InThe Avengers , Hawkeye is under Loki ’s mind ascendency for most of the motion-picture show , which left Jeremy Renner feeling like " [ for ] 90 % of the movie , [ he ’s ] not the character [ he ] sign on to wager . " During filming , he improvised having a nub onset in hopes they ’d down his fictional character off .
A script isn’t set in stone before production begins. Oftentimes, the plan for a TV show or movie evolves throughout filming. Even the original vision a writer or director had for a character can do a complete 180.
Here are 17 roles that completely transformed from what the actor signed up for:
1.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS:Paul Bettanybegan voicing JARVIS, Tony Stark’s AI assistant, in the firstIron Manmovie. He didn’t watch any of the movies, but he made so much money for so little work that he felt “like a pirate.”
He toldDigital Spy , " This is looting . I take the air in , I say some lines on a musical composition of paper for two hours , and then they give me a bag of money and I leave and I go about my sidereal day . I sort of feel guilty , because at least playacting can be exhausting , with long 60 minutes , but I do nothing ! "
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: Like in the comics, JARVIS evolved into Vision inAvengers: Age of Ultron. While filmingWandaVision, he found the makeup removal “brutal.” However, helovesVision so much that he’s willing to play him forever.
Describing the composition remotion process , he toldDigital Spy , " It ’s harder to get off , and a lot of equipment casualty is done from taking it off , which is usually ok if you are working two or three day a workweek — but your skin gets tatterdemalion if you are ferment six twenty-four hour period a week . "
He also said that output determine up a little sweat room to aid him steamer the makeup off his typeface .
2.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: In the pilot of her iconicDisneyChannel show, which was originallycalledThe Amazing O’Malleys,Selena GomezplayedJulia O’Malley. She had a twin brother named Jordan (played by David Henrie), and her family owned a magic shop.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: After the pilot, the show was changed toWizards of Waverly Place. Julia became Alex Russo. Her twin brother became her older brother, Justin, and she was given a younger brother, Max. Additionally, the Russo family now owned a sub shop.
Wizardsreferencedthe original script on an installment where the next version of Harper , Alex ’s honorable friend , writes a book about the Russos and names Alex ’s character Julia .
3.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: OnGood Morning, Miss Bliss, Lisa Turtle wassupposedto be a Jewish girl from Long Island.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: The producerslovedLark Voorhies’s audition so much that they rewrote the character to better fit her. She was one of the few cast members who stayed on when the show wasretooledasSaved by the Bell.
4.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: OnHappy Days, Fonzie was initially “a character who very seldom spoke.” He played second fiddle to the leading man, Richie Cunningham.
Writer Michael Warren told theLA Times , " In theHappy Dayspilot , the surprise was that toward the end of the pilot , Fonzie spoke . "
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: Fonzie became so popular with audiences, and productionnoticedyoung viewers starting to imitate him. The show shifted to make him the main character, and “slowly but surely, as they started to write for [Henry Winkler], it became sorta like Beatlemania for awhile.”
Ron Howard , who play Richie , toldThe Graham Norton Show , " The executives , studio apartment heads , [ and ] internet head … start really deal me with a lot of disrespect . … And the press kept suppose , ' What ’s it like ? Do you feel like you ’ve become a second - class citizen on your own show ? ' … Which I did n’t find within the workspace , and I for sure did n’t experience it within our friendship , which endures to this day . "
5.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: OnTheGolden Girls, Sophia Petrillo wassupposedto be an occasional guest star. It was also Estelle Getty’s first onscreen role, so she was very nervous and had to combat her stage fright with cue cards and strategically hidden script pages.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: Test audienceslovedSophia so much that the network decided to promote her to a series regular. Getty asked if they could make the character Jewish, like her, because she thought it would be easier to play. However, production wanted to keep her Italian, and Getty did such an amazing job in the role that she received more fan mail than her co-stars. She also won an Emmy.
6.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS:Allison Williams’sGirlscharacter, Marnie Michaels, “would drive [her] crazy if [they] were friends in real life,” but the actor learned to “put that out of [her] head in order to play her.”
She toldBuzzFeed , " Like , sleeping with Elijah is crazy , sleeping with Ray is brainsick , furiously hitting on Desi when he cite his lady friend in their first conversation is demented ; but I have to be on the couch with her and Elijah hope they fuck , I have to be in that apartment with Ray kind of want it to happen , and I have to corroborate her quest for Desi . "
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, the character became more challenging to play. In Season 2, Williams fought against Marnie’s decision to sleep with conceptual artist Booth Jonathan because she “thought Marnie was better than that, but she wasn’t.”
She toldBuzzFeed , " I did not want her to go down that road … [but ] I had to be OK with it , too . I had to believe Booth was a genius when I walked out of that TV pillar ; whereas , I , as Allison , could n’t stop consider , ' It put the lotion on its skin . ' "
7.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: When Martin Sheen joinedThe West Wing, President Josiah Bartlet was “just a peripheral character — the focus was to be on the staff, not the First Family.” In the pilot, he only came in it at the very end, but “the lead-up to the character was so strong, it was so clear what kind of person occupied this office.”
He toldEmpire Online , " When I did the pilot , my contract was for just three old age , and it was trammel to peradventure three or four episodes every season . The only restraint I had was that I could not trifle another president while the show was on the zephyr . "
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, the way Sheen played the president in that one scene “made them realize that they had to have Martin in the show the entire time.”
