Face/Off Werb and Michael Colleary tried to sell to a studio from as early as 1990. The first actors who were chosen to play Sean Archer and Castor Troy were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger respectively but John Woo instead hired John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to play those characters. It took numerous studios, producers and rewrites before John Woo became attached several years later. For the Archer character, Woo considered casting either Michael Douglas or Jean-Claude Van Damme with whom he had worked in "Hard Target". When the film was eventually made, Douglas served as an executive producer. Werb and
Margaret Travolta with David Keith, "Catch Me If You Can" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, "National Security" with Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn, "High Fidelity" with John Cusack and Jack Black (as John Cusack's mother), and "While You Were Sleeping" with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. Her television credits include the recurring roles of Dr. Helen Boyd on "NYPD Blue" and Sister Mary Margaret on "Days of Our Lives", and guest starring appearances on "The Drew Carey Show", "Strong Medicine", and "Early Edition". Margaret Travolta Margaret Travolta is an American actress and a sister of actor John Travolta. Travolta, one of