13 Actors Who Were Almost Recast In Iconic Roles

Christian told GQ, “Even though other people were cast, other directors were on board, I just kept on prepping, and I would call Mary up, and she would say, ‘Christian, they’ve given it to other people.’ And I was like, yeah yeah yeah, no, it doesn’t matter. We’re still gonna make it. And she was like, oh, he has lost the plot. And all my friends were saying that to me, like, ‘What are you doing?’ … And lo and behold, look at that, it did eventually come back. So that felt like a great victory.”