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Palahniuk: Rockwell perfect for 'Choke'
Published Thursday, Nov 20 2008, 08:36 GMT | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The Fight Club author said that he initially could not picture Rockwell playing sex addict Victor Mancine, but was surprised by how well the actor brought his literary creation to life.
"Sam Rockwell's never really occurred to me as an actor," said Palahniuk. "Everything I've seen him in I've always just associated him so strongly with that character.
"So he's always been the crazy man in The Green Mile, the over-the-top guy in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy or the really sympathetic character in Galaxy Quest.
"I never thought of those characters as being Sam Rockwell. So, he was not somebody that I would think of but he was just perfect."
Heath Ledger and Ryan Gosling were both linked with the lead role before writer-director Clark Gregg decided to cast Rockwell.
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