Strangest casting choice?
Mine: Charlton Heston playing a Mexican in "A Touch of Evil."
shareMickey Rooney played a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Anthony Hopkins was supposed to be a black man in The Human Stain.
shareGranted, I've actually met a black man with striking blue eyes before but I've always questioned the casting of James Whitmore in Black Like Me.
shareRichard Gere in Chicago
Toby McGuire in anything
Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing.
Katherine Hepburn in Dragon Seed
Johnny Depp in Lone Ranger
Good call on Depp, dewey. He was so damned bizarre in that, although I've liked him in other movies.
shareIn the biographical film The Outsider (1961), Tony Curtis plays Ira Hayes, a U.S. Marine of Native American descent
shareI never saw that one.
How bout Rock Hudson playing A Native American in Winchester 73.
That was really bad.
In the movie RV, the boy, played by Josh Hutchinson (age 13 at shooting), is mister 'too cool for school', he then has a big "most beautiful girl I've ever seen" moment and the girl is NOT good looking. http://media.baselineresearch.com/images/166047/166047_full.jpg
I was like "this is bizarre casting" and looked up the cast and lo and behold, it was the daughter of the director.
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own.
sharewhy ??
shareWasn't convincing as a Northern Irishman, especially not an IRA member.
I'm also nominating Julia Roberts. Her terrible attempt at an Irish accent in Mary Reilly should already have disqualified her for her role in Michael Collins.
That accent was brilliant comedy
Im not sure Pitt was in on the joke though
The usual look on his face tells me he's never in on any joke.
shareOuch!!
Hes gonna cry if he hears thatðŸ˜
I don't give a shit. I doubt he does since he always seems to be high on something.
shareWow!
I really quite like him as an actor
Id love to know why you dont care for him if you dont mind sharing
I'm just not that impressed with his acting. And I have a real problem with the way he talks, always mumbling or something. He's not that good at enunciation. I do like him a lot in Se7en, but that's probably because his character is as dumb as he is.
shareHarsh!
I find him quite entertaining...
I prefer Leo's acting but honestly like Pitt a lot in terms of handsome, good acting guys
Of course, i aint picking a fight with you!
I know how THAT always ends😖
Russell Crowe in Noah was bad on a number of fronts.
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