Casting What-Ifs
Brad Pitt or Ryan Phillippe as Paul; Jennifer Lopez as Connie
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- Brad Pitt and Ryan Phillippe were reportedly offered Paul before the role was made French for exoticism; everyone who likes the movie likes Olivier Martinez.
- Cheating with someone of a different nationality might feel like an 80 percent cheat; another white guy would have hit Gere harder.
- Jennifer Lopez was offered the role and turned it down because the script was not all the way there, and after Lane's nomination said she wanted to shoot her toe off.
- Speaking as a J.Lo actor truther, one participant says she made the right choice: it is a particular movie-star part that works with Diane Lane or Foster, and J.Lo in the suburbs married to Gere would never stop being J.Lo.
- The film never shows how the couple met; audiences may know Gere and Lane worked together before, and there is a wish to see Gere pick someone up without paying.
- Lyne cast Lane after seeing A Walk on the Moon, calling her sympathetic when so many sexy women are tough and hard.