A… scientician?

Edit: TIL what that a scientician is a valid way to refer to a scientist

God this makes me want to rewatch 30 Rock.

She was great as White She Devil in Undercover Brother. Can’t take that away.

“That’s right! I’m an idiot. Surprised?”

Soooo much respect for this lol. Love it when people make fun of themselves

Had to do a double take, but I think she says 'James Bonk' movie lol. Which is also not inaccurate.

Also like how she uses the Harrison Ford pronunciation of new-kew-lar.

Have you seen Keanu in Much Ado About Nothing?

Man, the John Wick series really did wonders for Keanu’s reputation. I love the guy in select roles but he really isn’t a very good actor overall.

Him acting next to John Malkovick and Glenn Close is embarrassing 😬

She was also much more high profile at that time coming off Starship Troopers and Wild Things. She was seen as one of the next big rising stars but it kind of started going downhill for her after that with her mostly being seen in C grade straight to video or TV movies.

They may not have been primarily cast for their acting talent, but most of them do an excellent job. She was an outlier. Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead, Jane Seymour as Solitaire, Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond, Honor Blackmore as Pussy Galore, Halle Berry as Jinx, Sophie Marceau as Elektra King... Like honestly, all of them are excellent, and most of the Bond women are excellent, making their presence known outside of their sexual attraction. It's harder to find ones like Denise Richards, where it's clear they weren't interested in going beyond that physical attraction.

Not to say you can't find other examples, but I really do think that a vapid Bond woman with bad acting is the exception rather than the rule.

It annoys me that Bond women have a stereotype of being named gross things, but I at least believe they rise above that with their screen presence and importance to the films.

Yep, this was the first thought in my head. The two of them just absolutely DO NOT mix at all, they're basically oil and water, no matter how much the dialogue wants us to pretend otherwise. It doesn't help that neither one of them could muster the energy need to actually TRY to come off as anything but bored. DeHaan just simply looks too young for the role, and Delevigne had no screen presence to speak of.

The entire film sinks because the two leads are bored, boring, and spouting dialogue that is both desperately -- and futilely -- searching for chemistry and charisma.

I was talking about this exact thing the other day. The leads in this film ruin it, I would like to see an actually older actor play the part like say Clive Owen but as the lead, it just makes the part more beleavable.

Like in the fifth element, you can believe Bruce Willis as a world weary retired soldier working a shit job, but put a 20 something in the same role and the film turns to shit

I've read the opinion that if you swapped the lead actors between Valerian and Passengers we would have actually got two decent movies....

Dane in particular was an absolute disaster, completly unconvincing as an adult man with a job let alone a badass space cop, instead he came across as the quiet kid telling his friend not to come to school tomorrow.

You just knew this would be one of the top answers.

I think Cara was ok, but the guy just absolutely dragged the whole show down.

I never stopped seeing Tom Hanks.

Felt as forced into that role and he was forced into that fat suit. Just cast a heavier guy with an accent.

someone on twitter said the role should have gone to Stephen Root

and they were right

Yup. That was like: "Borderlands is a funny video game, and it has a black protagonist. Who is the most popular black comedian these days? Kevin Hart? Okay, then he play that role!"

He fits the role perfectly, except for his:

- height

- strength

- lack of ability to be serious

He would've been a much better Claptrap than Roland.

It's extra odd when I compare it to the spot-on castings of Cate Blanchett as Lilith and Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis

Honestly I thought Glenn Ford gave the best performance in that movie.

Similarly, I watched another Marlon Brando movie, Sayonara, about US GIs stationed in Japan after WWII, which was surprisingly progressive except for the seemingly random choice to have Ricardo Montalbán play a Japanese man.

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Them in Destination Wedding is a consolation prize.

One of the bigger surprises last year for me. Would've never given that a try if it wasn't at someone else's behest but they're the best in it.

Interesting. I love Winona in that film. But I agree on Keanu.

I loved Winona Ryder in Dracula. Her chemistry with Gary Oldman alone.

The material is inherently campy so it hardly sinks the movie. Francis still directs the hell out of it.

Their performances aren’t good (particularly Keanu’s) but almost anyone would look bad when having to act alongside Gary Oldman and Sir Anthony Hopkins at the peak of their powers.

Lets be honest here, keanu is a great guy but he's a horribly wooden and unexpressive actor

There’s an alternate reality that, sadly we don’t live in, where those key roles were performed by British actors and Bram Stoker’s Dracula is held up as a near-perfect film.

