What a great guy.

- The chemistry is gonna be fire!

- Yes. - Run far, far, away.

(laughs) You're a nightmare.

- Shut up!

It's a movie for a whole family.

- Whole family can enjoy.

(upbeat blues guitar music)

Hey, welcome to "The Recast."

I'm Kerryn Feehan.

- And I'm Myka Fox.

- And we are about to recast "Forrest Gump,"

the famous coming of age tale, starring Tom Hanks.

- Yeah, that's what it's known for.

- It is!

He's young in the beginning, and then he's of age.

He is a man of with a low IQ,

turns out he can run really fast.

He winds up in 'Nam,

and then gets Jenny pregnant, who eventually has AIDS.

- [Myka] Has an AIDS baby.

- Yep.

- It's movie for the whole family.

- Whole family can enjoy.

You like shrimp?

You'll love "Forrest Gump."

- So the first person we're gonna recast

is the lead, Forrest.

Originally played by Tom Hanks.

- [Myka] He's okay.

- [Kerryn] Are you familiar?

- [Myka] I've heard of him.

- [Kerryn] I thought I would go with an all-American,

but also someone who looks like they have a low IQ.

- [Myka] Right, yes.

- [Kerryn] John Krasinski. (upbeat music)

- [Myka] Oh, that's good!

- [Kerryn] Thank you so much. - That is good!

Oh my God. - I thought so.

- He does straight up look dumb.

- He has like that dumb lower lip

that makes you think, like, pull that thing back.

Yeah, it'd look pensive if he could.

- [Myka] Yeah that's why like, in The Office,

every time he's just staring at the camera making a face,

'cause he literally doesn't know what he wants.

- No, but he's adorable.

- That's funny

- I'm so physically attracted to him.

- Yeah, you're right, he can play young and old.

- Young, old, (mumbles)

- That's a smart choice, but not as good as mine.

- Oh my--

- I went for an all-American too,

but I found someone with like, better acting chops

than John Krasinski--

- Krasinski's in like a bunch of movies.

- Okay well, to replace Forrest,

I think we should use David Spade.

He looks both like a little boy and an old man.

Think about it, if you put David Spade in Forrest Gump,

that is literally the only difference from

Forrest Gump being Joe Dirt.

- (laughs) Yeah I guess.

- [Myka] It's just like, just one idiot

somehow being in the important places in all the right times

- [Kerryn] Throw a mullet on him, and he's Joe Dirt.

- [Myka] Right!

I feel so strongly about it--

- On a scale of one to ten?

- (laughs) twenty. - Fine.

You can have him. - [Myka] Yes!

- [Kerryn] Forrest Gump played by David Spade.

- [Myka] You know he's so fine.

- [Kerryn] He can't even run.

I mean, I just don't believe in his lung capacity in any way

he's not gonna do those running scenes.

- That's why it'd be so funny, him in Vietnam would be like,

"Ooh, ooh, I think someone threw their leg off."

- [Kerryn] Okay, ready?

Let's cast, this is the next one.

This is Jenny!

(both laughing)

- [Kerryn] Jenny.

Originally played by Robin Wright.

You're never gonna guess who I cast as Jenny.

I'm just gonna tell you.

- [Myka] Okay, just tell me.

- [Kerryn] David Spade.

- [Myka] No, stop it!

(Kerryn laughs)

- Did you really, let me see that.

- Yeah, look (laughs)

- Shut up!

- David Spade for both?

- Praying in the field like,

"fly, fly away, I'm a little bird"

and then--

- [Myka] Oh my God, I love it.

- This is perfect, I mean,

maybe he'll take it as a compliment--

- Like, Eddie Murphy in the, it's Forrest Clumps.

- [Kerryn] It is, it really is.

Devid and David.

I mean, who loves David Spade more than David Spade?

- [Myka] I, he should play all the roles.

I think all the other roles are David Spade.

- [Kerryn] Did you cast a born woman?

- [Myka] Oh yeah, I did a bor-- well, actually, who knows?

- [Kerryn] Oh great.

- [Myka] For Jenny, I did Kim Kardashian.

- [Kerryn] Okay!

- [Myka] Right?

- [Kerryn] Okay.

- [Myka] But instead of getting AIDS,

she like, dies of like, tummy tea illness (laughs)

- So, in your scenario, David Spade is protecting--

- Kim Kardashian - Kim Kardashian

- Right, 'cause think about it.

It makes sense, she sort of like marries,

like the richest person she knows.

- That's true.

Has no real talent.

Just follows along with whatever guy she's with

- [Myka] Right. Yeah.

- [Kerryn] Gets into politics but in like

a pseudo kind of way, not like, a real way.

So we get Spade and Kardashian

or Spade and Spade.

What do we do?

