Yes, director Steven Soderbergh’s first choices for those roles were Luke and Owen Wilson, but the pair had to pass due to their commitments on The Royal Tenenbaums.
But a real-life pair of brothers were initially tapped to play the crafty mechanics. Warner Home VideoĪ then-relatively unknown Casey Affleck and Scott Caan more than held their own against their A-list co-stars as siblings Virgil and Turk Malloy. Scott Caan and Casey Affleck in Ocean's Eleven (2001).
