10 Movies That Ruined Perfect Casts With One Bad Choice

Here’s a little history lesson for the interested: contrary to what Oliver Stone’s 2004 epic Alexander might have you think its protagonist Alexander the Great, ruler of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, was a Greek man.

So why, oh why Stone allowed his leading man Colin Farrell to keep his natural Irish brogue while filming is beyond anyone. Naturally, Stone tried to justify this by claiming that the mix of accents in his film – which included not only Irish, but British RP and Angelina Jolie’s weird Russian-like lilt – reflected the variety of cultures in Ancient Greece, but rumour has it that Farrell was unable to drop his drawl, forcing co-stars Val Kilmer and Jared Leto to also adopt an Irish twang for the sake of consistency.

Predictably, conservative America was apparently up in arms about the homoerotic relationship depicted between Alexander and his childhood friend Hephaestion (Leto), but really the most outrageous thing about the film was that terrible ‘Irishization’ of Ancient Greece and all because Farrell has apparently never heard of a dialect coach.