- Asa Butterfield, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, 2015. ‘A scary Mary Poppins,” said auteur Tim Burton.Losing a role wasn’t dejection, said the Franco-American Chalamet. “There’s always gratitude to be working. And yet, when I saw Interstellar and it’s my favorite director and McConaughey’s just killing it – and I was there – it’s a feeling of, man, I’m getting close.” Call Me By Your Nameand Beautiful Boywere closer and led to his Paul Atreides in the third Dune, 2019.
- Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Auditioned as Patrick Chandler. But Hedges won the Oscar nomination. The two guys co-starred opposite Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird, in 2017.
- Tom Holland, Captain America: Civil War, 2015. Both Chalamet and the above Butterfield were short-listed for the new Spider-Man in what amounted to The Avengers: Part 2.5. And, of course, a teaser or the next chapters in the Spideyverse. Holland won on June 23, 2015, after audition tapes with Jon Bernthal – they won him Frank Castle, aka Punisher, in Daredevil, 2015.
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