By Joel and Ethan Coen:
"Boo-boos," David Merrick called them -- those big-time show-business casting mistakes that are never widely publicized. Not errors of taste or tone, but flat-out boners. Robert Urich, for instance, was asked to play Spenser, the TV detective, because the show's producers had him confused with Robert Conrad. We had waltzed through eleven films before our own first misfire. Our movie version of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men had Tommy Lee Jones in place -- no mistake there -- as a crusty west-Texas sheriff (...) and to round out the cast we hired -- we thought -- rugged everyman Jim Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, the aging Vietnam vet caught in the middle.
Well, there were some red faces on the set the first day of shooting when Jim Brolin's son Josh showed up to play the part.
Rest of the story at Esquire.
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