I once read a quote, “Plot is what keeps you going when you read a story; character is what stays with you.” Honestly, that resonates so well with any tale because imagine a character that hypnotizes you, but then it’s played by an actor least suitable for the role.

Sounds disappointing, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, quite a few such epic characters have been played by actors who were obviously miscast, and netizens couldn’t help but call them out for ruining the story. You might even agree with some of them, so just scroll down to check them out!

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#1

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Overall I enjoy the Jack Reacher movies but Cruise isn't anywhere near the right physical presence. This was only more exacerbated by having Alan Ritchson play him in the Amazon series and crushing it.

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#2

John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

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#3

Denise Richards, the nuclear scientist in that James Bond movie.

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#4

Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Dracula, although part of me thinks he might have been able to pull it off if they just made the character American and didn’t make him put on that horrendous accent.

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#5

Not because of any personal history of hers, but Amber Heard in Aquaman. Every single word she spoke was a cheesy one liner that made me physically cringe

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#6

Shia Leboeuf in Indiana Jones. I don’t think they knew what they wanted to do and he exemplifies that.

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#7

The entire cast of 50 shades of grey

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#8

Jesse Eisenberg in [Batman v Superman].

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#9

James Corden in any movie musical.

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#10

Ben Affleck as daredevil. The script was bad and that can take a lot of the blame. However Affleck still moves around like his spine is fused, while trying to portray one of the more nimble characters in marvel.

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#11

Kristen Stewart- Snow White and the Huntsman

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#12

Even without seeing it I'm sure we call agree Chris Pratt shouldn't be playing Mario

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#13

To me, the granddaddy of them all is Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor.

So….SO wrong. Too short, no charisma……


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(Full disclosure: I consider anything other than T1 and T2 to be an abomination BY DEFAULT anyway).

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#14

Vincent Chase as Pablo Escobar.

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#15

James Franco as the Wizard of Oz/Oswald in Oz the Great and Powerful. Such a vacuum of charisma when you need someone with charm to pull off the role. Sam Raimi should have done what he could to keep RDJ in the role.

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#16

Mark Wahlberg in Transformers. The buff guy from Mass is an inventor in Texas?

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#17

I think she’s a wonderful actress but Cameron Diaz was way off for Gangs of New York.

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#18

Obviously, Sofia Coppola in ‘The Godfather part III’.

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#19

Both Sully and Drake from Uncharted were woefully miscast. The lackluster script certainly didn’t help.

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#20

Borderlands...

By that I mean all of them.

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#21

Gary Oldman as a dwarf in Tiptoes, also starring Peter Dinklage.

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#22

Tom Hanks in Elvis.

I feel like Werner Herzog would have killed it. Or Stellan Skarsgard. Hanks was just...not right for the role, and it brought the whole movie down.

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#23

Not a movie, but Lin Manuel Miranda in 'His Dark Materials'. He plays a character clearly inspired by wild west/Texas cowboy and is unsurprisingly bad. 


For reference, Sam Elliott played the same character in the movie version. Much better casting, even if he was a little old for the part.

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#24

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight.

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#25

I used to think Jeremy Renner was miscast as Hawkeye for the longest time. I didn't hate him but he didn't feel like the Clint I was familiar with from the comics. But the Hawkeye show completely changed my mind on that and now I think he's great.

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