Absolutely Terrible Casting 🍿😩

pce612

John Hannah as Rebus. Awful miscasting. Far too young.
Ken Stott was perfect.

Yes!!

One of my favourite films of all times

In "Doctor Zhivago", Rita Tushingham as the love-child of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie! Think their daughter would have looked very different.

Bella23

Olivia Coleman as Miss Haversham. I know others will disagree but to me she plays all her parts with the same aggresive mannerisms.

She was brilliant in Broadchurch though.

Likewise in the Shetland books, Jimmy Perez is described in every book as being descended from a Spaniard washed up in the islands from the Armada - black curly hair, olive skin, brown eyes - and so asking me to accept Douglas Henshall (fair hair, blue eyes) in the part is impossible...!

Agree. I'm not one of the Douglas Henshall fan club. Maybe Aiden from Poldark instead?

Bella and Sparklefizz I agree with you both.
She’s not exactly chameleon like.
I’m not really a fan.

Clawdy, to my shame I have never seen Dr Z.
That is indeed an odd bit a casting.
I love Rita (a 60s icon) but she’s always Jo in A Taste of Honey to me

I agree with Clawdy -Dr Zhivago is one of my all time favourite films , but I think that Rita Tushingham is totally wrong as the love child .

she’s always Jo in A Taste of Honey to me

Me too Fanny

Whereas Anton Lesser really is a chameleon. Another man with a fabulous voice

Anton Lesser was great in Wolf Hall.
Well, in my opinion the whole cast was great in Wolf Hall, particularly the wonderful Mark Ryland. I was thrilled to find WH available on iPlayer and watched it for the 3rd time. Might even give it a 4th outing once the tennis is over this afternoon.

Oh, Mark Rylance is absolutely phenomenal.
I’ve recently watched him in The Phantom of The Open and The Outfit.
You couldn’t imagine two more different films or parts.
He’s a genius

I love him. He's got such an expressive face that he hardly needs to speak.

Michael Caine in most things he's done.

Kate1949

Michael Caine in most things he's done.

He was good in Alfie - but perhaps he was playing himself 😀

Yes apart from Alfie maybe.

And A Muppet Christmas Carol!!! 😃

I enjoyed watching John Thaw as Morse but felt he was totally miscast as the novelist Peter Mayle in a “Year in Provence” .

I enjoyed John Thaw in a Year In Provence but thought Lindsay Duncan was completely wrong as his wife. Why on earth didn't they have Sheila Hancock instead?

Yes, A Year In Provence was miscast on both main parts.

If anyone can recall the tv production of ‘Nice Work’, the novel by David Lodge, Warren Clarke was absolutely the wrong person to play the part of Vic Wilcox.

Awful casting.

Books being made into films / TV are usually a huge disappointment.

I think that my earliest experience of this was Gian Sammarco as Adrian Mole. Dreadful

Julie Walters was perfect as Pauline Mole; but she left after the first series - and they replaced her with Lulu! 🙀

Tall, skinny Keira Knightly as the petite rounded French novelist Colette.

Going back in time, John Mills as the village bumpkin in Ryan’s Daughter.
Truly embarrassing.

BlueBelle

Timothy Spall in Mr Turner awful

I so agree, all that grunting, ugh.

But Tim Spall was being Turner, it was good acting; a part that you didn’t like, but not poor casting.

Any actor in that role would have ‘acted’ that way.

It’s the writing/ direction that you’re criticising surely?