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Hiring of a big-name actor - or non-actor celebrity - to play a supporting role (or even a leading role, but usually the former). The idea is usually that the actor's fame will draw in viewers, as it normally would if you put them prominently on the advertising. What differs stunt casting from normal casting tends to be along the lines of: way out of the 'pay grade' of the work (a Hollywood megastar turns up as an Advertised Extra) gimmicky as advertisement for something else (members of a popular band play all of the supporting roles) exploitative of real-life situations (a cast member in a high-profile relationship and casting the other person for the tabloid appeal) inappropriate to the tone of the work (discarding the existing cast for Character Shilling of the guest star) desperation for attention (including other controversy for maximum exposure) This can overlap with Questionable Casting and Playing Against Type. Unlike The Cameo, stunt cast actors are not asked to come in and "play themselves" - they may well be great in the part, might even transform themselves for the role so much that you might not even recognize them until the credits, but, great as she is in the part, do you really think that reality show star got the role as the starship bridge lieutenant based on acting credentials alone? The term 'stunt casting' has a derogatory feel, but the term also encompasses many shrewd or artistic choices. If the studio heads are pushing for big names, this can be used as a compromise to allow the lead roles to be played by upcoming actors knowing there is at least one they can put on the poster. They can also give a feeling of legitimacy to something that would otherwise seem like a trashy genre work. Superman: The Movie (1978) struggled for producer support until Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman were on board. If the star is just that good at what they do, stunt casting can make a work much higher quality than it would be otherwise. Quick appearances can sometimes entice a busy actor to get a decent payout for only a little work or they are already a fan and want something that their kids might enjoy, allowing No Budget works to get some momentum. Amicus Productions' anthology horror films were based around the realization that if they built a picture out of short stories that didn't take more than a couple of days to shoot they could afford good/great actors with little hassle, which is the main reason why the films still have a cult fandom decades later. Seeing your favorite stars turn up in unexpected places can, well, just be plain fun - the scene-stealing of the One-Scene Wonder, the Genius Bonus when Role Association fleshes out a character's Hidden Depths, the authenticity of Cast the Expert, intrinsic subtext from Meta Casting and the parasocial pleasure of the Non-Actor Vehicle are all joys given to us by stunt casting. Conversely, this sometimes creates a paradox for actors who have become iconic in particular roles, they struggle to find roles or guest appearances because they are too recognizable and will get accused of this trope. In theatre productions that are especially Long-Runners, stunt casting is one way of keeping things fresh and interesting for potential audiences. The Broadway revival of Chicago has been especially egregious with this, cycling hundreds of celebrities of varying degrees of talent through the lead roles since it began its run in 1996. This can also work for documentaries with the casting of the narrator. It's also standard operating procedure in the U.K.-specific style of broad comic theatre known as Pantomime.note (which doesn't really expect you to be able to act, and if you can't do it well, you can always do it MORE!) See also Billing Displacement. If the stunt-casting is done in service of a film or other one-off project, expect the big-name actor in question to be Billed Above the Title. This happens so often in animation that it has its own trope: Celebrity Voice Actor. |
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Nancy Kwan was who the director really wanted for The World of Suzie Wong, but the studio favored France Nuyen who was better known to audiences from South Pacific. Midway through production she was fired, which allowed Nancy to play the part. It became her Star-Making Role. | |
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The Meteor Man figures James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby (who has no lines), Marla Gibbs and Sinbad. Gibbs has the biggest role, as she plays the protagonist's mother. Also from the music industry, there's Luther Vandross (also no lines), Big Daddy Kane, Another Bad Creation, Cypress Hill, Naughty By Nature and jazz singer Nancy Wilson. | |
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Marie Antoinette (2006) casts lots of people who are children of Hollywood stars - the most notable being Asia Argento (daughter of Dario Argento) as Madame du Barry. | |
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British Sea Power contribute various songs to the game's soundtrack. | |
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As its Broadway run wound down, Miss Saigon brought back Lea Salonga, the first actress to play Kim. | |
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Both 60s spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and its Spin-Off The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. were given to stunt casting; e.g. Sonny & Cher (in "The Hot Number Affair"), Nancy Sinatra (in "The Take Me To Your Leader Affair") and Elsa Lanchester (in "The Brain Killer Affair") in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Boris Karloff (in "The Mother Muffin Affair") in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. | |
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The decision to cast misono as Luna in Jewelpet: Magical Change was definitely this, the character in question was already voiced by Rumi Shishido and misono was only given the role due to her being affiliated with avex at the time. To say this casting decision did not go over well with the fans is an understatement for multiple reasons and ended up being one of the main reasons why the Magical Change was not only canceled but put the Jewelpet franchise as a whole on an indefinite hiatus. | |
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Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later wanted to cast PJ Soles (who had played Lynda in the first film) as Laurie's secretary, named Norma Watson after her role in Carrie (1976). When she didn't give them an answer quick enough, they cast Janet Leigh instead and filled the role with Shout Outs to Psycho. | |
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When the English voice cast for The Super Mario Bros. Movie was first announced, some fans criticized the choice of Chris Pratt as Mario (over longtime Mario voice Charles Martinet) as an example of this trope. These persisted even after the first teaser trailer was shown, where Pratt had only two brief lines in a regular voice. The criticisms only ebbed after the release of the movie, with critics admitting that Pratt provided a subdued but serviceable Brooklyn accent for Mario. | |
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The presidents in The Butler; each one gets a cameo and all of them are played by fairly recognized actors. In general, the one who most agreed fit best was James Marsden as Kennedy. | |
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When the 60s' Batman took off, all of a sudden many big name actors who normally wouldn't do television wanted a chance to play a Bat-villain. The second season especially is loaded with this, name actors playing one-shot villains created just for them, with the network playing up the guest-villain bit. Among these performers were Art Carney, Shelley Winters, Van Johnson, Liberace, Michael Rennie, Tallulah Bankhead, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Otto Preminger... and many more. | |
