these two are my favorite Hollywood girls. they are so divine. they have class. they are so beautiful. if i were a lesbian, i'd go completely crazy just seeing them onscreen. here are some fascinating facts i read over natalieportman.com: portman was supposed to play the role of a young American girl who had an affair with a Frenchman in Le Divorce but then she backed out and Kate Hudson was the replacement. It was made in Paris so i bought a dvd version of it. and then in "almost famous", Portman auditioned for the role of Penny Lane but Kate got the yummy part. that's so bizaare..
Here's Cameron Crowe's explanation: "Somewhere there’s some fascinating audition footage of Brad Pitt as Russell Hammond and Natalie Portman as Penny Lane. That would have been a completely different movie. One were Penny Lane would have been a kind of protected child and her naïveté was so important to all of them that they all protected her. Russell would have been the guy to break that spell and mistreat her. That was a version that would have been completely different from the version we have. Kind of a sadder Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I’m not sure it would have been better, it just would have been different. It would have been more of a fairy tale. That’s one of the amazing things about the casting process because you get to see all these different versions of your movie. Kate Hudson was the Penny Lane who was completely fresh, but you believe she had a past, which was perfect for the movie I wanted to make. That mix and match happens a lot and you have to make these huge casting decisions on the spur of the moment and they last forever. It’s funny, there are a million different versions of every movie floating around because the actors all come in and audition and work on the parts. So you have many different alternate realities to choose from."
Make me a casting director, i wanna create alternate realities too!
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