Casting "errors" in cinema

[Leland Gaunt]

Paris Hilton. She is such an "error actress".

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by Count Ivor

Paris Hilton. She is such an "error actress".

I can but AGREE with you!!!!
She + all the new celebrities that are boosted each year thanks to Real-TV shows !!!

[Savorgnan]

Maurice Ronet (real name Robinet) as an north-african "pied-noir" mob chief in "La Balance" (very,very bad film)...Gerard Depardieu as Maheu in "Germinal".Seeing him at a good 120 kilos shouting "we're starving to death!!!" in front of the gendarmes stills make me laugh today!

[Kernunnos]

Americans or germans played by spaniards or italians in spaghetti western and ridicolous ww2 stories in the sixties.

I'm old enough to have seen them, but I couldn't tell any title....

[Superstar]

And the entire cast of the movie 300.

[Buery]

A Negroid (Adrian Lester) playing Orpheus in "Jason and the Argonauts"(2000)

[Theobald]

Samuel Le Bihan (Breton/Norman) playing "Driss", an Arab criminal, in "La Mentale" (well, this is the kind of movies that you have to watch when you're insomniac... ) :

[BeornWulfWer]

Worst casting in my eyes.

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Tom Cruise and his amazingly annoying Irish accent.
Great film,but I'm sure an established Irish actor could've taken the main lead.

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Theobald

Samuel Le Bihan (Breton/Norman) playing "Driss", an Arab criminal, in "La Mentale" (well, this is the kind of movies that you have to watch when you're insomniac... ) :

OUI!!!Une vraie tête de veau (such an inexpressive actor,a kind of "French Russell Crowe" if you want )!Ugo Tognazzi in "La Cage aux Folles" (don't know the english title)...Jean Gabin as a Sicilian godfather and Lino Ventura as inspector Le Goff (a Breton name) in "Le Clan des Siciliens"...

[Erik P]

I always wondered how the castors work. Simply choosing someone with dark hair and a tan for any role not blond/blue eyed must be a bit... racist!, huh? And still, if they cast a bad guy too dark, or a good guy too light, then that's of course racism too...

And how about when they cast children? Have you seen any real bad examples, like mulatto children to European parents?

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Superstar

And the entire cast of the movie 300.

Gladiator had many Northern looking actors too.









And main actor is part Maori.

[Galaico]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

And main actor is part Maori.

Remember that Russell Crowe plays a Hispano-Roman general, and according to Arthur Kemp, there was a Polynesian invasion of Iberia which provoked the de-Nordisation of Spain and the beginning of its decline.

So actually, it was an excellent casting

[FlashVoyager]

Hollywood filmmakers tend to make crappy adaptions of classical novels and chances are that 1 of every 3 supporting characters and on occasion even main characters will not meet their description. I can imagine some politically correct film committee deciding "These character have to be negroes, so we don't upset certain groups"

But the real error is that most of these "films" are always inferior to whatever they are based upon. Fight club was the only time they got it right.

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Gladiator had many Northern looking actors too.

Yes, but the Roman elites were Nordish.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Theobald

Yes, but the Roman elites were Nordish.

Uber nordish but as mentioned by Galaico it all went down at the time of Maximus in 2000 AD.

[Strengthandhonour]

Maximus' wife in gladiator is Central American.
I don't know her origins though.