May be surreal to learn about casting decisions that Almost happened. Starwar "Clocks Orange" Malcolm McDowell almost played in denar Dance clown. Val Kilmer was almost Morpheus in the "matrix". For every movie or TV show, there are a bunch of "almost" casting stories that would completely change the way things proved. (Seriously, can you imagine Kilmer as Morpheus? Wild.) Usually, things seem to be doing their best, but there are always those circumstances when fans wonder what they might be. There is even one to think about actor Jonah Hill (you know, from "Superbad" and "Moneyball").

Brothers and directors Oshosh and Benny Safdi had a long way to make their 2019 thriller "insincere precious stones", in which he eventually starred Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, jewelry and gambling addict, which was overwhelmed. That's a A frightening attack of anxiety on a movie In the best possible way, Sandler's performance is the best in his career, surpassing even his work in Punch Drunk Loveubov by Paul Thomas Anderson. But obviously, once in time, it almost acted by Hill instead of Sandler.

In an interview with Yahoo! MoviesSafdies shared that although they initially wanted Sandler for the role, he initially passed and they had to try other roads. When Hill expressed interest in working together, they tried to reshape the character to be significantly younger and discovered that it was not working. As Oshos Safdi explained:

"You discovered that the character became less cute because he was younger and had certain things we were trying to force them. It just became difficult and when Jonah became unavailable because of his schedule, it was Kissmet because we were able to return to the person we initially saw as a character."

Hill ended up working on his directorial debut, the "MID 90s" (Read our review here), and then working on the trippy miniseries of Netflix Sci-Fi "maniac" so that the safety returned to the drawing board. Fortunately, enough time has passed that Sandler was available, they interested him, and the rest was a cinema history. Honestly, it all worked best in this case, because it is absolutely impossible to imagine Hill to bring the same kind of sad, beloved sadness for the role of Sandler. Hill is a great actor, but Sandler has given the performance of his life. Not to mention, Howard Ratner's role was written for Sandler, so it's really hard to imagine someone else dealing with the same level of humor and pathos ... Even if the legendary JameSeims Khan was also in mind. Sometimes it all works and everyone has to do their best, even if in this case it meant displaying a serious stressful situation.