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** Creator/KenRussell was attached to direct, but left over an irreconcilable difference of opinion regarding the casting of the lead role; the producers were determined to cast Elaine Paige, the actress who had created the role in the West End, and Russell was equally determined not to. His own first choice was [=Karla DeVito=], and after she was turned down he also considered Creator/LizaMinnelli.
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** Jon Peters was offered to co-produce with fellow friend Robert Stigwood, who wanted to cast his then-girlfriend Music/BarbraStreisand as Eva but she turned it down due to not being fond of the New York stage musical.
** Creator/KenRussell was attached to direct, but left over an irreconcilable difference of opinion regarding the casting of the lead role;the producers Stigwood, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber and Tim Rice were determined to cast Elaine Paige, the actress who had created the role in the West End, and Russell was equally determined not to. His own first choice was [=Karla DeVito=], and after she was turned down he also considered Creator/LizaMinnelli.
** Creator/KenRussell was attached to direct, but left over an irreconcilable difference of opinion regarding the casting of the lead role;
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** Hot off the success of ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', Creator/OliverStone lobbied to direct the project, going so far as to meet with the President of Argentina, Carlos Menem, to secure location permits and extras. He cast Creator/MerylStreep as Eva, who began recording the musical dub track (that Creator/AndrewLloydWebber called "staggering"), but the production imploded due to the 1989 Argentina riots and a pay dispute with Streep.
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** Hot off the success of ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', Creator/OliverStone lobbied to direct the project, going so far as to meet with the President of Argentina, Carlos Menem, to secure location permits and extras. He cast Creator/MerylStreep as Eva, who began recording the musical dub track (that Creator/AndrewLloydWebber Lloyd Webber called "staggering"), but the production imploded due to the 1989 Argentina riots and a pay dispute with Streep.
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* FakeNationality: None of the main actors in the 1996 film are Argentinians, despite the film taking place there. Music/{{Madonna}} (Eva Perón), Olga Merediz (Bianca Duarte) and Laura Pallas (Elisa Duarte) are Americans, Creator/AntonioBanderas (Ché) and Victoria Sus (Juana Ibarguren) are Spanish, Andrea Corr (Juan Perón's mistress) is Irish, and Jonathan Pryce (Juan Perón), Creator/JimmyNail (Agustin Magaldi), Julian Littman (Juancito Duarte), Julia Worsley (Erminda Duarte), Gary Brooker (Juan Atilio Bramuglia), Creator/PeterPolycarpou (Domingo Mercante) and Peter Hughes (Francisco Franco) are British.
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* FakeNationality: None of the main actors in the 1996 film are Argentinians, despite the film taking place there. Music/{{Madonna}} (Eva Perón), Olga Merediz Creator/OlgaMerediz (Bianca Duarte) and Laura Pallas (Elisa Duarte) are Americans, Creator/AntonioBanderas (Ché) and Victoria Sus (Juana Ibarguren) are Spanish, Andrea Corr (Juan Perón's mistress) is Irish, and Jonathan Pryce (Juan Perón), Creator/JimmyNail (Agustin Magaldi), Julian Littman (Juancito Duarte), Julia Worsley (Erminda Duarte), Gary Brooker (Juan Atilio Bramuglia), Creator/PeterPolycarpou (Domingo Mercante) and Peter Hughes (Francisco Franco) are British.
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* DyeingForYourArt: In a special about Music/{{Madonna}}, while talking about her role in the movie, Madonna's two backup singers (who had toured with her for years and probably knew her voice almost as well as she did) mentioned that the songs for the movie were quite a bit outside Madonna's normal range and to stretch her voice as far as she did to sing in the movie was a minor miracle.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/PattiLuPone, the original Broadway Eva, never saw the entire film but disliked the songs and scenes she did experience, especially the lowered keys to accommodate Madonna’s vocal range. [=LuPone=] has subsequently called Madonna a fine performer in her own right but a “movie killer.”
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* NoDubForYou: Because the 1996 film was adapted from a sung-through concept album, all of the international releases feature the original English dialogue.
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* NoDubForYou: Because the 1996 film was adapted from a sung-through concept album, all of the international releases feature the original English dialogue.dialogue, even though the stage production had received many translations by that point. This is also explainable by Madonna’s involvement, as international fans wouldn’t have wanted to hear another singer’s voice come out of Madonna’s mouth.
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** In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s.
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** In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s. Tina Arena, who starred in the 2018 Australian revival, was 50 at the time.
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** For the film, Madonna was 37, playing Eva from ages 15 to 33 (although she’d been in consideration for the role for a decade by the time it was finally filmed).
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** Hot off the success of ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', Creator/OliverStone lobbied to direct the project, going so far as to meet with the President of Argentina to secure location permits and extras. He cast Creator/MerylStreep as Eva, who began recording the musical dub track (that Creator/AndrewLloydWebber called "staggering"), but the production imploded due to the 1989 Argentina riots and a pay dispute with Streep.
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** Hot off the success of ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', Creator/OliverStone lobbied to direct the project, going so far as to meet with the President of Argentina Argentina, Carlos Menem, to secure location permits and extras. He cast Creator/MerylStreep as Eva, who began recording the musical dub track (that Creator/AndrewLloydWebber called "staggering"), but the production imploded due to the 1989 Argentina riots and a pay dispute with Streep.
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* DawsonCasting: In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s.
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** In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s.
** In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s.
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* DawsonCasting: In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33.
** Likewise for Peron's mistress, [[{{Squick}} for obvious reasons]].
** Likewise for Peron's mistress, [[{{Squick}} for obvious reasons]].
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* DawsonCasting: In Eva's first appearance, she is 15 years old; she ages 18 years over the course of the show, dying at age 33.
33. Most actresses who play the role are in their 30s.
** Likewise for Peron's mistress, who's supposed to be a teenager but usually played by actresses in their 20s, [[{{Squick}} for obvious reasons]].
** Likewise for Peron's mistress, who's supposed to be a teenager but usually played by actresses in their 20s, [[{{Squick}} for obvious reasons]].
