Matthew Lawrence of Boy Meets World is praised but not nominated as the favorite Lawrence brother; Jonathan Taylor Thomas is proposed over Tim Allen as the Home Improvement pick for the movie.
Tim Allen, then perhaps the biggest TV star in the world, was offered both Mrs. Doubtfire/Daniel and the Pierce Brosnan role and rejected both.
Without Robin Williams's voices the tricky premise would not work; with Tim Allen audiences would say absolutely not.
Asked which Tim Allen casting would be worse, the Pierce Brosnan role is chosen, though the movie cannot work with him as Mrs. Doubtfire either.
Mara Wilson, who was in a Ringer Films documentary (transcribed 'ShowBiscuits'), won the little girl's role over Blake Lively; she is called electric, with the line reading of the decade.
