Fionnuala Jones

Then FX came snooping around and hired them to reshoot the episode for consideration for the show to be picked up.

And they'd all kind of made this pact, the four original stars, so her and the three other lads, that they would all stay together.

They would only do it if they were all signed up.

But in the midst of this, herself and Rob McElhenney are essentially breaking up.

They ended up going off shooting the pilot and everything else.

I think the pilot then ended... So the original pilot was in her apartment.

Then they shot it again, like properly, we'll say, for TV.

But she said she remembered there was a meeting in the FX office.

And when she got there, there were like three desks set up, but there was none for her.

And it was kind of... The inference is that Rob was already kind of, you know, establishing that this wasn't going the distance.

But it's just gas then to bring in like your new girlfriend to the role and then go on and marry her.

Like, it's crazy.

This is one I didn't know either.

Yeah.

So Jodie Foster is obviously the star of Panic Room, but it was almost Nicole Kidman, which is nuts.

Panic Room was the follow up to Fight Club by David Fincher.

Nicole Kidman was tapped for the lead role and she'd filmed for two weeks, but she had to drop out because she had this injury.

She'd just come off of Moulin Rouge and she had this injury that she basically re-aggravated.

And she talked about she was in a really bad way, wanted to do it, but obviously knew she couldn't.

She said Jodie took over and obviously did what she did with that role.