Worst instances of mis-casting ethnically -- people who don't look the part of their character.

[Mixdguy17]

A few years back when the Witcher show aired the grossly misscasted Triss was all the rage.

Think stuff like that is more disrespectful to the writer than anything else, he had descriptions and even illustrations in his book how the characters look like and yet the producers decided to diversify them either way.

Yennefer is also played by someone of mixed origin. Idk why they decided to go that way. Representation is super important, but forced representation and appropiation of other characters is not cool imo.

[Tooting Carmen]

Lots of examples of this with Spaniards, when very ignorant movie directors have put mestizos, and even Caribbean triracials to play the role of ethnic Spaniards

Likewise with Italians too. Vin Diesel played Italian-Americans in Saving Private Ryan and The Fast and The Furious:

[Ford]

Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah in Lost. They managed to find the most Indian looking guy to portray an Iraqi. Looks ridiculous in the scenes where he's around actual Arabs.

[Tooting Carmen]

Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah in Lost. They managed to find the most Indian looking guy to portray an Iraqi. Looks ridiculous in the scenes where he's around actual Arabs.

Because many Westerners think Arabs and Indians look the same (I used to think so when I was a child too).

[Roy]

Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah in Lost. They managed to find the most Indian looking guy to portray an Iraqi. Looks ridiculous in the scenes where he's around actual Arabs.

I loved this show! IMHO the first 3 seasons were as good as TV series can get. I pity those who missed it. It was a phenomenon. I don't remember another show aired in Poland that would spark so many spontaneous discussions between people in daily life.

As far as Sayid's character goes I was not bothered by the casting as a kid watching the show originally, lol. And still Iraqi's can overlap with some more Caucasoid looking Indians better than Saudi Arabs for sure.

[Peter Parker]

German actor Klaus Kinski playing Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972):

[alnortedelsur]

German actor Klaus Kinski playing Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972):

It depends on if Aguirre was a light/blondish Spaniard. I don't know if he was, and would have to check into it, and if he wasn't, then it wasn't a good role play representation, but not because Spaniards like that are uncommon, lol

PS: not saying they are super common or typical, but they aren't uncommon either, if that's what you imply.

[Videx]

I don't know if was mentioned before, but Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil game franchise and that new terrible movie Welcome to Raccoon City. I mean, why an Indian actor, seriously???? With a name like Leon Scott Kennedy? Hilariously bad choice.
Like what the hell???

[Harkonnen]

I don't know if was mentioned before, but Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil game franchise and that new terrible movie Welcome to Raccoon City. I mean, why an Indian actor, seriously???? With a name like Leon Scott Kennedy? Hilariously bad choice.
Like what the hell???

Estonian actor, Johann Urb, who played Leon Kennedy in some movie, used to live in Finland. I once saw him in a wedding when I was kid.

[coolfrenchguy]

German actor Klaus Kinski playing Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972):

one of the worse fucking boring i ever seen ,a total brainwanking