
What Tom Hanks brought to it was so much lighter. “Robert De Niro wandering around the streets of New York. It was more of a - a little more of a horror movie,” she explained. Elizabeth Perkins is an American actress best known for playing Celia Hodes in Showtime’s television series Weeds, for which she garnered two Golden Globe nominations and three Primetime Emmy nominations. Perkins said “Big” was a more serious film with De Niro playing the part and lacked the goofy charm that Hanks brought to the lead role. 28 Days (2000) Not to be confused with the zombie flick, 28 Days Later Bullock is alcoholic writer Gwen Cummings who gets plastered at her sister 's ( Elizabeth Perkins) wedding, knocks over the.
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It’s like a totally different movie in my brain with Robert De Niro.” “It fell apart because he had a scheduling conflict, and then they went to Tom Hanks. “Robert De Niro was actually cast in the role of Josh in the movie ‘Big,’” Perkins said. But Perkins said she first auditioned for “Big” by reading scenes opposite De Niro, not Hanks. Tom Hanks ultimately landed the part of Josh in the Penny Marshall-directed 1988 body swap comedy, and his performance remains one of his most famous to this day. She has a daughter with Maurice Phillips. Elizabeth is married to Argentinian-born cinematographer Julio Macat. She is the daughter of Jo, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a businessperson, writer, and farmer. Elizabeth Perkins on Truth Be Told, The Moodys, & Roles for Older Women (2019). During a recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” (via NME), actress Elizabeth Perkins shined a light on an alternate version of “ Big” in which the original casting of Robert De Niro as Josh Baskin stuck. Elizabeth Perkins is an American actress.
