Some of your favorite TV characters could have been played by completely different actors. Prepare to have your mind blown.
Betty White as Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls
Betty was originally cast to play Blanche. Instead she chose to switch for the role of Rose, she was afraid of being typecast as another man-hungry character (she had played that role as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show).
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Rue McClanahan as Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls
Rue was originally cast as Rose! Betty White suggested they switch roles as both were being typecast. Rue had played the naive neighbor on Maude.
Elaine Stritch as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls
Tea Leoni as Rachel Green on Friends
Tea Leoni was the producers first choice to play Rachel, but she ended up passing on the project.
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