Actors who turned down important roles, a dubious choice made by great filmmakers and later regretted.
When the cast of a film is selected, the first one is unlikely to be the one who actually gets the part. Many famous faces in cinema turned down roles that have since become iconic. Loud failures, symbolic movie roles. From La La Land to Barbie, Titanic and The Silence of the Lambs. Rejects Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Where could we see these faces and perhaps they would work better than the one who then played this role?
Famous movie roles rejected by the great Hollywood stars
Rejection made history This is Gwyneth Paltrow who turned down the role of Rose in Titanic for another project. In fact, the actress was involved in Alfonso Cuaron’s Paradise Lost. James Cameron initially disliked Kate Winslet. she found it boring and seemed inappropriate to her for the role, but due to rejection, Paltrow decided to meet her and was blinded by her competence and beauty.
Damien Chazelle in La La Land he thought of the other two actors. Another Emma: Emma Watson paired with Miles Teller. It seems impossible to think of two different main characters, especially given the huge closeness between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Teller apparently turned it down for economic reasons while Emma Watson continued with the Beauty and the Beast project.
Instead, Harrison Ford should thank Al Pacino. during his career he played with Star Wars and Han Solo in fact, he owes it to his refusal. In fact, the actor turned down the role in the epic film because he couldn’t understand his universe. In an interview with MTV, Pacino said: “That was the moment in my career when I was offered everything”
However, Rachel McAdams refused. not one, but three times the role of Andy Sachs in “The Devil Wears Prada” unbelievable but true. The role, as we well know, then went to Anne Hathaway. Instead, Shia LaBeouf turned down Luca Guadagnino and the role in Call Me By Your Name, which then went to Armie Hammer, alongside Timothée Chalamet. The actor was busy filming Borg McEnroe.
The recent rejection of a film that has been making headlines for months now. First choice for the role of “Barbie” It wasn’t Margot Robbie, it was Gal Gadot. The actress had to turn it down due to a busy filming schedule for the Disney action movie Snow White and the remake of Cleopatra.
Another cult film, another crazy rejection. The role of Forrest Gump should not have gone to Tom Hanks but John Travolta. The Grease actor turned down the role, as did Bill Murray. Apparently they didn’t realize the potential, even though Tom Hanks also won an Oscar.
Pretty Woman is Pretty Woman, and those roles now belong exclusively to Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. However, the first candidate for this role was Al Pacino. While Kevin Costner blew a scary hole in the water with Water World, he preferred the iconic Shawshank Redemption, a role that went to Tim Robbins.
role instead Michael Corleone in The Godfather prior to completion, Al Pacino was offered by: Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Ryan O’Neill, Dustin Hoffman, who declined. Tom Hanks for his part turned down a role in Jerry Maguire instead, then went to Tom Cruise. In fact, the actor was not convinced by the love story of Jerry and the heroine Renee Zellweger.
Leonardo DiCaprio was persuaded to refuse a role in the film “American Psycho”. The actor had already signed on for the role, but the project was later shelved, and DiCaprio’s entourage convinced him to turn down the role, fearing that the actor would lose the fans that had gathered thanks to Titanic.
Instead Michelle Pfeiffer she bitterly regretted that she had refused role in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. The role of Clarice Starling was supposed to belong to her, and then went to Jodie Foster, but, according to Pfeiffer, the project was too “little known”.
Another famous Will Smith rejection of The Matrix, which we all know went to Keanu Reeves, while Smith focused on the Wild, Wild West.