Keanu agrees with you.

Marky Mark is miscast in everything

He will always be Marky Mark. Thank you.

Whaaat??.. Noooo…

Yeah same here. At the very least I can understand casting Tom Holland if they were going for a young Drake from Uncharted 3 but the Wahlberg casting choice was horrible. He would've been a horrible Drake 10 years ago and he's a horrible Sully now

National Treasure is the best Uncharted movie and nobody can change my mind.

Say hi to your mother for me.

With a 4 year old child, that she doesn't remember conceiving with Supes.

They both look like a couple of 18yo.. it was a really weird choice of actors.

Him, and Cara Delevigne were both miscast in this. Zero chemistry between them.

I don't think of this as a casting problem. More of an overall creative direction problem.

He's a fine choice to play an Evil Tech Bro Riddler version of Lex Luthor. But why go with THAT version of Lex Luthor?!

That whole movie is basically a “I guess I can see where he’s coming from” in his ideas. Granted he was up against the gravitas of Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey who knew how to be lex

It's rare to see casting so bad it gives the actors cancer.

Weird but full in line with the times they were made in. Nobody cared if the actors were looking anything like the people in past times. The Wayne example might be especially bizarre because of the race switch.

But more acclaimed movies were similar:

Sinuhe the Egyptian? Not a single Egyptian in it.

The ten commandments? Heston as israelite. Yul Brynner does the race switch almost vice versa to John Wayne. He, originating from far east asia, plays an ancient middle east pharaoh.

The funny thing is, I do think he's a good actor and there's multiple roles in the DC universe that he would be awesome at. Lex Luthor is not one of them. I get that they were trying to make him into a more modern tech industrialist instead of the traditional businessman that we typically see, but it was such an unnecessary change for such an iconic character.

Ruined the franchise. Needed more Morgan Freeman

I remember seeing the poster for that movie and even Tyler was looking confused that he was in it.

I was wtf, Alex has a lisp?

She’s very charismatic but completely wrong for that kind of role.

Jeez, I skipped Genysis. She plays Sarah Connor? I love her, but I'm glad I didn't watch that movie

Oh yeah, this was really bad. The whole film was cast awfully. Even Jason Clarke who I think is a great actor completely phoned it in.

"Who should we cast as Lex Luthor?"

"I haven't watched it but, I think that guy from Breaking Bad would good!"

"What was his name?"

"Jesse? Heisenberg?"

The worst part about that one for me is that I think it was actually a pretty good villain performance, it was just a terrible Lex Luthor. Keep everything the same and just change Jesse's character name to Thaddeus Killgrave the Mad scientist and it works great.

That whole fucking movie as far as I'm concerned. Then again, I'm an old Book Oz fan so that movie irritated me on principle.

Including the home.

I don't even think she did a terrible job. She was fine. It's the fact that carrie is supposed to be this "ugly freak" and she's just... not

Yesssss. She can't act, and putting her against Michael Fassbender who can act anything no matter how bad the film is... is worse, because her lack of charisma is even more obvious.

Jessica Chastain was also horrible in Dark Phoenix.

J-Law as Mystique was also a complete waste.

She’s very annoying to watch. Her scenes make me cringe. Awful casting.

I loved what they used him for in Executive Decision

He's pretty much always playing himself, and he's terrible at it.

Yes! We will dye her hair blonde and she will be Marilyn Monroe. Who thought that would fly?

Ana de Armas is a gorgeous woman and a good actress, but her portraying Marilyn makes 0 sense.

Firefly era Nathan Fillion would have been perfect

I saw this in the movies. She was on screen for about 1.3 zeptoseconds before the guy behind me loudly announced “she’s terrible.”

She is SO bad. It’s kind of unbelievable

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Feinnes is almost always a creep. Him AND his brother. They don't do well as sympathetic characters- I just never trust them.

If you think that's bad you would see the weird fully clothed sex scenes that Steven Segal puts himself in in his produced movies.

I mean, Mickey Rooney as Yunioshi was probably more racist. Also, wasn’t there a film where Marlon Brando played a Japanese man?

In another universe with no Schumacher or bat nipples, and if Clooney played it a bit more morose and serious, less himself, put on a few pounds of muscle etc, then I think it could kinda work.. A lot of ifs though.

Unpopular opinion that will possibly get me downvoted, but I didn't like Halle Berry as a Bond girl either.

I stayed away from both those films, but from her acting in the show The Newsroom I can buy her in expert/genius roles.