Recasting Couch
Angelina Jolie for Grace is voted down, Anne Hathaway is accepted as the only plausible alternate, and Owen Wilson replacing Affleck is rejected.
In the discussion (4)
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- The Jolie pitch uses her age and rising Gia-era profile but is rejected because her forceful energy would make Harry’s protectiveness and her ground-bound role less credible.
- Anne Hathaway is the one suggestion the Liv Tyler defenders would entertain.
- The pitch is also framed as an alternate-history Affleck/Paltrow/Jolie/Billy Bob celebrity triangle, not merely an acting improvement.
- Owen Wilson as A.J. is rejected because he lacks Affleck’s all-American leading-man quality and had already struggled in Behind Enemy Lines.