10 Actors Who Were Miscast As The Villain

10. Johnny Depp (Gellert Grindelwald) - Fantastic Beasts...

Establishing himself as one of Hollywood's most reliable character performers from the '90s onwards, there was a time when the announcement of Johnny Depp stepping into the Wizarding World as one of the most wretched wand-wavers the universe had ever seen would've been met with a sea of undoubted excitement.

By the time the Captain Jack Sparrow thespian signed on the Fantastic Beasts line in 2016, though, the star's real-life controversies and drama had begun to detract from his increasingly hit-and-miss outings on the big-screen.

And on top of attracting the wrong sort of attention and headlines in the time since donning the pale wig of Gellert Grindelwald, Johnny Depp's actual performance in the role during The Crimes of Grindelwald only made matters even more uncomfortable.

Going full pantomime with his latest attempt at producing a larger-than-life creation, Depp's anything but terrifying monologues in his bids to create a new Wizarding World Order and almost literal moustache-twiddling didn't exactly set a high bar for Mads Mikkelsen in the follow-up.

In fact, Mikkelsen did so well upon being recast as the one-time lover of Dumbledore that many critics were quick to question why he wasn't cast as Gellert in the first place.