Recasting Couch
Diane Lane in Deborah Kara Unger’s role; Denzel Washington as Nicholas
In the discussion (6)
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- Diane Lane is proposed over Deborah Kara Unger as a more involving version of the same role. — Bill Simmons
- Denzel Washington is proposed as Nicholas because he can hold attention while playing a flawed or unlikeable man. — Sean Fennessey
- Bill Murray is the joking fallback because he had already played a Scrooge figure.
- Robert De Niro’s Heat persona is imagined as another severe Nicholas alternative.
- The De Niro version resumes with an imagined CRS interview. — Chris Ryan
- Al Pacino is proposed for Conrad opposite the De Niro version. — Chris Ryan