In the movie Jurassic Park, there was a casting accident (fluke) that helped make the movie the biggest movie of all-time some three decades ago.
The casting accident was this guy:
The guy to the right. Wayne Knight would be his name. During the 1980s and early 1990s he had a few small roles before he was the first actor cast for Steven Spielberg’s mega hit. Spielberg had seen Knight’s “sweaty” performance in Basic Instinct, during that interrogation scene with Sharon Stone, nod your heads, you know the one, and thought that the guy would be magic as the lead heel (bad guy) in his new movie.
Turns out that he was right. Knight’s casting as Dennis Nedry, a weasel of a computer programmer that sabotages the park and attempts to steal its secrets, was very enjoyable. Knight’s character was given a bag of cash by the poor soul to the left, who ended up not only giving him millions of dollars for the dinosaur embryos that were to be contained in the screw-off bottom of the Barbasol can, but he also paid for the dude’s meal!
Knight didn’t even have to audition for the role. He was instantly offered it. What a year 1993 was for him. He was a part of the biggest television show of all-time in Seinfeld, during its greatest season (4), and he played one of the best characters of his career in Jurassic Park, a film that would become, at the time, the biggest movie ever.