Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn famously exchanged the roles of Thomas Becket and Henry II in the initial Broadway run of Jean Anhouilh’s Becket in 1960 (and then on tour Olivier and Arthur Kennedy did the same)
Still, for purposes of this thread the Interesting Little Factoid is that Cumberbatch is of course TV’s Sherlock Holmes, and so too is Miller.
Sorry – that bity wasn’t obvious to me.
And speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey, Jr. are likely to appear in movies together in the not-too-distant future, in the Marvel cinematic universe.
At that, Kevin “Robin Hood” Costner and Russell “Robin Hood” Crowe were playing Superman’s two dads in MAN OF STEEL.