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Old 20-11-2008, 4:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...
Some films that could have turned out very different had these actors not turned them down, dont look back in anger as the saying goes!

Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster as Thelma and Louise

Denzel Washington as lead in I Robot

Will Smith in lead role of The Matrix

Sylvester Stallone as lead in Die Hard

John Travolta as Forrest Gump!

Can you guys think of any others?
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Tom Selleck turned down Indiana Jones of course. Would have made Tom or made Indy as wooden as well..... wood.
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Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones (Thank God he turned it down)
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Bugger you beat me my a nanosecond
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Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones (Thank God he turned it down)
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Could be wrong but I think Sean Connery turned down playing Gandalf in LotR
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Sinatra turned down Dirty Harry

Would have been an interesting sight.





Here's a few more.

http://www.glamorati.com/celebrity/2...popular-roles/


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Poor old Molly. Couldn't pick her nose by the looks.
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Kurt Russell as Han Solo - did not get part
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WOW!, thats scary.
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Wow, I wonder how the Matrix would have turned out if Will Smith was the ONE.
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Could be wrong but I think Sean Connery turned down playing Gandalf in LotR
I some how just cant picture him in a role like that
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Selleck didn't turn down Indy. He wasn't allowed to be released for the part because he just been signed up to do Magnum.

Christopher Walken apparently read for Han Solo. I think he would have done a fine job. In fact, there's footage somewhere of a Saturday Night Live skit where someone pretends to be Walken doing Solo in A New Hope.
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Patrick McGoohan James Bond in Dr No.
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What their auditions may have looked like
Christopher Walken - Han Solo
Richard Drewfuss - C3PO
Walter Matthau - Obi Wan Kenobi

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