FILM 1360: PRIMAL FEAR
TRIVIA: This is Edward Norton's motion
picture debut.
2,100 actors auditioned for the
role of Aaron Stampler - Matt Damon
was one of them.
Leonardo DiCaprio was the
producer's original choice for Aaron/Roy, who ultimately turned it down.
Both Wil Wheaton and Leonardo DiCaprio turned
down the part of Aaron Stampler. Wheaton turned down the role because he didn't
want to put off his acting school and when his manager urged him to take the
role anyway he told him "It is like Luke Skywalker when Yoda told him not
to go and save his friends but to stay on Dagobah and learn to be a Jedi
instead. Luke didn't listen to him and that's why he never became true Jedi
master." Later Wil Wheaton regretted turning this role down, saying that
this was a crucial factor why his career never got to be a successful one.
Both Richard Gere and Reg Rogers,
the actor who plays the journalist Gere talks to throughout the movie, were in
Runaway Bride. In that film, Gere was the journalist and Rogers was the
interview subject as one of the grooms left at the altar.
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