30 Fantastic Roles That Got Absolutely Ruined By The Wrong Actor

Oh no. Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's has it beat.

Honest question, since I haven't seen the movie: is the problem here entirely that a white guy played an Asian guy or did he mannerisms, acting, etc., actually suck for the role? How do people feel about Ricardo Montalban's (a Mexican-American) Khan, a Punjabi with obvious reference to Genghis, a Mongolian? (I'm in denial that Benedict Cumberbatch played him; From the point of view of the art, I'm personally more offended at making Khan Singh into a white character than I am at trying to suspend an audience's belief into accepting that a white actor is actually an Asian character, but I'll defer to minorities about the representation, social and political ramifications of that.)

IS great. Season 3 is on the way. I really hope we get a good half dozen seasons. I'm not sure we need as many as there are books, but if they can pick half a dozen or so of the best stories I'll be happy.

Move aside, let the man go through ... let the man go through ... :-)

I like him in Mission Impossible but that doesn’t mean he should be in every action film. They seems to become a generic hero when he plays them. I watched the recent mummy and he’s playing an insubordinate military man, which would work if somebody in their twenties was playing him. At his age he would have been forced to leave decades ago or retired. Worst casting ever.

Watch Edge of Tomorrow. You get to watch him die. Over and over and over.

I liked Oblivion.

Except Top Gun

I like him in ›The Color of Money‹ EDIT: And in ›Magnolia‹

I upvote mostly because of use of word flabbergasted, I absolutely adore it :D

But he took his method acting way over the top to the point that he was seriously harassing his costars. He would stay in characters and gift them creepy “gifts” like broken condoms and a dead pig. It became more about his ego than the actual performance.

He tried too hard. He overdid it and it didn’t work for me.

Yeah for me heath ledger will always be the best joker.

I think he overcorrected, I wouldn't say compensated. Big shoes to fill.

Thank you, I was hoping someone would mention Romero. I remember watching him make his debut as the Joker when I was a kid. Loved him.

No one can ever take his place. Robin Williams is one of my few personal heroes. The world would be a better place if more people tried to be like him.

Agreed - I thought they did a good job of adapting the part for him. It's one of the better live action adaptations

Monster universe Charlize (the movie "Monster" I mean, not the Gozilla monsterverse).

Yes! That was the FIRST thing I thought when I saw the trailer!

Came here to say this

My thoughts EXACTLY

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since they are both dog butt ugly, who cares?

The hair thing actually tracked with the comics. Lex started out with long hair and later sported a full beard. He later lost his hair when Superman came to save him during a fire, and Superman's breath (he blew the fire out) caused a bottle of acid to spill over Luthor's head, and burn his hair away. Also, early Luthor, from the 1940's, was a manic crazy psychotic terrorist professor. He was also a young man. One of the early writers of the comics noted, that Superman was to be perpetually 29 or so, and Luthor was meant to be, at least visually, five or six years younger. So... hate to say it, that Luthor? It's on par with the original way Luthor was presented. Not the Luthor from the 80's or 90's.

The character version they went with, seems to pretty closely follow the original Luthor from the 1940's and into the 1960's.

Yep, and he had to be reasonably young at some point. I think he (like so many people in the DC movies) didn't get a chance to do more. I think if they'd continued with the movies we'd have seen that he was being influenced by Darkseid (or more likely one of his flunkies like Desaad). But we never got more Superman movies in that universe so he never got used to his full potential. And on a different note, I don't think you can ever blame an actor for their performance. Not when they're following a script written by someone else and being directed by another person.

Hackman was too campy. There were moments when he was menacing as Luther but most of the time he almost played as comic relief, made worse by having henchmen who were literal comic relief. Say what you will about Spacey, but I thought he made a good Luthor.

Couldn't agree more Why anyone thought there needed to be a reboot of the movie and/or any other Wonka than Gene Wilder makes no sense to me.