10 Actors Whose Brilliant Moment Of Improvisation Landed Them The Role
3. Dacre Montgomery - Stranger Things
Carmen Cuba deserves her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her expert eye in casting the exceptional Stranger Things cast.
Every actor that has been chosen to fill the boots of the now legendary characters - from Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven to David Harbour's Chief Hopper - has simply knocked the role out of the park and Dacre Montgomery's iteration of Billy Hargrove doesn't buck that trend.
Yet, there must have been a gluttony of young cocksure actors who could have fit the bill of the resident bad boy in the series, so what gave Montgomery that all important edge?
Well, you only need to take one look at his self tape for the role to realise that he was tailor-made for the part. If his audacity in going topless for large portions of the audition wasn't enough, Montgomery's smarmily improvised dance routine (complete with douchy sunglasses) was definitely enough to sign him up to the show there and then.
In another example of using your initiative to separate yourself from the pack, it's now near impossible to imagine anyone else portraying the conflicted psyche of one of Stranger Things' most beloved characters.