Jack O'Connell for Toby Grosini ?

[Serendipity]

That was an interesting interview. I wouldn't've come across that, so thank you. And, yes, it sounds like the problem previously mentioned was indeed a scheduling conflict. I couldn't see when that interview took place, though, relative to the other comments from both Terry Gilliam and John Hurt. Given the statement re waiting on a confirmatory telephone call that day, that would be interesting. It could be that the query was actually over Jack O'Connell and that he was the one who either dropped (or didn't drop) in the end. He's obviously on a roll, and is not unlikely to have been offered something so big that it would've had to supercede TMWKDQ. Terry Gilliams actual words, though, sounded more like someone had been going to do something that had fallen through for scheduling or other reasons but which had been resuscitated. A prior claim, as it were, coming back. And that's less likely re J O'C and coincidences there do slightly point in another particular direction. I'm probably putting two and two together to get five, though, so I won't mention it.

But re the Sancho Panza role, I think that's probably/actually the lead, or at least co-lead with Quixote. And given Jack O'Connell being on the roll he's on, with Oscar buzz potentially for "Unbroken", I don't think he'd be in the market for a very secondary character. So if he's in it, I don't think he could be anyone other than Toby, aka Sancho Panza. And I don't think the John Hurt comment would ever have been made if he was only referring to a secondary character, either.