Sheen toldEmpire Online , " I had to renegociate a long - term contract after the pilot , and I demand two things : that they make Bartlet a Catholic — because I want him to mold all of his opinions from a moral physical body of reference , and as a Catholic myself , that ’s the way I framed all of my actions . And I also ask that he be a graduate of the University of Notre Dame . Aaron [ Sorkin ] agreed to both of them , and they became a staple fiber of the grapheme . "
8.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: When Halle Berry first read the originalBruisedscript, Jackie Justicewas"written for a twenty-something Irish Catholic white woman."
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: Berry “couldn’t get it out of [her] mind, so [she] thought, ‘Is it possible that this could be reimagined for someone like me?'” So, she pitched her idea to make it about “a middle-aged Black woman, someone fighting for a last chance rather than another chance,” and producer Basil Iwanyk loved it.
He tasked her with finding a music director , but in the end , she decided that she was also the dear fit for that role .
She toldEntertainment Weekly , " I had to go back and say , ' I ’ve try really firmly , but what ’s in my head , no one else sees . This is cash in one’s chips to fathom really crazy because it ’s disturbed for me to even think it , but I think I should direct this . ' "
9.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS:Thorintroduced Hawkeye as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secret weapon with mysteriously perfect aim.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: InThe Avengers, Hawkeye is under Loki’s mind control for most of the movie, whichleftJeremy Renner feeling like “[for] 90% of the movie, [he’s] not the character [he] signed on to play.” During filming, heimprovisedhaving a heart attack in hopes they’d kill his character off.
He toldHero Complex , " I ’m literally in there for two minutes , and then all of a sudden … So , there ’s not a lot of backstory or discernment we can really tell about who Clint Barton is , or Hawkeye , and is he working for S.H.I.E.L.D. or not . There ’s a lot of unanswered questions , even for me . And I was fine with that . At least I was still in the movie . And I was glad for that … "
10.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: When Amanda Seyfried took the role of Mary inPan, there was “no wirework or green screen stuff happening for [her] character.”
OnLate Night with Seth Meyers , she said , " I am not playing a fairy . Why would I be flying around ? "
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: It turned into a “big nightmare” for Seyfried because, during reshoots, production decided that Mary needed to do wirework. She decided that she’d never do stunt work again.
" I did n’t sign up for it , " she append onLate Night .
11.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS:Veronica MarsintroducedLogan as the ex-boyfriend of the friend whose murder Veronica was trying to solve. As Neptune High’s “obligatory psychotic jackass,” he wasn’t meant to be more than a side character.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, fansfeltthe electric chemistry between Jason Dohring and Kristen Bell — and so did the writers’ room. So, Logan and Veronica’s love story unfolded naturally, making him a key character until the very end.
12.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: OnThe Big Bang Theory, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler waswritteninto the Season 3 finale as a joke character who wasn’t supposed to return. Mayim Bialik, who’d previously left acting to study neuroscience, onlytookthe role because she needed health insurance.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: Series co-creator Chuck Lorre was the “biggest early adopter and proponent of Mayim.” Early in Season 4, Bialikwasoffered a series regular contract, and Amy was able to grow out of the “female Sheldon” persona and evolve into her own person.
13.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: In the first twoThormovies and the first twoAvengersmovie, Thor was more of a classic fantasy hero — a brave warrior, a noble leader, and a reluctant “Chosen One.”
Hemsworth toldVanity Fair , " try someone like Smith , who represents the fanboy world , was such a kick in the ass to change power train . We sort of had nothing to lose . multitude did n’t bear what we did with it this time around . "
14.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: Evangeline Lilly didn’t set out to become an actor, but sheacceptedthe role of Kate onLostbecause she “had enormous faith” and felt a pull toward it. Initially, she thought Kate was “kind of cool.”
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, as the show went on, Lilly felt like Kate “became more and more predictable and obnoxious” and “went from being autonomous — really having her own story and her own journey and her own agendas — to chasing to men around the island.”
" And that irritated the squat out of me , " she tell theLost Boyspodcast . " I did confuse scripts across rooms when I ’d read them [ after Kate enter a love trigon with Jack and Sawyer ] because I would get very frustrated by the diminishing amount of autonomy she had and the decrease amount of her own story there was to play . "
15.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: During the audition stage ofParks and Recreation, Andy Dwyerwasjust “the guy with the broken legs.” He wasn’t supposed to last beyond a few episodes, leaving after getting dumped.
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, Chris Pratt’s audition changed everything. Production thought he was fantastic, so they “started rewriting that character so he wasn’t such a bad guy.” They also promoted him to a series regular.
Series co - Godhead Greg Daniels toldUproxx , " That was another example of commute the characters from what you ab initio conceived of them to seek to take advantage of something good that fall in your overlap . "
16.WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: In the originalNopescript, Angel Torreswas"far different than what [Brandon Perea] performed." He was supposed to be “very happy-go-lucky.”
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: In his audition, Pereadecidedto take inspiration from his memories of visiting the tech store as a teenager, where no one was happy to be there. Then, Jordan Peele “rewrotethe character for [Perea] because what [he] performed in the audition was far different than what they imagined.”
Perea toldSyfy , " I was like , ' Let me bestow it to a place that I can see from the graphic symbol that I ’ve envision in those infinite . And that ’s what I delivered him in the performance , and Jordan have a go at it it . "
17.And finally, WHAT THE ROLE STARTED AS: Crispin Glover initiallyturned downthe role of the Thin Man inCharlie’s Angelsbecause he thought the character’s dialogue was all terrible and “just expositional.”
WHAT THE ROLE BECAME: However, hesuggestedsome rewrites to the director, McG — what if the Thin Man didn’t speak at all? McG accepted his feedback, and Glover ended up playing the villain silently.
