re: Movie Characters that were miscast

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It may be a controversial hot take, but I think that Alec Baldwin came closest to capturing who Jack Ryan truly was, per Clancy's works.

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I’ve read every book in the series, and I disagree. In the novels, Jack’s father was a cop, and his mother was a nurse. Solid middle class background from Baltimore. Baldwin played the character much more efete than the character in the books, almost like an old Boston Brahmin. Baldwin’s Ryan would have been a Navy officer, not a Marine.