[imgabe]

You reach out to someone to do a job, they decline to take the job, you find someone else who can do the job in a similar way. You do not need the consent of the person who declined the job to hire someone else.

I'm sure lots of movies have tried to cast Scarlett Johanson for a role and she declined, so they went with another actress who looked similar. Should she sue them too?

[hot_gril]

There's a whole market of people who look sorta like famous people, hired for B-rate movies.

[imgabe]

There was an entire industry of people just impersonating Elvis. I don't think they needed his (or his estate's) permission to do that other than paying royalties to the songwriters to perform the songs.

[ambyra]

I’m sure this happens all the time in Hollywood. I’ve seen lots of movies thinking, “oh I guess they couldn’t get Jack Black for this role”, or Johnny Depp, or whoever it seemed like the part was intended for.

[CRConrad]

> You reach out to someone to do a job, they decline to take the job, you find someone else who can do the job in a similar way. You do not need the consent of the person who declined the job to hire someone else.

If the job is being the first person you reached out to, then you accept that you can't get the job done...

Legally. He took the other option.