25 Actors So Good Their Roles Can Never Be Recast

Actors and Actresses who nailed the role so hard, it is nearly impossible to imaging anyone else playing them.

By PocketEpiphany

Published 2 years ago in Ftw

What do good movies and bad movies have in common? Simple: anything that makes enough money is going to get a remake. Remakes mean recasting, but that can never happen with certain iconic performances. Here are the actors so good their roles can never be recast!

1
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. -u/MyBestDisguise

2
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien franchise. -u/insert_name_here925

3
Jeff Bridges IS the Dude. -u/hlerdnerp
4
Cary Elwes as Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts. -u/Shadowfaxx71

5
Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon. -u/Fuck-Reddit-Mods69
6
Bruce Campbell in Army Of Darkness. -u/ctennessen
7
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. -u/blurplethenurple

8
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorius Basterds. -u/SpectreOperator
9
J.K. Simmons as Jonah Jameson. So good that he played the same character across multiple spider-verses. -u/The_Mouse_That_Jumps
10
Say what you want about the character. Imelda Staunton, who plays that massive c*nt Delores Umbridge, did a fantastic job at making me hate her. -u/MenstruatingMuffin

11
Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds. I'd seen him in a bunch of stuff before, but Frank is the perfect role for him. -u/JayGold
12
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. -u/00-H
13
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson. -u/izatrap2

14
Michael J Fox as Marty McFly. -u/trauerspieI
15
Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. -u/GullibleAbalone
16
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. In an alternate universe, it's Leonardo De Caprio. I cannot imagine that. -u/E_-_R_-_I_-_C