The tidbit got here within the interview after a query about notable roles the 2 actors nearly were given to play. Ryan Reynolds published he as soon as auditioned for the function of Superman, which is attention-grabbing however no longer moderately as out of left box as the speculation of Rob McElhenney taking part in Anakin Skywalker.
Then, McElhenney instructed the sorrowful story of why he ended up dropping the function of Anakin to Hayden Christensen. All of it got here down to no longer appearing talent, air of secrecy, or Power sensitivity, however eye colour.
“I take note them announcing to me, ‘It is not gonna paintings as a result of he does not have blue eyes,'” McElhenney recalled. “And I used to be, like, ‘B***ch, you are growing complete armies of mutant robots, however you’ll’t exchange someone’s eyes?'”
It seems that no longer, and thus McElhenney used to be free to co-create “It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” a couple of years later, restoring stability to the Power. Nonetheless, it is intriguing to believe what “Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones” and “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” may had been like with Mac within the lead function. Anxious and unsuitable, however intriguing.
