Colin Firth

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Victory · The Rewatchables ·August 3, 2021

Casting What-Ifs

Roger Moore as John Colby; Lloyd Bridges; Clint Eastwood

In the discussion (4)

Approx. transcript time · 00:55:14Read transcript

• Few casting what-ifs could be found; Roger Moore considering John Colby is interesting, but Caine is preferred. — Chris Ryan
• A modern John Colby would have to play soccer, like a more working-man's Colin Firth. — Bill Simmons
• Lloyd Bridges and Clint Eastwood were reportedly circling; Clint as Hatch would be a completely different, cooler movie with no comic relief. — Chris Ryan
• Clint likely would not break the Irish goalie's arm; better if Hatch stays as trainer and backup goalie and the arm is broken in the match by Balman. — Bill Simmons

The Talented Mr. Ripley · The Rewatchables ·December 24, 2019

Recasting Couch

Colin Firth as Peter

In the discussion (4)

Approx. transcript time · 01:13:26Read transcript

• Peter, played by Jack Davenport, is the role to recast: an early Colin Farrell is floated though maybe too young, with a wish for a future star to make it six instead of five. — Bill Simmons
• One participant long mistook the actor for Robert Sean Leonard.
• Colin Firth is suggested instead and agreed with, because Peter is supposed to be a good person despite some elitism. — Amanda Dobbins
• Jack Black, Will Ferrell and Chevy Chase are thrown out as jokes and rejected.

The Holiday · The Rewatchables ·November 14, 2019

Recasting Couch

Jason Segel as Miles; Emilia Clarke as Iris; Kate Hudson as Amanda; Colin Firth as Graham, though no one is as hot as Jude Law; earlier, Matt Dillon or Jason Segel for Jack Black's role

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Approx. transcript time · 00:58:52Read transcript

• Jason Segel is nominated for the Miles role and wins over a skeptic on the strength of his Dracula puppet opera; Emilia Clarke, Daenerys Targaryen, would be fantastic as Iris.
• Kate Hudson could have been Cameron Diaz, contemporaneously accurate with the L.A.-ness and rom-com chops and maybe better at the sappiness, though that would mean McConaughey in Jude Law's job, which needs a British accent; Wedding Planner McConaughey is still loved.
• Eddie Redmayne is rejected as not hot enough and too direct; Colin Firth could do it with Hugh Grant-style aloofness, having done the messed-up Love Actually plot where he is helpless and says I love you; but nobody is as hot, and the movie does not work without Jude Law, who brings it all together.
• While still on casting, one host had an idea to recast Jack Black: Matt Dillon, good looking, slightly older and funny in Something About Mary and Beautiful Girls, though always a jerk and not plausibly musical; or Jason Segel, who sings, likes to be dramatic, and whose Knocked Up and Sarah Marshall characters would fit the movie.

Films in the archive

The English Patient

1996