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** While Steve Buscemi is no stranger to playing criminals, he's usually cast as weaselly supporting characters rather than the suave man in charge.
** Michael Stuhlbarg, best known up to this point for playing [[Butt Monkey|Larry Gopnik]] in ''[[A Serious Man]]'', now plays Arnold Rothstein, a ruthless mobster.
** Perennial
** Jim True-Frost as the most famous no-nonsense cop in history Eliot Ness is hilarious to anyone who remembers him as the perpetual screw-up Roland Pryzbylewski on ''[[The Wire]]''.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The first casting calls for Season 1 called for the introduction in the season finale of "Declan", Margaret's long estranged brother who was now linked to the [[The Troubles|IRA]]. Instead, Season 2 divided this character and introduced separately Margaret's brother Eamonn, a Brooklyn subway-digger with no interest in politics, and Owen, an IRA enforcer completely unrelated to Margaret.
** Aleksa Palladino revealed in an interview that one considered plot line for the
** The first casting calls for Al Capone's brothers Frank and Ralph came out in Season 2, but Domenick Lombardozzi (seen in ''[[The Wire]]'' and ''[[Entourage]]'') was confirmed as Ralph only in Season 4. In Season 2, Al mentions that he is going to Brooklyn to take his brothers and bring them to Chicago.
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