The Biggest Casting Fails That Completely Ruined Movies

Tony Curtis as Antoninus

Although Tony Curtis was excellent in classics like Some Like it Hot and Sweet Smell of Success, he wasn’t exactly the perfect fit for Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus. Curtis actually signed up for the film as a means to end his relationship with Universal Studios, for whom he allegedly hated working. Time Magazine said Curtis’ New York accident “suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River.”