Hasselhoff was evidently convinced that 15-year old DiCaprio was too old to play Hobie because it would make him appear older.
The kid who ended up getting the part of Hobie for Season 1 wasn’t actually much younger than DiCaprio.
He would have had a very different time in the 90s if Hasselhoff hadn’t considered DiCaprio too old for the part.
Leonard DiCaprio made it almost to the very end of the casting process before David Hasselhoff made his objection, according to THR.
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