Rich Evans Auditions for Blade Runner 2049

Not many know this, but Rich Evans came very close to getting the lead role in Denis Villeneuve's upcoming Blade Runner sequel. The production company was kind enough to give us the footage of Rich's audition.

[ryswe]

Rich Evans is the key to all of this, he's a funnier character than we've ever had before

[UnknownThomasFan]

Me personally, I loved this audition.

[eggy]

I love how he says his name is Richard and Mike automatically calls him Rich.

[JoseRodriguez-unkc]

I'd pay money to see Rich Evans in a blade runner sequel directed by Ridley Scott.

[chunkychuck]

They did a good job putting this together quickly. The trailer only came out yesterday.

[brando]

I laughed at this so hard back in the day but after having seen the movie the lack of emotion really is the whole point of Gosling’s character

[emothegunslinger]

I didnt know Rich could act THAT good. He really advanced since Space Cop.

[kicsiszol]

one of the greatest actors of our time. we are infinitly fortunate to see him perform.

[PerformanceCheck]

Great stuff! Oddly enough, I feel this is some of the best and genuine acting that I've seen Rich do!

[dnddmdb]

For some reason I love Rich and Jay laughing at the end.

[genex]

Dear Red Letter Media, you should do more of these. Rich Evans looks epic with the music and lighting the with the green screen background. Not necessarily whole scenes but more reaction shots. Sensational.

[ofgs]

The fact that I am alive at the same time as Rich Evens gives me immense happiness.

[waterdamnaged]

Man, Rich has got that Gosling magic captured in a bottle.

[RamsTheNameCom]

I always knew Rich Evans was special... he even won an Oscar for his performance in Space Cop.

[mikewilliams-nocm]

When they showed the actual Gosling scenes I dropped my phone on my face

[the_mighty_bearcat]

I demand an ultimate final director’s cut of Blade Runner 2049 where Rich Evans is inserted in place of Ryan Gossling in every scene … plus an alternate version that includes K’s internal monologue, overdubbed by Rich … and the ending that implies Rich is actually human.

[Spo]

I was so nervous the video was going to end without a Rich Evans laugh.

Got it in under the wire.

[HAL-zxbw]

Someone has to deepfake the whole movie with Rich in place of Gosling. It would be Epic.

One day it will happen!

[rileykaiseeker]

That was an amazing performance. The green screen just hung there so naturally.

[stevangucu]

1:05 Evans looks like Brian James’s part of Leon Kowalski from original Blade Runner.