Ha ha, reminds me of another serious "mis-casting" which also made me question the authors integrity (and loyalty to his readers) in respect of the character he'd built up over numerous best selling novels.
I quote the author "He was one of the largest men she had ever seen outside the NFL. He was extremely tall, and extremely broad, and long-armed, and long-legged. The lawn chair was regular size, but it looked tiny under him. It was bent and crushed out of shape. His knuckles were nearly touching the ground. His neck was thick and his hands were the size of dinner plates...A wild man. But not really. Underneath everything else seemed strangely civilized....His gaze was both wise and appealing, both friendly and bleak, both frank and utterly cynical."
So who plays him in the movies, Tom feckin Cruise. He'd struggle to make the bench on a subbuteo team never mind the NFL!
JF