Can you imagine Al Pacino clutching the hood ornament of a cargo truck as it hurtles down a desert highway at high speed?
It’s tough to picture, isn’t it? Just as it isn’t easy seeing Harrison Ford lord steely-eyed over his nephew’s baptism as his enemies are systematically wiped out, the idea of Pacino donning a fedora and stepping into Raiders of the Lost Ark requires more than a little suspension of disbelief.
Tom Cruise as Hannibal Lecter? Meryl Streep as Ellen Ripley? Denzel Washington as The Dude? Christopher Walken as Neo? Sure, to a degree things can always work one way or another but no matter how talented or likeable or charismatic an actor may be, some roles will always be an odd fit.