Original sentence: Ostensibly in a malicious nod, Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum appear in supporting roles which a disingenuous interpretation would qualify as the logical evolution of their respective roles in the original film: Peck stars as a neurotic, Christian fundamentalist and reality-detached attorney who unwittingly defends a falsely impaired Cady, and Mitchum stars as the rather amoral police detective who suggests Bowden the possibility of using alternative means beyond legality to stop Cady
Edited sentence: Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum appear in supporting roles, Peck as Cady's lawyer, and Mitchum as the police detective who suggests to Bowden the possibility of using alternative means to stop Cady