Then Blade aka Wesley Snipes showed up and got the part. Despite the fact that he wasn't a very good ballplayer, he was pretty athletic and after the training camp prior to shooting, his game became convincing enough to fool everybody including me into thinking he was legit.
As for Keanu, he like most white men (although his dad is partly Asian, which makes it even worse for basketball) is cursed with a White man's disease i.e. being unathletic. He played hockey growing up and apparently never laid his hands on a basketball for long enough which made it possible for Woody Harrelson to get this part (that's a straight-up quote from Woody's interview with British Newspaper Metro, almost a straight-up quote). Woody's career would've been a lot different if he hadn't landed this part, just imagine, he wouldn't have banged that chick in True Detective per se.
On the other hand, Keanu said in an interview in 1996 that they ruined the movie, because, "it had, it used to have more heart and more, they, they, punked out and made it this buddy film. I mean, it wasn't a buddy film." It is an interesting take, dude must've wanted some Point Break-like deep relationship between the main characters.
And finally, the man, who would've brought trash talk of the flick to another level and made it more hilarious overall, I'm not talking about John Cusack (who was also considered), I'm talking about Michael Rapport. Practically nobody at the time, to be honest, nor the biggest star right now, but still a super funny actor. He is the guy who I would love to see in a movie like that.
At the end of the day casting crew did its job, the dynamic duo of Wesley and Woody still looks great and ranked right up there in the pantheon of the best dynamic duos of all time, somewhere between Spongebob and Patrick and Dr. Dre and Snoop. I would say it's a well-done job.
Who would you cast to play these parts if this movie were being made today?
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