# Poor casting choices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379 "2004-05-27T17:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/21 "2004-05-27T20:55:14Z")
> [@thermalribbon](#): > > Not that it was necessarity bad casting, but using **Max Von Sydow** in **Minority Report** seemed a little obvious to me. > > I mean, Earth to Steve, Von Sydow screams “Bad Guy! Bad Guy!” Next time try casting someone who hasn’t made a career of playing the evil kommandant in nearly every picture he’s been in. > > I love Von Sydow, but that was pretty easy to see. Max Von Sydow as Evil Commandant Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told! Sorry, couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/22 "2004-05-27T21:04:07Z")
> [@dalovindj](#): > > Catwoman. Halle Berry. I second that. Also, George Clooney in the Batman flick. What was so dark about that knight? ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/23 "2004-05-27T21:09:01Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > I disagree, **RX** - the first role I ever saw Keanu in was in a film called The River’s Edge, and he was actually quite excellent. Of course, he played a stoned teenager in that movie, so maybe he wasn’t acting. I’m with you; I didn’t actually see that movie. I understand he also played a stoned teenager in **My Own Private Idaho** , Which I also did not see and in which I’ve heard he was good. If ever a guy needed permanent typecasting, it’s him. This one I just remembered: Tom Cruise as Lestat in **Interview With the Vampire**! Ack! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/24 "2004-05-27T21:21:12Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > And apparently Will Ferrel is going to play Ignatius J. Reilly. I don’t know which of these two I’m more appalled by. > > …just went to see the Constantine trailer. _sigh_ Guess I just start hoping no bright spark decides to make Preacher into a movie. They’ll probably get John Travolta or something… [I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326004/) They cast James Marsden (the dude who played Cyclopes) as Preacher. Having never read the comics, I think I can still safely say this was a BAD choice. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/25 "2004-05-27T22:24:05Z")
_Crouching Tiger_: Chow Yun-Fat shouldn’t have been in the film; Jet Li woulda been soooo much better. Don’t get me wrong; I love Chow Yun-Fat. I just don’t think he’s the right type for flying-swordsman movies. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/26 "2004-05-27T22:38:36Z")
Brad Pitt. Achilles. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/27 "2004-05-27T23:02:08Z")
> [@dalovindj](#): > > Catwoman. Halle Berry. ``` Or Storm. Halle Berry. Sorry Ororo should look slightly exotic. Think Iman in her prime. Halle looks far too American. I really got the impression that she was only cast because she was the only black actress who they could think of. I was really hoping that now that she is an Oscar winner, they will stop miscasting Halle Berry in these comic roles and actually look for actresses who fit the part. ``` ---
**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, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/28 "2004-05-27T23:13:34Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > They cast James Marsden (the dude who played Cyclopes) as Preacher. Having never read the comics, I think I can still safely say this was a BAD choice. I’ve read and enjoyed the comic, and it IS a bad casting. Marsden just doesn’t have the nads for the role. ---
**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, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/29 "2004-05-27T23:14:46Z")
Alexandra Paul in _Christine_. The exact opposite of the character as described in the book. You know, beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/30 "2004-05-27T23:24:06Z")
Bonnie Bedilia as Bruce Willis’ wife in Die Hard. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/31 "2004-05-27T23:32:50Z")
Everybody in _Star Wars:Episode 1_ It was a pretty neat story, but the acting was so stiff! ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/32 "2004-05-27T23:33:20Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > And apparently Will Ferrel is going to play Ignatius J. Reilly. I don’t know which of these two I’m more appalled by. I always pictured Stephen Root as Ignatius. He would be perfect with his Milton voice. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/33 "2004-05-27T23:49:37Z")
> [@Ass For A Hat](#): > > William Shatner as Alyosha Karamazov. This is a whoosh, right? I mean, they wouldn’t do that. No one in their right mind would do that. So it can’t have happened. Right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/34 "2004-05-27T23:50:21Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > [I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326004/) > > They cast James Marsden (the dude who played Cyclopes) as Preacher. Having never read the comics, I think I can still safely say this was a BAD choice. Oh fuck. Yup, does not bode well. Now, who are they going to get to play Cassidy _braces self for worst_. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/35 "2004-05-27T23:55:05Z")
> [@ShadiRoxan](#): > > I always pictured Stephen Root as Ignatius. He would be perfect with his Milton voice. I originally heard Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I thought how totally fucking perfect…which just compounds my current disappointment. Stephen Root’s rather too old but I see your point :). ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/36 "2004-05-28T01:11:10Z")
Meg Tilly as Madame de Tourvel in Valmont Minnie Driver as Mabel in An Ideal Husband ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/37 "2004-05-28T02:08:32Z")
An irritating role in a forgettable movie, but I’ll nominate [Shannyn Sossamon](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815370/) as the love interest in _A Knight’s Tale_. Ms. Sossamon is a perfectly lovely young woman, but she’s lovely in a slim, modern, multi-ethnic way. I didn’t find her at all believable as an overbred medieval European noblewoman, and couldn’t help thinking that most men of the era probably would have thought she was too scrawny and foreign-looking to be worth marrying. A roll in the hay, sure, but I don’t see competing for her hand unless she had huge…tracts of land…to sweeten the deal. Of course, it didn’t help matters that the hair/costume/makeup department was determined to do her up as a strange hybrid of 1960s Audrey Hepburn and 1980s David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![ReleaseTheMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ReleaseTheMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReleaseTheMeat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/38 "2004-05-28T02:44:58Z")
The casting in Harry Potter has ruined the movies for me. The kids are perfect but the adults are all so old! Snape shouldnt be a senior citizen. If he was 15 years younger he would have been perfect for the part but now hes too old and jolly. And when I saw Sirius ands then Lupin it was devestating. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/39 "2004-05-28T02:54:12Z")
Neurotik writes: \> It was just a bit part and maybe 30 seconds of screen time, but it was so \> jarring that it took me out of the show for the remainder of the episode. Just \> terrible casting. Who made that decision? Hadn’t they seen Fallon’s attmepts \> at acting before? It could have been worse. It could have been both Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz in the jeep. They could have had them ad lib their lines. ---
**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 28, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379/40 "2004-05-28T02:58:32Z")
> [@look!ninjas](#): > > This is a whoosh, right? I mean, they wouldn’t do that. No one in their right mind would do that. So it can’t have happened. Right? Right? [I defecate you not](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051435/). It was his [big screen debut](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051435/trivia) according to the IMDB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-casting-choices/247379.md?page=3)