People will tell you Hollywood has run out of ideas, but in the area of casting it constantly innovates. How else to greet the news that Demi Moore will play Gloria Steinem in a forthcoming film? Seriously, how the hell else?

Demi will inhabit the role of the pioneering feminist and activist in Lovelace, a biopic of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, whose grim story Steinem exposed in a seminal magazine essay. Sad to say, though, the decision to cast Demi has been deemed a critical mistake – a perception not entirely dispelled by Demi's latest interview in the upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar.

"What scares me," she explains in an interview to accompany various shots of her in swimwear and evening dresses, "is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me … and that I wasn't wanted here in the first place ..." A genuinely sad sentiment, poor thing – but half close your eyes, and you couldn't exactly be listening to Steinem.

The big question, though, is how this affects the Top Five Most Amusingly Inappropriate Casting Decisions of recent years. So without further ado, here follow the amended rankings. It's bad news for Colin Farrell as a brilliant CIA agent in The Recruit, who drops right out of the running, though Nicole Kidman holds on to the No 5 spot for her outing as a brain surgeon in Days of Thunder. At four, it's our beloved Steven Seagal, who played a Yale professor of archaeology in Out For a Kill (his movies are now named by the Random Seagal Movie Title Generator), while Tara Reid's intriguing performance as an academic and museum curator in Alone in the Dark drops to three. Moore as Steinem goes straight in at No 2 – but it's no change in the top spot for dear old Denise Richards, whose turn as a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough is so hilariously priceless that they may as well just retire the shirt.