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Gal Gadot was initially provided a starring position in Greta Gerwig’s hiiiiighly anticipated film Barbie, however mentioned no to the position resulting from scheduling conflicts.
Margot Robbie instructed Vogue, “Gal Gadot is Barbie energy. Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork.”
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Amy Schumer was additionally tied to Barbie at one level, however left the film resulting from “creative differences.”
“The studio definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it. The only way I was interested in doing it,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “The concept that that’s simply what each girl should need, proper there, I ought to have gone, ‘You’ve received the incorrect gal.’”
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Jackie Chan turned down the starring position in Everything Everywhere All At Once. The movie’s directing duo, The Daniels, even traveled to China to get him to signal onto the film however he handed.
They ended up rewriting the position for Michelle Yeoh, who gained an Academy Award for her efficiency within the film, and he or she jokes that Jackie nonetheless teases her about him being provided the position first. “Jackie actually texted me,” she mentioned. “And he says: ‘Wow, I hear amazing things about your movie. Did you know that the boys came to see me in China?’ And I said: ‘Yes, your loss, my bro!’”
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Kate McKinnon was initially provided the position of Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, however she ended up leaving the sequence after being forged as Carole Baskin within the Peacock restricted sequence Joe vs. Carole.
Amanda Seyfried went on to play Elizabeth Holmes and scored an Emmy Award for her efficiency within the restricted sequence.
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Matt Damon was initially tapped to star in Avatar and James Cameron provided him 10% of the film’s income, which might’ve been about $250 million.
He mentioned no to the film and now over a decade later he admitted it was “the dumbest thing an actor ever did in the history of acting.”
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Henry Winkler was initially provided the position of Danny Zuko in Grease, however he turned it down in worry of being typecast after taking part in the same position because the Fonz on Happy Days.
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“I am a damn fool,” he instructed CNN’s Chris Wallace. “I only realized years afterwards. I thought, I’ve played the Fonz, I don’t want to do it again.”
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Denzel Washington was provided the starring position within the film Se7en, however turned it down as a result of he was weary of working with, on the time, first-time director Michael Clayton.
He’d even mentioned that the script was the “best material [he’d] read in the long time.” He instructed GQ, “I was nervous about a first-time director, and I was wrong. It happens.”
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Michael Keaton was tapped to star in Groundhog Day however he turned down the film as a result of he “didn’t get it.”
Bill Murray went on to star and even Michael agreed that nobody may’ve performed the position higher. He instructed EW, “This guy sounds like the kind of wry, sardonic, glib young man I’ve played — and it ended up being so great. But you can’t do it better than Bill Murray did it.”
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Cate Blanchett was initially presupposed to star as Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos, however she dropped out of the mission and Nicole Kidman performed the position as a substitute.
“It became the movie it needed to be,” Cate mentioned. “Those things happen in the right way, at the right time. In the best possible way, you don’t always envisage the same thing; and then it goes on to become a different entity.”
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Halle Berry was initially provided Sandra Bullock’s position within the film Speed, which ended up boosting Sandra into stardom.
Halle instructed ET, “I stupidly said no. But in my defence, when I read the script the bus didn’t leave the parking lot. I was like no, no, no, no.”
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Madonna shared that she was provided a task in The Matrix however turned it down and part of her nonetheless “regrets” the choice.
“Can you believe that? That’s like one of the best movies ever made,” she instructed Jimmy Fallon. “A teeny-tiny part of me regrets just that one moment in my life.”
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Jessica Simpson was forged to star in The Notebook however she mentioned no to the position as a result of she did not wish to movie a intercourse scene with Ryan Gosling.
“I knew exactly what the movie was about because I had read the script,” she wrote in her e-book, including that when she requested to chop the intercourse scene the studio execs “wouldn’t budge.”
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Jennifer Hudson was provided the starring position within the movie Precious, however she turned it down not eager to take one other position that centered on her weight.
In her e-book she wrote, “I had done that with Effie [in Dreamgirls]… and as much as I was moved by this film, I wanted to try a role that had nothing whatsoever to do with my weight.”
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Matthew Modine was initially provided the position of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun earlier than the position in the end went to Tom Cruise, and launched his profession.
As to why he turned down the position Matthew defined that he did not wish to endorse militarism and he would not remorse passing on the film.
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Christina Applegate was tapped to star in Legally Blonde however she mentioned no to the film out of worry of being typecast or “repeating” herself.
“The script came along my way and it was right after I had just finished, Married […with Children], and it was a blonde who in that first script didn’t win it but ends up going to Yale, or Harvard, I don’t remember,” she instructed ET. “I got scared of kind of repeating myself. What a stupid move that was, right?”
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Emma Watson was rumored to have been forged within the film La La Land, alongside Miles Teller, however Emma Stone ended up starring within the film with Ryan Gosling.
Emma confirmed that she was presupposed to be in La La Land, however had already dedicated to Beauty and the Beast. [It] wasn’t a film I may simply form of step into,” she mentioned. “I knew I had horse training, I knew I had dancing, I knew I had three months of singing ahead of me and I knew I had to be in London to really do that. This wasn’t a movie I could just kind of parachute into. I knew I had to do the work, and I had to be where I had to be. So, you know, scheduling conflict-wise, it just didn’t work out.”
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Will Smith was provided Jamie Foxx’s position in Django Unchained, however he turned it down due to inventive variations with the film’s director Quentin Tarantino.
He instructed Vanity Fair, “It was about the creative direction of the story. To me, it’s as perfect a story as you could ever want: a guy that learns how to kill to retrieve his wife that has been taken as a slave. That idea is perfect. And it was just that Quentin and I couldn’t see [eye to eye]. I wanted to make the greatest love story that African-Americans had ever seen…”
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Finally, Julia Roberts handed on Sleepless in Seattle due to scheduling conflicts and Meg Ryan went on to play the position.
“I’d been provided Sleepless in Seattle, however couldn’t do it,” Julia said. “[Meg] and Tom Hanks are simply such a jewel of a slot in that. I suppose what they did for that second in time is form of what Richard [Gere] and I had been doing throughout city, you already know?”
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