The funnyman, who starred alongside Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, admits he had no idea his name was in the running at a secret meeting 15 years ago – and he evidently wasn’t the man for the job.
The 67-year-old star tells British newspaper The Sun, “It was brought up in a meeting, apparently, but nobody told me until after they decided against it. I would have loved it. I’d have taken it.”
The role in the 1996 TV movie eventually went to Withnail And I star Paul McGann.
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