- Aaron Paul, Need For Speed, 2013. TV’s Breaking Bad find lost The Missionary that year, but won the DreamWorks video-game adaptation from… Home And Away’s Bracey, The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth and the Maleficent princeBrenton Thwaites.
- Theo James, Divergent, 2013. Hunger Games by any other name wouold sell as sweet… The Descendants’ Shailene Woodley was the sole choice for Tris in the urban (and dumb) Twilight Games. To find Tobias “Four” Eaton her significant other, chemistry readings” were stage with her and Bracey, Jeremy “I don’t wanna be a teen idol” Irvine, Alexander Ludwig, Alex Pettfyer, Jack Reynor, Miles Teller (he became Peter), Brenton Thwaites and Lucas Till.
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Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey, 2013.
Mark Wahlberg tried to buy the porno novel. Social networks were full of weird suggestions for the porn novel’s BDSM lover, Christian Grey. From Robert Pattinson, Matt Smith to Henry Cavill (well, S/M also stands for Superman) and Captain America Chris Evans (as if Marvel would allow that). None led to talks, auditions or tests. Because the suits had eyes only for Ryan Gosling. No way, said he. Most wise. Next target was Charlie Hunnam. He agreed and then suddenly quit because of his Sons of Anarchy, series (among other issues), and a second batch of front-runners were seen: Bracey (the inevitable Aussie), Canadians Patrick J Adams and François Arnaud (well versed in jiggery-pokery as Cesare in The Borgias series), plus Scott Eastwood, Theo James, Billy Magnussen – and Alexander Skarsgård, playing Tarzan by then with an Anastasia Steele hopeful, Margot Robbie. (Hunnam had also been in the ape-man mix). The first group had been Stephen Amell (he preferred Oliver Queen, aka DC’s Arrow, TV 2012-2016), ex-UK model David Gandy (who simply refused), two other Brits, Christian Cooke (from Love, Rosie with London model Suki Waterhouse up for Anastasia) and Dominic Cooper (perfect, surely!), plus Aussie Daniel McPherson – and Santa Monica’s Ryan Paevey actually auditioned. As for the Belgian hunk, Matthias Schoenaerts – he fell asleep reading the scenario. Oh, and author EL James vetoed any idea of of Dornan’s pal, Eddie Redmayne! They were all lucky to escape the turgid, totally un-erotic enterprise. Only 14 minutes and 17 seconds of sex, no orgasms – and pubes added digitally to actors’ genital patches!! And poor Dornan was a zero without his beard. -
Theo James, Divergent, 2013. The Descendants’ Shailene Woodley was the sole choice for Tris in the urban (and dumb) Twilight Games. To find “Four,” her significant other,” chemistry readings” were stage with her and Bracey, Jeremy “I don’t wanna be a teen idol” Irvine, Alexander Ludwig, Alex Pettfyer, Jack Reynor, Miles Teller (he became Peter), Brenton Thwaites and Lucas Till.
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Tye Sheridan, X-Men: Apocalypse, 2015. “A big monster of a movie,” declared propducer-director Bryan Singer. “A kinda conclusion of six X-Men films, yet a potential rebirth of younger, newer characters.” James Marsden had beenScott Summers/Cyclops in the opening quartet, 1999-2013, and suggested Bracey – his 2013 Best of Me co-star – to be young Cyclops. Singer did not agree.
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