20 Characters That Could Never Be Satisfyingly Played By Another Actor
Raul Julia is the only great Gomez Addams
One of the best ways Hollywood sneaks past our trepidation and gets us on board for a reboot is the chance for a new actor to give a fresh take on a classic role. Like, how can you not love Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian? Or George Clooney as Danny Ocean? Or all of the Spider-Men? (Spiders-Man?)
One of the reasons we’re trepidatious about reboots, though, is that new actors so rarely live up to the legendary performances given in classic movies. It doesn’t matter if it’s the greatest artists of their generation or some rando from TikTok — no one can ever do it better. That’s why user Ghsdkgb asked r/AskReddit, “Which actor crushed a role so hard that nobody else will be able to live up to it?”