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Roger Cormier<\/b>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 15 Incorruptible Facts About The Shield<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. THE CO-CREATOR OF LOST<\/em> THOUGHT THE NETWORK WOULD CHANGE THE PILOT.<\/span><\/strong> \n 4. ERIC STOLTZ WAS OFFERED THE LEAD.<\/strong><\/span> \n 5. FX EXECUTIVES WERE NOT SOLD ON MICHAEL CHIKLIS.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 15 Incorruptible Facts About The Shield.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… 1. THE CO-CREATOR OF LOST<\/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":[17,51,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899","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=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDamon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost<\/em> and The Leftovers<\/em>, remembered reading Shawn Ryan’s pilot script for The Shield<\/em> and always waiting for Vic Mackey to become an Andy Sipowicz-type, or \u201ca good guy despite his gruff exterior.\u201d Instead, he read the ending where Mackey murdered an Internal Affairs rat in cold blood. \u201cAnd when I read that, I thought to myself, \u2018Shawn Ryan will never get this ending on the air,’\u201d Lindelof recalled to the Chicago Tribune<\/em> in 2008. (Spoiler alert: Lindelof was wrong.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nEric Stoltz was offered the lead role and\u2014and almost took it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nThe network knew Chiklis for his even-tempered roles in The Commish<\/em> (1991-1995) andDaddio<\/em> (2000). Against his agents\u2019 advice, Chiklis took six months off from acting and lost 57 pounds. For his The Shield<\/em> audition, he shaved his head. “When I heard his name mentioned, I thought he was wrong for the role,” Kevin Reilly, FX’s then-president of entertainment told The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cI knew him as a soft, cuddly guy physically and emotionally. He came in with this shaved head and his biceps, and he just chewed through the scene. He blew us away.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"