I kinda understand her hesitation. A few years before American Beauty, she had a kissing scene with Brad Pitt in Interview with a Vampire. She was only 11 at the time. There is definitely something wrong with Hollywood when they keep trying to make an underage girl kiss completely grown adult men in movie roles...
One issue with this list is that you are assuming these iconic roles would still be iconic if a different actor had portrayed the character. Chances are that it was the actor that made the character iconic rather than the role itself being iconic.
💯. If the roles were played by other actors, the chemistry and dynamics change dramatically. There’s a good chance that the look and feel of the movie could change for the worse making it a flop rather than a box office hit. Its not just the script that makes a movie. The correct actor for the role is vitally important. I definitely can’t imagine Cruise as Andy in Shawshank.
Dumb thing is Django is the main character. Jamie Foxx was nominated for "Best Actor" whereas Christof Waltz won "Best Supporting Actor" meaning he wasn't the main character.
What an ego problem. I have seen many a film where the character with less screen time stole the show (no, Django is not one of these, but I'm just pointing out an angle here). Look at Seven (Kevin Spacey), Hellraiser (Doug Bradley), Apocalypse Now and Godfather (Marlon Brando- Vito was second to Michael- Godfather followed Michael's story). To turn down an incredible role based on prestige or screen time says more about the actor as opposed to the role.
I wouldn't say all of these reasons were 'stupid'. Christina Applegate, after a 10 year stint playing a ditsy blonde and having her first major big screen performance being something similar probably WOULD have typecast her for future projects. Tim Roth, who was more used to smaller self contained films just didn't want to lock himself down for a 7 year contract and didn't want the extra attention it would entail. As far a Purefoy and the mask, those thing can get incredibly uncomfortable under studio lighting and unlike a prosthetic fitted to the face they are extremely difficult to see through, meaning lots of mistakes and lots of retakes if a mark is missed. Ironically, Weaving who took his place would later go on to do Red Skull, and after that shoot he refused to reprise the role for similar reasons.
That sounds like Will Smith, needing to be the center of the universe in all his role. After his Academy Awards antics, we'll see how that's going to work out.
Tom Cruise also turned down the lead role in Brazil because he refused to do a videotaped audition (which Terry Gilliam required because of the film's highly visual nature) because he was worried the footage would be used to humiliate him later on... But I guess that isn't so much a stupid reason as it is a paranoid one.
Glad Will Smith never played Django. Jamie Fox was perfect. As much as i like Tom Cruise, Shawshank would have been forgettable with Tom as the lead. Tim Robbins owned that role.
No they aren’t. Half the videos they make have so many out of date things it makes me think they have thousands of videos made but didn’t have a good time to release them till now
Well, in defence of Will Smith…he had already conquered the western genre with his work as the lead in that instant classic Wild Wild West… And imagine how terrible Shawshank would’ve been had Tom Cruise starred as Andy Dufresne…
@@yolman25 well, it make sense for her to wear something like that, she agile fighter and leotards are intended for ease of movement, that why gymnasts wearing em)) Besides, it's not much more revealing than what many teenage girls wearing this days (damn, i said that as some old man 😅)
I mean another big difference betwen Shawshank and Mummy is that Frank retained creative control. Cruise took the reigns in the Mummy and complete rewrote everything. He turned himself into the star when his character was originally just supposed to help build up the Mummy itself for the Dark Universe
I can understand what Crowe was trying to say, and it's not really stupid at all. Both characters have a similar edge of wildness and savagery about them, and good actors hate to repeat character types too quickly. Anyway it all ended up for the best.
@@woodworkingandepoxy643 considering they were filming Xmen just a few months before he finished Gladiator it wouldn't have worked as much as we'd think
@@Carpediem357 oh I don't think it would have worked at all lol huge Jackman was and is the best choice. I just think it's dumb to turn down a part that he didn't even bother researching
Most of these examples seem like there was some sort of divine intervention behind the actors turning down the roles they were given. Almost like some deity was like "while we're not going to give you world peace, solve world hunger, cure all diseases indefinitely, and get rid of all forms of sexual exploitation, we are going to make sure Tom Cruise and Will Smith don't get these specific iconic roles. You're all very welcome" 😂
Will Smith was tripping yo. Django was the lead , the most important character, the film title and made it out alive at the end. Shultz was the best part of that movie though.
