- Jake Abel, The Host, 2012 . Change of O’Shea – as the New Yorker lost out on Andrew Niccol’s film of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s sf book. Dane DeHaan, Augustus Prew and Ian Somerhalder also auditioned for Ian.
- Miles Teller, The Spectacular Now, 2012. All set as McDonnell’s second movie when, quite simply, it wasn’t. He missed what #1 US critic, Roger Ebert, said in one of his, alas, final reviews, was “a lovely film about two high school seniors who look, speak and feel like real 18-year-old middle-American human beings. Do you have any idea how rare that is.”
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 2