Recasting Couch
Early-2000s Kate Winslet
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- Blunt’s career run leads to approval of her casting, with early-2000s Kate Winslet imagined; credibility as an agent is separated from concerns about the character’s later moral reasoning. — Bill Simmons
- Recasting discussion rejects Hathaway and Adams, considers the Blunt/Johansson Black Widow counterfactual, and credits Edge of Tomorrow for Blunt’s credible physicality. — Bill Simmons
- Early-2000s Kate Winslet is the preferred hypothetical recast, qualified by Kate’s younger age. — Bill Simmons
- Philadelphia replacing Juárez is a joking recasting-city suggestion tied to sports.