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We all have our opinions and feelings about movies, right?
Sometimes there’s a really good movie but then one of the actors in it just seems to
ruin it, or we simply feel like someone could’ve done better.
A bad judgment call on a casting director can lead to the wrong person for the right
role.
Let’s check out some of these bad decisions with today's list of Top 10 Worst Casting
Mistakes Ever Made.
10.
Starting off our list at number 10 is Ronda Rousey.
We know her for fighting her way through the UFC in the octagon.
At one point she was considered to be one of the most dominant female athletes on the
planet.
Even movie producers were raving about her because she had that blond California surfer
girl look going on.
Naturally, with her looks and stardom, she made her way from the octagon onto the big
screen.
Back in 2014 she made her movie debut in Expendables 3, which led her to snagging a role for another
installment of the Fast & Furious franchise.
She saddled up to star alongside Vin Diesel and The Rock for the 7th installment.
She took on the role of Luna, who is the head of security for a billionaire.
The majority of the movie is just her standing around in an evening gown looking pissed as
hell.
She does get one small fight scene, which was probably the only believable part of her
acting given her fighting experience.
People weren’t impressed by her acting and said online that the producers probably just
cast her so they could advertise that she was in the film.
9.
At number 9 is Colin Farrell.
The Irish actor has had a number of impressive performances throughout his career, but his
role in the movie Alexander, was not one of them.
Him taking on the role of Alexander has been titled as being culturally insensitive to
Greek culture.
He received a ton of negative reviews for his performance and people thought the part
should have gone to someone else.
Leave it up to the audience to also poke fun at his bleach blonde locks in the film.
Good news is that the actor can now laugh off all the criticism he faced.
During an interview back in 2013 on the Graham Norton Show, he said, I quote: that was my
Doris Day look.
Alexander was the golden-locked child, but he shouldn’t have been.
He should’ve been brunette.
And maybe he shouldn’t have had an Irish accent, only from the 7’000 reviews I read.
Well, I give him props for even reading the reviews, that’s like reading mean tweets
about yourself.
8.
Taking over the number 8 spot is Emma Stone.
The actress is a lot of things: an Oscar winner, a talented singer, and just an all around
good person.
However, there are 2 things that she definitely isn’t: she’s not Asian and she’s also
not a Pacific Islander.
Which is why people were so confused when she was cast to play Allison Ng in the rom-com
Aloha.
Her character is an air force pilot who’s a quarter Hawaiian and a quarter Chinese.
And if you just look at a picture of Emma Stone then you know that she is pretty much
as white as it gets.
But, according to the director Cameron Crowe, he based the character on a Hawaiian woman
he’d actually met and felt that Emma was good for the role.
A lot of people were upset by this choice saying that there were better picks out there,
one’s that wouldn’t have been what they consider to be white-washing.
Both Crowe and Stone faced a lot of heat for the movie and they eventually apologized to
the public.
Emma said, I quote: I’ve learned on a macro level about the insane history of whitewashing
in Hollywood and how prevalent the problem truly is.
It’s ignited a conversation that’s very important.
The movie bombed at the box office and was completely gutted by critics, but she’s
happy to bring awareness to the issue.
7.
Sliding into number 7 is Keanu Reeves.
We know him as John Wick which has definitely resurrected his career since starring in the
movie Dracula back in 1992.
The movie itself was a success, winning 3 Oscars and taking home double its budget at
the box office.
However, critics weren’t so nice in regards to Keanu Reeves attempting an English accent.
Josh Winning from Total Film reviewed it and said: you can visibly see Keanu attempting
not to end every one of his lines with dude.
The result?
A performance that looks like the young actor’s perpetually constipated.
Painful for all parties.
Despite the bad reviews, the director Francis Ford Coppola remains satisfied with the movie.
But during an interview with Entertainment Weekly he did admit that he could have done
more to help Reeves perform at a higher caliber.
He said: he tried so hard.
That was the problem.
He wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted.
Good news is, all the negativity never had an impact on their relationship and they still
have a mutual respect for each other.
6.
At number 6 is Kristen Stewart.
She’s mainly known for her role of Bella Swan in the Twilight series, but that’s
not the movie that landed her on this list.
Although, some people will say that it should have been.
The actress has always been ridiculed for her performances, many people saying that
she has only 1 facial expression for every emotion.
But one role people really couldn’t stand was her role in the live-action remake of
snow white: Snow White and the Huntsman.
She was cast for the iconic role of Snow White and critics were not afraid to say it how
it is when regarding her performance in the movie.
One critic summed it up by saying: Stewart’s snow white- pouts her lips, bats her bedroom
eyes, and scarcely seems to have more on her mind than who might take her to the senior
prom, let alone the destiny of an entire kingdom.
She starred alongside big names like Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth and fans say if
it wasn’t for them they probably wouldn’t have even seen the movie.
The movie itself had mixed reviews getting only a 50% on rotten tomatoes, so I'm just
wondering who we blame the other 50% on.
5.
Half way through the list is Jesse Eisenberg.
