And as Mr. Zemeckis pointed out, he also eliminated the risk and bother of working with child actors, substituting the skill of one consummate professional who has the only acting credit in the film's advertisements.
Voice actor Simon Prescott substituted for Lee Van Cleef who had died in 1989.
Instead of Rafe Spall's questioning persona, why not have a sort of avatar, an all-purpose good-looking actor-substitute?
Simon Axler, the hero, is an actor in his mid-sixties who has a "reputation as the last of the best of the classical American stage actors" (substitute novelist for the last two words of that sentence and we might be talking about its author).
The DS version features full voice acting for cutscenes and in-game elements by some of the same voice actors from the home console version of the game, though some of the voice actors were substituted, such as Debi Derryberry in the role of Nina Cortex, and Nolan North in the role of Tiny Tiger.
In rehearsals, the older actors would substitute for their younger-studies, and when the flashback scenes were filmed, they stayed on set.
(Among the more out-there variations on the roster in New York next year: Kristen Kosmas's "There There," which imagines a proofreader, played by Ms. Kosmas, substituting for the actor Christopher Walken in a one-man version of "Three Sisters").
Rather than substituting another voice actor, the writers of The Simpsons retired Hartman's characters, and the season ten episode "Bart the Mother" (his final appearance on the show) was dedicated to him, as was his final film, Small Soldiers.
The Stuarts described themselves as frequent theatregoers — their son is an actor and substitute teacher in L.A. — but they especially enjoy seeing their servers onstage.
If a cast member still has not shown up by the 15-minute mark, a swing, an actor who substitutes for several roles in the show, steps in.
