WATCHLIST: Icon Roles That Were Almost Played By Different Actors, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Mayans, Mr. Inbetween

KFC Radio

Barstool Sports

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 17.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Will Smith was almost Neo from The Matrix, Tiffani Amber Thiessen was supposed to play Rachel Green in Friends, Jon Cryer was almost Chandler (Friends), Vince Vaughn was almost Joey (Friends), Paul Giamatti & Bob Odenkirk was almost Michael Scott (The Office), Patton Oswalt and Seth Rogen were almost Dwight Schrute (The Office), Michael Richards was almost Al Bundy (Married With Children), Ed Oneil was almost Sam Malone (Cheers), Craig T Nelson was almost Jay Pritchett (Modern Family), Ray Liotta was almost Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), John Cusack & Matthew Broderick were almost Walter White (Breaking Bad), John Lithgow was almost Fraiser (Cheers, Fraiser), Katie Holmes was almost Buffy (the Vampire Slayer), Alec Baldwin was supposed to be Mr Big (Sex in The City), and you will not believe who was supposed to be Scully from X-Files

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0:00.0	Hey, KFC radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC radio on Apple podcasts,
0:05.0	Spotify or YouTube.
0:06.6	Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music.
0:10.6	It's another addition to watchlist Wednesday.
0:12.1	We're breaking down all things in the television world.
0:14.5	Breaking down your favorite shows talking about the TV and entertainment news of the week.
0:18.4	And my man, Clem, put up a blog earlier yesterday that blew my mind.
0:25.2	And it's one of the internet's favorite running tropes.
0:28.4	The old this actor almost played people's favorite thing in the world.
0:32.5	It's mostly with movies.
0:33.7	You know, you hear that Will Smith passed on Neo from the Matrix.
0:36.4	He thought it was too weird.
0:37.8	Wait, I thought it was the opposite.
0:38.9	I thought Kiano passed on being Will Smith's character in,
0:43.0	in an independency.
0:45.1	Maybe that both happened.
0:46.1	I know that that's been a little boat those things happen.
0:48.2	Let's look it up because I know that Will Smith passed on the matrix because I know he was like,
0:52.5	yeah, like I'm in some alternate universe where your brains are plugged in, like no
0:56.3	thanks, dude.
0:57.0	By the way, he got like a piece of that.
1:01.4	Yeah.
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