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Grindhouse parodies this: Planet Terror casts Bruce Willis in a seemingly prominent role at the start - only to disappear until the third act and be given top billing. This is to reference B-movies that would acquire a name star for a bit part, and hype them up as if they were a lead. Ironically Willis would go on to be stunt cast numerous times in his later career for numerous low-budget, straight-to-dvd movies such as Catch 44, The Assassination, The Prince, Precious Cargo and Marauders. In the fake trailer for Werewolf Women of the SS, there's Nicolas Cage appearing as Fu Manchu. The fake trailer for the film Don't has pop singer Katie Melua getting Death by Cameo. Death Proof's Jungle Julia is played by Sydney Tamiia Poitier just because she is the daughter of Sidney Poitier (and the middle name is removed in the credits so she is Sydney Poitier). |
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Cromartie High School: Megumi Hayashibara is Maeda's Mom, if you can believe it. Made even funnier given that Maeda's Mom never speaks a word, only ever doing an irritated mean. | |
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Chuck: Villains Of The Week have included Michael Clarke Duncan, Nicole Richie, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Robert Englund and Mark Sheppard (a.k.a. Romo Lampkin). | |
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In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, series mainstay David Hayter was recast with Kiefer Sutherland because his vocal range was too limited. Which might have been useful four games earlier, but Kiefer barely talks at all in Phantom Pain. All it did was feed into the preconception that Hideo Kojima resents making games and would rather be a Hollywood director instead. | |
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Rodney Bewes, a comic actor best known for The Likely Lads, as brainwashed Dalek agent Stien in "Resurrection of the Daleks". | |
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During the first season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the show had low ratings but high retentionnote the people who did watch the show stuck around for the whole half-hour. Since the show was cheap to produce, the executives greenlit a second season on the condition that they hired a famous actor to draw more attention to the series. Danny DeVito was introduced as Dennis and Sweet Dee's neglectful father Frank. It worked incredibly well, marking the point where the show began to Grow the Beard and become a hit with audiences. | |
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The Simpsons features a "special guest star" — who isn't even always an actor — almost every episode nowadays, and of course most of the promo is devoted to their part, however small it might be. (Example: "Elementary School Musical" had a lot of emphasis placed on the appearances of three of the cast of Glee (Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Amber Riley, if you're wondering) while - at least in the UK - pretty much ignoring the stars of Flight of the Conchords, whose roles were much more important to the episode.) Early on, episodes like "Homer at the Bat", "Marge vs. the Monorail" and "Krusty Gets Kancelled" were criticized for being too "gimmicky" for using this trope (Marge's VA, Julie Kavner, sat out from the latter episode because of this). |
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Fantasy Mission Force was advertised as "Starring Jacky Chan" despite the fact that Jackie Chan played a minor role. Jackie reportedly appeared in it only because he owed a favor to the lead actor, Jimmy Wang Yu (who was rumored to have ties to organized crime syndicates). Jackie's done it more than once; he appeared in Stephen Chow's King Of Comedy as a nameless stuntman, and in Sammo Hung's Martial Law as a prep, the latter done to return the favor for Hung playing the put-upon biker in Mr. Nice Guy. He and Arnold Schwarzenegger also did a co-cameo in the movie Viy 2: Journey to China (a.k.a Iron Mask) and, despite their relatively short screen time, were used liberally in the marketing. |
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Juliet Cesario, the English voice of Belldandy from the original Ah! My Goddess OVA, was flown up to New York City to voice Perth in the Flights of Fancy dub. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who voiced Urd in the movie dub, was also brought back to voice Hild. | |
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Castle usually stunt casts with real life cameos (such as Castle's poker game with James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, and Stephen J. Cannell), all of whom are portrayed as acquaintances that Castle has befriended as a successful author. | |
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Transformers: The Movie took this to an extreme in '86. Almost all the new characters had big name voice actors. Leonard Nimoy was Galvatron, Eric Idle was Wreck-Gar, Robert Stack was Ultra Magnus, Judd Nelson was Hot Rod, etc. Most impressive of all, Orson Welles (in his last performance) was absolutely AWESOME as Unicron. None of them stayed on for the TV series though. | |
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The final stunt cast Phoebe love interest in the series was Jason Lewis, of Sex and the City. The episode "Malice in Wonderland" was even done in the style of the latter, and his character Dex was featured heavily in the promotional materials. Although he ended up marrying her briefly, his arc ended after six episodes. | |
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The practice arguably started with the casting of Superman III's Annette O'Toole as Martha. | |
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Friday the 13th (1980): Penelope Milford was courted for the role of Brenda (as she had just been nominated for an Oscar) purely because they hoped she could draw audiences. She eventually backed out, finding the script too violent. They also wanted a name to play Mrs. Voorhees. Estelle Parsons was the original actress cast, but she too dropped out. Her replacement was Betsy Palmer, who was best known for hosting a game show I've Got A Secret. At the time her casting caused a scandal, and Gene Siskel encouraged angry fans to send her hate mail over it. But over time Mrs Voorhees became her most famous role, and she embraced it. Ironically enough, they didn't cast Harry Crosby as Bill because he was the son of Bing Crosby, as they didn't find that out until after he was signed on. Ironic because the film was created specifically to piggyback off Halloween's success. |
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The Weekenders episode "My Punky Valentine" has an absolutely out of nowhere cameo from Jennifer Love Hewitt, who pops up when the others suggest she distract Tino from the girl they disapprove of him fancying. She then reappears at the end to say the traditional "later days" send-off. | |
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Star Trek: Discovery cast Georgia Democratic leader (and Trek fan) Stacey Abrams as President of United Earth. | |
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The re-imagining of Hawaii Five-0 has been playing with this, with recent appearances by Dane Cook, Sean Combs, Dennis Miller and Nick Lachey. Not forgetting semi-regular Jean Smart. | |
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The Boys (2019)'s Season 3 premiere features a cameo from none other than Charlize Theron As Herself, playing Stormfront in the Film Within a Film 'Dawn of the Seven'. | |
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Gentleman Jack: When one episode featured Queen Marie of Denmark as a minor character, they cast Sofie Gråbøl, the most famous Danish actress in Britain thanks to Forbrydelsen. | |
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Highlander is famous for this, particularly in casting musicians in roles as immortals. These include Joan Jett, Roger Daltrey, Roland Gift, Martin Kemp and Sheena Easton. Also notable are Marc Singer, Roddy Piper, and Nia Peeples. | |
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Caprica has begun the step into this world with James Marsters being cast into "Know Thy Enemy" as a major player within the Soldiers of the One. | |
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Discussed in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Rick Dalton made a name for himself on television as the star of the highly successful Bounty Law show. However after his attempt to break into film petered out he found that getting a lead role on a new TV show was nearly impossible. As Marvin points out early in the movie, most networks are only willing to hire Dalton as a one-off villain so their show's new rising star can get the rep boost of beating Dalton. | |
