- Courteney Cox, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, 1993. Considered alongside Lauren Holly and Tea Leoni for the hero’s main squeeze – named Melissa, after the daughter of the original scripter Jack Bernstein.
- Daphne Ashbrook, Doctor Who (The Movie), TV, 1996.
- Kristanna Loken, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 2003. Inevitable, tiny-minded thought for the Terminatrix hunting Arnold following her action success in The Matrix films.
- Carla Gugino, Sin City, 2004. Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller also looked at Ashley Judd, Sarah Jessica Parker, Uma Thurman and Naomi Watts for Lucille in their “live” comic-strip.
- Laurie Holden, Silent Hill, 2005. The producers asked her to be Cybil – and she proved avialable only six years later for Claudia in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.
- Keri Russell,Mission: Impossible III, 2006. Tom Cruise postponed M:I III for a year, losing both his leading ladies – Moss and Scarlett Johansson – due to his script hassles and their increasingly hectic schedules.
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