Perfectly cast roles in films

[ChicagoBlue]

Jean Reno in Leon

Bastard! I ploughing through 11 pages to make sure I didn’t repeat this....then you!!

Also, Jean Reno as Enzo in The Big Blue. Brilliance.

Christian Bale, The Machinist
Julie Andrews, Sound of Music
Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
Dolph Lundgren, Rocky
Bill Nighy, The Girl in the Cafe, Love Actually
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill
Rooney Mara, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (with respect to Noomi Rapace)
Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Leonard Nimoy, Spock in Star Trek
Brian Glover, Kes

 

[lust overlord]

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Bastard! I ploughing through 11 pages to make sure I didn’t repeat this....then you!!

Also, Jean Reno as Enzo in The Big Blue. Brilliance.

Christian Bale, The Machinist
Julie Andrews, Sound of Music
Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
Dolph Lundgren, Rocky
Bill Nighy, The Girl in the Cafe, Love Actually
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill
Rooney Mara, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (with respect to Noomi Rapace)
Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Leonard Nimoy, Spock in Star Trek
Brian Glover, Kes

First up best dressed. Your name was mentioned in the missing mooners thread. Good to see you are still around

 

[ChicagoBlue]

First up best dressed. Your name was mentioned in the missing mooners thread. Good to see you are still around

Dropped a line in there, cheers. My lad has had the dreaded lurgy, so have been quarantined and mursemaiding him back to life and taking care of my missus, who (of course!) had respiratory surgery a couple of days before he went to the ER with breathing difficulties.

Hard to see your 21 yr old, built like an NFL wide receiver, laid out and struggling to breathe. Had the COVID and pneumonia, but blood oxygen levels high enough to keep him out of the Infectious Disease Unit, which is where they were staging the COVID patients away from the general populace. He came out of isolation today and is in good form, thank goodness. Wife back on her feet, too, so time to catch up with my Internet playtime!

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Dropped a line in there, cheers. My lad has had the dreaded lurgy, so have been quarantined and mursemaiding him back to life and taking care of my missus, who (of course!) had respiratory surgery a couple of days before he went to the ER with breathing difficulties.

Hard to see your 21 yr old, built like an NFL wide receiver, laid out and struggling to breathe. Had the COVID and pneumonia, but blood oxygen levels high enough to keep him out of the Infectious Disease Unit, which is where they were staging the COVID patients away from the general populace. He came out of isolation today and is in good form, thank goodness. Wife back on her feet, too, so time to catch up with my Internet playtime!

Sorry to hear that, sounds like you have had a really bad time of it. Good news that he is on the mend. Best wishes to you and yours, hopefully it is onwards and upwards from here.

EDIT

Apologies OP, side tracked your thread

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Jack Nicholson in both, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest & The Shining, both parts could not have been played by anybody else ......

Anthony Hopkins, playing Hannibal Lecter in the same vein.....

Brian Cox was a superior Lecter.

 

[GornikDaze]

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood

E.T. In E.T.

Apparently Alien from the Alien films was originally cast for ET, but some legal wrangles over contracts meant ET got it instead

 

[BigOscar]

Robin Williams in just about everything he's in tbh, but especially One Hour Photo, as no part of that seems like it should work but it 100% does. Love a film where a usually typecast actor does something completely different and is incredible.

On that point, Leslie Nielson in Airplane, just absolutely brilliant, so good it changed him from one kind of actor to the complete opposite overnight.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger

 

[Blue Til Death]

Brian Cox was a superior Lecter.

He was brilliant it has to be said and would probably have gone on to be just as good if not better, however, looking at the whole series of films that Hopkins did appear in, he made the part his own and the rest is history..!