And yes, Paul Newman was also going to star.
The Notebookalmost looked very different.
And we mean lifelong.
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But it turns out, the film wasn’t always going to look that way.
“I was playing the flashback and Paul Newman was the old guy.”
And ultimately, that’s why both actors decided not to join the romance drama.
“He was like.
I was like, ‘Because everybody knows what you look like at 30 years old.
You got blue eyes, I got brown eyes.
And he’s like, ‘I guess you’re right.'”
The rest is history.
As Clooney put it, “We bailed out and I think 10 years later they made it.”
