Person Online Asks “Which Actor Crushed A Role So Hard That Nobody Else Will Be Able To Live Up To It?”, 50 People Deliver

Jack sparrow is only one!

Honestly if they ever do reboot of the harry potter franchise i will have difficulty to get used to all the new actors and actresses.... But Snape will be the most difficult

Alan Rickman was the first person to be cast in the series and without an audition, JK wanted him so badly because she pictured him in the role as she was writing the series. Warner Bros wanted a larger cast list for the role but she shut them down. At one point they pushed for Ralph Finnes (Voldemort) to play Snape but we all know how that turned out. ;)

I'd actually like to see Tim Roth play the role, since he was the first pick.

Alan Rickman as anything. Legend.

He was also excellent and unforgettable in Galaxy Quest.

Oh … just thinking about it makes me miss him 😢

Such a complex character and Alan Rickman did an amazing job, I do not think anyone could have done better.

Alan Rickman in any role

Anyone else remember him in Robin Hood "with a spoon" favorite line.

Rowling actually had Alan Rickman as the only person she wanted to play Snape.

Excellent actor in every movie he was in

RIP

Should more movies with him be made I suspect he´d somewhat younger so a change to another actor would feel easier.

If they ever do this again with new actors, I will refuse to watch it.

I'm a huge Potter fan and I do love the movies, but I think it's strange that people seem to think they were so well cast. When I first saw Rickman as Snape, I thought well, OK, and promptly compartmentalized my head canons. Don't get me wrong, I loved Rickman's performance and take on Snape, but it just wasn't the same character I'd built up in my head. He was too old, his voice was too throaty and montonous, his hair too thick and wiglike, his facial expressions more somber and deadpan than nasty and menacing.

And as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

That's weird, because I always thought the cinematic Snape is nothing like the book one, but Alan Rickman managed to create such a charismatic and memorable character, that I really can't see anybody else playing Snape now.

I dunno, a lot of people can do a good imitation, even me.

I know it's heresy but Daniel Radclif as Harry Potter was about equal to Kristin Stewart as Bella in Twilight. He was a child, so he gets a pass but I still can't watch the movies because the child actors take me so much out of it. However, Ron was fantastic and so were many of the adult cast.

I cannot even see rowan atkinson as rowan atkinson anymore!!! He IS Mr Bean!!

The one and only Iron Man 😀

Honestly think that it's the same person now lol

No one could wear it like he does, not even Sean Connery when he played his father

She was awesome in a role that was not so big...She was stealing the show

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Robin Williams in any part he ever played. He owned all of his characters.

#FACTS

Agreed. He made that role the icon it is today.

Make it so!

My favorite scene was when Oberyn visited Tyrion in prison. Tyrion didn't speak a word while Oberyn was doing his dialog. His emotions spoke volumes.

Wherever i see him i see Dr House!

No argument here!!

YES!!! (another actor who CREATED every role he played)

He did great and cannot be replaced

Dr.

I'm a fan of the sitcom and Ricci did great but in my mind she's not the only Wednesday.

Eh. He did good, but "best book-to-movie translation" would definitely not go there. I'd say that honor goes to Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Aziraphel and Crowley for "Good Omens".

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! 😀

A friend once said Sigourny is the only woman who can look sexy in army underwear ! She is amazing.

I hated the character to begin with and was really curious as to who could possibly do such an awful person "justice". Imelda did it wonderfully (and without me hating HER for it - sometimes it's just hard to disconnect one character from another played by the same actor). But that said, I think almost every actor cast in Harry Potter was a great choice. I was also curious who Emma Thompson would play when I heard she'd be in the series, and I did NOT see her Trelawney coming. Absolutely excellent!

I honestly liked also Jack Nicholson and Joaquin Phoenix! They all gave something different to the role

Here's Johnny!!

I liked both performances i think they are totally different!

One of my favorite movies of all times 😀

This role was written for Jim. He always has a habbit of playing the same kind of character in every movie he's in. No matter what he does there ALWAYS slips a bit of Carey into his performances. The Grinch has Carey, Ace ventura has Carey, Count Olaf has Carey. But in the Mask it didn't matter, he could go out of his way to be himself.

I had to watch an episode of "Malcom in the Middle" to like Bryan Cranston again.

I really liked an early scene: she doesn't do well on her first visit to the asylum, and looks as about to cry in the parking lot. In the next scene, she's fine. It showed her as vulnerable but resilient.

Masterpiece of police captain

The reboots were nowhere near as good

He always fit whatever character he played and made it his own

Well, show me a movie that Phoenix was not good at!

Yes.

This had to be made.

Also Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz in Django unchained 👌

Let’s face it, Andy Bernard never met the expectations of Michael Scott.

Yup, making men in Swansons. So Iconic