The Most Intriguing Casting 'What-Ifs' in Hollywood The casting process isn't always as cut and dry as it may seem. Sometimes a role gets passed around and passed on before landing in hands of the person we end up seeing on the big screen. In the more interesting cases, if casting went according to plan, both the films and the acting careers involved may have turned out wildly different. Here are some intriguing Hollywood hypotheticals (and some gloriously amateur photoshopping).