In your opinion what was the worst casting mistake in the MCU? Why? Who would you choose to play the role instead?

In your opinion what was the worst casting mistake in the MCU? Why? Who would you choose to play the role instead?

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye:

Look, I like Renner as an actor, but he’s just completely wrong for Hawkeye. He doesn’t look anything like comicbook Hawkeye, nor does he act or sound like him.

Now, obviously they could always come up with a reinterpretation of the character for the movie version and that would have been fine… except I don’t buy Jeremy Renner as a supposed super assassin/spy. He doesn’t move or act like it, has no sense of command, danger or mystery about him, and doesn’t even do the fight scenes that well. As an archer, I can tell you that his archery form sucks… which is something I’d have been willing to overlook if he at least instilled a sense of badassery to his portrayal of Clint Barton. But he doesn’t. Nor does his personality really stand out compared to the other Avengers.

There’s a reason why, out of the the six main Avengers and even compared to some of the newer Avengers, Hawkeye always ranks near the bottom in terms of popularity. I’d be willing to bet if they had cast a much better fit for the role that he might have had his own movie by now. After all, majority of the Avengers were all B to C tier heroes before their movies came out. Most were not really that popular prior to the MCU movies.

Anyway, on to the question.

Who would I have picked for Hawkeye?

In a perfect world, I’d have loved Chris Evans for the role:

But since he’s already Captain America I guess he’s out. My next choice would have been Jensen Ackles:

Unfortunately, I doubt he would have found the time to be Hawkeye with how busy his schedule is with Supernatural.

Then I was going to go with Charlie Hunnam…

… but then I felt Hunnam was a bit too intense for the more laid-back Hawkeye. He’d be a better fit for Green Arrow.

So…. who’d I finally pick?

DJ Cotrona

Now I know he’s not a dead-ringer for how Clint Barton looks in the comics (he’s not blonde for one) but then again, he still looks way more like Barton than Jeremy Renner.

But the reason I picked this guy is because I watched him recently in From Dusk Till Dawn series on Netflix… and he did a great job of portraying a badass character who had a dry, snarky wit combined with a surprisingly sincere demeanor.

I thought to myself, “Hey, that would be the perfect personality for Hawkeye.” Comic Hawkeye has quite a sense of humor, though a bit snarkier and sharp-tongued than Tony Stark. But… that doesn’t stop his heart and sincerity from coming through. Yet all of that is hidden behind a tough, badass act that allows him to hang with superpowered beings despite only being an archer (well, ok, an extremely good archer).

Anyway, I just felt that DJ Cotrona could do all that. Doesn’t hurt that he handles fight scenes better than Jeremy Renner as well and that he has a more classical “superhero look” about him.

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