![]() I was doing the monologues at ASSSSCAT … and all of these great comedy veterans in town are sitting there doing the show. Take it easy’ … It would be terrible karmically, and it would be jinxing myself. It’s the greatest part,’ and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, no, I heard about that. They’d be like, ‘Oh my God, did you read for that part? I did. Then, NBC said, ‘We would like to give Nick this role, but first, we’d like to spend five months auditioning every other dude in town’ … Everywhere I would go in town, people would talk to me about this part. On the same Comedy Bang Bang interview (above), Nick Offerman reminisces about how NBC insisted on auditioning a bunch of actors to play Ron Swanson after they had already said they want him for the part, specifically mentioning UCB co-founder and Veep star Matt Walsh: “ was not conceived of initially for me, but it quickly became me in their heads. ![]() Things worked out in Offerman’s favor, as he ended up landing a role on the show that was perfectly suited for him, though I am curious to see what him playing Rashida Jones’s normal guy love interest would have been like. ![]() I was in a Big 5 Sporting Goods parking lot when I got this call that it’s over with this part and I was really crushed.” And everything was going great until they showed a tape to NBC, and NBC said, “Uh, no we said, ‘Handsome.’ We said, ‘Handsome guy” … That came to a screeching halt. It was a much younger, somebody more our age, and it was more of a giggly, normal, sarcastic guy. They had me do a chemistry read with Rashida because it was going to end up being … romantic. At the time I was reading for it, though, it was a slightly different character, and it seemed like it was going great. Here’s Offerman telling Scott Aukerman about it during an episode of Comedy Bang Bang last year: “I was reading for another part that ended up sort of becoming Paul Schneider’s part, named Mark Brendanawicz. Prior to being cast as macho Parks Department boss Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman was up for another role on the show. Here’s a collection of known actors who auditioned for Parks and Rec but didn’t get the roles they tried out for, including one actress who went on to win an Oscar, three different guys who almost played Ron Swanson, the romantic lead Nick Offerman was originally supposed to play before he was cast in his iconic mustachioed role. When the show originally began gearing up for production in 2008, pretty much every other comedic performer in Los Angeles tried out for the show. Parks and Recreation has one of the strongest and most eclectic comedy ensembles ever assembled, but as with most shows, the network and the producers looked at a lot of different actresses and actors before deciding on the group they wanted.
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