The way its come out that all that nice guy stuff is just an image he puts out is really surprising, even though I know it shouldn't be. But his reasoning for turning down Django, or should I say reasons, just proves to me that he doesn't really care about doing something great, even though he is capable of some really good acting. To not want to be in an ensemble cast, which is only going to accentuate your own performance, is just mind-boggling. The ego he has that he HAS to be the main attraction and can't share the spotlight with anyone else (unless it's family or someone he knows isn't a threat to his star power, which should really make Martin Lawrence reconsider any future projects with the man). Honestly, I'm glad he let the mask slip and hit Chris Rock with that slap. He shouldn't have been given the Oscar later that night, but I hope that he falls so far down the ladder when it comes to offers that he'll HAVE to do ensemble movies to regain any type of star power again.
Will Smith turned down the role because he didn't understand the vision of the Wachovskys, specifically the special effects, and he didn't believe they could pull it off . A lot of actors rejected the role, Keanu was the forth or fifth option
Personally for a couple of these I want to know what the casting people were thinking to even offer the role. The main one, Sean Connery. Whoever thought he would have been good for those roles didn't understand the script either.
I heard a different reason for Will Smith not being in Django Unchained. Smith wanted to change the whole script, he wanted to turn it into the greatest love story between two black people ever told. He didn’t want to be in a revenge movie. Of course nobody should ever try to mess with a Tarantino script!
I can tell you for sure the X-Men movies wouldn't have taken off without Hugh Jackman. Anybody else, would have Flopped, like the Fantastic 4 movie in 1994.
Psylocke is my favourite Marvel character, and I'm really glad Olivia Munn chose to play the role instead of playing Vanessa in Deadpool. Munn was actually excited to play Psylocke, and she wanted to play her even before auditioning. She took the role seriously, trained extensively, and was passionate about it. Despite how little her role was in the film, she did Psylocke justice and was heavily rumoured to return for the X-Force film before Disney bought Fox and it got scrapped.
Like a lot of entries, this decision only comes off as "stupid" in hindsight. At the time, when both films were in preproduction, there was no way for Munn to know which one would be the bigger hit or how many scenes with either character would make it to the final edit or end up on the cutting room floor. At the time her choices were "Girlfriend/Damsel in Distress" or "Badass Ninja Lady" which sounds like an easy choice given her stated goals and desires.
An honorable mention should go out to George Raft. He turned down the Sam Spade role in "The Maltese Falcon" because he didn't want to work with first time director John Huston. It went to Humphrey Bogart. Later, he was offered the role of Rick in "Casablanca" but he turned that one down because Rick didn't get the girl in the end. It went to... Humphrey Bogart.
Your criticism of Sean Connery refusing The Lord Of The Rings seems to be based entirely on the large amount of money he missed out on. Since he already had more money than he could ever spend, I feel this says more about you than it says about him. Perhaps he just didn't want to leave his home and family for three years?
I'm actually glad Sean Connery turned down both of those roles. I'm not sure Scottish Gandalf would've worked - and Scottish Morpheus would've been worse...
Will Smith is a straight up narcissist. Thats a really stupid reason to turn down a movie especially one as amazing as that. I couldn't see Ralph macchio as marty mcfly. That would have been nuts
There’s some other timeline where Jackman didn’t end up being Wolverine, and RUclipsrs make videos about how the skinny singer from Le Mis and Greatest Showman was somehow in the consideration for the part 😂 Good thing we _don’t_ _actually_ live in the darkest timeline! 😅
Olivia Munn didn’t get on the silver screen for her superior acting abilities. She’s lucky to get an eye candy role. Tim Roth didn’t want to be on a lunch box? He played abomination in Hulk lol tf is he talking about
I agree with most of these being stupid but the one for Sean Connery I disagree with, if he didn't understand the project I feel like That's a good reason not to accept it.
I think Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made. It's not my favorite movie. I do love it. I do wonder how Cruise would have done as Andy. Cruise is a very dynamic actor. A Few Good Men comes to mind.
I never liked Tom Cruise, I don't think anyone would have been as good as Tim Robbins, his character was very mild and meek, and he seemed to have great chemistry with Morgan Freeman. About the only thing I liked about Back to the Future was Christopher Lloyd, he's so funny.