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Seussical was a Troubled Production and over its brief 198-performance run on Broadway did this several times in a desperate attempt to drum up business — both Rosie O'Donnell and Cathy Rigby (a former Olympian and highly-regarded stage Peter Pan) played The Cat in the Hat in an odd case of Crosscast Role, and Jojo was played at different points by country music child star Billy Gilman and teen pop singer Aaron Carter. | |
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Scrubs went out of its way to hire some incredible people such as Dick Van Dyke and Courteney Cox. | |
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The main event of the first WrestleMania had Mr. T as one of the match participants, purely for mainstream publicity. | |
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High School Musical alumni Lucas Grabeel provided Gian/Big G's singing voice in an episode of the American version of Doraemon. | |
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The 1981 regional production of Pippin that was filmed for television included Chita Rivera as Fastrada and Martha Raye as Berthe. | |
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Subverted in Homicide: Life on the Street. When famous actors such as Robin Williams, Vincent D'Onofrio and Steve Buscemi appeared, they were given real acting challenges to work with. Williams' performance as a man whose wife has just been murdered stands as the first major subversion of his persona and a real glimpse of dramatic depth. Although played straight with Robin Williams initially- the series was suffering low ratings and the network was hoping a big name actor would boost ratings. This did work, but less so for the casting and more for William's brilliant and unexpected dramatic performance. |
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Broadway industry gossip in spring 2017 was that Kinky Boots was on its last legs financially with a closing announcement imminent. To tide audiences over until its original stars returned to close the show, Brendon Urie (of Panic! at the Disco, hot off of their biggest album in a decade) was announced to be playing Charlie Price for a limited run that summer. He was sensational, but more importantly, his presence did gangbusters for the show's grosses. The role of Charlie has since been stunt-cast a few more times, with the likes of David Cook from American Idol and Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees. When the show closes in April 2019, it will have run almost a full two years longer than industry gossip theorized. | |
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For the first ever women's Royal Rumble in 2018 (which would close the show), the higher-ups were afraid the men's rumble preceding it would exhaust the crowd. As a result, this one included a lot more nostalgia competitors than normal - Trish Stratus, Lita, Torrie Wilson, Molly Holly, Jacqueline, Michelle McCool, Kelly Kelly (although she was a last minute replacement for the injured Paige) and even Vickie Guerrero! This was thought to be in an attempt to re-energize the crowd (which worked judging from the reactions). | |
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A 2004 Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production of The Music Man cast Jeff Goldblum (a native of the city) as Harold Hill. This was played with in an offbeat way: The Mockumentary Pittsburgh is built around this production, revealing that Goldblum's primary reason for doing something so atypical was to help his then-girlfriend get a green card and how he had a difficult time getting into the role. | |
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The 2013 Broadway adaptation of Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) did this in 2014 when it brought in pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen to play the title character and Fran Drescher to play the evil stepmother. Jepsen's successor to the role was Keke Palmer, who also fits this trope for what it's worth. | |
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For the first season finale of DuckTales (2017), Gyro invents a device that allows Donald to talk without his raspy voice. Rather than just have Donald's regular voice actor Tony Anselmo talking in his normal voice however, Don Cheadle provides Donald's regular voice, and does so until the device is destroyed at the end of the episode. | |
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James Bond actor Timothy Dalton (as the Time Lord President Rassilon), and veteran actress Claire Bloom appear in "The End of Time". | |
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This wound up biting Universal Studios in the butt when they released Jetsons: The Movie. Janet Waldo had returned to voice Judy Jetson. However, after she had finished recording all her lines, the execs decided to replace her in favor of the pop star Tiffany, in an attempt to try an attract a younger audience. The move caused a major backlash, and casting director Andrea Romano asked to have her name removed from the credits both in protest for the decision and to avoid hate mail. To make matters worse, by the time the movie was finally released, Tiffany's 15 Minutes of Fame had long since ended. | |
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For The Ring Two, producers wanted to cast a veteran actress who was recognizable in the horror genre to play the small role of Samara's mother Evelyn. So of course they choose Sissy Spacek, Carrie White herself. | |
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Dead Man features a variety of celebrities in bit parts, including Robert Mitchum, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop and Alfred Molina. | |
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Sabrina: The Animated Series: For an otherwise small animated series in the early 2000s that relied on up and coming voiceover talent, aside from Melissa Joan Hart voicing the two aunts, one episode guest starred Mr T as an alien drawn to resemble him and of course dropping his famous catchphrase. It then however subverted his persona by having the alien be an Extreme Doormat who surrenders to any potential conflict. An episode involving Sabrina, the aunts and Chloe casting a spell to become a famous Girl Group has a sequence where "Weird Al" Yankovic appears As Himself to parody their single. |
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Series 7 has had several notable faces (possibly to tie in with the series' 50th anniversary), including Ben Browder from Farscape in "A Town Called Mercy", Mark Williams from the Harry Potter movies in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" and "The Power of Three", Jemma Redgrave in "The Power of Three" and a number of episodes hence, the voice of Ian McKellen in "The Snowmen", David Warner in "Cold War", Diana Rigg and her daughter Rachael Stirling in "The Crimson Horror", Warwick Davis in "Nightmare in Silver", and John Hurt as a previously unknown regeneration of the Doctor in the 50th anniversary special itself "The Day of the Doctor". | |
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Smallville stunt-cast many people previously involved in the franchise, including Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, and Terence Stamp (as the voice of Jor-El!) from Superman: The Movie, Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher (as Lois's mother) from Lois & Clark, Helen Slater from Supergirl (as Kara's mother), and so on. | |
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Sometimes happens with La Cage aux folles with regard to the role of Albin/Zaza — talk show host Graham Norton was a replacement in the 2008 West End revival. After it transferred to Broadway the show's book writer, Harvey Fierstein, played the role for a time (both actors took over from Douglas Hodge). For the follow-up U.S. tour, Fierstein was approached to play Georges, which would have made him the rare actor to have played both lead roles, but he was too busy with other projects. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Vanessa Williams, Chris Sarandon, and Iggy Pop each guest star in an episode. | |
