JamesG
10-27-2017, 02:37 PM
J.J. Abrams Reveals ABC Originally Didn't Want Jennifer Garner for "Alias"
by Kate Stanhope
Oct. 27, 2017
J.J. Abrams, who appeared Thursday at a TV Game Changers panel presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, opened up about when ABC didn't want a then-unknown Jennifer Garner to star in his spy drama "Alias".
"I'd worked with her on Felicity and when I wrote Alias, I wrote it with her in mind. Katie, my wife, was always like, 'We gotta do something with Jen so I wrote this part and knew I wanted her to be Sydney Bristow and the network didn’t want to cast her," he recalled. "They were like, 'We don't think she's hot enough.' And I was like, 'I'm just telling you she is.' And so they relented and we got to do it with her."
The series, which ran five seasons, made Garner a household name and won her a Golden Globe in its first season.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/james-spader-casting-pushback-boston-legal-1052384
by Kate Stanhope
Oct. 27, 2017
J.J. Abrams, who appeared Thursday at a TV Game Changers panel presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, opened up about when ABC didn't want a then-unknown Jennifer Garner to star in his spy drama "Alias".
"I'd worked with her on Felicity and when I wrote Alias, I wrote it with her in mind. Katie, my wife, was always like, 'We gotta do something with Jen so I wrote this part and knew I wanted her to be Sydney Bristow and the network didn’t want to cast her," he recalled. "They were like, 'We don't think she's hot enough.' And I was like, 'I'm just telling you she is.' And so they relented and we got to do it with her."
The series, which ran five seasons, made Garner a household name and won her a Golden Globe in its first season.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/james-spader-casting-pushback-boston-legal-1052384