First Impression
Ed O’Neill got the role of Al Bundy mainly because of the casting directors’ first impression of him. Initially, Ed had been invited to come in for a reading since an executive at Fox had remembered the performance he did as Lenny on ‘Of Mice & Men’ – that is, its stage production. Turning up for the audition, Ed breathed deeply, hunched his shoulders, and walked lazily to the place where the show’s casting judges had been seated. He had become Al Bundy without being even aware of it!
First Impression
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