Robert Downey Jr.
lost his chance at starring in the Nancy Meyers cinematic universe.The Marvel actor revealed during SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” that he auditioned for 2006 romantic comedy “The Holiday” to star opposite Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet.
Downey went out for the role of a British single father who falls in love with Diaz’s character while she is in the English countryside after swapping houses with a stranger.
Jude Law was eventually cast.“We both got called in just as seat-fillers and we saw each other,” Downey said during an interview alongside Jimmy Fallon, who auditioned to play Winslet’s love interest before Jack Black was cast.
“Jack Black is getting his part and Jude Law is definitely getting my part, but [Meyers] needed someone to read with the gals, and we’re sitting there going, ‘It’s about to happen for us.’”Despite being…
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