Worst Film Role Castings Of All Time

HONDO

Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1961 ) was a case of miscasting in the highest order. Does anyone have a favourite of their own?

Paul

Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins maybe..   Unfortunately I quite like him so I don't mind it..   

Charlie

Yes!  Yunioshi was terrible.  Makes you feel like a racist for laughing at him...

Charlie

Paul said:

Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins maybe..   Unfortunately I quite like him so I don't mind it..   

I liked him.  Who would you have put there instead?

David

BAT was on TV last night, Yunioshi is cringeworthy as always...someone like Mr Roper (Three's Company - UK or English) would have been just as good, or even someone like Walter Matthau.

Charlie said:

Paul said:

Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins maybe..   Unfortunately I quite like him so I don't mind it..   

I liked him.  Who would you have put there instead?

Michael Crawford (yes he would have been too young), Lionel Blair, Bruce Forsyth

jayn_j

John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror" 
Barbara Streisand as Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly

David

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Paul

Oh, now we're on a roll...


I don't know many older Brits, who don't hate Dick for that truly awful cockney accent, but as I say, i'd leave him in as I like the fellow.

theartofmovieposters

Paul said:

Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins maybe..   Unfortunately I quite like him so I don't mind it..   

Oh I liked him...

David said:

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

I'll add Tom Cruise in just about anything...

Bruce

Sophia Loren and Peter O'Toole in Man of La Mancha

HONDO

What about Robert Helpmann as Prince Tuan in 55 Days At Peking ( 1963 ) ?