Steve Carell's starring role on The Office was almost played by two other A-list actors. Casting director Allison Jones, 69, revealed on the Office Ladies podcast — hosted by the sitcom's Jenna Fischer, 50, and Angela Kinsey, 53 — that NBC initially wanted a well-known star to play lead character Michael Scott. Steve Carell's starring role on The Office was …
NEW YORK — A revival of the cutthroat business play “Glengarry Glen Ross” is slated for Broadway this spring — cast with a star from “Succession,” a TV show about cutthroat business. Kieran Culkin will join “Better Call Saul” star Bob Odenkirk and comedian Bill Burr in a new production of an examination of two days in the lives of …
“I struggled with the character’s limitations,” says Bob Odenkirk. Here was a show, which ended its six-season run on AMC last August, designed as both prequel and sequel to one of the network’s golden geese, “Breaking Bad,” whose star, Bob Odenkirk, had never led a dramatic series before and who was reviving a secondary character called Saul Goodman who’d originated …