It’s always a somewhat fun exercise to wonder what a movie would have been like if a different actor who had been offered a major role had taken it. The Matrix with Will Smith would have been a very different sort of movie, but probably not as different as Star Wars starring Jodie Foster as Princess Leia. And yet, that’s something that very nearly happened.
Jodie Foster, who leads the new True Detective cast, recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she spoke briefly about the fact that she had been offered the role of Princess Leia. She says she turned it down because she was already committed to making another movie and didn’t want to deal with getting out of the contract. Foster explained…
