Auditions Once accepted by the FOX project, offered to pilot the direction of Bryan Singer, who had recently directed the film adaptation X-Men. Singer wanted above all that the protagonist was an American actor, to avoid problems with accents. During the hearings, the British actor Hugh Laurie was in the filming of the movie Flight of the Phoenix in Namibia . Laurie recorded his hearing in the bathroom of a hotel, the only place with enough light, and sent to Singer.
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