Word: miscasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casting against type, of course, can lead to a miscast movie. But Cruise jumped at the dare. "I demand a lot of myself," he says. "I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself." For the actor, many of his films provide the perk of being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race...
Rumpled and lumbering, with a line of patter as weary as his smile, agent Rupert Anderson looks miscast as a male Mata Hari. Yet here he stands in Mrs. Pell's hallway, romancing the sad beautician in hopes of securing testimony against her husband. It seems a cruel bit of FBI sleuthing -- until Anderson steals a glance at her hair. The glance passes as quick as guilt and as long as longing. From it we learn that Anderson knows more about women than we thought, and feels more for this woman than he should...
...asymptotically, oozing what the one hopes is concern and the other hopes is deference. "Touch her," says the director, "on the shoulder." Breaking the perimeter of mutual embarrassment, Bush makes the merest contact and murmurs inaudibly something about her family. As a whistle- blower, the Vice President has been miscast...
Friends and former colleagues think Poindexter was badly miscast at the NSC. "He is a nuclear physicist, an exemplary military man and a brilliant technician," says one NSC veteran. "In other words, an ideal No. 2 or 3." A close observer asserts the admiral "could write a tough computer note to North, but he had trouble resisting Ollie's pleading in person. The combination of personal softness and political inexperience is what did him in." The irony, a Navy colleague remarks, is that "he didn't want to go to the NSC in the first place. He wanted to command...
...believable, mostly because they look like they're having a great time. Rodgers and Clark are two losers, but they're redeemed by their affection for one another. "It takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age," Rodgers tells Clark with utter sincerity. Beatty sometimes seems miscast as a shy nerd who is a loser with women and is prone to collapsing in tears, but he saves his character with a goofy charm...