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Awesome, Dear Boy

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Awesome, Dear Boy	comment	Some actors hate their past gigs because they seriously misjudged the quality at the time, only did them for the paycheck, or were required by contract to do so. But some did the movie because they got to be vampires or superheroes, walk away from explosions in trenchcoats, ride motorcycles and fly through the air swinging a frickin' samurai sword. With Samuel L. Jackson. This trope is when an actor took the part based on its cool factor. They want it to be on their rÃ©sumÃ© for their next job. Or, they'll be brushing over it on their rÃ©sumÃ©, but wrecking the set with fight scenes, explosions and over-acting sounded like great fun. Contrast and compare with Money, Dear Boy, Doing It for the Art, and So My Kids Can Watch. Frequently overlaps with Promoted Fanboy. See also Vacation, Dear Boy, where the location is part of the awesomeness.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_24ffd341	comment	In an interesting two-way take on this trope, a group of fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia approached the show's creators and asked if they could possibly write an episode. Ordinarily, viewers aren't allowed to submit scripts...but these weren't just fans. They were the creators of Game of Thrones. The crew of Sunny was so stunned that the writers of the biggest show on television wanted to be part of their Black Comedy that they immediately agreed. In another instance, the show was nearly cancelled after the first season—critics loved it, but it was a ratings failure. The team at F/X told creators Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney that unless they found a big-name star to attract more viewers, they were going to have to pull the plug. The group doubted that any famous celebrity would be interested in a twisted anti-sitcom like Sunny, and half-jokingly remarked that the only person who made any sense would be Danny DeVito as the main characters' father. They reached out to DeVito for a lunch meeting...and he immediately agreed to join the cast, having seen the first season and loved it. Thus the character of Frank Reynolds was born, and Sunny has lasted an astonishing thirteen seasons (with more on the way), making it the longest-running live-action comedy of all time. Kaitlin Olson's evolving role as Dee was the result of this trope, too. For the first season, the three male characters—Charlie, Mac, and Dennis—were involved with crazy hijinks, while Dee was the Only Sane Woman who warned them against their plans. Olson, disliking the Women Are Wiser trope and realizing that Dee wasn't funny, went to Howerton, Day, and McElhenney and requested that they write her just as amoral and insane as their characters. They agreed, and the result is the deeply-flawed and utterly hilarious characterization that fans love. Fantasy master Guillermo del Toro saw the episode "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats" and was incredibly impressed by Charlie Day, especially his darkly hilarious monologue about how many generations of rodents he's killed. del Toro reached out to Day and offered him a role in Pacific Rim based on the monologue alone, with the condition that Day would only get the part if del Toro himself got to be on Sunny. Day happily accepted, and del Toro has so far appeared twice as Pappy McPoyle, the insane, bird-controlling patriarch of the McPoyle clan.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Most of the cast of The Phantom Menace. Reportedly, after a lightsaber scene, Ewan McGregor could be overheard muttering, "'Do I want to be in Star Wars?' Fuck yeah!"
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_30123ad3	comment	TNA Knockout Gail Kim starred in the low budget film Royal Kill because she had always wanted to be in an action movie.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_322c2b7c	comment	When auditions began for The Hebrew Hammer (a Jewish twist on Blaxploitation taken to extremes), Adam Goldberg, who played the titular hero, was given the script and wound up opening to a page with the epic line "Shabbat Shalom, motherfuckers!". He immediately agreed to do the film.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_353b7af3	comment	The trend has continued with Star Trek: Discovery: American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, a lifelong Star Trek fan, made an appearance as the "President of the United Earth" in a Season Four episode.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_35ada324	comment	Alien: Aliens: Sigourney Weaver had turned down offers to do sequels to Alien for years, afraid of Sequelitis. However, once she saw the script - particularly the motherly bond between Ripley and Newt - she signed on immediately. Alien: Resurrection: Winona Ryder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an Alien movie and could brag about it to her brothers. She joked that she'd still do it even if she was killed off in the first scene. She also jumped at the chance to appear alongside her idol Sigourney Weaver. Sigourney Weaver was reluctant to do a fourth movie, after the rather final ending of the third. However, when she read the script, the scene where Ripley sees the seven failed attempts at cloning her was enough to make her sign on. But she also gave other reasons:
