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Roger Cormier <\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> <\/b>present 15 Elevated Facts About White Men Can’t Jump<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 2. DENZEL WASHINGTON WAS THE ORIGINAL CHOICE FOR SIDNEY.<\/strong><\/span> 3. KEANU REEVES, CHARLIE SHEEN, AND DAVID DUCHOVNY WERE CONSIDERED FOR BILLY.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Part of the audition involved shooting hoops at a basketball court at a Culver City casting office. Reeves just didn\u2019t cut it, and Woody Harrelson acknowledged that Reeves\u2019 lack of talent in the sport helped change his career. “I probably would’ve just been Woody Boyd but for the fact that Keanu Reeves didn’t play great basketball,” Harrelson told the Daily Express. Sheen was offered the part after Reeves\u2019 failed audition but passed. Duchovny said he auditioned and really wanted the role.<\/p>\n 10. HARRELSON HUSTLED SNIPES OUT OF MONEY.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 15 Elevated Facts About White Men Can’t Jump. Here are three of my favorites… 2. DENZEL WASHINGTON WAS<\/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":[17,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","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\/13911","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=13911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDenzel Washington was dead set on playing Malcolm X next and turned them down. Shelton considered Cylk Cozart for the lead role, too. Ultimately, Cozart was cast in the role of Robert.<\/p>\n
\nThere was constant gambling on set. Cozart threatened to take all of Woody\u2019s Cheers<\/em> money and estimated he won $5000 off of him. Harrelson won money off of Snipes though when he successfully dunked. Snipes never realized that the crew lowered the rim before Harrelson\u2019s attempt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"