In the “Star Wars” universe, like any franchise, there are close-call casting decisions that don’t make the grade or simply go another way. Actress Jessica Henwick (“The Matrix Resurrections”), for example, lost out to Daisy Ridley for the Rey role in “The Force Awakens” but did play a small pilot in the film instead. There was also the original casting process for the first film that saw young actors reading for both Brian De Palma’s “Carrie” and “A New Hope” at the same time, so there might be a version of “Star Wars” in another universe with Nancy Allen and John Travolta in the lead roles.
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