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Planet Terror casts Bruce Willis in a seemingly prominent role at the start - only to disappear until the third act and be given top billing. This is to reference B-movies that would acquire a name star for a bit part, and hype them up as if they were a lead. Ironically Willis would go on to be stunt cast numerous times in his later career for numerous low-budget, straight-to-dvd movies such as Catch 44, The Assassination, The Prince, Precious Cargo and Marauders. | |
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To a lesser degree, Fan Bingbing in X-Men: Days of Future Past playing Blink. The ethnicity is completely different (Blink is Bahaman in the comics), she has no lines in the movie proper and only exists for some cool action scenes. However, she was featured in the advertisements more than even Halle Berry's returning Storm, was given lines in the trailers and was used to promote the movie in China. | |
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That wasn't the first time a Broadway star was stunt cast for a bit part. Stubby Kaye from Guys and Dolls appeared in "Delta and the Bannermen" as the bickering CIA agent from New York, and the only clue is that his accent sounds less fake than the other one. | |
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Steven Universe seemed headed this way at the start, casting high-profile musicians Aimee Mann and Nicki Minaj as the voices of the gem fusions Opal and Sugilite, respectively. This trend was then abandoned (possibly for budgetary reasons, which is Lampshaded in a later episode) with the two characters only having sporadic, non-speaking appearances. Aimee Mann would later return as Opal for the movie. | |
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The sequel did this as well with Raven-Symoné, at the height of her popularity, cast as a random high-class friend of Mia's. | |
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Similarly, Aya Hirano was also cast as Shinobu the vampire in Bakemonogatari even though Shinobu never spoke a single word in the entire series. She only got to voice her in the Drama CD, Hyakumonogatari and was replaced by Maaya Sakamoto in subsequent appearances. | |
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The Aquabats! Super Show!: The show does this from time to time for episode-specific characters, but also lampshades the trope by having "Weird Al" Yankovic play President Stuncastin in the episode "Pilgrim Boy!". | |
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The Broadway adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast initially featured Tom Bosley as Maurice. (While best known for Happy Days and, late in life, infomercials, Bosley previously won a Tony for Fiorello!.) Later in the run, replacement Belles included Debbie Gibson, Toni Braxton, Andrea McArdle (the original Broadway Annie), Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Christy Carlson Romano. And Donny Osmond did some Playing Against Type as Gaston for a while. | |
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Star Trek has had this on its more modern series: Star Trek: The Next Generation has had James Cromwell play a role (he returned to play Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact). It also had Joe Piscopo playing a comedian. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Vanessa Williams, Chris Sarandon, and Iggy Pop each guest star in an episode. Star Trek: Voyager: "Tsunkatse" heavily promoted Dwayne Johnson as a guest star, who ended up only being in one scene. Jason Alexander also guest starred, but had a much larger role in his episode. Star Trek: Discovery cast Georgia Democratic leader (and Trek fan) Stacey Abrams as President of United Earth. |
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Hasselhoff had previously become a bit infamous for playing the title roles in the musical Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway, as one of those performances was filmed and released on video and DVD. That production frequently stunt cast the lead role; Sebastian Bach played him for a while as well. | |
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Subverted for Dunkirk, when Harry Styles of One Direction was cast in a role. Christopher Nolan admitted to having no idea who Harry even was, and merely cast him based off a strong audition. The press hyped up his starring in there, but the film's promotional materials did not. | |
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Legend of the Seeker pulled in Charisma Carpenter of Angel fame, put her in skintight red leather and shouted it from the rooftops. They also got Star Trek: Enterprise's Jolene Blalock to play a semi-major character. | |
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The 1996 revival of Chicago is a notorious example — over its 25+ year run, its longevity has been attributed to casting numerous well-known actors and actresses and/or rock/pop/country singers in all three of its principal roles. It's even a plot point in another musical, The Prom: Angie's toiled away in its ensemble for years but hasn't been promoted to playing Roxie Hart because she isn't a name. | |
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Transformers: Prime got in on this with casting Dwayne Johnson for Cliffjumper's brief appearance in the pilot (before he's killed by Starscream and in a Whole Episode Flashback, he's replaced with Billy Brown) and the aforementioned George Takei as Alpha Trion. | |
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They finally did get to work with him for the Mass Effect movie in 2012, but only to reprise a role he had previously played in the games. | |
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Coronation Street - Britain's Long Runner of a soap - has often cast name actors for brief story arcs who are quickly written out never to return. Stephanie Beacham showed up in 2009 for a few episodes to play Martha Fraser - a woman who lived on a barge and briefly tempted Ken Barlow to an affair. Nigel Havers (he of Chariots of Fire and Dont Wait Up) did the flipside of this also in 2009, appearing as a conman called Lewis, who had a brief affair with Ken's wife Deirdre. Honor Blackman made a couple of appearances playing one of Rita's old friends from her acting days. Who then invites Rita and Norris to a weekend party that turns out to be a swingers' event. Girls Aloud member Sarah Harding in 2015, playing Robert Preston's wife while he was having an affair with Tracy Barlow. Ian McKellen likewise made appearances as an eccentric writer called Mel Hutchright in 2005. Something of a subversion, as Sir Ian had been lobbying to guest star because he was a fan (the same reason Sarah Harding agreed to her guest spots). |
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Ironically, NPH was himself stuntcasted on an episode of Glee. | |
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SCTV, against their wishes, had special guest actors Sir John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. In his book on the series (titled, appropriately enough, SCTV), Dave Thomas said they were both extremely difficult to work with and did not understand their brand of comedy. Later on, they welcomed Bill Murray to guest star, who was an active booster of the show. Notable musical guests, who also acted on the show, ranged from Hall and Oates, Dr. John, Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics, The Boomtown Rats, Tony Bennett, Roy Orbison, Talking Heads, Jimmy Buffett, John Mellencamp (when he was still John Cougar), America, Joe Walsh, Dave's brother Ian Thomas (who was successful in Canada in the '70s with his song "Painted Ladies", and would go on to play Dougie Franklin on The Red Green Show, on which Dave guest-starred as his brother Ben Franklin), and classical violinist Eugene Fodor. | |
