How Jack Nicholson Was Almost 'The Judge' Opposite Robert Downey Jr.

Jun 19 2020
Director David Dobkin's 2014 legal drama The Judge snagged Robert Duvall an Oscar nomination for the role of a small-town judge butting heads with his high-powered attorney son (Robert Downey Jr.). However, we were about two meetings away from a very different movie, as Oscar-winner Jack Nicholson just barely missed out on Duvall's role with a request for heavy rewrites. In an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub to discuss Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Dobkin revealed that it came down to Nicholson vs. the material in Bill Dubuque and Nick Schenk's script.

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