Russell in ‘The Saint’; talk about your unconvincing scientists! All of the hackers in ‘Hackers’. This includes Angelina Jolie, who only had one thing going for her. [sub]OK, two things![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/34 "2001-06-05T02:18:40Z")
> [@](#): > > John Malkovich as Javert in the recent version of “Les Miserables.” (Philip Quast owns the role.) I think that was Geoffrey Rush, unless we’re talking about different recent versions. > [@](#): > > Bruce Willis in “Breakfast of Champions”. Actually, this whole movie was miscast. It should have been cast . . into the ocean. Actually, I thought the casting was the only thing this movie got remotely right. I don’t know why anyone with any sense thought this book could be a decent movie. (“Mother Night” turned out fairly well, though.) My pick–Wilford Brimley as one of the evil lawyers in “The Firm”. He has that scene where he’s trying to intimidate Tom Cruise by showing him the pictures of him and that woman on the island, and I couldn’t help but laugh. He is, and always will be, the Quaker Oats guy. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/35 "2001-06-05T02:30:46Z")
Jennifer Lopez in _ **The Cell** _ given that much of the movie’s plot was stolen from _ **Silence of the Lambs** _, you’d think that they’d have picked an actress who could at least _look_ like she was a shrink. I swear, everytime I saw Lopez on screen, all I could think about was a deer caught in headlights. Nicolas Cage in _ **8mm** _, not to dis Nic, but I just can’t buy his “horrified” reaction to seeing the snuff film, which blew the movie for me. I thought that he did a good job in the film, but that one scene just didn’t work for me, and it kind of soured me on the rest of the film. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/36 "2001-06-05T02:48:07Z")
**Arnold Schewazneaezcheazxcngsageragearraaarrrr** as **Mr. Freeze**! I think all comic book buffs cringed at that one. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/37 "2001-06-05T02:55:01Z")
Nicholas Cage in Con Air-I liked the movied, but that accent killed me Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale in Postcards from the Edge-I cannot think of any reasonable explination for that. Keanu Reeves in (i think) As You Like It. Shakespere + Keanu equals pain. I did enjoy him in the Matrix since he didn’t have to speak much, just use a variety of confused facial expressions…I think he does his best work while not speaking. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/38 "2001-06-05T02:58:49Z")
Most of the cast in the eighties sacrilegal release of Dune. Especially Patrick Stewart and the guy who played Paul (thankfully forgotten his name). In comparison, Sting did OK in that piece of drivel. I actually liked Winona in Alien resurrection, but then, hey, I like her in virtually every movie she makes… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/39 "2001-06-05T03:05:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Creant \* > \*\*Nicholas Cage in Con Air-I liked the movied, but that accent killed me > > Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale in Postcards from the Edge-I cannot think of any reasonable explination for that. > > Keanu Reeves in (i think) As You Like It. Shakespere + Keanu equals pain. I did enjoy him in the Matrix since he didn’t have to speak much, just use a variety of confused facial expressions…I think he does his best work while not speaking. > > \*\* Actually, it was **Much Ado About Nothing** (1993), starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. But, dude! Whoa! You’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530/40 "2001-06-05T03:21:02Z")
Thank you Dan. It was bugging the hell out of me. I knew that wasn’t the right movie, but I couldn’t remember. You’re the wind beneath my wings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-most-horribly-mis-cast-actors-or-actresses-here/67530.md?page=3)