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Matthew Jackson <\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> <\/b>present 12 Stately Facts About The American President<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. IT BEGAN AS A ROBERT REDFORD VEHICLE.<\/span><\/strong> 2. ANNETTE BENING WAS NOT THE FIRST CHOICE FOR THE LOVE INTEREST.<\/span><\/strong> 11. MANY CAST MEMBERS ULTIMATELY ENDED UP ON <\/span><\/strong>THE WEST WING. Matthew Jackson and Mental_Floss present 12 Stately Facts About The American President. Here are three of my favorites… 1. IT BEGAN AS A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThough the film ultimately starred Michael Douglas, it started as a vehicle for another of Hollywood\u2019s great leading men: Robert Redford. So, what happened? Well, Redford was reportedly more interested in the film\u2019s love story, while director Rob Reiner was leaning more toward the political subplots. So the two parted ways, and the part of President Shepherd ultimately landed with Douglas.<\/p>\n
\nJust as the film began as a project that would star Robert Redford, so too did it originally feature other leading ladies. Redford himself had hoped to land Emma Thompson for the role of lobbyist-turned-President\u2019s girlfriend Sydney Ellen Wade. Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer were also considered for the meaty role, and by the time Douglas came onboard Jessica Lange was also up for the part. Ultimately, Bening won it.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em>The American President<\/em> wasn\u2019t just a template for The West Wing<\/em> in terms of theme; it also featured a number of actors who would ultimately play key roles in the series. Martin Sheen,The American President\u2019s<\/em> A.J. MacInerney, went on to play the President himself, Josiah Bartlet, on The West Wing<\/em>. Anna Deavere Smith eventually played The West Wing<\/em>\u2019s National Security Advisor Nancy McNally while Joshua Malina went on to play Communications Director-turned-Congressman Will Bailey. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"