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Originally Posted by tore
LOTR was full of B/C-List actors like the guys playing the hobbits, Orlando Bloom who was fresh out of school or the guy who played Gimli. I'm not even sure Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood could be considered A-listers before Lord of the Rings.
I did recognize some of the actors in Watchmen, like Patrick Wilson who played Nite Owl who's also played in movies like Hard Candy. Billy Crudup who played Dr. Manhattan also played in my favourite Burton movie, Big Fish. Jeffrey Dean Morgan who played The Comedian was in P.S. I Love You.
Not that it matters much to me. I think they all did good roles, particularly The Comedian and Rorschach. The only casting I didn't like was Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, but it was a small part.
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck
Ian McKellen was a pretty esteemed Shakespearean actor in Britain
Elijah Wood starred in some blockbusters
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LOTR I think got the casting right with its mix of well known esteemed actors and lesser known names. A lot of the actors that some might also think of as being lesser known are actually very well known on UK televison and film Ian Holm, Ian Mckellen, John Rhys Davies, Bernard Hill, Sean Bean and the most esteemed of them all Christopher Lee one of the two faces of Hammer.