Kristen Dunst kissing way older Brad Pitt when she was just a child in Interview with the Vampire. So either she hates Kevin Spacey or that kiss with Brad Pitt give her PTSD. I'm just going to guess that its bc Kevin is creepy lol
Olivia Munn turned down Deadpool because she didn't want to be useless eye candy? Walking away from three good paydays. Yet she accepted the role in X-Men Apocalypse, in which she was..... useless eye candy? Olivia Munn is gorgeous but definitely lacking brain cells
In Olivia Munn's defense, the Psylocke role on paper would have been more of an action star based on the comics. In the end she did not have a lot of action, and the costume, while eye candy, is accurate to the comics.
Olivia Munn complains that her good looks gets her only "eye candy" roles. Yet I remember watching her on G4 tech because she was the "eye candy", in contrast to the geeks on the channel. So her reason is one hundred percent stoopid. She gets gig because of her looks not her brains yo
@@rorylynch7775Exactly 💯 percent correct. She read the five lines, saw the skimpy outfits and definitely realized that she was offered the role for eye candy. Stay in your lane girl
@@karawardlaw4090 thank you. I was beginning to think I was on my own lol. In all honesty I don't believe that Guy Fawkes was a terrorist either but that's a different conversation
Why does everyone get the reason Will Smith turned down Django wrong? It wasn't because he wanted the role to be bigger. He was upset that he wasn't the one that killed Leonardo DiCaprio's character. Quentin Tarantino specifically went to his doorstep to offer him the role, and he said it's great, but I don't kill the bad guy?? Tarantino said you realize you murder like, every white guy in the movie? He said but I don't kill the main bad guy. No.
I feel like Django is a overrated movie now that they keep talking about it and Will Smith who cares he already played a Western film Wild Wild West and look what happened😅.
Another example of an actor turning down an iconic role for a stupid reason is Klaus Kinski turning down the role of Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. You’d think with someone authentically German and a real-life psychopath would’ve excelled at playing a Gestapo agent, but he turned it down because he thought the script was “moronically sh*tty”.
Given that it was a recreation of a Saturday serial, the "baddies" were always going to stereotypical nonsense, so I think Kinski was correct. Although there is now a bit of me that would love to see him do it!
so not understanding the role/script is a stupid reason? no, including Connery on your list for that IS stupid. countless actors have turned down roles because they couldn't understand the character or connect with it. which means they are likely to not have done good service to the part. there's probably no _better_ reason to turn down a role other than not understanding it.
Will Smith deserves that punishment since he literally could've been a bigger star and earned him awards. Also he wouldn't do a great duo but he would do a duo with his son which was a terrible duo. Sure he's a good father for that but his ego got in the way and took away what could've been. And his acting career hasn't gotten any better either
She's actually saying it closer to the way you would say it in Italy as in the place the name is from the way Ralph says it is the Americanized way so it's easier for people to say
Okay, when I read the Harry Potter books, the ONLY actor I saw as Snape was Alan Rickman. I would have been extremely disappointed if Rickman had not played him in the movies. Also....Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption was perfection. Tom Cruise would have ruined it.
Being pretty is the only reason Olivia Munn is famous the idea of not wanting to be “eye candy” is silly it’s akin to Zach Efron or Paul Walker saying that.
Not really. Being wanted to be seen as something more than eye candy is so much different for a man and a woman. There's different expectations of the different genders and not wanting to be typecast as just something to look at is completely fair
@@DavidPruitt Every time I see BimbOlivia Dumm, I remember "McHammer". Her entire job was reading a teleprompter and she couldn't even do that correctly.
People turn down roles all the time, just because the film goes on to be a success it doesn’t make it a bad decision. Think of your two favourite actors and your favourite films of both of those actors. Now imagine switching them and they do each others roles in those films? Would it be as good doing each others parts, would it be as iconic? Maybe but maybe not. So hindsight doesn’t work here. Plus there’s other factors, they pass on one role and that gives them the time to do 2 others. Those 2 other movies might be even bigger successes than the 1 they passed on. There’s more to it than just looking back and saying ‘that actor didn’t take that one specific role and was wrong because that specific film was a success’.
Ralph Macchio...lol lol lol lol He was terrible in The Karate Kid, he just cannot act. Thank god he turned down Back to the Future and instead drifted into obscurity where terrible actors should all go
I think it was a better choice for Will not to be in Django because I don't think he would've fit as well as Jamie Foxx did. Will Smith fits better in blockbuster action flicks rather than in more serious roles.
I wish people would leave Will Smith alone sometimes it's best to have things be in the past.Unless you do something that would make folks resurfaced you thinking.SLAP😅😅
Lost me when they she made it seem like Tom Cruise is doing so bad this days because he drop Shawshank Redemption. And by the way. Tom Hanks was also offered the part.
