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* The titular ''[[The Men Who Stare at Goats|Men Who Stare At Goats]]'' call themselves "Jedi Knights." So who should be cast as the reporter writing a story on this covert group of psychic warriors, making such statements as, "I don't understand what a Jedi Knight is"? Ewan McGregor.
** According to McGregor, the director didn't even realize this, although McGregor himself played it up.
* Is it just a coincidence that Nestor Carbonell, who played the Mayor in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', also played Batmanuel in the TV
* [[Derek Jacobi]], famous for ''[[I, Claudius]]'', as a Roman senator in ''[[Gladiator]]'' and as King ''Claudius'' in Brannagh's ''[[Hamlet]]''.
** Jacobi's character in ''[[Dead Again]]'' {{spoiler|stutters}}, just like Claudius.
** Jacobi plays the Archbishop of Canterbury in ''The King's Speech'', which is all about another monarch getting over a [[Speech Impediment]], and arguably, the clergyman role could be a ''[[Cadfael (TV series)|Cadfael]]''-based Casting Gag.
* In David Mamet's adaptation of the play ''[[The Winslow Boy]]'', Neil North plays the First Lord of the Admiralty. In the 1948 film of the same play, North had played the title character (a supporting role).
* The same year Mark Williams was cast as the technology-loving wizard Arthur Weasley in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movie series, he was also an enthusiastic presenter in ''Industrial Revelations'', a documentary series about the history of technology.
** In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]'', after Bill was attacked, he was said to bear a distinct resemblance to Mad-Eye Moody. In
** In the epilogue, Draco Malfoy's wife Astoria was played by [[Tom Felton]]'s real life girlfriend.
* [[Miranda Richardson]] has been in so many roles that involve [[Off with His Head|beheading]]—Queen Elizabeth in ''[[Blackadder]] II'', the Queen of Hearts in 1999's ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' TV miniseries, Lady Van Tassel in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''—that it's hard to imagine her role as the chicken-killing Mrs. Tweedy in ''[[Chicken Run]]'' being anything other than an allusion to her past head-removing roles.
* [[Sean Connery]] was cast as [[Indiana Jones]]' father in ''[[Indiana Jones and the
** And to really push the joke home, four other actors had been in Bond films (Julian Glover was Bond villain Kristatos in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', Alison Doody was [[Girl of the Week|Bond girl Jenny Flex]] in ''[[A View to a Kill]]'', John Rhys-Davies was Bond ally Pushkin in ''[[The Living Daylights]]'', and the Brunwald castle butler was nightclub owner Max Kalba in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]''.
** He similarly played the proto-Indiana in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''.
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