Kurtwood Smith (Boddicker) auditioned for both Boddicker and Jones. He was known mainly for television work and had not experienced film success. He saw "RoboCop" as a B movie with potential. The character was scripted to wear glasses so that he would look like Nazi party member Heinrich Himmler. Smith was unaware of this and interpreted it as the character portraying an intelligent and militaristic front to conceal being a "sneering, smirking drug kingpin". Ironside was offered the role but did not want to be involved with another special effects-laden film after working on "Extreme Prejudice" (1987).