10 Actors Who Were Horribly Mismatched To Their Character Professions

9. Sharon Stone - Gunslinger (The Quick and the Dead)

Quick and the Dead Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead is an obvious B-movie western parody, for sure, but it still might've helped if our lead actress hadn't been so unconvincing in her role as a badass gunslinger. Granted, Stone tries her best with this one, I guess, and maybe it's hard to accept her as a character of this type because - plainly put - we're not accustomed to seeing female western heroes, but it mostly always feels like she's Sharon Stone in a hat. Maybe the problem here is that they made Stone far too sexy, when - in reality - you imagine any woman who spends her time drifting from town to town having sex and murdering mostly everyone she meets would look like a sack of . The western genre need to convince us of its historical setting, even with B-movie aesthetics, and I just don't think Stone knew what to do with her character. Alas, I remain unconvinced that she could kill Gene Hackman in a gunfight.
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