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_36065097	comment	The Hunger Games: Donald Sutherland wrote a personal letter to director Gary Ross so he could be cast as President Snow, having seen the script by accident and being moved by the character. Elizabeth Banks actively sought her part and has stated a few times in interviews how much she loved working in the film. She is also a huge shipper of Effie Trinket hooking up with Haymitch Abernathy, going so far as naming her character in Pitch Perfect (which she co-produced) Gail Abernathy.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_3717ea4a	comment	DC Animated Universe: Mark Hamill was a comic book geek and Batman fanboy decades before he got cast as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. He even played the Trickster on the 1990s The Flash series. Tim Daly later admitted that his big motivation to play Superman in Superman: The Animated Series was because he thought it would be fun to play a superhero in a kid's cartoon. Will Friedle provides an example when his agent called him to ask how he felt about being Batman. He didn't even know what the story was for Batman Beyond; he just wanted to be Batman.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_37c12fb0	comment	When the producers of Chicago began casting, they approached Catherine Zeta-Jones and asked her to play the role of Roxie, the movie's star. Reportedly, Jones asked if Roxie got to sing "All That Jazz"; when told that that number was sung by Velma Kelly, she demanded the part of Velma, even though it was smaller, just so she could sing that song. Jones was so eager to be in the musical that she even cut her long brown hair in a '20s Bob Haircut, so that critics couldn't accuse her of having a double perform her singing and dancing.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_3af1752c	comment	Several of Oppenheimer's cast have explained that they agreed to take part in it because if Christopher Nolan calls you asking to play a role in one of his movies, you'd damn better accept. In particular, Cillian Murphy, a long-time collaborator and close friend of Nolan, agreed to play Oppenheimer before even reading the script, and Florence Pugh, despite being told by Nolan that her part was a small one and even being on the receiving end of an apology from him for it, took on the role and admitted that she'd willingly play a background extra if it meant she got to work with him. Most of the main cast also took considerable pay cuts from their usual salaries in order not to inflate the already large budget.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_3f231b84	comment	Zara's brutal and drawn-out death scene in Jurassic World was originally meant to go to an extra, but her actress found it to be such an awesome way to go that she requested that her character suffer it instead.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cedric Voets of Cracked mentioned this in an article on "5 Reasons Good Actors Make Bad Movies (You Never Realized)", with the Michael Bay example listed above at #5 and the Adam Sandler example at #1.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_3fdf692a	comment	Polish arthouse director Jerzy Skolimowski said that he accepted the tiny acting role of Colonel General Luchkov in The Avengers (he's the guy leading the Russian thugs in Black Widow's introductory scene) because he just wanted to see how a blockbuster movie was made. (As for why he was offered the role to start with, he speculated that his role as a KGB officer in White Nights had "put him on someone's list of Russian villains".)
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4064e1e8	comment	Tin Man: Zooey Deschanel had idolized The Wizard of Oz ever since she was two and longed to play Dorothy in some way. Naturally, she jumped at the chance to play DG Dorothy's descendant. Neal McDonough signed on after reading the script and seeing the opportunity to play a "Gary Cooper, High Noon-ish character". He cites Wyatt Cain as his favorite role, after Buck Compton in Band of Brothers.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_44127c7c	comment	This applies for a lot of Power Rangers, since the show started when they were kids and they are now old enough to be Rangers themselves. One example is John Mark Loudermilk, the Blue Ranger in Power Rangers Megaforce, who took the role because he was a huge fan of Power Rangers during his youth.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_47e80a7e	comment	A lot of established indie females agreed to star in Wrestlicious for fun - many of them having been fans of GLOW, of which the show was a Spiritual Successor.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian: Accepting Jon Favreau's offer to become the Mandalorian required Pedro Pascal to refresh his lessons on acting behind a mask, balance filming the first season with at least two other projects (including Wonder Woman 1984), and coordinate his body language with two stunt doubles. However, the prospect of working in the Star Wars universe excited him so much, that none of these challenges could scare him away. Although Werner Herzog signed on as the Client for financial reasons at first before coming on the set and has never seen a Star Wars movie before, he went on to praise the show's Worldbuilding and Practical Effects, saying "it's cinema at its best". He was famously delighted by the Grogu "Baby Yoda" puppet effects, as well. Bill Burr never had good feelings about Star Wars, finding the Original Trilogy "geared towards kids" and a "cheesy self-help book put in outer space with, like, Muppets." Then Jon Favreau convinced him to play in The Mandalorian, and his mind changed on set. Omid Abtahi was only a casual Star Wars fan when he received the offer to play Dr. Pershing, but loved Jon Favreau's movies. The morning after he learned that Favreau wanted him for an "untitled" project, he asked his agent to assure him That Was Not a Dream. Even though Ming-Na Wen has loved Star Wars for most of her life, she hesitated to accept the offer to play Fennec Shand, since the script for Chapter 5 originally killed her off after her first appearance. Ultimately, she decided to seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit the Galaxy, and jokingly suggested to Chapter 5 director/writer Dave Filoni that he should let Fennec live. After Filoni learned how much he and Ming-Na have in common, he helped ensure that she would indeed play Fennec again.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Estelle Ellis, voice of Krystal in Star Fox Adventures, returned to voice act the character after years of retirement for a Half-Life 2 mod because she was friends with the creator and apparently 'she wanted a new mic.'
