10 Bizarre Movie Casting Decisions That Made No Sense

Did you hear the one about Joseph Fiennes being cast as Michael Jackson? Well, turns out it's not a joke. It has been reported that Ralph's brother will indeed be playing the King of Pop in the upcoming TV movie Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon, something that, predictably, provoked outrage in certain quarters, with people angry over the decision to hire a white English man to play an African-American musician. For the most part, though, people were just stunned.

Brogan Morris

Published: Feb 5, 2016 02:21 pm

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1) Oscar Isaac As Any Nationality In Everything

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The word ‘chameleon’ is thrown around all too often these days. We apply it to the likes of Tom Hardy, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jake Gyllenhaal. All talented, adaptable performers, all of whom – respectfully – can play nothing other than Caucasian males. Then you have Oscar Isaac.

Born in Guatemala but raised in Miami, Isaac is of Guatemalan, Cuban and French ancestry. And he plays different nationalities like he’s collecting stamps: American, as well as Russian (PU-239), Cuban (Che), Middle-Eastern (Body of Lies), English (Robin Hood), Roman (Agora), Welsh-Italian (Inside Llewyn Davis), and soon, Egyptian (X-Men: Apocalypse).

It would be more ‘bizarre’ still if Isaac wasn’t so damn convincing at pretending to hail from every single one of those countries.

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