Editing Natural Born Killers (section)

=== Casting ===
Stone cast Woody Harrelson partly because, "frankly, he had that American, trashy look. There's something about Woody that evokes Kentucky or [[white trash]]."{{sfn|Seitz|2016|p=307}} At the time, Harrelson was primarily known for his comedic performances, namely his role on the sitcom ''[[Cheers (TV series)|Cheers]]'', and Stone was compelled to cast him against type.<ref name=qa /> Stone cast Lewis for a similar reason, noting that, despite her success as portraying a defiled teenage daughter in ''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1991), he felt she could "pull off white trash, too. Juliette has malice in her eyes. She's got adorable eyes, but they jump and they gleam. I just felt they [were both] right. They didn't feel like they were upper-class people."{{sfn|Seitz|2016|p=307}} Stone tried to convince Lewis to gain muscle mass for her role as Mallory so that she looked tougher, but she refused, saying she wanted the character to look like a pushover, not a bodybuilder.<ref name="Director">{{Cite news |title=Director's Commentary (DVD Extra)}}</ref>

Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Wayne Gale, the reporter chronicling the Knoxes;{{sfn|Seitz|2016|p=239}} Downey prepared for his role as reporter Wayne Gale by spending time with Australian TV shock-king [[Steve Dunleavy]], and later convinced Stone to allow him to portray Gale with an Australian accent.<ref name="qa">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Kyle |date=October 13, 2009 |title=Oliver Stone Q&A: 'Natural Born Killers' |url=https://nypost.com/2009/10/13/oliver-stone-qa-natural-born-killers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190930074451/https://nypost.com/2009/10/13/oliver-stone-qa-natural-born-killers/ |archive-date=September 30, 2019 |website=[[New York Post]]}}</ref> Tom Sizemore was cast as Detective Jack Scagnetti, the psychotic police officer with murderous impulses himself,{{sfn|Seitz|2016|p=240}} while Tommy Lee Jones was cast as Dwight McClusky, a prison warden who appears in the last act of the film.{{sfn|Seitz|2016|p=240}} Rodney Dangerfield, primarily known as a stand-up comedian, portrayed Mallory's rapist father and was allowed by Stone to rewrite all of his own character's lines.<ref name="LA-Rodney">{{Cite web |date=August 21, 1994 |title=MOVIES : Natural Born Actor : Comic titan Rodney Dangerfield is getting respect for his performance as a hateful dad in 'Natural Born Killers' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-21-ca-29578-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=May 27, 2013 |archive-date=September 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915025650/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-21/entertainment/ca-29578_1_natural-born-killers |url-status=live }}</ref>