16 Actors Who Were Cast After Being Told They Were Wrong For The Role

You can't stop fate!BuzzFeed ContributorBefore she scored the role of Daisy Araujo in Mystic Pizza, casting directors initially thought Julia didn't have the right look to play the character."[I] read for the part, which I thought went fine, and was then told that I was good but physically completely wrong for the part," Julia said on Late Night with David Letterman in 1989.Julia then bought some black hair mousse for 95 cents, which she used to darken her naturally blonde mane. "I told my sister, who said, ‘You better make him like Link then, because I’m telling you right now he is going to be the biggest star in the world.' And then I got it," Adam said.Executives at Paramount Pictures were strongly opposed to Marlon playing Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and saw the actor as a "washed-up" performer who was the wrong person for the job, per NPR.Director Francis Ford Coppola, however, believed Marlon was the perfect choice to play the mafia patriarch and fought for him to win the role. [and] the casting director was like, 'What are you doing the rest of the day?' I could tell that he was excited about me."This second time around, Zach was cast as J.D., and he ended up playing the character for nine seasons.Though it's now one of her most well-known roles, Anne was the ninth actor chosen to play Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada. I had a bunch of friends over at the time, I just jumped up in the living room and screamed, 'I'm going to be in The Devil Wears Prada!'"The casting directors behind Criminal Minds enjoyed Matthew's first audition for the part of Dr. Spencer Reid, but didn't feel he matched the energy they wanted the character to embody.“I think I was too gregarious,” Matthew said of the audition in a 2011 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When he read for the role of Jeff Spicoli, however, Sean soon felt that things weren't going in his favor.“I auditioned terribly, flat, and I knew I wasn’t willing to do the music of this character that I thought it was," he said.Not thinking he was the actor they wanted for Spicoli, casting directors let Sean know he could leave. Casting directors first objected to Lark trying out as Lisa, but Peter insisted that they'd found the best actor for the role."I said, 'Have her read for Lisa Turtle,'" Peter said. Casting executives said they still didn't feel he was the right fit for Sutter after seeing him read for the role a second time."I tried to play a character, as opposed to make it more mine.