I mean the thought of David Spade mounting Kim Kardashian

does excite me--

- Yeah, totally.

- Fine, I'll give you this, but like,

I think I get a point for just thinking of David Spade.

- [Myka] I mean I love it,

and I do want him to play both rolls,

but also Kim is like the perfect "Jenny!"

- [Kerryn] Spade and Kim.

- [Myka] Spade and Kim. Okay.

- [Kerryn] Okay. So now we have to recast Lieutenant Dan.

- [Myka] Right.

- [Kerryn] Originally played by Gary Sinise, big fan.

Oh he's so great in this film.

Lieutenant Dan eventually has no legs,

so I cast someone,

who I feel like already physically fits the description.

- [Myka] Okay, yeah.

- [Kerryn] Peter Dinklage

(Myka laughs)

You know, he's in 'nam,

he's like telling people what to do.

Game of Thrones, he has battlefield experience already.

- [Myka] Right.

It's so good, it's so good.

I did a similar thought process, but instead of--

- [Kerryn] Has no legs?

- [Myka] This one actually has no legs, right?

I thought it would be perfect to cast Oscar Pistorius.

(both laugh)

He's both an athlete with no legs,

and he's a murderer. - Isn't he a criminal?

- Yeah, he murdered his wife or something,

or his girlfriend. - Right, right.

- He's in jail,

but I like a lot of jail pics--

- [Kerryn] I know, you like,

you're just picking an actual criminal.

One of these, I bet he doesn't know the Meisner Technique,

he probably can't memorize lines,

he's got a thick accent too, right?

- What lines to memorize?

All he has to do is have sex with prostitutes

and get angry on a boat, I mean--

- He was the fastest--

- I think he would do a better job.

- [Kerryn] All right we have Gary,

Dinklage is Garry's (mumbles),

so Lieutenant Dinklage.

- [Myka] Lieutenant Dinklage.

- [Kerryn] All right now finally, we have to recast Bubba,

played by Mykelti Williamson, excellent role.

I went with somebody who is business-minded

and also knows a lot about food.

Oprah.

- [Myka] (laughs) Yeah.

- Right?

- That is a great choice.

- I could see her on a shrimping boat.

Khakis and the cute Oprah hat, she's like

"I'm Bubba Gump."

- And sort of has this like, homespun wisdom.

- [Kerryn] Right?

- [Myka] Yeah, I see that.

- [Kerryn] She'll be kind to someone with a low I.Q.,

not hurtful--

- [Myka] Well, kina also, Bubba kinda has a low I.Q.

They were both kinda dumb together,

that's why they were friends.

- [Kerryn] That's true.

- [Myka] "You lean on me, and I'll lean on you."

- Remember Oprah and color purple

after she got hit in the face?

- Also Southern!

Nailed it.

- I think she got nominated for an Oscar for that.

- [Myka] Yeah.

- Bubba, Oprah, two syllables.

- [Myka] Well then, for that reason alone,

my choice also works.

- [Kerryn] Why?

- [Myka] Cause I picked Lizzo.

- [Kerryn] That's just young Oprah!

- Young Oprah! Lizzo is young Oprah--

- Who can also play the flute.

- But she can also play the flute, and also I think like,

Lizzo kind of gives of that like, "just do you",

like uplifting,"I don't care if I'm like sleeping in the mud

and having grenades thrown at me, I'm Lizzo.

I'm feeling good as hell."

- Body positive.

- Right, yeah.

I think Lizzo's the winner here because she's hot and trendy

- [Kerryn] She's hot and trendy right now.

- [Myka] But overdoes, her fans will watch anything.

- [Kerryn] We could see if we can get Oprah on board,

in like another way.

- [Myka] Okay-- - [Kerryn] Lizzo's fine.

- [Myka] Lizzo?

- [Kerryn] You can have her,

- [Myka] (sighs) I love her.

- [Kerryn] So this is our new film.

- [Myka] Yes.

- [Kerryn] Our new Forrest will be played by

none other than David Spade.

David Spade's love interest, Jenny,

will obviously be played by humanitarian Kim Kardashian.

- [Myka] Perfect, right.

- [Kerryn] The chemistry is gonna be fire.

- [Myka] Yes!

- [Kerryn] And then Lieutenant Dan will be played by--

- [Myka] Peter Dinklage!

- [Kerryn] Okay, Peter Dinklage.

- [Myka] We picked Peter.

- [Kerryn] Good, Peter. (laughs)

He's gonna be thrilled.

And then finally our Bubba, is none other than

the flute-playing twerking, body-positive, Lizzo.

It's a great colorful cast, full of talented people,

and you know, the right amount of legs.

- I love it.

I would watch that movie.

- I would watch it too, if I had enough edibles.

(Myka laughs)

I'll watch anything.