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Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

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Old 20-11-2008, 4:47 PM   #1
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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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Old 20-11-2008, 5:22 PM   #5
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Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones (Thank God he turned it down)
I hear ya!
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Old 20-11-2008, 5:38 PM   #6
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Could be wrong but I think Sean Connery turned down playing Gandalf in LotR
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Old 20-11-2008, 6:16 PM   #7
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Re: Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

Sinatra turned down Dirty Harry

Would have been an interesting sight.





Here's a few more.

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


http://www.rateitall.com/t-21377-act...ble-roles.aspx

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Old 20-11-2008, 6:55 PM   #8
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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nix_PID3oiA
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WOW!, thats scary.
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Old 21-11-2008, 12:37 PM   #11
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Wow, I wonder how the Matrix would have turned out if Will Smith was the ONE.
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Old 21-11-2008, 12:38 PM   #12
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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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Old 21-11-2008, 1:21 PM   #13
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Re: Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

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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Old 21-11-2008, 1:34 PM   #14
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Patrick McGoohan James Bond in Dr No.
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Old 21-11-2008, 1:50 PM   #15
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Re: Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

What their auditions may have looked like
Christopher Walken - Han Solo
Richard Drewfuss - C3PO
Walter Matthau - Obi Wan Kenobi

YouTube - Star Wars Auditions

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Old 21-11-2008, 1:58 PM   #16
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Re: Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

I think James Cameron originally had Lance Henriksonn for the part of The Terminator. Not sure if that counts as Henriksonn turning down the parts..but it all could have been very different.
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Old 21-11-2008, 3:58 PM   #17
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In the world of TV Jim Broadbent was first choice for Delboy.
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Old 21-11-2008, 6:45 PM   #18
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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.
yep, thats true, although I guess he could have done a bunk on Magnum, I think I saw an interview where he sort of said he didn't want to let anyone on Magnum down hence didn't do Indy, although I guess that could just him making him out to be Mr Nice guy when really the studio came down heavy on him.

YouTube - Tom Selleck probando para Indiana Jones

and the names Neill, Sam Neill:

YouTube - Screen test : Sam Neill is James Bond
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Old 22-11-2008, 12:43 PM   #19
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Re: Roles that Actors & Actresses have turned down...

Sylvester Stallone was originally going to play Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop.
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