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The reason for the re-casting of the Stuart character


I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this before. It was not because of 'scheduling' conflicts for the original actor, Xander Berkely. It was probably for the simple reason that the producers figured that Xander at nearly 60 was too old to play the action sequences that were required by the actor. So they got someone younger like Dougray Scott to play it. I hate when producers do this in sequels, but here it does kind of make sense.

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I didn't remember the name of the ex-husband from the 2 previous movies so I just assumed he was her new husband.
I knew he was trouble the moment he showed up. He was the villain in MI2 (he was fantastic there). You don't hire him to play a nice, innocent man.






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Dougray Scott is one of the worst actor ever. Never understand the hype with this guy... he was a terrible vilain in MI2, was bloody awful in Ripley and in this.... he is beyond awful !!! He looks like a burnt out guy with no passion, maybe i'm wrong, but i was scared when they said he could make Wolverine.

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In Taken 2 Lenore and Stuart's marriage was supposedly going through a rough patch. I didn't remember her husband's name in Taken 1 so I thought she'd remarried. Guess I should pay more attention.

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I didn't even notice and kinda binged the trilogy. xD

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