Rachel McAdams and Bryce Dallas Howard

Rachel McAdams Some actors find themselves typecast, and despite a variety of roles, McAdams is best known for a string of romance films with, in the words of Doctor Who, some “wibbly wobbly timey wimey” thrown in, such as The Notebook, The Time Traveller’s Wife, and About Time. It’s a shame, as McAdams has proven that she can carry a film, like Wes Craven’s nail-biting Red Eye, or the criminally underrated Morning Glory (not what you think). Like Seyfried, she seems to have shied away from big-budget roles, with the exception of Guy Ritche’s action-packed interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, but she could bring a very human side to the role of Jane Shepard, something which bombastic sci-fi films often lack.

Bryce Dallas Howard The daughter of director Ron Howard had a mighty stumble in her career when rejoining M. Night Shyamalan for the god-awful Lady in the Water. She followed this up by dying her natural red hair to become Spider-Man’s squeeze Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi’s threequel, which was so horribly written that it decimated any fanfare won by the first two entries. Two years later, she appeared in McG’s vain attempt to re-ignite the Terminator franchise with Terminator: Salvation, the title of which is now seen as ironic, given how woeful it turned out to be. As if things could not have gotten any worse, Howard decided to appear in the Twilight Saga, filling the shoes of Rachel Lefevre after a disagreement with producers.

Yet she is in this list because, despite these bad choices, she is an amazing actress who genuinely looks like Commander Jane Shepard. Given all the blockbuster bombs she has been associated with, her critics may have thought she would stay well away from large-scale CGI-laden tent poles, but Howard is currently in filming on Jurassic World, so clearly she is phased by nothing!