Quotes / Questionable Casting

Fan Fic

Dawson playing the Hulk. Huh.

—The Battle of New York: Take 2, on the In-Universe casting of James Van Der Beek as Bruce Banner in The Tower

Theatre

"Why am I working so hard? These are the people who cast Linda Blair in a musical!"

—Cathy, The Last Five Years (in the movie, this is changed to Russell Crowe, referencing the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables)

Video Games

Noel (playing Makoto's father): Kinda makes you wonder what her real family was like...
Makoto: That was supposed to be the point of this! But then you had to go balls it up by mis-casting everyone!

— Makoto's gag reel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

Web Original

"In interviews, Richard Kelly has said he deliberately 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 Cheri Oteri in Southland Tales. Well, Jon Lovitz could show up and kill people. But really, what are the chances of that?"

—The Agony Booth, Southland Tales

"Also, Forest Whitaker is in it, and Forest Whitaker should know better."

—Cracked on Battlefield Earth

"Chris Pratt is a gentile and as such is not party to the 1947 treaty between Jews and Italians that allows us to play each other in movies. He does not come from a yelling-based culture."

— BobbyBigWheel on Twitter

Web Video

Jack Nicholson played you just fine
But lately the casting's declined
Jared Leto came out trying to look
Like he was Tekashi 6ix9ine

—Pennywise the Dancing Clown to The Joker, Epic Rap Battles of History

"Ah, Jim Carrey. How I love that guy. He was a terrible choice for Count Olaf."

—The Dom, Lost In Adaptation: A Series Of Unfortunate Events

"WHAT!? OHH, WHAT!? W-what do you mean!? I'll do it!"

— Vinny Vinesauce, in reaction to Chris Pratt being cast as Mario

"Why, Abe Vigoda? WHY?! You were in Godfather, man! Show some dignity!"

— Doug Walker reviewing Good Burger.

Josh: So, can we talk about the lady that [Neil Breen] rescues and her "niece"? That is the same age?
Jay: Oh, yeah, possibly- yeah, the niece that's possibly older than her?
Mike: Same age, different race.
Josh: Different race. Now, I want to point out that this is not impossible; it's just extremely improbable.

—Best of the Worst on Pass Thru

"OK, wait a minute! Nancy Cartwright? Harry Shearer? Hank Azaria? Is this just a Simpsons reunion?! What’s next, the cast of Scooby-Doo’s gonna show up?!"

— Doug Walker reviewing Godzilla (1998)

Western Animation

Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Sancho Pinky?
Pinky: I think so, Don Cerebro, but why would Sophia Loren do a musical?
Brain: A worthy enigma, Sancho Pinky.

—Pinky and the Brain, "Mouse of La Mancha"

"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 De Niro, Pacino, Ryan Gosling, Cuba Gooding Jr., but no, they get Will Ferrell? When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, you find yourself with a Will Ferrell."

— President Business, Behind the Brick

Real Life

"John Wayne as Genghis Khan— history's most improbable piece of casting unless Mickey Rooney were to play Jesus in King of Kings."

— Jack Smith, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, on The Conqueror (1956)

"Only Ed Wood would have cast Dracula... as God!"

—Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora on Glen or Glenda

"That's not the face of our Lord, that's the face of a psychopath!"

—Sergio Leone on The Last Temptation of Christ

"They wanted to cast an action star and that never made sense to me. I mean, why would someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger need to dress up like a bat?"

—Tim Burton on Batman (1989)

"The problem with Ready to Rumble is that its hero is not a wrestler but an actor, Oliver Platt. 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 Diamond Dallas Page 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."

—Roger Ebert on Platt's role in Ready to Rumble

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