Doc Willis objects to Anthony Mackie playing Captain America on comic-fidelity grounds, while Andrew Santino argues none of it matters because it's just business. Both agree Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom is questionable — and Matthew McConaughey would have been perfect.
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A comment about Doc Willis and home security leads to the observation that Anthony Mackie — formerly The Falcon — is now playing Captain America in the MCU. Doc Willis objects on the grounds that the original character was drawn as white, and that casting should honour the source material. Andrew Santino argues the opposite: it's a movie, the colour costs more in the original comics anyway, and the real problem is Hollywood endlessly reviving old IP instead of creating new stories. Bobby Lee adds that he'd be uncomfortable seeing a Korean actor play Wolverine — Canadian white guy, short, stocky. The debate then shifts to Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom: Doc finds it jarring after Iron Man, and the group brainstorm better-suited actors from the right age range (mid-40s to early 50s), with Bobby emphatically nominating Matthew McConaughey as the obvious but overlooked choice.
The group debated the MCU casting of Anthony Mackie as Captain America, with Doc Willis questioning the change from the original white character while Andrew Santino argued it doesn't matter.
Robert Downey Jr. has been cast as Doctor Doom in the MCU after previously playing Iron Man, a choice that surprised and frustrated Doc Willis who felt there were other available actors.
The entire plot of the original Terminator film depends on the phone book. The Terminator looks up 'Sarah Connor,' finds multiple listings, and starts killing them one by one. No phone book, no movie.
Rico has already appeared in Den of Thieves, Den of Thieves 2, and Roadhouse alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Dave Bautista. Jason Statham is developing a specific role for him. Working alongside elite actors taught Rico something about himself: the emotional suppression that makes him a great fighter is exactly the material that makes great acting — if he learns to stop pushing it away.
Trump joked that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally ran over, butchered, and delivered the evening's beef tenderloin to the dinner — then topped it with a punchline about RFK wanting to serve raccoon roadkill as an appetizer. The crowd's laughter at jokes targeting his own administration signaled a rare night of good-natured self-deprecation from Trump.
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Alan Ritchson walked into a Thor audition with his sides still in his hand, half-assed it on a spotlight-lit stage before two silhouettes in a dark theater, and bombed so completely that the casting director broke protocol to call his team. The feedback? He had no craft. That one sentence sent him to acting school — and changed the trajectory of everything.
Alan Ritchson walked out of his Titans audition so sure he'd booked the lead that he called his wife and told her he was going to buy a Tesla. She said he hadn't booked it. He went and bought the car anyway. His instincts were right — he was offered the role — just not the one he wanted.
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