LOS ANGELES—Assuring him the fitting half would come alongside ultimately, actor Will Bachman’s agent knowledgeable him Thursday that, after a prolonged casting course of, the producers of the tv pilot he auditioned for had chosen to go along with a canine within the position as a substitute. “It was very aggressive, and it is best to really feel proud to have gotten so far as you probably did, however in the end they determined an Australian shepherd combine was extra consistent with their imaginative and prescient for the perfect pal character,” Alyssa Jacobs of Inventive Artists Company informed her shopper, saying that regardless of Bachman’s robust audition, callback, and chemistry learn, the present’s artistic group opted to take the position in a much less human, extra canine route. “Look, you already know this enterprise isn’t honest. The entire casting division might be already chummy with Waffles as a result of they know his dad from Air Bud and Homeward Sure. Rejection stings, however on this business, it occurs to everybody—even Jack Nicholson was beat out for that position reverse Tom Hanks in Turner & Hooch.” At press time, the agent had ended the decision on a hopeful notice by letting Bachman know that, if he performed his playing cards proper and the pilot went to collection, he would possibly be capable of choose up work because the canine’s stand-in.
