Actors who didn’t get the part (thank goodness)

CinnamonSugar

A Quiet American
Been killing time watching “Casting Calls” on IMDB, which discusses famous roles in movies and which actors auditioned for or were offered parts but, ultimately, went to the person who actually played the role. Fascinating stuff. I can *almost* see Sean Connery as Gandalf in LoTR but Nicholas Cage as Aragorn??? Horrors! Lol

Which of your favorite movie roles nearly went to a different/wrong actor? Is is there a movie role you would recast?
 

I can't imagine anyone more perfect for Scarlett O'Hara than Vivian Leigh. Or Clark Gable for Rhett Butler. When you read the book, Margaret Mitchell is describing them to a 'T.'
 
Tom Selleck did a screen test for'Indiana Jones' but had to turn it down because he couldn't get out of his contract on 'Magnum,PI'. I can't picture anybody but Harrison Ford in the role
Selleck appeared in a couple movies,the only one which was a big hit he co starred with Ted Danson,Steve Guttenberg'Three Men and a Baby'
 

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