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4c99197e	comment	Interestingly, this wasn't the case during the early run of The Muppet Show—the producers had such a difficult time finding guest stars (especially in the first season) that they had to call in favors or ask friends to make appearances. It wasn't until Rudolf Nureyev, the most famous male ballet dancer in the world, eagerly agreed to appear that other celebrities started taking notice and getting involved in the series by their own accord.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4f1c0e4b	comment	Many of the wrestlers agreed to do Lucha Underground so they could star on a Darker and Edgier wrestling show and work with Robert Rodriguez.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_4f46b380	comment	X-Men: First Class was full of it: actors who wanted to play superheroes (Caleb Landry Jones even said there would hardly be another freckled redhead like Banshee for him to play), James McAvoy being a fan of X-Men: The Animated Series, and the prospect of working with Matthew Vaughn and an All-Star Cast.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_5ada53ed	comment	Anyone doing a James Bond film has this as justification (due to either being part of the series or winning a free trip). Daniel Craig said that, had he turned down the role of Bond, he'd forever be branded a "fucking idiot" by his mates at the pub. In a non-acting example, when Garbage were offered the chance to do the theme for The World Is Not Enough, Shirley Manson reportedly squeed for a good minute straight. Amusingly inverted by David Bowie, who chose not to play Max Zorin in A View to a Kill because, besides hating the script, "I didn't want to spend five months watching my stunt double fall off cliffs." Christopher Walken ended up doing the part and had a hell of a time. Samuel L. Jackson always wanted to be in a James Bond movie and took his role in the Affectionate Parody Kingsman: The Secret Service because he thought it was the closest he'd ever get. This may be why his character is a James Bond fanboy.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_5c783167	comment	Samuel L. Jackson always wanted to be in a James Bond movie and took his role in the Affectionate Parody Kingsman: The Secret Service because he thought it was the closest he'd ever get. This may be why his character is a James Bond fanboy.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_5db577ba	comment	Even United States Senators aren't immune to this trope. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is a lifelong Batman fan, and has cameoed in The Dark Knight (as the party guest who tells Joker he's not intimidated by thugs like him), The Dark Knight Rises, Batman: The Animated Series, and even Batman & Robin. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where he also appears, a Michigan senator even asked Leahy to get her a cameo (after all, the movie was being shot in Detroit).
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War gave him the chance to prove his point, and sure enough, he passed on the opportunity to reprise the Red Skull role.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_62cafa4	comment	This is why the 78-year-old Melissa Jaffer (who provides the page quote) took the role of an elderly warrior woman in Mad Max: Fury Road: when else is she going to get a role that epic at her age? Even better, she and the other elderly women did all of their own stuntwork.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_69d15cc0	comment	The Marvel Cinematic Universe: Part of Robert Downey Jr.'s reason for taking the role of Iron Man was being a fan of the comics as a kid. He also once watched The Matrix with his wife (who is also a Hollywood producer) and simply said, "I could do that." And thus set the plan in motion to have him headline a blockbuster action film once he proved he could be reliable and his old habits were behind him for good. He was asked once whether he'd prefer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor or to star in a blockbuster movie and said, without hesitation (paraphrased): Jeff Bridges, too. Not only was he a fan of the comics, he also wanted an excuse to shave his head bald. When the character of Nick Fury was being reimagined for the Ultimate Marvel line, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch approached Samuel L. Jackson for likeness rights (knowing full well that Jackson was an avid comic-book fan). Jackson's only conditions were that he get original prints of a few of the pages and that he'd get first crack at playing Nick Fury in a movie... which he did. Jeremy Renner has stated that he pursued the role of Hawkeye in The Avengers after seeing Iron Man and deciding that he desperately wanted to play a superhero. Polish arthouse director Jerzy Skolimowski said that he accepted the tiny acting role of Colonel General Luchkov in The Avengers (he's the guy leading the Russian thugs in Black Widow's introductory scene) because he just wanted to see how a blockbuster movie was made. (As for why he was offered the role to start with, he speculated that his role as a KGB officer in White Nights had "put him on someone's list of Russian villains".) Anthony Mackie chose to play The Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier because he was a major fan of the character (he's expressed a desire to wear the Falcon's original red costume◊), that being a superhero was too good an opportunity to pass up, and he felt it would show black kids that they can be superheroes too. Robert Redford claims he took a part in the same film both because a comic book film would be a new experience for him and, more importantly, he NEVER gets to play villains in his movies. Glenn Close said that she didn't hesitate for a moment when being offered Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), saying she always wanted a movie like that, and to play an authority figure similar to Nick Fury or M. She later said she needed the money for smaller personal projects but, by all accounts, she enjoyed working on the film very much. Given how many things she's done — theater, television, and both independent and high budget films — Mrs. Close says her career is fueled by this trope. After spending past MCU films voicing J.A.R.V.I.S. for the money, Paul Bettany was more invested in playing the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Stanley Tucci took the role of Dr. Abraham Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger for one very simple reason: he'd get to use a German accent, and he'd never done that before. Tom Holland is a big Spider-Man fan and was absolutely ecstatic when he got the role. Chadwick Boseman was diagnosed with cancer by the time he was cast as Black Panther in 2016 for Captain America: Civil War, but he was highly enthusiastic about the role, and knew that he and the character would become an icon for black audiences. If the action figure memorials made in his honour since he succumbed to the illness in 2020 were any indication, he succeeded. Brie Larson has said she's very particular about which projects she chooses, and that the awesomeness of getting to play a superhero and be a role model for young girls was a major part of why she decided to play Captain Marvel. Laurence Fishburne said he was interested in playing Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp because he was a massive comic book fan when he was a child. He previously provided the voice of the title character in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and also played Perry White in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Josh Brolin accepted the role of Thanos simply for the opportunity to fight all the Avengers on the big screen. J. K. Simmons eagerly agreed to return to the role of J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far From Home and again in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The latter movie also saw Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina and Jamie Foxx reprising their roles from previous iterations of the franchise because they wanted another chance at playing the villains.