Tom Cruise is perfect
(WARNING: details of the film explicitly discussed!)
I remember hearing that for the role of main protagonist (eventually named Dr. William Harford) in Stanley Kubrick's last project (eventually named Eyes Wide Shut) the director considered Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Albert Brooks.
I shook my head. "No. They aren't right."
"Why not? It's a comedy, well an erotic comedy, and they're comic actors."
I shook my head. "No."
