10 Actors Who Keep Getting Miscast

Dane Dehaan isn’t quite a household name, but a handful of stellar performances prove that he should be. Only as it currently stands, the casting gods have not been kind to Dehaan. He followed up a powerful performance in Chronicle with the high stakes role as Harry Osborn/the Green Goblin in Amazing Spider-Man 2. Although the film did well at the box office, audiences and critics alike did not care for the direction this series was taking, and so further sequels were scrapped. It didn’t help his career that Dehaan’s rather pointless role in the film being one of the main nitpicks people had (and that misguided design to his supervillain).

After ASM2, Dehaan starred in Gore Verbinski’s psychological horror film, A Cure for Wellness. In that he played a skeevy Wall Street type, which he is actually fit for. Then, in a major step backwards, he starred in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. While Dehaan turns in a fine performance in the titular role, he didn’t have quite the right energy to be a swashbuckling smartass star pilot. The role called for someone with a little more swagger, a Chris Pratt-type, which Dehaan is anything but.

What Dehaan excels at is playing creeps and douchebags. His attempts to leap over into leading man are a bit premature. He needs a good 5 or 10 more years of playing baddies before he can make that crossover. Dane, look at Ben Foster’s career. Take notes.