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_6e0f6f4f	comment	While preparing for the role of Piccolo in Dragonball Evolution, James Marsters had become a fan of Dragon Ball himself. So much so that, years later, he would again become involved in the series, voicing breakout villain Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super under an alias (as he had to work a non-union job below his pay grade to take the role). His enthusiasm for the role is evident, as his performance is arguably the best in the history of the Dragon Ball franchise's English dubs.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_72262aee	comment	Famed tennis star Serena Williams accepted a bit part on Avatar: The Last Airbender as a female prison guard because she was such a fan of the series.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_7a7a1a86	comment	Aliens: Sigourney Weaver had turned down offers to do sequels to Alien for years, afraid of Sequelitis. However, once she saw the script - particularly the motherly bond between Ripley and Newt - she signed on immediately.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_7ab10627	comment	Averted with Stephen Collins, who played Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Collins says he was practically the only guy at the audition who viewed it as just another part and was not interested in being part of Star Trek. However, he was excited about working with Robert Wise.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_80abc1fc	comment	Bad Bunny has won Grammys, headlined Coachella, and is one of the most streamed artists of all time, so why does he willingly get into a WWE ring on multiple occasions to wrestle and let himself take several bumps most celebrities wouldn't dare take (including getting F5'd by Brock Lesnar and doing a full-on street fight, weapons included)? Simple, he just loves wrestling and has always wanted to experience that lifestyle. The street fight in particular is a moment of pride for him as he got to wrestle in his home territory of Puerto Rico and pay homage to the style of wrestling he and many other Boricuas grew up watching.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Much of The Dark Knight Trilogy is composed of people who grew up with the Batman mythos. They simply happen to be award-winning actors and actresses as well. Christian Bale said something to the effect of no matter how hard he worked out or how miserably uncomfortable the Batsuit was, it was all worth it because he got to be Batman. Related to the above, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have all mentioned in interviews that they were speechless after first seeing Christian Bale in the Batsuit. Cillian Murphy's reason for joining Nolan's Batman Begins: "Just to be near the Batmobile". Tom Hardy apparently didn't even know what character he would play, only that he was asked to play a bad guy in one of Nolan's Batman movies and get to play with a lot of guns and explosions. The phrase "giddy as a school girl" may or may not have been used before it came out he was going to be Bane. Even United States Senators aren't immune to this trope. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is a lifelong Batman fan, and has cameoed in The Dark Knight (as the party guest who tells Joker he's not intimidated by thugs like him), The Dark Knight Rises, Batman: The Animated Series, and even Batman & Robin. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where he also appears, a Michigan senator even asked Leahy to get her a cameo (after all, the movie was being shot in Detroit). Before Christopher Nolan's trilogy, this was Jack Nicholson's reason for playing The Joker in Tim Burton's Batman (1989), although the record-setting paydaynote In addition to his upfront fee he got a cut of the grosses and the merchandising revenues - totaling an estimated $60 million in 1989 dollars; still probably the all-time record after adjusting for inflation certainly sweetened the pot.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_81692f99	comment	This happens all the time with Star Trek. If you're casting a Star Trek episode and want an actor who has the slightest hint of geek in them, they're all yours as long as you let them have at least a little Ham and Cheese. Mick Fleetwood played a nonhuman assassin in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Accounts say he was enthusiastic about the role, even though his face was completely hidden by a mask that made him look vaguely fishlike because he got to be portrayed as being beamed aboard the Enterprise. In fact, when told he'd have to shave his iconic beard to wear the mask, he did so on the condition that he'd get to be beamed up. When Patrick Stewart is asked why a Shakespearean actor such as him wanted to be in Star Trek, he gives this as his reason. In fact, he once stated that years of performing Shakespeare prepared him for Star Trek. NBA Hall-of-Famer James Worthy made a guest appearance with very few lines in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Why? Because he got to be a Klingon. At the time, Wil Wheaton thought that getting to be helmsman of the Enterprise was a dream come true. Now... not so much. Whoopi Goldberg actually went to the mountain and started contacting everyone involved in The Next Generation to ask for a part, even showing up in person. At first the producers refused because they thought she was joking—Goldberg was a rising comedy star and fresh off an Oscar nomination for The Color Purple (1985). But Goldberg explained that seeing Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in the original series was a defining moment of her childhood, and she remembered screaming when she first saw her: "Come here, mom, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a Black lady on television and she ain't no maid! I knew right then and there that I could be whatever I wanted to be." Goldberg even offered to play a janitor in the background just to honor Nichols, but instead, the producers made her the Almighty Bartender Guinan, who is not only smarter and more capable than anyone else on the ship but regularly gets away with dissing Q. She, in turn, got Dwight Schultz on board. Speaking of Nichelle Nichols, Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel to space, cited Uhura as her own childhood inspiration and the reason she became an astronaut. Upon learning this, LeVar Burton reached out to Jemison and asked if she would be interested in appearing in a TNG episode; Jemison happily agreed and played Lieutenant Palmer in "Second Chances," which Burton himself directed. To honor the occasion, Nichols visited the set and stayed for the entirety of the shoot. Stephen Hawking, possibly the only person to have ever played themselves on Trek, did it for precisely this reason. Jason Alexander, yet another well-known Trekkie, didn't hesitate to play an alien in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Scott Bakula stated that when first approached for Enterprise, he was reluctant because he had no interest in just being "the next Captain." Then he found out it was a prequel series; he wasn't going to be the next Captain. He was going to be the first Captain. That sealed the deal. The trend has continued with Star Trek: Discovery: American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, a lifelong Star Trek fan, made an appearance as the "President of the United Earth" in a Season Four episode.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_81f5d35d	comment	The Kamen Rider franchise, being a Long Runner, has its share of Ascended Fanboys. Masahiro Inoue (Tsukasa Kadoya/Decade) and Renn Kiriyama (Shotaro Hidari/Double) are two such examples, both being part of Kamen Rider BLACK's Periphery Demographic when they were kids (and Inoue even getting the chance to work alongside Black star Tetsuo Kurata). However, the crown probably belongs to Ryota Murai, who went from a boy who loved Kamen Rider Kuuga to the man who got to be the new Kuuga in Decade (since the original is busy not being Spock... er, Kuuga).
