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Try Walking In My Shoes - We Examine Recasting From Batman To Bond
David Bax , May 27th, 2009 09:12

All change! All change! David Bax of Battleship Pretension examines some roles that are bigger than any one actor.

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The Oracle

The Wachowski brothers missed no such opportunity when Gloria Foster died after shooting her scenes for The Matrix Reloaded. No, they went ahead and threw in a few unnecessary lines explaining why the Oracle looked like actress Mary Alice in the third film, satisfying a few hardcore devotees and further confusing the rest of us.