He was cast to play one of the greatest comic book villains of all time, Lex Luthor, but
ended up disappointing a lot of comics fans.
When it was announced that the villain would be showing up in the Batman vs. Superman:
Dawn of Justice movie, fans were wondering what actor would be bringing the villain to
life.
When news broke that it was Jesse, fans weren’t exactly thrilled about it.
Things got even worse once they actually saw the movie and fans began to voice that the
actor was a total miscast and should have never been given the role.
People were saying that his interpretation of the character was too loud and too manic,
comparing him to being too similar to The Joker.
Some have gone as far as calling his character a goofball and saying that he is annoying.
The movie itself was a box office hit but it only received a 27% on rotten tomatoes
and a big reason could have been their casting decisions.
4.
Alright guys, at number 4 is Nicolas Cage.
Another successful actor who got torn apart for one of his roles, he can’t win them
all, right?
When the Ghost Rider movie came out in 2007, people were expecting a bad-ass to take on
and perform the role in some epic and legendary way.
Instead, they got Nicolas Cage.
No offence man.
Marvel received a lot of negative reviews for the Ghost Rider series and many people
are pointing the finger at the actor.
Cage took on the role of Johnny Blaze in the first film and then reprised his role in 2011
for a sequel.
After the basklash he received, the actor sticks up for himself and blames the producer
for not giving him the creative freedom he wanted.
During an interview with JoBlo he said: Ghost Rider was a movie that always should’ve
been an R-rated movie.
David Goyer had a brilliant script which I wanted to do with David, and for whatever
reason they just didn’t let us make the movie.
Not many people were buying this as a valid excuse and the movie itself took a lot of
heat, only receiving a 27% on rotten tomatoes.
So who is to blame?
The producers?
Or Nicolas Cage?
3.
Taking spot number 3 on our list is Scarlett Johannson.
She’s a wildly successful actress but one of her roles cost her a lot of backlash and
controversy; it was another case of whitewashing.
It was her role in the movie Ghost In The Shell when she was cast to play the role of
an Japnese woman.
Ghost In The Shell is a Japanese Manga and Anime franchise created by Asian artists and
filmmakers.
Some of the filming was done in Hong Kong and even had its big premiere in Tokyo back
in 2017.
People were outraged that a white woman was chosen for the part; so it’s safe to say
they would have been upset no matter what white actress they picked.
The controversy caused Paramount and DreamWorks to lose 60$ million dollars on the movie because
fans were refusing to see it.
The entire film was a mix of Japanese actors as well as white actors, but they say she
ruined the movie role because it just wasn’t realistic.
Her character stands out and not in the way you want it to.
Critiques have gone on to say the movie would’ve been a lot better if her role was given to
a Japanese actress instead.
Not that she is a bad actor, but she wasn’t right for this role and she ruined the movie
by taking it.
In an interview with Marie Claire magazine, Johansson said that she never wanted to take
the role away from an Asian actor and wouldn’t have accepted the role if that was the case.
She says it was a rare opportunity she wanted to take advantage of.
Can you blame her?
2.
In at number 2 is Hayden Christensen; the actor took home some awards after his performance
as Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise.
However, it wasn’t the kind of awards that an actor strives for in their career.
He won 2 golden raspberries for his performance, which people consider nothing more than a
joke.
People had high expectations when it came to the most heinous villain in movie history,
but apparently he didn’t meet any of them.
It’s been said that he’s the reason a strain was put on the series and that his
performance is the worst for all of the Star Wars films to date.
Reports have been made saying that people like Leonardo DiCaprio were turned down for
the role, so many people are wondering why this Canadian actor was the chosen one.
You guys, serious question, who do you think should’ve played this role instead?
Tell me in the comments.
1.
Taking the number 1 spot on our list is the Fake Baby in American Sniper.
That’s right, for the first time in Beyond The Screen history I have made up my own category
and I am using a fake prop as an actor on this list.
The movie itself is absolutely incredible which is why it’s such a shame that this
fake baby made it into the movie.
Surely there are enough baby actors out there who would’ve loved the shot at working with
Bradley Cooper.
It’s been talked about all over social media, and every time I watch it, it doesn’t get
easier.
It’s seriously cringe worthy guys.
In one of the scenes actor Bradley Cooper had to be holding a baby in the nursery.
You would think that with a legendary actor like Cooper they would use a CGI or, you know,
a real baby, but instead they decided to go with a fake plastic one.
One that looks NOTHING like a real baby and has zero movement to it because it’s plastic.
The worst part about the scene is you can actually see Bradley using his thumb to make
the baby’s hand move.
*insert image* Bradley Cooper himself felt just as ridiculous about this scene as we
all did.
After being asked about it on the Ellen Degeneres show, Cooper said “ I couldn’t believe
that we were working with a plastic baby, I was like, this is nuts”.
Glad you think so to Brad!
What I want to know is, whose brilliant idea was it to cast a plastic toy rather than a
real baby?
Alright guys, there is our list for today.
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CokeyNuts says: Hi jocelyn, great work.
How about a video on top 10 celebrity meltdowns or top 10 acts of kindness done by celebrities?
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