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_83d41855	comment	Many of the voice actors from Gargoyles had already acted together on Star Trek: The Next Generation. They took the comparatively low paying gigs because they liked the show and it gave them a chance to work together again.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_84377fd8	comment	Apparently, this is why half of the cast of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra signed up in the first place. According to the producers, once they started casting they had so many applicants that actors actually started fighting each other to try and get in on the movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt signed on when he saw concept art for the costume that he'd be wearing. Needless to say, he had a blast. Christopher Eccleston also signed on so he could play a supervillain. However, neither actor liked the final cut of the movie and both refused to return for the sequel. This was almost inverted by Channing Tatum, who was skeptical of signing on to the film because he thought it would be a pro-war, gung-ho propaganda piece. Then he read the script and realized that it was none of that, and this trope was played straight. Many years later he confessed that he was forced to do the film due to a contract he signed with Paramount and he'd have been sued if he tried to back out. He went on record saying "I fucking hate that movie"
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_8ba43df	comment	Said on the John Wick commentary track: â€œBasically, if you want Keanu Reeves in your movie, tell him he gets to shoot guns, do judo, and drift cars.â€� Speaking of Keanu Reeves, he agreed to do a cameo as the voice of the titular cat in Keanu because he loved the film when someone showed him a rough cut.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_8d065a05	comment	Ludosity, a small independent studio, jumped at the chance to develop Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl when they got the call from Nickelodeon. They're not just fans of platform fighters, as seen by their own Slap City, but they love the Nicktoons, too. As a result, the game has surprisingly in-depth gameplay suitable for competitive fighting game players, and loads of references to Nick shows from across the network's history, including left-field picks like Nigel Thornberry, Oblina, and Powered Toast Man. According to them, one request they had was too obscure even by Nick's standards: Alex Mack.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_913cef8a	comment	This is also the reason he did Season of the Witch. He always wanted to play a knight.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_920aa2f1	comment	The Masked Singer pretty much relies on this trope, along with some contestants hoping for a Career Resurrection, to get its celebrity contestants. In the first season finale, The Peacock (aka, Donny Osmond) was asked why he agreed to be on the show, and he gleefully responded, "Because it's fun!" Many contestants — the Peacock included — have said, either during the competition, in interviews, or on social media afterwards, that being on the show is some of the most fun they've ever had in their careers.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_93e3f14e	comment	Rosie O'Donnell had always wanted to voice a character in a Disney animated movie. She got her wish when she was cast as Terk the gorilla in Tarzan.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: Ezra Miller was vocal from the start about how excited they were to play Barry Allen/The Flash. Zack Snyder's Justice League: In Zoom meetings on YouTube fan channels, Ray Porter has expressed no shortage of enthusiasm about taking on the role of Darkseid, be it the fact that he loves what he learned about the character, working with Snyder, the prospect of having action figures themed after a character that he played or that he came after some big names like Michael Ironside. Jared Leto parted ways with DC Films due to the extensive Executive Meddling that considerably reduced the screentime of his character, the Joker, in Suicide Squad. He was then replaced by a Fake Shemp in Birds of Prey. However, he later accepted to appear as the Joker once more in Zack Snyder's Justice League at Snyder's own request. Interviews show that he did so because he loved the idea of working with Snyder (calling him "a warrior", "a madman" in endearing terms), also knowing that the director's creative freedom would be respected this time around, unlike what happened to David Ayer. Joe Manganiello was in a similar position as Leto above, having admitted to growing disillusioned about playing Deathstroke after multiple projects he'd been tapped to reprise the role in were either cancelled or put in Development Hell. And much like Leto, he got enthusiastic again when Snyder called him up to shoot new scenes.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_9b1333a5	comment	The Naval Aviators hired for Top Gun were excited for the movie, not for the payment (only $23 a day), but to get to fly their planes through maneuvers of which the US Navy severely disapproves. Buzzing The Tower normally gets you expelled; aviator Scott Altman got to do it nine times during the shoot, and there was actually a drawing of straws to see who'd be the first to ever perform it at the Miramar base.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_9c754612	comment	Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield has said he wanted to play Spider-Man in the reboot film because he apparently was a lot like Peter Parker as a kid, and because, well, he really wanted to play Spider-Man. He was in tears upon finding out he got the role. Tobey Maguire in the Spider-Man Trilogy had a similar experience. Despite his reputation as a scrawny Hollywood pretty-boy, he pursued the role of Spider-Man aggressively, and made a point of bulking up and taking stunt training just to audition for the role. Paul Giamatti was a fan of comic books as a child and wanted to play a villain since before he got into acting. He got his chance to become a Promoted Fanboy when he was cast as the Rhino (one of his favorite childhood bad guys) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Tom Holland was already a big Spider-Man fan before he was chosen to portray the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_a0ae46f	comment	Toy Story 2: The reason Jonathan Harris was cast as the cleaner who fixes Woody, after he previously played Manny in A Bug's Life. As explained by Andrew Stanton in the DVD Commentary, "He wanted to work with us again, and we wanted to work with him again!"
