20 Things You Didn't Know About Mission Impossible 2
16. Thandie Newton Missed Out On Charlies Angels
Dougary Scott wasn't the only one who missed out on a potential career defining role. Thandie Newton played MI2's female lead Nya Nordoff-Hall but those pesky production problems meant she was forced to drop out of the Charlie's Angels reboot.
She had been cast in the part of Alex Nuncy who in the end was played by Lucy Liu. But while Liu's career did take off somewhat after the release of Charlie's Angels, it has been nothing compared to Hugh Jackman's after X-Men, so chances are Newton probably doesn't have many regrets about missing out on the part.
It is remarkable to wonder however, what could have happened had Newton and Scott appeared in Charlie's Angels and X-Men. Would Jackman, Liu and Daniel Craig have become stars? Would Newton have been cast in Westworld? Would Scott have been Oscar nominated for Logan? I guess we'll never know.