When the choice of actors for certain roles turned out to be extremely ironic (13 photos)

By ironic casting I mean funny combinations of characteristics of the characters and the actors playing them, be it physical incongruity (the tall one plays a dwarf), funny connections to the performers' previous roles or even their own biography, and so on.

As you go along, you will understand exactly what's what!





Today we invite you to recall unique cases when the choice of actors for roles turned out to be like some kind of practical joke. It’s as if the filmmakers decided to make fun of the audience and troll the actors themselves in this way. However, some items from this list turned out to be an amazing coincidence.

Daniel Radcliffe as an anti-magic fighter in Now You See Me 2 (2016)



The performer of the role of one of the most important wizards of world cinema, Harry Potter, decided to visit the other side of the barricades. In Now You See Me 2, he played businessman Walter Mabry, who promotes the idea of ​​the superiority of technological progress over “magic,” that is, the tricks and tricks of the main characters in the film.

That's it, Harry is no longer the same.

Peter Dinklage as a giant in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)





In real life, the actor’s height is 135 centimeters, but it was he who was cast in the role of the huge Eitri, the King of the Dwarves. By the way, in the comics his race is typical dwarves, that is, short creatures, but in the film Eitri was made a giant, while maintaining Dinklage’s physique.

Sean Bean as the immortal Zeus in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (2010)



Actor Sean Bean is widely known for his specific role - his characters die very often.

So, in 2010, Bean received the role of Zeus, a special role for his filmography, that is, an immortal deity. Agree, it is difficult to find a more ironic candidate for such a role. Whether some humor was built into this choice by the filmmakers, or whether it was pure coincidence, is unknown.

185 cm John Rhys-Davies as the dwarf Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)



In real life, Rhys-Davies is taller than all the actors who have played members of the Fellowship of the Ring. In particular, he is 5 centimeters taller than Orlando Bloom, who played the role of Legolas. In the second photo the actor is on the far left.

Jason Statham as a parody special agent in Spy (2015)



Throughout the film, Statham's character Rick Ford tells hilariously absurd stories about his adventures in the service, which partly parrot the actor's previous roles and the hyperbolic coolness of his characters. Here are some quotes from The Spy:

Yes, I brought myself out of a coma! And then he pulled the fragments out of his own eyes! I jumped from a skyscraper with a regular raincoat instead of a parachute and broke both my legs, but I pretended it was a Cirque du Soleil show.

You can't kill me because I'm immune to 197 poisons. I know because I digested them all when I was infiltrated into an underground poison-swallowing crime syndicate.

I died for five minutes and then came to life again!

Sigourney Weaver as a clueless blonde who futilely fights aliens in Galaxy Quest (1999)



In this film, the actress played almost the complete opposite of her legendary heroine Ellen Ripley from the Alien film series. Her character in Galaxy Quest is actress Gwen DiMarco, who in turn plays the role of a dim-witted, deliberately sexualized communications officer who fights the aliens very unsuccessfully.

Sigourney Weaver herself really wanted to play this role precisely because of her extreme dissimilarity to the smart and heroic Ripley.

Michael Keaton actually plays himself in Birdman (2014)





In Birdman, Keaton plays a forgotten actor, formerly famous for his role as the avian superhero, who is preparing to star in the Broadway adaptation of the story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The production could help him relaunch his career and become popular again.

Michael Keaton himself is a half-forgotten actor, known for his role as the superhero bat in the films “Batman” (1989) and “Batman Returns” (1992). In his case, the film Birdman itself could be the project that reboots his career. And unlike the fate of his character in the film, everything went well for the actor.

Keaton received a Golden Globe, an Oscar nomination for Birdman, and he was again called to big films. In particular, the actor appeared in Marvel in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), where he played... another winged character from the comics, this time the villain, the Vulture.

So Michael Keaton went from one hero with wings to another hero with wings through a third hero with wings.

An actor named Mark Lindsay Chapman as John Lennon in the movie "Chapter 27" (2007)



Just imagine the level of coincidence - the legendary musician John Lennon was played by the namesake of his killer! Moreover, the film itself tells the story of that same Mark Chapman, played by Jared Leto.

It is known that actor Mark Lindsay Chapman faced difficulties in being approved for this role due to negative publicity. In particular, Lennon's widow Yoko Ono did not like this very much.

In addition to this cosmic coincidence, we note that the actor and Lennon’s killer, who is serving a life sentence, are also practically the same age - their age difference is only 8 months.

Christoph Waltz as a racist and an anti-racist in two Quentin Tarantino films



It's as if Tarantino specifically cast Waltz in Django Unchained (2012) to give him a character with opposing beliefs to his Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009). In the end, both times turned out great, since Waltz received an Oscar for both his role as the treacherous Standartenführer and for his performance as the progressive Doctor Schultz.

Sean Connery as a former MI6 agent in The Rock (1996)



What is the ideal casting for the role of a retired MI6 agent? Of course, one of the actors who once played James Bond! And in 1996, the filmmakers turned to the most iconic - Sean Connery! As a result, the 66-year-old actor brought to life a version of his famous character in a “what if...” storyline.

What if James Bond spends 33 years in prison, is disowned by Great Britain, but escapes and helps save the world for old times sake? Watch in the movie "The Rock"!

Mike Myers as a skeptical producer who doesn't believe in Queen's success in Bohemian Rhapsody (2017)



In Bohemian Rhapsody, the actor plays producer Ray Foster, who finds fault with the length of the song Bohemian Rhapsody and claims that no one will listen to Queen, and young people certainly won’t play such songs in circles in their cars.

But in Wayne's World (1992), Mike Myers and three other young men are enthusiastically headbanging to Bohemian Rhapsody in a car. This moment in the film became so famous that in the early 90s it restored the popularity of the already somewhat forgotten song.

By the way, Freddie Mercury himself managed to watch this excerpt from the film, which is in production, found it funny and approved the use of his song.