Key Highlights
- “When I met with Jon Favreau, the director, I walked in and he was like, ‘Oh, you don’t need to read.
- We just offered it to Katie Holmes,’ she recalled on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
- “And I was like, ‘Oh, OK, cool.’ And he’s like, ‘Well, sit down and talk for a minute.’ I was like, ‘OK!'” Watch on Deadline Related Stories News Will Ferrell Reflects On ‘Elf’ Legacy: “I’m So Lucky To Have A Movie Like That In My Catalog” Trailers ‘Merv’ Trailer: Broken-Up Zooey Deschanel And Charlie Cox Drop Everything For Their Shared Dog’s Depression Diagnosis In Prime Video Holiday Rom-Com Deschanel added, “What was great about that was, I wasn’t nervous.
- When you’re an actor, you’re first starting, and you’re auditioning, you get nervous, and you’re psyching yourself up.
- I wasn’t nervous at all, because I was like, ‘Well, I’m not getting the part.’ It was kind of great cause I was not nervous.” Noting that Holmes ultimately dropped out of the role due to a scheduling conflict, Deschanel was back in the running.
