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James Murphy Was Maybe Going to Act in The Corrections

James Murphy==Volkswagen, MoMa and MoMa PS1 Host an After Party Featuring a Special Live Musical Performance==MoMa, NYC==May 23, 2011
James Murphy==Volkswagen, MoMa and MoMa PS1 Host an After Party Featuring a Special Live Musical Performance==MoMa, NYC==May 23, 2011 Photo: Nicholas Hunt & Ryan McCune/PatrickMcMullan.com

Today in What Might Have Been: Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy tells the New York Times that he was in talks for Noah Baumbach’s now-defunct adaptation of The Corrections. “I was potentially going to play Gary, which I was excited about. But I don’t think I was going to get it. Although since it didn’t happen, Noah was just like, ‘Just say you got it. We didn’t have another Gary.’” That counts.

James Murphy Was Almost Cast in The Corrections