History Quotes / QuestionableCasting

--> '''[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Doug Walker]]''' reviewing Film/GoodBurger.

-->-- '''Vinny WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'''', [[https://youtu.be/9Cij88XgNlI in reaction]] to Creator/ChrisPratt [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie being cast as Mario]]

->"Why am I working so hard? These are the people who cast Creator/LindaBlair in a musical!"

->''In interviews, Richard Kelly has said he deliberately [[PlayingAgainstType cast people against type]]. Bravo, sir. Home run. Never in the history of film has an actress ever appeared more ridiculously out of place. I cannot imagine an actress being more misused than Creator/CheriOteri in ''Southland Tales''. Well, Creator/JonLovitz could show up and kill people. But really, what are the chances of that?''

->''Creator/ChrisPratt is a gentile and as such is not party to the 1947 treaty between Jews and Italians that allows us to [[FakeNationality play each other in movies]]. He does not come from a yelling-based culture.''

->"Ah, Creator/JimCarrey. How I love that guy. He was a terrible choice for Count Olaf."

->"Why, Abe Vigoda? WHY?! You were in ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]]'', man! Show some dignity!

->"You'd think that for a character as important as President Business, they'd be able to get someone with serious chops, you know I'm talking [[Creator/RobertDeNiro De Niro]], [[Creator/AlPacino Pacino]], Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, but no, they get ''Creator/WillFerrell?'' When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, you find yourself with a Will Ferrell."

->''Creator/JohnWayne as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan-- history's most improbable piece of casting unless Creator/MickeyRooney were to play Jesus in ''King of Kings''.

->"Only Creator/EdWood would have cast [[Creator/BelaLugosi Dracula]]... as ''{{God}}''!"

->"[[Creator/WillemDafoe That's]] not the face of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} our Lord]], that's the face of a psychopath!"

->"[[Creator/WarnerBros They]] wanted to cast an action star and that never made sense to me. I mean, why would someone like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger need to dress up like a bat?

->''The problem with ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' is that its hero is not a wrestler but an actor, Creator/OliverPlatt. Platt is a good comic actor and I have liked him in a lot of movies, but here he is not well-used and occupies a role that would have been better filled by a real wrestler. That is demonstrated every time Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage is on the screen, playing himself with such ferocity that Platt seems to be playing "Jimmy the King" in a key heard only by himself.''

-->-- '''Vinny WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'''', [[https://youtu.be/9Cij88XgNlI in reaction]] to Creator/ChrisPratt being cast as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]

->''[[Series/DawsonsCreek Dawson]] playing [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]]. Huh.''

->''A medal should be given to Music/DollyParton for trying to carry [[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallone]] because you can see her straining to try to drown out Stallone’s grunting but with no luck. I can’t stress to you how painful it actually is to hear the pretty singing of Parton contrasted to the caveman ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' grunts Stallone forces out as if a melody is something he should hit like a heavy bag. I was so thankful the credits started rolling despite Stallone doing an encore number because it meant I could mercifully shut off the movie at that point.''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/rhinestone-1984-bob-clark/ on]] ''Film/{{Rhinestone}}''

->''Evanovich was thrilled with the casting of Heigl as Plum. She called her "perfect" for the role and said she now [[AdaptationDisplacement imagines Heigl’s face when she writes the new books.]] I asked my wife what she thought of the casting. She gave me a silent thumbs down and the beginning of a {{death glare}}. I pressed forward anyway as I have [[FandomEnragingMisconception very little sense of self-preservation]] and informed her that Evanovich thought Heigl was perfect. [[LyingCreator "Janet Evanovich is on crack",]] she replied. "Everyone in that movie was miscast"...Critics and audiences [[BoxOfficeBomb side with Mrs. Lebeau]] on this one.''
-->--'''Website/LebeausLeBlog''' on ''Film/OneForTheMoney'', "What the Hell Happened to Creator/KatherineHeigl?"

-->--''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' on ''Pass Thru''

->"Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."
-->--'''Creator/MarkWahlberg''' on ''Film/TheHappening''

->Creator/ChrisPratt is a gentile and as such is not party to the 1947 treaty between Jews and Italians that allows us to [[FakeNationality play each other in movies]]. He does not come from a yelling-based culture.

->''In interviews, Richard Kelly has said he deliberately [[PlayingAgainstType cast people against type]]. Bravo, sir. Home run. Never in the history of film has an actress ever appeared more ridiculously out of place. I cannot imagine an actress being more misused than [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Cheri Oteri]] in ''Southland Tales''. Well, Creator/JonLovitz could show up and kill people. But really, what are the chances of that?''

->''Evanovich was thrilled with the casting of Heigl as Plum. She called her “perfect” for the role and said she now [[AdaptationDisplacement imagines Heigl’s face when she writes the new books.]] I asked my wife what she thought of the casting. She gave me a silent thumbs down and the beginning of a {{death glare}}. I pressed forward anyway as I have [[FandomEnragingMisconception very little sense of self-preservation]] and informed her that Evanovich thought Heigl was perfect. [[LyingCreator “Janet Evanovich is on crack,”]] she replied. “Everyone in that movie was miscast”...Critics and audiences [[BoxOfficeBomb side with Mrs. Lebeau]] on this one.''
-->--'''[[https://lebeauleblog.com/2014/04/12/what-the-hell-happened-to-katherine-heigl/ LeBeau]]''' on ''Film/OneForTheMoney'', "What the Hell Happened to Creator/KatherineHeigl?"

->"Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."