Submitted by StPaulStrangler t3_10mazzd in movies
I was recently reminded of the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. I went in with zero expectations, knowing nothing of the story/characters, but liking Luc Besson and the genre in general. Then the movie started and I was IMMEDIATELY taken out of it by Dane DeHaan playing a a super badass/world weary space cop. He looked like a 12yo wearing daddy's clothes and playing make believe and I could never get over it (or the absolute lack of chemistry between him and Claire Delevingne). It just felt SO fake that it made it hard to get into anything else going on because my brain just refused to accept it and kept making me think he was going to be revealed as an impostor or something. But no, never happened.
So I'm curious, is there anybody else you can think of who just absolutely did NOT match a certain role even if they might be a good actor? Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough was a close second for me.