As wild as it may seem, this year marks the 27th anniversary of Independence Day, Roland Emmerich’s massively successful 1996 summer blockbuster about alien invaders trying to put a stop to everyone’s Fourth of July plans. Thanks to those unforgettable action set pieces and an incredible group of actors, the movie still lives on as one of the most quintessential ‘90s movies decades after its initial release. But the Independence Day cast almost looked quite different.
In an interview with CinemaBlend ahead of the release her new true crime series, The Interrogation Room, Vivica A. Fox revealed that not only was she not the first choice for the role of Will Smith’s on-screen girlfriend and later wife, Jasmine Dubrow, she only got an audition for the now iconic part because the pregnant wife of one of the movie’s producers noticed her while watching daytime soaps:
