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miscast

 verb
     
Related topics: Film, Theatre
mis‧cast past tense and past participle miscast [transitive usually passive]
AMFAPT to choose an unsuitable actor to play a particular character in a play or film [↪ cast]:
She was hopelessly miscast in her last film.
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