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_a88418fd	comment	Streep herself had consistently refused to portray witches in film for a long time but made an exception for this film because she wanted to be in a Stephen Sondheim musical.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_b30ae4db	comment	Ordinarily, viewers aren't allowed to submit scripts...but these weren't just fans. They were the creators of Game of Thrones. The crew of Sunny was so stunned that the writers of the biggest show on television wanted to be part of their Black Comedy that they immediately agreed.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_b31b332f	comment	The live-action Transformers Film Series: This is why Peter Cullen auditioned to reprise his role as Optimus Prime, although at first, he didn't realize how awesome this was. His kids had to convince him that Optimus is kind of a big deal. This is also why Michael Bay agreed to do all the films. With Transformers: Age of Extinction, he said a movie with Dinobots was worth it given "dinosaurs are cool". Sophia Myles took a role in Transformers: Age of Extinction because she watched the Transformers cartoons as a child and wanted to work with Stanley Tucci.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_b370ddd1	comment	Hopkins has a reputation for inverting a standard formula: most actors would take roles in over-the-top blockbusters so they can get recognized and afford to do their pet projects in serious, lower-profile films. Hopkins does the serious stuff so that he has credibility as a serious actor before running off to have fun in something like Thor. His alleged favorite role he's ever played was in The World's Fastest Indian for how cool he found it.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_b7704254	comment	KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park might be an embarrassment for the titular band, but actor Terry Lester (who played Sam in Phantom of the Park, and who would later go on to a very successful career in soap operas) has no problem admitting that he was in this film, and loves it when fans mention it to him. His attitude seems to be, "What's to be ashamed about? I did a movie with KISS!"
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_c1a0f861	comment	The film adaptation of Mamma Mia!: Meryl Streep did Mamma Mia because she took her daughter Louisa and some of Louisa's friends to see it for her eleventh birthday — which was in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks — and wrote a fan letter to the crew. When the time came for the movie, the girls-in-charge asked her to play Donna, and she accepted eagerly. Also, she wanted to have fun and kick up her heels for awhile. Pierce Brosnan, meanwhile, summed up his reason for doing the film as this: "Meryl Streep is starring." He also referred to Meryl as "that gorgeous blonde I had a terrible crush on in drama school."
