Jimmy Fallon and Robert Downey Jr. really wanted to star in a Nancy Meyers film, apparently
Despite the fact that Black and Law’s roles had already been cast, Downey was convinced that he and Fallon would unseat them, he said. “We both got called in just as seat-fillers and we saw each other,” Downey said of himself and Fallon’s short-lived Meyers experience. “She needed someone to read with the gals, and we’re sitting there going, ‘It’s about to happen for us.’”
“I was in a hotel room with Robert Downey Jr., Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet, and we read this script,” Fallon continued, picking up the story. “I said, ‘If Jack Black says no to this movie, I’m so in. I’ll do it for half his price.’”Still, despite literally all signs pointing to the contrary , the two seat-fillers were not quite the “shoo-in”s they had thought.
“Nancy said to both of us at the same time, ‘This was great. It’s just not a perfect fit. It’s not a perfect fit,’” Downey said. But ah, what could have been!
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