Kevin Smith won’t rest until every person who’s ever been in a Kevin Smith movie is in his Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, a fact evidenced by him bringing back everyone from Jason Lee and Brian O’Halloran to a couple dudes who played bit parts at the beginning of Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. His Instagram is filled with casting updates—including the return of Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek!—but just today he confirmed two big gets in Joey Lauren Adams and Rosario Dawson, both of whom are alums of his Viewaskeniverse.
Adams will reprise her role as Chasing Amy’s Alyssa Jones, and Smith notes in a post about her casting that the Jay And Silent Bob franchise would never have happened without her. He made Chasing Amy for her, and it’s in that film that the Bluntman and Chronic characters—a key part of the Jay And Silent Bob movies—are introduced. “When I saw her on shoot day, I said ‘See all these trucks? All this equipment and all these people came all the way to #neworleans today—all because you and I met 24 years ago,” he writes. Aw.
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