16 Iconic Roles That Were THIS CLOSE To Being Played By Someone Else

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16 Iconic Roles That Were THIS CLOSE To Being Played By Someone Else
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Antonio Banderas as the Phantom of the Opera would've been great. Just sayin'.

However, Carrie Fisher was originally cast in the role. In afrom 2013, it was explained that a week before rehearsals, director Jonathan Lynn got a call informing him that Carrie Fisher was in rehab. Lynn explained,"I was very naive. I didn't know what she was talking about. When I met her at a restaurant, she had actually fallen over a chair, but I had just thought she was shortsighted or something. She sniffed a lot, and she said she had hay fever, which of course I believed.

reported that in an interview with Absolute Radio, Hoskins said, “Brian De Palma sent me a script forand said, ‘Look at Al Capone.’ I went to meet him at his hotel, and he said, ‘Really, I want Robert De Niro to play him.’ And I thought,He then said, ‘But if he doesn’t do it, would you sort of step in?’ and I said, ‘Yeah of course I will.' Anyway, months went by, and I read the papers and saw De Niro was doing it. I’d sort of forgotten all about it, and then Linda — my Mrs.

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