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Superman: Smallville stunt-cast many people previously involved in the franchise, including Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, and Terence Stamp (as the voice of Jor-El!) from Superman: The Movie, Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher (as Lois's mother) from Lois & Clark, Helen Slater from Supergirl (as Kara's mother), and so on. The practice arguably started with the casting of Superman III's Annette O'Toole as Martha. An example of the "old friend from a previous series" type had Tom Wopat, John Schneider's co-star from The Dukes of Hazzard, appear in a plot-significant one-off (initiating the political-campaign story arc for Jonathan) that also played off their old show. Other random stunt castings were used for major villains, including James Marsters as Brainiac, Brian Austin Green as Metallo, and so on. Lois & Clark did this too, most notably bringing back the original Jimmy Olsen from The Adventuresof Superman, Jack Larson, to play Jimmy after he'd been hit by an aging ray. Villain stunt castings, weirdly, tended to be sitcom stars and comedians: Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford? Scott Valentine? Howie Mandel? |
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Muppets Most Wanted features celebrity cameos like all muppet movies but Ross Lynch's cameo being highlighted in most trailers as well as him doing behind the scenes promotional videos was a clear attempt by Disney to use one of their stars to entice tweens and children from the Disney Channel to go see the movie. | |
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Sebastian Bach, in Theatre was a mixed bag, while he was in the above Jekyll & Hyde, he took over Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show, where he was given a reprisal of Over At The Frankenstein Place to show off his voice. However, his last credit was the tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, where it was clear he couldn't hit the high notes of Gethsemane then, during the curtain calls, he began messing around and jumping into the audience thinking he was back in Skid Row, resulting in his firing. | |
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A 1997 Madison Square Garden production of The Wizard of Oz featured Roseanne Barr as the Wicked Witch of the West! A restaging and subsequent tour the following year featured Eartha Kitt, and later Jo Anne Worley, as the Wicked Witch and Mickey Rooney as the Wizard. When Andrew Lloyd Webber mounted a new stage adaptation of the film in 2011, Michael Crawford played the Professor Marvel/Wizard dual role. | |
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This trope’s backfire led directly to the Broadway closure of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. When Josh Groban left the role of Pierre in July 2017, he was succeeded by Okiriete “Oak� Onaodowan, who was well-regarded coming off his turn in Hamilton but lacked the star power to draw in casual fans. After only six weeks of Onaodowan’s run, the producers announced that he would be replaced by Mandy Patinkin. The backlash over the casting shakeup (and the Unfortunate Implications of a black actor in an ostensibly “race-blind� role being abruptly recast with a white one) caused Patinkin to withdraw out of respect for Onaodowan, leaving the show without a long-term plan for Pierre and no ready solution to its poor box office; it ended up folding at the end of the summer. | |
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Time Bandits: The Greek warrior fighting the Minotaur turns out to be... Sean Connery! As King Agamemnon, he has only a few minutes of screentime. Amusingly, the script describes the character as someone who looks like Sean Connery, but to everyone's surprise the man himself accepted the small role. | |
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Nigel Havers (he of Chariots of Fire and Dont Wait Up) did the flipside of this also in 2009, appearing as a conman called Lewis, who had a brief affair with Ken's wife Deirdre. | |
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Later on, with Dragon Ball Super, they cast Brian Drummond (who played Vegeta in the original Ocean Media dub of DBZ) as Copy Vegeta; plenty of fans suspected that they would have hired Lanipator for the role if not for the fact that Toei had apparently ordered Funimation not to hire TFS members. | |
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The same season brought in Kerr Smith from Dawson's Creek as FBI Agent Kyle Brody, who became a love interest for Paige rather than Phoebe. Tellingly, he'd actually turned down the role of Leslie. Living TV in the UK were particularly fond of hyping up his appearances. However, he was actually relevant to the arc, and the character was merely divisive rather than hated. | |
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Let's face it, they wanted him for March of the Penguins because they wanted even penguins to get a Magical Negro voiceover. This was parodied in Bob Saget's Farce of the Penguins, which was narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. |
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Snow White and the Three Stooges. After realising their figure-skating lead Carol Heiss couldn't carry the film, the producers brought in The Three Stooges. | |
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Similar to Fan Bingbing, Zhang Jingchu was given prominent billing in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation despite only appearing in the background in one scene and having a few lines in another. Her role, in fact, is so superfluous it could have been played by just about anyone. | |
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Show Boat: The 1930 St. Louis Municipal Opera production somehow was able to cast W. C. Fields as Captain Andy. The 1994 Broadway revival inflated the role of Parthy and gave it to Elaine Stritch. |
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The 2007 Las Vegas staging of The Producers cast David Hasselhoff as Roger De Bris, the Flamboyant Gay director, and gave him top billing. At the same time, this particular production was Recut to only 90 minutes, so to maximize Hasselhoff's stage time, most of the romantic subplot involving Leo and Ulla was cut...which made his betrayal of Max harder to swallow. Later in the run, Tony Danza came in to play Max (he was previously one of Nathan Lane's replacements in the Broadway production). Hasselhoff had previously become a bit infamous for playing the title roles in the musical Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway, as one of those performances was filmed and released on video and DVD. That production frequently stunt cast the lead role; Sebastian Bach played him for a while as well. |
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When it comes to Scream (1996) Drew Barrymore was initially signed on as the lead but was unable to commit. Still really keen on the project, she took the smaller role of Casey - who gets killed off in the first ten minutes. It ended up making Dead Star Walking a staple of the franchise. | |
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Scream Park features Doug Bradley of Hellraiser and Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy. | |
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The Secret Garden (1993) had three unknown child actors in the parts of Mary, Dickon and Colin. Word of God is Maggie Smith - who was enjoying a particularly high profile in America thanks to Hook and Sister Act - was cast as Medlock for this reason. | |
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From the Japanese dub of The Amazing World of Gumball, we have Junko Takeuchi and Yumiko Kobayashi as the two main characters. No other well-known seiyuus seem to have roles in the dub. note In case you're wondering, Takeuchi voiced Gumball and Kobayashi voiced Darwin, a double case of Cross-Dressing Voices. | |
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The educational kids' series Liberty's Kids is known for this. Walter Cronkite had a recurring role as Benjamin Franklin; other celebrities playing revolutionary heroes included Dustin Hoffman as Benedict Arnold, Annette Bening as Abigail Adams, Billy Crystal as John Adams, and Michael Douglas as Patrick Henry, as well as General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Stiller, and Whoopi Goldberg. | |
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The Princess Diaries kills off Mia's father (he's alive but dying of cancer in the book) because they'd convinced Julie Andrews to sign on as Grandmere, and they wanted to beef her role up. When Meg Cabot heard they were planning to cast her, she responded "kill the dad!" The sequel did this as well with Raven-Symoné, at the height of her popularity, cast as a random high-class friend of Mia's. |
