Who should have been cast as JR?

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/66rrpp/what_casting_choice_still_annoys_you/dgl87wq/

Reacher is supposed to be 6 ft 5 in., 250 lbs., blonde with blue eyes, not very good looking (due to past fights) and built like a truck.

While it would be hard to find an actor who could portray him, I personally think either Liev Schriber or Daniel Craig could have pulled it off - both have rough-hewn faces, the physical intimidation factor, the hair and the eyes. Both can do physical fighting scenes very effectively and can play the laconic, taciturn but threatening persona very well. Makes me nuts when I see Cruise in the role.

Dwayne Johnson's look would have fit the part much more closely than Cruise.

There aren't many actors -- period -- that would fit that size.

Google search provides a list of actors over six feet tall. Eliminating those who aren't right for the role (Will Ferrell IS Jack Reacher!) the following are possible prospects:

i. Alexander Skarsgård. Has played Tarzan and other roles that make good use of his physicality. He's also a dirty blond, close to the description of Reacher. He would be my personal first choice.

ii. Joe Manganiello. Another very physical actor, e.g. Rampage, Magic Mike but he has dark looks.

iii. Armie Hammer. Man from UNCLE and The Lone Ranger showed that he can do action. Has the blond hair.

iv. John Corbett. Might be too old and isn't known for action.

v. Josh Duhamel. Transformers was one of his action roles. He'd probably be my second choice.

vi. Jason Momoa. He would have to lose the whole barbarian persona. He's also pretty dark because of his ethnicity.

vii. Dwayne Johnson. Overexposed at this point, wrong ethnicity.

Stone Cold or Goldberg.

Ray Stevenson. Look at this pic - https://binged.it/2SgMsjh Exactly how I imagined Reacher.

My thinking on this type of thing has evolved. I now prefer good acting to the getting the best physical fit. You can fake height but if the actor isn't charismatic its a non starter.

I would have chosen one of the following actors

Chris Hemsworth (6'2)

Joel Kinnaman (6'2)

Bradley Cooper (6'1)

Dwayne Johnson (6'5)

Alan Ritchson (6'3)

Jon Bernthal (5'11)

Josh Duhamel (6'4)

Joe Manganeillo (6'5)

Gerard Butler (6'2)

Liev Schreiber (6'2)

John Cena (6'0)

Ray Stevenson (6'3)

Hugh Jackman (6'2)

Liam Neeson (old, but still) (6'4)

Liam McIntyre (6'1)

When reading the books, I imagined him looking like Alexander Godunov.