Initially, director Keith Gordon was reluctant to cast Connelly in this role as he did not consider her a serious actress.
Initially, director Chris Weitz wanted to recast the role of Jacob Black for Twilight's sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, due to the major physical changes that occur in Black between the two novels, and have an actor that would accurately portray "the new, larger Jacob Black".
Initially, directors looked at an outside choice, Robert P. Kelly, chief executive of Bank of New York Mellon, but that foundered after it became clear that it would be expensive to lure him away.
Initially, the director was sceptical about the work.
In 1954, Hart suffered a heart attack, but bounced back as the initially reluctant director of Lerner and Loewe's musical version of Shaw's "Pygmalion," a project that Oscar Hammerstein had confidently told Alan Jay Lerner could not be done.
Ross worked with Moyes for 10 years, initially as director of communications, and introduces himself as having been part of a four-man team that ran the club with Bill Kenwright, including six months as acting chief executive.
And as Gavron revealed during a Q&A following one screening, it was Mulligan who encouraged her initially sceptical director to lobby for Streep to consider such a minor role.
And initially, "Titanic" director James Cameron didn't want it.
Pitt initially gave director Doug Liman the script with Nicole Kidman as his Mrs. Smith.
Initially the director had reservations about trying to film such a dialogue-heavy screenplay, so he and Lehman worked on it for weeks to make it more cinematic.
I was only playing third villain from the left, as it were, and I had one line, if I remember right, which was, 'Get in,' which initially the director wanted to cut.
