Reddit Asks: "What's your favorite casting that you initially thought was wrong?"

[stewie_e]

"I couldn't get over the fact that the leading guy was the weirdo with the boards from Love Actually." https://t.co/RAVePZMFkN
- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) September 3, 2023

Reddit asked r/popculturechat, "What's your favorite casting that you initially thought was wrong?" Here are 5 of BuzzFeed's picks...

1. Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in It

Comments

[just444]

i remember how we were all meh on that casting until the trailer with that scene came out and suddenly it clicked

[frejasface]

Fincher knew!

[rubie_dubidoux]

he was born to play this and I don't even say that shadily!

[thispaintedlife]

this scene is so iconic lmao CINEMA!!!!

[moddchicc]

Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie

[frejasface]

And Kristen as Joan.

[tetrazzinichikn]

And Elle as Catherine the Great.

[demented_21]

matthew goode as ozymandias in watchmen. he was iconique.

[xdecadentx]

He is very good in that role.

[croakvegas]

I will forever love him for how he responded to the naysayers about his casting as well, legendary

[demented_21]

lmao yessssss, the confidence! and he was right, too!

[masterofmystery]

heath's always the default answer to this

[just444]

[bluestoplights]

Cannot conceive Tom and Mr Darcy as the same

[just444]

ikr

[tetrazzinichikn]

I wish I’d never watched Succession. I almost escaped its grasp when I thought it was an alternate history show but alas….Mr. Darcy has been ruined forever.