10 Movie Casting Choices That Were Total Misdirection
6. J.B. Smoove - Spider-Man: Far From Home
What Everyone Expected
One of the greatest strengths of the MCU Spider-Man movies has been their diverse and eclectic casts, and so fans were overjoyed when Curb Your Enthusiasm's brilliant J.B. Smoove was cast in an unspecified yet apparently "major" role in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
This quickly prompted speculation from countless fans and outlets that the hilarious motormouth Smoove would be playing a contemporary, rebooted version of The Daily Bugle's editor J. Jonah Jameson.
And given the MCU's tendency to veer sharply away from prior iterations of iconic comic book characters, going with a totally new and radical Jameson was perfectly believable.
What We Got
In reality, Smoove ended up playing Julius Dell, Peter Parker's (Tom Holland) teacher and one of his class' chaperones through Europe.
Hilariously, he was cast in the part after the filmmakers enjoyed his chemistry with Parker in an Audi commercial made to promote Spider-Man: Homecoming two years prior.
But the true genius of Smoove's casting is that it got people so tangled up in speculating about him possibly being Jameson that they totally forgot about J.K. Simmons, who of course made a jaw-dropping return as Jameson in Far From Home's mid-credits scene.
While you can argue this misdirect was more a result of fans playing themselves rather than any overt chicanery on Marvel Studios' part, it worked splendidly whether intentional or not.