10 Great Comic Book Movie Castings Fans Couldn't Handle
2. Jeffrey Wright - Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
Otto Octavius' early comic book days showed him being portrayed as your standard mad scientist type villain, but over the years Doc Ock has become a more nuanced character. A complicated character and arguably Spider-Man's foe with the most depth, and as such is pretty tough to cast, as well as pretty tough to play.
In his most recent portrayals on screen, be it Spider-Man 2 or Insomniac's Spider-Man, have shown him to have something akin to dissociative identity disorder - more specifically his tentacles seem to communicate with him to some degree. That means essentially playing two roles at once and that's a pretty tall order.
Jeffrey Wright's not only still a stupendously underrated actor who's only just getting his dues, but he's your man if you want a complicated, nuanced individual with flaws for days - he also plays tortured genius with aplomb too.
As Dr. Valentin Narcisse on Boardwalk Empire, Wright proved that he can play a silver tongued villain with charm for days, who's just a hairpin from snapping into a violent rage, and as Bernard on Westworld he proved he could play not only the aforementioned tortured genius but more recently that he can also pull of what amounts to dual roles too...uh, spoilers.