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Big Brother 13 brings back three "Dynamic duos". It becomes pretty obvious that they just set it up so that one of the six returnees would win, given how, when it was reduced to two, a mysterious stroke of luck bailed them out. | |
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Saving Private Ryan has a small appearance by Kathleen Byron as the old Mrs. Ryan. She was a regular actress in the films of Michael Powell (notably Black Narcissus) and Steven Spielberg cast her because he was a fan. | |
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This was the reason why Nardole was included in series 10 as a full-time companion. Matt Lucas of Little Britain and Alice in Wonderland (2010) fame first appeared in "The Husbands of River Song" as a supporting character. A big fan of the show, Lucas begged Steven Moffat to bring him back in any shape or form, so Moffat decided to make him a regular as he was surprised that someone who lived in LA would want to work on Doctor Who. | |
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The original dub of Disco Elysium is full of this (in The Final Cut, most were recast): Notoriously, Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Beiderman and Virgil Texas from the controversial left podcast Chapo Trap House all show up as Siileng/Fuck The World, Titus Hardie, Scab Leader/Kourtenaer/Rosemary and the Smoker on the Balcony respectively. Will joked on the show that they were surprised the game turned out to be good because they'd assumed it was going to be 'a multiple choice adventure about depression' (which the game is... kind of). According to the producers, they hadn't intended to stunt-cast the game, and approached the Chapo guys because they couldn't find actors with American accents... but they appear prominently in the marketing material, suggesting they knew exactly what they were doing. Overlaps with Playing with Character Type, as, while none of the hosts are playing exactly the kind of characters you'd expect, familiarity with their comic personas will bring an extra sizzle to their scenes. In particular, Sociopathic Soldier Kourtenaer develops an ineffectual failson vibe once you recognize he's voiced by the guy whose career is built on skewering hypermasculinity-poisoned oafs. Dasha Nekrasova from the even more controversial left podcast Red Scare (perhaps best known for the viral video of her obliterating an InfoWars reporter with high level Communist rhetoric while dressed in a Sailor Fuku) plays Klassje (Miss Oranje Disco Dancer). Dasha's reputation as being a 'bad girl' unpopular even amongst Chapo listeners for her inflammatory opinions underscores Klaasje's untrustworthiness. British Sea Power contribute various songs to the game's soundtrack. Mikee W. Goodman (Ancient Lizard Brain/Limbic System/Spinal Cord/Roy/The Deserter/Idiot Doom Spiral) is best known as the lead singer of the prog metal band SikTh. One of the band's gimmicks is that Mikee often sings in character voices, which the game also gives him the opportunity to do during the karaoke scene. Dot Major from indie rock band London Grammar plays obnoxious speed-abusing scallie kid Cuno, as well as Harry's former partner, Jean. In The Final Cut, he appears as Noid instead. Measurehead is played by Casablancan rapper Dizzy Dros, who featured in promo videos to appeal to his fanbase. |
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Villain stunt castings, weirdly, tended to be sitcom stars and comedians: Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford? Scott Valentine? Howie Mandel? | |
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Transformers: Animated does this a lot with voice casting. Blurr is voiced by the original Blurr's voice actor John Moschitta (the world's fastest-talking man), Master Yoketron is voiced by George Takei, and Wreck-Gar by "Weird Al" Yankovic (who did the original Wreck-Gar's theme song). An interview has Marty Isenberg stating that hiring Weird Al was just an idea he had after Eric Idle (see below) wasn't available that ended up working out. Transformers: The Movie took this to an extreme in '86. Almost all the new characters had big name voice actors. Leonard Nimoy was Galvatron, Eric Idle was Wreck-Gar, Robert Stack was Ultra Magnus, Judd Nelson was Hot Rod, etc. Most impressive of all, Orson Welles (in his last performance) was absolutely AWESOME as Unicron. None of them stayed on for the TV series though. Transformers: Prime got in on this with casting Dwayne Johnson for Cliffjumper's brief appearance in the pilot (before he's killed by Starscream and in a Whole Episode Flashback, he's replaced with Billy Brown) and the aforementioned George Takei as Alpha Trion. |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law brings back Stephen Colbert as Phil Ken Sebben in the last episode, and - this being Harvey Birdman - lampshades it. | |
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Death Proof's Jungle Julia is played by Sydney Tamiia Poitier just because she is the daughter of Sidney Poitier (and the middle name is removed in the credits so she is Sydney Poitier). | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic called in "Weird Al" Yankovic to play a One-Episode Wonder character who's basically Pinkie Pie's Distaff Counterpart. Subverted with John de Lancie's role as Discord, as he was so popular that he ended up promoted to a recurring character. Also played with when Broadway star Lena Hall guest starred as Applejack's pop star friend Rara (as she was a fan of the show). | |
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Stunt Cast actors in revival Doctor Who are not usually heavyweight actors, but are well-known soap actors, comedians, quiz show hosts and other more minor celebrities. Oh, and Sir Derek Jacobi. Actor and comedian Simon Pegg as the Editor, an employee of the Mighty Jagrafess, in "The Long Game". Catherine Tate as Donna Noble in "The Runaway Bride" was initial meant to be this on a one-off basis. However, she made such a positive impression that she ended up coming back as a series regular a year later. Kylie Minogue was the guest companion in the 2007 Christmas Special "Voyage of the Damned" is probably the most extreme example of stunt-casting in Doctor Who history. To be fair, it worked; that episode still holds the record for the most viewers in the history of New Who! James Bond actor Timothy Dalton (as the Time Lord President Rassilon), and veteran actress Claire Bloom appear in "The End of Time". Sci-fi vets Mark Sheppard and father William Morgan Sheppard played young and old versions of former FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III in "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon". Series 7 has had several notable faces (possibly to tie in with the series' 50th anniversary), including Ben Browder from Farscape in "A Town Called Mercy", Mark Williams from the Harry Potter movies in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" and "The Power of Three", Jemma Redgrave in "The Power of Three" and a number of episodes hence, the voice of Ian McKellen in "The Snowmen", David Warner in "Cold War", Diana Rigg and her daughter Rachael Stirling in "The Crimson Horror", Warwick Davis in "Nightmare in Silver", and John Hurt as a previously unknown regeneration of the Doctor in the 50th anniversary special itself "The Day of the Doctor". "Mummy on the Orient Express": Frank Skinner, known primary as a comedian, with little prior experience of acting and none of dramatic acting, plays the major guest role of Perkins. Nobody has ever been happier about being stunt-cast then Skinner, a long-time fan of Doctor Who, was in this episode. The 2014 Christmas episode "Last Christmas" featured Simon Pegg's frequent co-star Nick Frost as Santa Claus. This was the reason why Nardole was included in series 10 as a full-time companion. Matt Lucas of Little Britain and Alice in Wonderland (2010) fame first appeared in "The Husbands of River Song" as a supporting character. A big fan of the show, Lucas begged Steven Moffat to bring him back in any shape or form, so Moffat decided to make him a regular as he was surprised that someone who lived in LA would want to work on Doctor Who. Series 11 had a specially-made trailer highlighting its guest stars, who included Alan Cumming, Mark Addy and Chris Noth (who returned in the 2021 New Year's special), not to mention noted game show host Bradley Walsh as companion Graham. The trend continued in series 12, opening with Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry (both in 100% serious roles) and shortly after Goran ViÅ¡njić as Nikola Tesla. Comedian John Bishop as companion Dan Lewis for Series 13 and the subsequent specials. The 60th anniversary specials not only brought back David Tennant and Catherine Tate in such a way to be stuntcasting. (The Doctor regenerated with a previous Doctor's face, he wasn't playing the same Doctor.) The third special, "The Giggle", featured Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker, and he was heavily featured in the trailers. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series parodied this trope in episode 49 and pointed out the widespread egregious use of Morgan Freeman for his deep sultry tones. | |
