What are the Worst Casting Decisions that have ever been made?

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Cameron Diaz
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I'm thinking of that movie, The Counselor where she rubbed her smatch on a car window in front of Javier Bardem.

It was a weird as fuck film but she was actually good in that. Played the perfect irritating sociopathic bitch.

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Jennifer Lawrence
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I blame Hunger Games but I can't see her as anything other than moping Katniss Everdeen and she got a weird baby face so I always get a weird icky feeling when she's playing the sexy femme fatal. Red Sparrow was a weird watch.

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Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast. Movie is an awful soul less cash grab but putting aside that for one second, why on earth would they cast someone who can't sing as the lead of a musical?
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A massive insult to Paige O'Hara.

Speaking of Disney, Halle Bailey was a garbage Ariel. She can sing fine but she can't act for shit.. It's the Lion King remake all over again.

Can't they not hire two people anymore? You know, one for singing and one for acting.

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Quentin Tarantino In Django Unchained. He has always cast him self in his own movies, and wouldn't say he was ever a good actor but he was never distractingly bad until this movie where for some reason he felt the need to do an godawful fake accent/
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Tarantino is always the worst part of his own movies.

I will say that Reservoir Dogs is his worst performance. It might also be his first I guess. I think it's because he sounds so out of place when in the presence of actual actors.
 
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I recently watched that Lucy/Desi movie.

Nicole Kidman was surprisingly good as Lucille Ball, and of course JK was near perfect as William Frawley but good God almighty, Javier Bardem was woefully miscast as Desi.

Desi was supposed to be a fresh faced handsome guy with a ton of charm (and I believe he was younger than Ball if I'm not mistaken). Having him played by a guy with such harsh features as Bardem made it hard for me to see Desi on the screen.
 
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One that sticks out in my mind is Mila Kunis in The Book of Eli. It's a very good film that's really only brought down by her performance (and maybe some budget issues.) Poor thing is beautiful and not untalented as a voice actress, but she can't act in a drama to save her life. And it hurts the film because her character has a lot of screen time.
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Laura Linney as the mother in Ozark. At certain points you're supposed to feel sympathy for her and want her to succeed, which is impossible because it's Laura Linney.
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You're crazy. She's easily one of the best things about the show. Wendy is a cunt, sure, and you know she's a cunt from the very beginning. But that's the character, and Linney plays her very well. She's a great actress.
 
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Jamie Foxx in collateral. He never sits right with me, he seems to always have the general feel of Jamie Fox acting. He is meant to be a starry eyed cabbie, but he just comes across as jamie Foxx acting. Tom has that issue at times as well, but it doesn't bother me as much with him, and he was good in that (minus the dumb story).
 
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Jamie Foxx in collateral. He never sits right with me, he seems to always have the general feel of Jamie Fox acting. He is meant to be a starry eyed cabbie, but he just comes across as jamie Foxx acting. Tom has that issue at times as well, but it doesn't bother me as much with him, and he was good in that (minus the dumb story).
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I thought Foxx was great in Collateral. The only real problems with that movie are 1) the ending, while truly inevitable, can't help but pale in comparison and in complexity to the character-heavy stuff before that, 2) Jada Pinkett-Smith's character has no development and therefore is essentially symbolic, as 3) Jada Pinkett-Smith isn't a great actress, and she really should be in a movie with this few characters.

But yeah, I fucking love Collateral.
 
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I thought Foxx was great in Collateral. The only real problems with that movie are 1) the ending, while truly inevitable, can't help but pale in comparison and in complexity to the character-heavy stuff before that, 2) Jada Pinkett-Smith's character has no development and therefore is essentially symbolic, as 3) Jada Pinkett-Smith isn't a great actress, and she really should be in a movie with this few characters.

But yeah, I fucking love Collateral.
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I enjoy it as well, a very good movie aside a few issues here and there. Endings are always kinda shitty, but I am horror fan so shit endings rarely bother me at all.

But I think its just Foxx, I really do not like him in anything he does. Just one of those things where something about an actor rubs you the wrong way and you cannot see past it. I feel the same about Jeff Bridges as well, never enjoyed anything he is in.
 
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Everyone in Netflix War For Cybertron. They got some former Vine guy voicing Prime. Guy couldn't act himself out of a paper bag.
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I'm all for giving someone new a chance to voice Optimus Prime, but the guy in WFC unfortunately was rather bland. Still not as bad as the game theory guy as Computron.
 
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Jamie Foxx in collateral
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I'm going to say Jamie Foxx in Baby Driver too now that I think about it. The guy is meant to be an unhinged gun toting sociopath but he can't pull off that sort of hyperactive menace the role clearly called for.

How you gonna be so toothless a protagonist named 'Baby' somehow stands up to you?
 
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Good lord, if they do this, and I can imagien they do. I hope the movie bombs hard.

Get this, they are thinking of casting her to play historical figure and real-life female pirate Anne Bonny.
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You know, a redheaded Irish woman.

What the fuck, Disney? Why do you hate gingers so much? What did they ever do to you?
 
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whogoesthere said:
Jamie Foxx in collateral. He never sits right with me, he seems to always have the general feel of Jamie Fox acting. He is meant to be a starry eyed cabbie, but he just comes across as jamie Foxx acting. Tom has that issue at times as well, but it doesn't bother me as much with him, and he was good in that (minus the dumb story).
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For me it's Jamie Foxx in everything. He's a shitty UPN actor that Michael Mann fell in love with for some reason. He's not cool, he's not funny, and he's at best a mediocre actor. He never stops being Jamie Foxx no matter what he's wearing or doing.
 
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The dude they got to play Ser Loras in GoT.

Loras was supposed to be hot and at least slightly ripped.

I see what they were going for and no lie, Michael Phelps or someone like that would have been a way better casting choice.
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Two other things where the dude is supposed to be hella hot and just isn't:

DiCaprio in Titanic, and Hayden as Darth Vader.

For both of those, you want a dude who exudes sex. You want a dude where maybe the woman knows she's making a bad decision but her tingling loins are overriding her reason. You want a dude where their eyes lock across a crowded room and she's just... gone.

Titanic would have unironically been better if DiCaprio and Billy Zane had switched roles.

According to the HuffPo, other actors who were considered for Titanic were "Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Stephen Dorff, Matthew McConaughey, Chris O'Donnell, River Phoenix and -- wait for it -- Macaulay Culkin."

Virtually any of these would have been better. At least most of them look like they'd be a fun lay.
 
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