Marvel may have had a way more Californian Guardian of the Galaxy. Whereas showing on the the Simply for Selection podcast, Adam Brody revealed that he auditioned to play Peter Quill/Star Lord within the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, a component that famously went to Chris Pratt.
“I needed that one,” The OC star stated, earlier than admitting that Pratt was in the end a “higher” match for the MCU. “He’s greater, stronger, however tonally, I actually dug it.”
Peter Quill wasn’t the one function that Brody wished he’d gotten a crack at. Brody revealed that he additionally needed to play a younger Lloyd Christmas within the poorly obtained Dumb and Dumber prequel, Dumber and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd (launched 2003). As an alternative of Brody, whose star was on the rise because of his function because the sarcastic Seth Cohen on The OC which premiered that very same yr, Eric Christian Olsen was chosen to painting the youthful model of Jim Carrey‘s character within the prequel, which wound up being a vital and business failure. “I’m like, ‘I don’t give a fuck. I’d love to simply be Lloyd Christmas,’” stated Brody.
One other 2003 flop that Brody auditioned for? The notorious Gigli, starring a pre-matrimony Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Brody stated that he remembered “liking the script,” when he auditioned for Brian, a task which in the end went to Justin Bartha. “I bear in mind in the long run, [Affleck] died in a means that it nonetheless stays with me. It’s like he’s sitting on the seaside, he’s bleeding out and the sand simply comes up and buries him… It was a pleasant picture that they didn’t use within the film in any respect.”
Twenty years after The OC, Brody’s starring as one other gregarious man named Seth on the Emmy-nominated Hulu miniseries Fleischman is in Bother, and starring within the remake of the 1994 thriller River Wild which initially starred Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, and David Strathairn. Within the remake directed by Ben Ketai, Brody performs Trevor, an ex-convict who spends a good quantity of the film looking down Joey, portrayed by his spouse of 9 years, Gossip Lady‘s Leighton Meester. “I attempted to kill her for a good quantity of the film,” Brody stated of Meester. “I wouldn’t have picked this for us. It got here to me… totally fashioned from a good friend to each of us, however this isn’t one thing I used to be trying to do collectively.”
Fortunately, Brody has no downside snapping out of character and no real interest in being a technique actor. “It sounds fucking boring greater than something to me,” stated Brody relating to technique performing. “It sounds ungodly boring, however hats off to them. Hats off to those that don’t watch their stuff, are Methodology… I don’t know, is it missing that I can flip it off so shortly? I don’t know. I’m extra comfy this manner. And it simply appears so profoundly uncomfortable and in addition boring.” It is good to know that Seth Cohen and Blair Waldorf have been capable of stay in relative peace.
