20 Ways Your Favourite TV Shows Were Almost Completely Different

18. Seinfeld - Costanza Could've Been Played By Chris Rock Or Danny DeVito

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It's hard to imagine Seinfeld without the core cast of Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards, but one of those was almost very different.

Talking on The Howard Stern Show back in 2015, Alexander reveals that the role of George Costanza was hotly-contested, with the likes of Steve Buscemi and Alan Grier at least testing for it.

What's more, though, is that both Chris Rock and Danny DeVito were offered the part before Alexander and turned it down. Alexander's performance, and his chemistry with Seinfeld, is a huge part of the show's appeal, and it's impossible to imagine anyone else in the role, and DeVito and Rock both would've been very different kinds of Costanza.

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