27 Risky Casting Decisions That Ended Up Being Worth the Director’s Heart Palpitations
Like these actors, we’re betting it all on these facts
We have to hand it to these filmmakers, they really stuck to their guns. We don’t have the gall to fight for one single random fact. If the bosses want a fact about sharks instead of a fact about Volkswagens, then sharks it is!
We really lucked out today, since they actually wanted this list of filmmakers who stuck with an actor when no one else did. Here, check them out while we go try to grow a backbone. Because Volkswagen facts are awesome. They’ll see. They’ll all see!!!
Chris Hemsworth As Thor
Ben Affleck in Mallrats
Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde
Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Bruce Willis in Die Hard
Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire
Keanu Reeves in Speed
Gal Gadot As Wonder Woman
Heath Ledger As the Joker
Daniel Craig As James Bond
Charlize Theron in Monster
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games
Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary
Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips
Michael Keaton in Batman
Jonah Hill in Moneyball
Adam Driver in The Force Awakens
Ian McShane in Deadwood
Michael Biehn in Aliens
Lou Ferrigno in The Incredible Hulk
John Hurt in Alien
Dirk Benedict in The A-Team
Michael J. Fox
Mark Hamill in Batman: The Animated Series
Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation
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