{"id":429947,"date":"2026-02-17T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:20:07","slug":"19-actors-who-defied-expectations-in-iconic-movie-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429947\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Actors Who Defied Expectations In Iconic Movie Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Sometimes a movie casting doesn&#8217;t match up with how you envisioned the character in your head&#8230;but then the actor&#8217;s performance ends up completely blowing you away. Recently, Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/gypsytx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">u\/gypsytx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1qk9wkg\/actors_who_were_miscast_but_still_gave_a_great\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">asked<\/a>, &#8220;Who are some actors who were miscast but still gave a great performance?&#8221; Here are some of the actors people thought weren&#8217;t right for the role, but ended up totally killing it:<\/p>\n<p>Note: Some of these responses have been edited for length and\/or clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes a movie casting doesn&#8217;t match up with how you envisioned the character in your head&#8230;but then the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[401,6491,11486,96,402,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-429947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dib-celebs","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-evergreen","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}