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The Crow: City of Angels features Iggy Pop as one of the thugs. He was originally asked to play Funboy in the first film, as the character in the comic book was physically modeled on him, but had to decline due to scheduling issues. | |
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Educating Rita: Producers were really keen on getting Julie Walters to reprise her role from the stage version. But they risked the story being relocated to America with Paul Newman and Dolly Parton in the leads. Julie recalls being called up and told that Michael Caine had been cast as Frank. The small but important role of Rita's roommate Trish was said to have had a name actress - some sources reported Julie Christie had been cast (although they could have been confusing her with then-unknown Julie Walters). It was played by Maureen Lipman, who was less of a name, but would still have been known for her sitcom Agony. |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: in addition to its All-Star Cast, preview material hyped Gina Carano as Natasha, Tanya's Soviet counterpart. Carano's appearance amounts to a non-speaking cameo in the Allied campaign and the Natasha unit in the actual gameplay portions is not voiced by her - reportedly, this was because she couldn't do a believable enough Russian accent (even by the game's standard). | |
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Cyndi Lauper's presence at the same event was not however an example of this, as she had been involved in a program where she became the manager of Wendi Richter - and stayed as such for a whole year. | |
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CSI occasionally seemed to do this, but for the most part their "stunt casting" was the result of a working character actor who had some notoriety at the time (like Alan Tudyk or Wil Wheaton) just happening to landing a role on the series. The one time they did intentionally Stunt-Cast, it worked spectacularly as the legendary Ned Beatty was cast as the kindly pediatric dentist Doctor Dave... who was also a creepifyingly kind serial killer. | |
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Criminal Minds sometimes casts unsubs with this method. Most, however, are either unrecognizable (James Van Der Beek, Jamie Kennedy) or extremely creepy (Keith Carradine, Jason Alexander). Often, the recognition of the unsubs (generally played by supremely benign actors, when this trope is in play) only serves to make the roles creepier, or more tragic. James Van Der Beek's character is a good example of that, as is Frankie Muniz's. In general, stunt casting in a legal or cop drama always brings Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize into play (whether straight or subverted). CM usually averts this by having the unsub commit his crimes onscreen in full view of the audience. "Paradise", in turn is an exception to this rule, where we don't see the unsub actually commit a crime until after they find out who it is...thus playing Narrowed straight (Wil Wheaton played the unsub in the ep.) The fans have become critical of this method of casting guest stars as unsubs, even when they are good, because it had been used too often during a weak seventh season. They feel that guest-star unsubs are showcased to the expense of the original cast and story suspense (by showing the unsubs's from the very beginning of the episode, rather than keeping them obscured). By giving more time to the unsubs and their evil deeds, it makes the profiler characters look like stupid slow-pokes, and possibly glorifying the serial killers (which is NOT the point of the show). |
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A Season 3 episode has Sabrina and Valerie sneaking into a club to see N Sync. | |
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Death Stranding has the bafflingly gimmicky lead actor pair of Norman Reedus and Lindsay Wagner, whose Serkis Folk recreation allows her to appear as the age she was in The Bionic Woman despite her being in her late 60s. This is because Hideo Kojima is a huge fan of The Bionic Woman and thought that, since he was making his dream project, he might as well just go for broke. Joining them are also Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Margaret Qualley plus the likeness of Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn. | |
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Forbidden Broadway loves to mock this concept, most recently in its 2014 edition by bringing up the aforementioned Cinderella recasting. | |
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South Park cast Jay Leno as Cartman's cat and George Clooney as Stan's dog in early episodes. Actual celebrity appearances, meanwhile, were pretty much never voiced by real thing. | |
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Lois & Clark did this too, most notably bringing back the original Jimmy Olsen from The Adventuresof Superman, Jack Larson, to play Jimmy after he'd been hit by an aging ray. | |
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Mary Poppins - the Bird Woman is played by Oscar winning character actress Jane Darwell (famously from The Grapes of Wrath). She had been retired for years and only agreed to do it because Walt Disney (a huge fan) tracked her down to her nursing home and begged her to be in the film. | |
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WWE likewise got in on the Jersey Shore phenomenon in 2011, where Snooki guest starred on an episode of Raw ostensibly to promote a magazine cover, but then ended up challenged to a mixed tag match at WrestleMania 27. Surprisingly enough, she ended up performing better than expected, with her background in gymnastics and cheerleading allowing her to pull off some She-Fu moves. | |
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A similar subversion in LFO's music video for "Girl on TV". As the song is about falling in love with a female celebrity, it would seem to be the case that Jennifer Love Hewitt (then a Teen Idol for Party of Five and I Know What You Did Last Summer) plays the girl in the video. However, she was actually the celebrity the song was written about - and was dating one of the members. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: They attempted to cast Britney Spears as Warren's android girlfriend April in "I Was Made To Love You". Joel Grey was cast in a relatively small but plot-pivotal role as Not-So-Harmless Villain Doc in a few episodes in the second half of Season Five. Much later, they attempted to cast Miss Spears again in a one-off villain role in "First Date". The part eventually went to slightly less famous fellow pop singer Ashanti. |
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Hello, Dolly! went through a rotating series of stars, including Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman. For two years, the entire cast was Race Lifted so that Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway could star as Dolly and Horace. | |
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The Season 4 premiere gets a Britney Spears appearance to cross promote the film Melissa Joan Hart was starring in, which was titled Drive Me Crazy after Britney's song. Melissa also appeared in the video, which plays in The Stinger. | |
