- Katherine Watson, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, 2015. Sam Waterston’s London-born daughter won the role of the future wife of JK Rowling’s new hero – Eddie Redmayne as wizard-magizoologist Newton Artemis Fido ‘Newt’ Scamanderin the first of a trilogy (in five parts… and 54 years before Harry Potter was born). She is called Tina, short, insists JKR, for Porpentina. Debicki and Kate Upton were also in the frame.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gemini Man, 2018. Sorry to say but The Girl – Danny, by name, and switched from Debicki and Tatiana Maslany to MEW – was the least important part of the exercise, what with Will Smith playing both lead roles – helped by amazing youthifcation effects for his younger self. Over the years from 1997, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, etc, had made de-aged tests. Harrison Ford always denied being contacted for the role(s). MEW hadd the key line: “I know why he’s as good as you. He is you!”
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