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Paul Rudd, Clueless, 1994. New Jersey’s Braff, Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner auditioned for Josh, step-brother of Alicia Silverstone’s teen queen in the Beverly Hills flip-side of director Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Braff went to the sme school as singer Lauryn Hill - up for Dionne.
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Mark Matkevic, Dawson’s Creek, TV, 2000-2001. Auditioned to join the Creek crowd as Drue Valentine. The character lasted 17 episodes. The next character Zach actually won lasted 151 shows... Dr John JD Dorian in Scrubs, 2001-2008. This fame led to him becoming the voice of... Chicken Little.
- Matthew McConaughey, Failure To Launch, 2005. The thirtysomething slacker who feels his parenst are setting him up with his dream girl so he'll finally leave home - was written for Braff and Amanda Peet. After so many mild romcoms like this, one could never envisage an Oscar in MacConaughey’s future. Nor, I suppose, could he…
- Dane Cook, Mr Brooks, 2007. A good year for Mr Cook, the Bostonian stand-up. His earnings hit $7m - helped along by Mr Scrubs being scrubbed out as Mr Smith.
- Jason Sudeikis, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 2015. Plan A: Chloe Grace Moretz opposite Zach Braff - or Sudeikis Plan B: Maisie Williams opposite Jeffery Dean Morgan. And C…? Williams and Sudeikis, back as the introverted Henry. So it goes. Sometimes.
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