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Zooey Deschanel Reveals How the 'Elf' Script Was Tailored Specifically For Her

It's hard to imagine anyone other that Zooey Deschanel starring in Elf—and that's partially because her character Jovie was specifically tailored for her. During an appearance on The Tonight Showon ...
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Zooey Deschanel Originally Lost ‘Elf’ Role Because ‘We Just Offered It to Katie Holmes’

Zooey Deschanel revealed during an interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she was offered the female lead in Jon Favreau’s 2003 Christmas movie classic “Elf” only after Katie Holmes dropped ...
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Zooey Deschanel Tells 'Today's Jenna Bush Hager What She Thought About 'Elf' When She First Read The Script: "It's Gonna Come Back Year After Year"

Discover What’s Streaming On: Actress and singer Zooey Deschanel got a chance to look back at one of the most iconic movies of her career while visiting Today With Jenna & Friends Friday: Will Ferrell ...
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Zooey Deschanel says her Elf role was originally offered to Katie Holmes before she dropped out

Zooey Deschanel almost lost her breakout role in Elf to Katie Holmes before a scheduling conflict changed everything.
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Zooey Deschanel’s Role in ‘Elf’ Was Actually Promised to This ’90s Icon

Wait, what? Zooey Deschanel wasn’t the first choice to play Jovie in the movie Elf? That’s right. The role of Jovie, the cynical yet vocally blessed department store clerk working alongside Buddy, the ...
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Zooey Deschanel Says Katie Holmes Almost Played Her Elf Character

Buddy the Elf almost fell in love with a different retail Mrs. Claus. On the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Zooey Deschanel revealed that she almost wasn’t in Elf, as another A-list ...
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Zooey Deschanel reveals she almost missed out on “Elf” role: 'We offered it to Katie Holmes'

Zooey Deschanel revealed in a new interview that she almost didn't star in Elf because Katie Holmes was first offered the role opposite Will Ferrell's Buddy the Elf. "When I met with Jon Favreau, the ...
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Zooey Deschanel nearly missed out on Elf because Katie Holmes had already been cast

Zooey Deschanel originally lost out on Elf to Katie Holmes. The New Girl star arrived to audition for the Christmas classic when she was just 21 years old, only to be told by director Jon Favreau that ...
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Zooey Deschanel reveals her kids' surprising reaction to Elf

Zooey Deschanel hasn’t been able to take her family through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops. Especially because her kids Elsie, 10, and Charlie, ...

Elf fans floored after learning iconic role was originally meant for someone else

Christmas megahit Elf was released in 2003 and stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf alongside a supporting cast made up of ...
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Zooey Deschanel Reveals Her Kids' Surprising Reaction to Elf

Zooey Deschanel hasn’t been able to take her family through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops. “A bunch of my daughter's friends were talking about it, ...