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13 Roles That Were So Loved Or So Reviled That Casting Directors Struggled To See The Actors As Anything Else

Several years after <i>The Office</i>, Jenna Fischer shot the pilot for the Matt LeBlanc-led sitcom <i>Man with a Plan</i>. However, she was recast because the test audience couldn't "believe Pam would marry Joey [from <i>Friends</i>]."

She continued, " The Good Girl was the first time I got to really shed whatever the Rachel character was and to be able to disappear into someone who wasn't that was such a relief to me." By good fortune of the long path of a career, you can look back and say, how great to have it be felt, how backward we are. She continued, "Not that I want to dog every casting director out there, but there's a very small handful of people who are character actors and can be hired for roles that are truly different from one another.

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