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Fight Club

Recasting Couch

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  • Reese Witherspoon as Marla is revisited; she reportedly turned it down, and it is the part she was always wanted for, as hinted by Freeway.
  • She would definitely have been Oscar-nominated.
  • Angelina Jolie is floated, leading to sliding-doors jokes about the Aniston-Jolie triangle, but the preference returns to Witherspoon.
  • She is a little young, but at that stage she would have fully committed to escape the teen-star image, unlike Wild.