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* Valve wanted someone with the vocal talent of [[Louis Gossett Jr.]] to voice the extra-dimensional beings known as the Vortigaunt in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', based on his performance in ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]''. They ended up with... Louis Gossett Jr. Too bad not for the following episode releases, though.

** Another Valve example: the writers of ''[[Portal 2]]'' wrote Wheatley's character specifically with [[Stephen Merchant]] in mind, but they never expected to actually land him for the role. It wasn't until after the actor they first cast backed out that they decided to contact Merchant, just for the hell of it, and, lo and behold, he said yes.

* The script of ''[[Predators]]'' described Cuchillo as "a guy who looks like [[Danny Trejo]]." When Danny Trejo heard this, he called Robert Rodriguez and said "Hey, I heard there's a guy in the script for Predators who looks just like Danny Trejo and guess what, I look just like Danny Trejo!"

* Character Tod Spengo from [[Mom and Dad Save The World]] was so heavily based on Jon Lovitz' stage persona that they would have simply named the character "Jon Lovitz" if they thought they could get him. They actually did, and Lovitz loved the Tod-centric set pieces so much he said he wanted to take them home and put them around his pool.