15 Actors Who Really Wanted To Be In Comic Book Movies (And Failed)
4. Eddie Redmayne Tested For Harry Osborne
Best Actor Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne is currently in the middle of filming the eagerly anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but while the part of Newt Scamander is certainly a big deal, the 33-year-old Londoner still harbours ambitions of appearing alongside some of his Hollywood buds in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"I think those Marvel films like The Avengers - Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston are pals and they look like they have quite a lot of fun on there, so perhaps I could play some sort of weird English baddie."
He isnt the first actor to issue a come-and-get-me plea to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, neither is he the first to go for a smaller part in a superhero movie when playing the hero is no longer an option - when his old friend Andrew Garfield won the part of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man movies Redmayne tested opposite him as Harry Osborn but lost out to Dane DeHaan.