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_c353ea41	comment	Jurassic Park: When an interviewer asked William H. Macy why he accepted a role in Jurassic Park III, he replied: "Because I'm 50 years old and I get to fight a dinosaur." Zara's brutal and drawn-out death scene in Jurassic World was originally meant to go to an extra, but her actress found it to be such an awesome way to go that she requested that her character suffer it instead.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: A number of the actors who played the Doctor have said that they went into acting specifically because they wanted to play the Doctor. Fifth Doctor Peter Davison was inspired by Second Doctor Patrick Troughton, and Davison himself inspired Tenth Doctor (and lifelong Whovian) David Tennant. Peter Capaldi ramps it up, having been such a huge fan that he attempted to take over the official Doctor Who Fan Club in the early 1970s, wrote many articles for fan newsletters, corresponded with the production team during the Jon Pertwee era, and had a dream come true when he was actually given a guest role on the series itself in 2008. The next year he also played a different role in the spin-off, Torchwood. Due to these two parts, plus his age, he never expected to be cast as the Twelfth Doctor; imagine his surprise come 2013. Capaldi reportedly enjoyed nearly every moment of the production, even coming in on his days off to watch special effects shots being filmed, and he often made surprise appearances at an exhibition dedicated to Doctor Who, just because he felt like it (even once doing so in character as the Doctor). Similarly, Alex Kingston has said on more than one occasion that one of her favorite parts of playing River Song is that she gets to do stunts, something that she didn't get to have on ER. Doctor Who has a long tradition of securing notable guest stars on the strength of 'appearing on Doctor Who' and often because it would impress the kids. It's also traditionally been one of the few venues on British television where the guest stars would get to play aliens, monsters, mad scientists, and the like. In a Radio Times interview, Hugh Bonneville was asked what persuaded a Serious Actor to take the part of Captain Avery. He replied that he made his decision when they said he could be in Doctor Who. "The Girl Who Waited" features an interesting example in that the actor was already on the show. The script called for a Future Badass version of Amy who encounters her younger self, along with Rory and the Doctor, after a time-traveling accident strands her alone for 36 years. Originally, the producers planned to have a different actress play Older!Amy—but Karen Gillan wanted a chance to try it, and the producers agreed. Gillian worked with vocal and movement coaches to develop an entirely new style for the older version of herself; that, plus prosthetics, padding, and extensive make-up, completely transformed her, much to the delight of audiences (and the extensive praise of critics). Ben Browder took his role in "A Town Called Mercy" not just because his kids watched the show but because he always wanted to do a western. It probably also helped that they filmed the episode in Spain. Neil Patrick Harris claimed he didn't know much about the series but when the script for "The Giggle" called for juggling, puppetry and a Large Ham, he was all in.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_cac23d96	comment	V.I.P.: The reason Lit agreed to guest star As Themselves in the episode Hard Val's Night. According to them it seemed like a lot of fun" they got to "[hang] out with amazingly gorgeous ladies for a week" and "when Pamela Anderson Lee personally asks you to be on her show, itâ€™s a no-brainer." For her part, Pamela Anderson asked Lit to be on the show because she was a fan of the band.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_ced3c7a1	comment	Dusty Rhodes' WWF run. The one where he wore polka dots. While most fans consider it one of the low points of his career, Dusty himself had a lot of fun with the gimmick. It helped that it was one of the few times that Dusty, who was previously a long-time booker of Jim Crockett Promotions, didn't have to worry about booking or running a promotion, allowing him to just relax and enjoy wrestling.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_d54a63c9	comment	The Longest Day: Nearly everyone involved in the film—an epic retelling of D-Day—joined the cast for this reason: they'd all lived through World War II and thought the project was incredibly important. Some of the biggest stars in the world at the time—including Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, and Sean Connery—joined, with many agreeing to a relatively low pay rate ($25,000) just to be a part of the movie; Burton and fellow Englishman Roddy McDowall in particular were so eager that they filmed their scenes for free. The only exception was John Wayne, who demanded ten times as much money as the others and separate billing (largely because The Longest Day's producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, had insulted him in the past).
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_d8d79afa	comment	Escape from L.A.: John Carpenter and Kurt Russell had so much fun working together in the past that they decided to revisit Snake Plissken to "just have a blast". They had been considering it since 1985, until the chaos of The '90s in Los Angeles gave them enough material for a sequel.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_d940dc6f	comment	Into the Woods: Both Chris Pine and James Corden have admitted that the entire reason they pursued parts in the film (as Cinderella's Prince and the Baker, respectively) is because they heard that Meryl Streep was playing The Witch From Next Door. Streep herself had consistently refused to portray witches in film for a long time but made an exception for this film because she wanted to be in a Stephen Sondheim musical.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_de6659ec	comment	A lot of Once Upon a Time cast members signed on because they were either fans of the show or huge Disney fans. Rebecca Mader was a huge fan of the show and had hoped to be cast as Ariel. While that role went to JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Rebecca claims she screamed in public when she was offered the part of Zelena (The Wicked Witch of the West). Funny enough, Zelena takes on the guise of Ariel for an episode. Merrin Dungey recalls being terrified by Ursula the sea witch as a child, so she jumped at the chance to play her. She describes immediately agreeing to move to Vancouver to film, and dye her hair blonde for the role. Ginnifer Goodwin's favorite Disney Princess was Snow White and she had always wanted to play her. The part was written with her in mind. She had also jumped at the chance to star alongside Jennifer Morrison, an actress she had frequently been compared to. Georgina Haig had a reaction like this when she first signed on to play Elsa. She describes walking around in the costume as "like being Santa Claus."
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_de8fbcb1	comment	A behind-the-scenes example: Gareth Edwards stated in an interview that when he went looking for special effects artists, casts and crew for a film he was doing, reception was cool... until he revealed that the film in question was Godzilla (2014), at which point the formerly cautious recruits jumped in eagerly.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_e3ed54c7	comment	The Pretty Cure franchise: Nana Mizuki, a well-known voice actress and singer, was a big fan of Pretty Cure. To say that she was happy when she won the role of Tsubomi Hanasaki would be an understatement. She even expressed joy at voicing her once more when she was called back for a few brief lines in Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage. Hitomi Nabatame, another popular voice actress, had been there during the auditioning of Futari wa Pretty Cure. Another fan of the series, she literally burst into tears when she got the role of Mana Aida and even got congratulatory calls from Misato Fukuen (Miyuki Hoshizora) and Ami Koshimizu and Fumiko Orikasa (Hibiki Hojo and Kanade Minamino).
