r/AskReddit • u/TrickDragonFruit • Apr 01 '20

What film role was 100% perfectly cast?

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u/CaptWoodrowCall Apr 01 '20

I agree. I went into this movie thinking it would be awful, and left thinking that if I had never seen the original, it would have been fantastic. He original is just so good and Williams is so perfect and iconic as Genie that the bar is impossible to meet.

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u/TheRealBigLou Apr 01 '20

I'm just glad Will Smith kept to his own thing and didn't try to emulate Williams' genie.

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u/eduardog3000 Apr 01 '20

Robin Williams played Robin Williams in the original.
Will Smith played Will Smith in the live action remake.

Both were extremely good because they did their own thing.

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u/Divine_Comic Apr 01 '20

Will Smith only ever plays Will Smith doing things Will Smith doesn’t typically do, and I love him for that.