Did you know that the role of Garcia in Criminal Minds was supposed to be a middle-aged Mexican man? The producers were so impressed by Kirsten Vangsness’ audition -and we don’t know what role she auditioned for- that they changed the character to a young woman so they could hire her. And Hugh Laurie completely fooled executive producer/director Bryan Singer into thinking he was an American to get the role of Gregory House, M.D. But that’s just the beginning. Warming Glow gives us a list of 11 roles in ten TV shows that were changed in order to fit the actor that impressed the producers.
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