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_e7918fa4	comment	The Arrangement, a 2017 Dramedy, had this frequently: Christine Evangelista took on the role thinking it'd be a fun role to play and took it seriously too. Courtney Paige\ took the role of Annika in Season 1 so she could play a bad girl role without it being too stereotypical. Lexa Doig took the role as DeAnn Anderson, claiming that it was something different to play, and she could have as much fun with the role as she wanted.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_e93b2f62	comment	Several actors turned down the lead role in The Fly (1986) because they were put off by the prospect of having to perform through layers upon layers of hideous prosthetic makeup (ultimately reaching People in Rubber Suits levels) in the story's second half. Jeff Goldblum by comparison adored the screenplay, was eager to take on the acting challenge, was a big fan of David Cronenberg's previous film The Dead Zone, AND wanted to play a romantic lead in a movie. The result was his Star-Making Role.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_ea7635f4	comment	Alien: Resurrection: Winona Ryder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an Alien movie and could brag about it to her brothers. She joked that she'd still do it even if she was killed off in the first scene. She also jumped at the chance to appear alongside her idol Sigourney Weaver. Sigourney Weaver was reluctant to do a fourth movie, after the rather final ending of the third. However, when she read the script, the scene where Ripley sees the seven failed attempts at cloning her was enough to make her sign on. But she also gave other reasons:
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_ea9ae80e	comment	During interviews, many of the actors of the movie All About Eve were impressed with the script and knew that acting in the film would be a great opportunity for them.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_eb9cafb2	comment	Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: The cast of the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had such a great time together that when approached to reprise their roles as voice actors more than a decade later for a film that bombed at the box office, everyone immediately agreed despite many of them becoming big names in the years since.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: Keanu Reeves agreed to play the role of Johnny Silverhand because he was impressed with the game's story, its worldbuilding, and the freedom the player has in building and role-playing their own character. According to PaweÅ‚ Sasko, the game's lead quest designer, Reeves would send back the screenplay with his character's scenes with plenty of suggestions regarding line delivery or body language. Since Johnny Silverhand was the frontman of the fictional band called Samurai, Reeves offered to sing the songs written for the game himself, but the team at CDProjekt decided to go with Dennis LyxzÃ©n from the punk band Refused instead. In the TGCOM interview with Luca Ward, the Italian dubber for Keanu Reeves' roles who was also cast to voice Johnny Silverhand in the Italian dub of the game, he was called back to the studio numerous times to record newly added voicelines for Johnny, because Reeves liked the role so much that he kept requesting more and more screentime for him, essentially doubling the amount of spoken lines for him in the game.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_ee5e6821	comment	A sketch in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme in which a Guy Ritchie-like film director has a chance reunion with a Shakespearean actor who took a minor part in one of his gangster movies. The actor tells the director's PA "It was awfully fun. They cut my head off, you know."
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_eedac02b	comment	Kasuka Heiwajima of Durarara!! got his start in the extremely campy anime Vampire Carmilla Saizou. He was listed in the "top ten actors who don't get to choose their roles", and most people treat it as an Old Shame. Kasuka, however, claims that Carmilla Saizou is an awesome character, and insisted on reprising his role in the movie.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_f1da64b5	comment	Speaking of Christopher Lee, he was definitely acting in the name of this trope when he played Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, as he was a major fan of the books and is the only known cast member who met J. R. R. Tolkien while the author was still alive.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_f3b0b2a3	comment	The Muppets (2011): When it was announced that they were bringing the Muppets back to the screen, so many celebrities asked for cameos that they couldn't actually fit all of them into the movie. Chris Cooper, when asked why he agreed to perform a rap song in that movie:
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_f3d889f7	comment	Zack Snyder's Justice League: In Zoom meetings on YouTube fan channels, Ray Porter has expressed no shortage of enthusiasm about taking on the role of Darkseid, be it the fact that he loves what he learned about the character, working with Snyder, the prospect of having action figures themed after a character that he played or that he came after some big names like Michael Ironside. Jared Leto parted ways with DC Films due to the extensive Executive Meddling that considerably reduced the screentime of his character, the Joker, in Suicide Squad. He was then replaced by a Fake Shemp in Birds of Prey. However, he later accepted to appear as the Joker once more in Zack Snyder's Justice League at Snyder's own request. Interviews show that he did so because he loved the idea of working with Snyder (calling him "a warrior", "a madman" in endearing terms), also knowing that the director's creative freedom would be respected this time around, unlike what happened to David Ayer. Joe Manganiello was in a similar position as Leto above, having admitted to growing disillusioned about playing Deathstroke after multiple projects he'd been tapped to reprise the role in were either cancelled or put in Development Hell. And much like Leto, he got enthusiastic again when Snyder called him up to shoot new scenes.
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Awesome, Dear Boy / int_f4980914	comment	The Matrix Resurrections scored a few cast members just by being part of the storied The Matrix franchise, with Priyanka Chopra and Jessica Henwick both cheerfully admitting that they would have quite happily played a piece of furniture if it meant being in the film.
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