It nearly wasn’t meant to be
Nicholson had previously played the part of the devil, in 1987’s Witches of Eastwick, but God naturally didn’t interest the notoriously mischievous thesp in the same way.
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Nicholson decided to turn God down, leaving the role open for second-choice Freeman to make his own.