Faye Dunaway had proved to be difficult and many actresses had been considered for the role, including Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld, Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley, Leslie Caron, and Natalie Wood. Penn loved Dunaway and managed to convince actor and producer, Warren Beatty, who played Clyde Barrow in the film, that she was right for the part. Besides her relative anonymity, Beatty's concern was her "extraordinary bone structure", which he thought might be inappropriate for Bonnie Parker, a local girl trying to look innocent while she held up smalltown Texas banks. However, he changed his mind after seeing some photographs of Dunaway taken by
Faye Dunaway his life "The Kid Stays in the Picture". In 2017, Dunaway appeared in her first feature film in eight years with the release of "The Bye Bye Man", a horror-thriller that proved to be a commercial success, despite negative reviews, and earned her positive notices. Dunaway then accepted a small role in "The Case for Christ", a Christian drama based on the 1998 book of the same name by Lee Strobel, as she wanted to do a faith film, "I became aware of this genre maybe a year or two ago and I told my agent to look out for