Are there some actors who just don't fit in superhero movies?

[krazijoe]

Crispin Glover I can see as a henchman type similar to his role in CHARLIE'S ANGELS.

Toyman.....

[ChrisIII]

Sean Connery perhaps? He pretty much quit acting apart from voice roles (Sir Billi and Bond in the FWRL game) after "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".

He certainly inspired a few comics, though:

[DrNewGod]

There are actors I could see not wanting to do a superhero film, but isn't the whole point of acting to embody the role you accept, regardless of genre?

[ChrisIII]

What about different types of superheroes? Like maybe some actors are better at perhaps a vigilante type (or no powers but with gadgets like Batman, Iron Man, Black Widow etc) than somebody with powers or gifts.

[Android 17]

It would be a shame if Kathy Bates never gets her shot to play Granny Goodness.

I couldn’t picture her in any other CBM role but that.

[Scott Taylor]

There are actors I could see not wanting to do a superhero film, but isn't the whole point of acting to embody the role you accept, regardless of genre?

Well its not as if there is a rotation of actors who get parts. Dakota would have had to hear about the role, audition for it, get a call back and then accept it. She knew what she was doing and what kind of a movie it was going to be. So yes, one should accept the role that they accept.

[j9ac9k]

It would be a shame if Kathy Bates never gets her shot to play Granny Goodness.

I couldn’t picture her in any other CBM role but that.

I would've said Perry White, but Gunn's already got that casted. Maybe RJ Brande? Ma Hunkle?

[Mister Mets]

What about different types of superheroes? Like maybe some actors are better at perhaps a vigilante type (or no powers but with gadgets like Batman, Iron Man, Black Widow etc) than somebody with powers or gifts.

Those are still actors who fit superhero movies, who make sense in movies where people dress up in armor to fight crime.

One question I haven't resolved is whether something like Joker is a superhero movie, since it's a bit of a 70s/80s Scorsese pastiche more than any comic book adaptation.

There are actors I could see not wanting to do a superhero film, but isn't the whole point of acting to embody the role you accept, regardless of genre?

Some actors are better and weaker in specific modes.

I'm more interested in that question than in whether actors think something is beneath them.

It would be a shame if Kathy Bates never gets her shot to play Granny Goodness.

I couldn’t picture her in any other CBM role but that.

Kathy Bates has range.

She's been in multiple seasons of the American Horror Story series.

She can play lead villains, evil assistant villains, retirees who saw something weird decades ago that connects to the main plot, a teen superhero's angry teacher, perplexed neighbors, Ma Kent, etc.

Dakota Johnson fit in just fine, she just hates that the movie wasn't a big hit and is backing away. Not really her fault that the studio picked a z-list character to do a movie about, didn't market it well and then wrote a kind of boring plot.

It could just be her way of distancing from a flop, but she's been in big films, like the Fifty Shades series and Black Mass.

[Android 17]

I would've said Perry White, but Gunn's already got that casted. Maybe RJ Brande? Ma Hunkle?

I laughed when I read that, but then I started thinking and that could've been genius.

Kathy Bates has range.

She's been in multiple seasons of the American Horror Story series.

She can play lead villains, evil assistant villains, retirees who saw something weird decades ago that connects to the main plot, a teen superhero's angry teacher, perplexed neighbors, Ma Kent, etc.

Absolutely, Bates can play anything.

It's just she wouldn't have been first in my mind to be in a CBM... unless she was from Apokolips and yelling at her Furies.

[JBatmanFan05]

One question I haven't resolved is whether something like Joker is a superhero movie, since it's a bit of a 70s/80s Scorsese pastiche more than any comic book adaptation.

It is a superhero film (in a very loose sense, which you kinda need) and also isn't (since like you said, it's a very Scorcese type film in that it's very not superhero also). That's how I think it best to view it.

[Captain Craig]

A movie is a team effort. A poorly conceived story approved by suits too eager to see dollar signs leaving a marketing department to try and present the project as fun results in a poorly received film more times than not.
This will date me but I recall reading letters pages in fan magazine of the day saying how Michael Keaton as Batman was a horrible choice. Skip ahead and Heath Ledger as the Joker was the newest worst idea EVER.
Any actor given the right tools from script, costume, direction and promotion can inhabit any world or genre.
Dakota Johnson was failed from multiple sources. It is not that she can't inhabit this genre of film.

Now I have not seen the film as yet. I've actually seen some posts that say while its not Winter Soldier it is also not Howard the Duck if you just take the film for what it is vs what you might have expected it to be.
Based on some word of mouth I thought I'd dislike Blue Beetle and Flash but they weren't overall bad. So maybe Madame Web could fall into that zone for me as well eventually.

[Catlady in training]

I have a hard time imagining Meryl Streep doing a superhero movie. But I would have said the same about Robert Redford, Annette Bening or Michael Douglas so I may yet be surprised.

[Captain Craig]

Harrison Ford as well in forthcoming CA:BNW, pending seeing his portrayal of Ross course.
Cate Blanchet was great as was Anthony Hopkins in the Thor films.
Angelina Jolie in Eternals? I've still only seen it once and can't say I recall her performance much but that is overall true of the whole film. Not really solid commentary on just her.

[ChrisIII]

Anybody think she might've made a decent Jessica Drew? (Although maybe a simplified origin without the High Evolutionary, HYDRA, and technically being nearly a century old bits, and definitely not the "possibly a spider turned into a human" part!).


Hopkins arguably played a superhero of sorts in the prologue of Mask of Zorro. (Zorro is after all one of the inspirations for Batman).

[useridgoeshere]

I have a hard time imagining Meryl Streep doing a superhero movie. But I would have said the same about Robert Redford, Annette Bening or Michael Douglas so I may yet be surprised.

That's interesting, because I think of her as a real actress with a ton of versatility. With the range she has, I can see her as an older hero, mom/aunt, villain ...