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Notoriously, Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Beiderman and Virgil Texas from the controversial left podcast Chapo Trap House all show up as Siileng/Fuck The World, Titus Hardie, Scab Leader/Kourtenaer/Rosemary and the Smoker on the Balcony respectively. Will joked on the show that they were surprised the game turned out to be good because they'd assumed it was going to be 'a multiple choice adventure about depression' (which the game is... kind of). According to the producers, they hadn't intended to stunt-cast the game, and approached the Chapo guys because they couldn't find actors with American accents... but they appear prominently in the marketing material, suggesting they knew exactly what they were doing. Overlaps with Playing with Character Type, as, while none of the hosts are playing exactly the kind of characters you'd expect, familiarity with their comic personas will bring an extra sizzle to their scenes. In particular, Sociopathic Soldier Kourtenaer develops an ineffectual failson vibe once you recognize he's voiced by the guy whose career is built on skewering hypermasculinity-poisoned oafs. | |
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The original version of Dragon Ball Z has been guilty of this as well. One episode during the Buu saga features Majin Buu befriending and helping a blind boy who was a one shot character. Said one-shot was voiced by Megumi Hayashibara.note In case you're wondering, in the Kai cut he's instead voice by Houko Kuwashima. | |
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Blake Lewis as Kasuka in one episode Durarara!!. He was cast because he was an American Idol runner-up, a huge anime fan, and wanted a shot at voice acting in one. When it came time to record Season 2, he was set to reprise his role (which was bigger this time), and recorded some of the episodes, but was replaced at the last minute with Vic Mignogna, supposedly because he spilled the beans on Twitter before the dub was announced. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: "Tsunkatse" heavily promoted Dwayne Johnson as a guest star, who ended up only being in one scene. Jason Alexander also guest starred, but had a much larger role in his episode. | |
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For the role of Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, producers wanted to cast a Hollywood star, as the cast was made up of unknowns and character actors. Uma Thurman was the original choice but had to drop out due to her pregnancy, so Liv Tyler played it. Marketing for the first film hyped up Arwen as if she were a major protagonist, and Liv is billed third on the poster. After the first film proved such a success, this was de-emphasized, as it was obvious the film could stand on its own. | |
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Charmed (1998) became known for this in its later seasons, often attracting name actors to play Phoebe's love interests. Nick Lachey, at the height of his fame from marriage to Jessica Simpson and the subsequent reality series. He appears at the start of Season 7 for an arc as Leslie, a replacement advice columnist for Phoebe. Among her love interests, he tends to be the least positively received. The same season brought in Kerr Smith from Dawson's Creek as FBI Agent Kyle Brody, who became a love interest for Paige rather than Phoebe. Tellingly, he'd actually turned down the role of Leslie. Living TV in the UK were particularly fond of hyping up his appearances. However, he was actually relevant to the arc, and the character was merely divisive rather than hated. Charisma Carpenter appears for three episodes in the same season, playing a demonic seer called Kyra in an obvious nod to her role in Angel. The episode in which she played her most prominent role was even advertised with the slogan Charmed, with Charisma. Her character however proved to be quite popular with fans, who lamented that she was killed off. Another well-received example was Billy Zane appearing for three episodes as a demon-turned-human called Drake. His Large Ham performance, creative use of powers and chemistry with Alyssa Milano also made him popular with fans. The final stunt cast Phoebe love interest in the series was Jason Lewis, of Sex and the City. The episode "Malice in Wonderland" was even done in the style of the latter, and his character Dex was featured heavily in the promotional materials. Although he ended up marrying her briefly, his arc ended after six episodes. The eighth season also cast Kaley Cuoco, fresh off the sitcom 8 Simple Rules in the role of Billie Jenkins; an apprentice witch to the sisters, who was also the result of the network demanding new faces and someone to fill the Ms. Fanservice requirements the three lead actresses were getting sick of doing. Despite hopes that she could headline a spin-off, Billie was negatively received and even got Demoted to Extra in the continuation comics. |
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Diagnosis: Murder was fond of this. One episode (about alien abduction) had several actors from various Star Trek series; another had cast members from the movie and TV versions of M*A*S*H. | |
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During its final year on Broadway, Aida cast well known R&B stars in the title role, such as Toni Braxton, Deborah Cox and Michelle Williams. While this usually paid off in singing ability, the acting sometimes left a lot to be desired. | |
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Kingdom Hearts has its main character voiced by Haley Joel Osment in the English version, with other supporting characters and villains played by people like Billy Zane (Ansem), Christopher Lee (DiZ), and Leonard Nimoy (Xenahort). The Final Fantasy cast in the first game, the first time the characters got voiced, has recognisable TV actors and popstars playing them all. The performances range all the way from Questionable Casting nonsense (Lance Bass is horribly miscast as Sephiroth, but does the best job he can under the circumstances) all the way up to establishing the definitive voice actor for the character (Steve Burton stayed with Cloud even after II recast most of the characters, and played him in English for the majority of his later appearances until Final Fantasy VII Remake). |
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On Friends this was taken to the extreme when Chandler's dad was played by Kathleen Turner. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Melissa Joan Hart is a huge WWE fan, so many notable stars of the 90s were cast for guest spots. These include Kevin Nash, Billy Gunn and Chyna (though she didn't appear until she'd left the company in the 2000s). The Season 4 premiere gets a Britney Spears appearance to cross promote the film Melissa Joan Hart was starring in, which was titled Drive Me Crazy after Britney's song. Melissa also appeared in the video, which plays in The Stinger. Coolio has a cameo As Himself in a Season 1 episode where the aunts bring a poster of him to life to ask where Salem went. A Season 3 episode has Sabrina and Valerie sneaking into a club to see N Sync. The Backstreet Boys have a cameo in an episode with a talent contest where they only get their singing talent from drinking a potion Sabrina left lying around. A Season 2 episode features Ru Paul playing a Witches Council judge who later disguises himself as a hairdresser to teach Sabrina a lesson. Notable because the Witches Council judges had been played by the same two actors for the first three seasons. Sabrina conjures up Tara Lipinski for no real reason in an episode where she's trying to make everyone jealous of her. The seventh season gave Sabrina a job working for an entertainment magazine, allowing for guest appearances from pop stars such as Daniel Bedingfield, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne etc. |
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Toward the end of its run, the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera cast Paul Stanley as the Phantom. He was generally well-received and even got some KISS fans interested in musical theatre. While Phantom has generally avoided this, it did bring back Michael Crawford to the role for a brief time on Broadway, Robert Guillaume was the first-ever black Phantom in the national touring company, and equally well-known Norm Lewis became the first black actor to play the title role in the Broadway production in 2014. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has had James Cromwell play a role (he returned to play Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact). It also had Joe Piscopo playing a comedian. | |
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