Miscast Actors/Actresses.

Tom Cruise was physically nowhere near the size of Jack Reacher but he acted the character so well that I stopped minding the disparity after a few minutes.
Shaun Evans I also thought acted the young Morse very well. Look closely and you see mannerisms that John Thaw employed. I could see him developing into the more mature Morse, somewhat ground down and disappointed in much of humanity.

Totally agree about Olivia Coleman as the Queen. I thought she was dreadful. Sorry Olivia, I like you in other parts.

Harrigran I may have misunderstood....is it the character Vera who was brought up in Northumberland?

Peasblossom

Richard Gere in Indecent Proposal.

I mean, come on, like he’d have to pay the woman a million pounds to sleep with him.

It should have been someone sleazy and repulsive.

So perfectly cast then

harrigran

Tom Cruise as Reacher, not believable.
None of the characters in Grace were right for the part.
Brenda Blethyn is fine as Vera, she is not a Geordie as such but brought up in Northumbria and there is a difference in the accent.
Line of duty last night had us fuming, needed subtitles for the Scottish woman, she muttered and mumbled.

Can’t find any reference to BB being brought up in Northumberland, just Ramsgate?
As a Geordie born I found her accent wrong sorry.

BigBertha1

Lucca I am in shock. Vigo was weedy - he was perfect!!!

I do like Daniel Craig as an actor but he's not JB for me not sophisticated and urbane enough - more of a brawler.

I didn’t say he was weedy !!!

Lucca I am in shock. Vigo was weedy - he was perfect!!!

I do like Daniel Craig as an actor but he's not JB for me not sophisticated and urbane enough - more of a brawler.

I can only think of casting I like rather than think was miscast. The Darling Buds of May and the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice being two I think were perfectly cast.

I agree with another poster about Olivia Coleman, who I really like normally but not in that role.

Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy in The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood develops SJ as an older woman, with arthritic hands. Her age was supposed to be part of the 'disgust' about handing a baby over to her.

The actress does a good job. But she just doesn't fit the character.

Tom Cruise as Reacher, not believable.
None of the characters in Grace were right for the part.
Brenda Blethyn is fine as Vera, she is not a Geordie as such but brought up in Northumbria and there is a difference in the accent.
Line of duty last night had us fuming, needed subtitles for the Scottish woman, she muttered and mumbled.

Daniel Craig as James Bond. He looks nothing like Sean Connery! ?

I'm another who thinks Tom Cruise was totally wrong as Reacher. He is about a foot shorter and not as heavy as described in the books (although he did look heavier in the last film - but that wasn't muscle!!!)

Richard Briers in Monarch Of The Glen on tv a few years ago now.

He was playing a laird, owner of a Scottish estate.

Would have seemed more appropriate to choose a Scottish actor.

Plus he was all wrong for the role, seemed to be a silly old buffoon.

I briefly looked at the Tudors on Netflix, until I saw the weedy, dark haired actor playing Henry V111.
Equivalent of Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher.

Robert Carlyse as Hamish McBeth. In the books he's a 6ft lanky red head. But then again, the series bore very little resemblance to the books.

Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf with a false nose!?
Keira Knightly as the author Colette. Knightly tall and gangly, Colette petite and round.

Hayden Christensen in Star Wars

Pip in Great Expectations has twice disappointed me. I thought John Mills too old in the original version. And the more recent version had Douglas Booth (see picture) who was badly miscast. Far too handsome and glamorous, not a rough lad working as a farrier.

A very old one. Michael Caine as Alan Breck Stewart in the 1971 film of ‘Kidnapped’. The accent!

Also Dick Van Duke’s cheeky cock er nee in Mary Poppoms.

BBbevan

Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy in ‘Pride and Predjudice’

But absolutely nobody could have followed Colin Firth.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma - just no.

TerriBull

I didn't think Colin Firth was particularly well cast as George V1 in the King's Speech but he went on to win an Oscar nevertheless.

My husband was incandescent about Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher too short!! The problem is when we've read a book and engaged with the character we will have pre conceived ideas about how that person should look.

I'll probably think of some more.

My easy going DH was also raging about Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. The author described him as being about 6 feet 5 inches.

Every single role in the most recent film version of Little Women! All awful but in particular Timothee Chalamet as Lawrie - who's idea of a joke was that?

I will now duck behind the parapet as I tell you all that for me Sean Connery just wasn't James Bond. Where was the "comma of black hair" and "the steely grey-blue eyes"?

Initially I had thought Dennis Waterman was miscast as Terry McCann in Minder years ago as I felt he wasn’t enough of a tough guy but I gradually did get used to him in the part.

Ashley Jensen as Agatha Raisin in TV series.
Scottish accent and blond hair.