I am so glad TC turned down Shawshank. I am not nor have I ever been a fan of him. Tim embodied the character in a way Cruise never could have come close to.
i know of 2 actor who turned down roles, dennis quade turned downed playing bud on urban cowboy and b acter legened don stroud, playing wes hightower, and sean penn turn down playing 2 bit in the out siders
yeah i disagree with the Sean Connery one being on this list...its good when the actors understand their characters and their part in the movie...if he didn't get it it would have been a bad job on screen
Can anyone think of an example where an actor ultimately didn’t play the part, but you feel like “that actor would have been better than the one who was in the movie”. I can only think of one example: Sofia Coppola was not very good in The Godfather III. First Julia Roberts was cast but had to drop out, then Winona Ryder got the role and had already started filming, but also had to drop out. Other actresses considered for the part were Madonna, Rebecca Schaeffer, Annabella Sciorra, and Laura San Giacomo. All would probably have been better than Sofia Coppola.
Peter Sellers was nearly cast as Franz Liebkind in The Producers. Hard to argue he wouldn't have been perfect for that part, plus the idea of seeing him and Gene Wilder together, it's a shame it never happened. Kenneth Mars did great though.
Actually I appreciate actors who have enough self-knowledge to understand what parts wouldn't be a good fit for them.
I can just imagine Sean Connery playing Gandolf. YOU SHALL NOT PASH!!!
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I said it in his accent. It would have been hilarious. Him as Morpheus though? That was certainly a choice.
Not understanding the character is never a stupid reason to turn down roles.
Not understanding a character is proof of stupidity. Can' these fools understand writing?
Turning down a role so you dont have to kiss Kevin Spacey has to be one of the best reasons to turn down a role
We all know he doesn't like taking no for an answer
I think the video says that it was a good reason.
I kinda understand her hesitation. A few years before American Beauty, she had a kissing scene with Brad Pitt in Interview with a Vampire. She was only 11 at the time. There is definitely something wrong with Hollywood when they keep trying to make an underage girl kiss completely grown adult men in movie roles...
That is exactly what I was thinking when Elli said that 😂
It wasn't Kevin Spacey, it was a 40 yr old man.
Stop trying to make more out of it, you look foolish and ignorant.
One issue with this list is that you are assuming these iconic roles would still be iconic if a different actor had portrayed the character.
Chances are that it was the actor that made the character iconic rather than the role itself being iconic.
Excellent point!
Right? Especially Connery. I know he's (undeservedly) a legend, but those would've been disasters, IMO.
💯. If the roles were played by other actors, the chemistry and dynamics change dramatically. There’s a good chance that the look and feel of the movie could change for the worse making it a flop rather than a box office hit. Its not just the script that makes a movie. The correct actor for the role is vitally important. I definitely can’t imagine Cruise as Andy in Shawshank.
Jamie Foxx was by FAR better at the role of Django than Will Smith would have been. That was a good choice there.
Dumb thing is Django is the main character.
Jamie Foxx was nominated for "Best Actor" whereas Christof Waltz won "Best Supporting Actor" meaning he wasn't the main character.
Jamie Foxx nailed it, but I think Will could have been great too.
What an ego problem.
I have seen many a film where the character with less screen time stole the show (no, Django is not one of these, but I'm just pointing out an angle here). Look at Seven (Kevin Spacey), Hellraiser (Doug Bradley), Apocalypse Now and Godfather (Marlon Brando- Vito was second to Michael- Godfather followed Michael's story).
To turn down an incredible role based on prestige or screen time says more about the actor as opposed to the role.
I wouldn't say all of these reasons were 'stupid'. Christina Applegate, after a 10 year stint playing a ditsy blonde and having her first major big screen performance being something similar probably WOULD have typecast her for future projects. Tim Roth, who was more used to smaller self contained films just didn't want to lock himself down for a 7 year contract and didn't want the extra attention it would entail. As far a Purefoy and the mask, those thing can get incredibly uncomfortable under studio lighting and unlike a prosthetic fitted to the face they are extremely difficult to see through, meaning lots of mistakes and lots of retakes if a mark is missed. Ironically, Weaving who took his place would later go on to do Red Skull, and after that shoot he refused to reprise the role for similar reasons.
Russel Crowe suggested Hugh Jackman for the role. Win win I would say.
I am very glad it went to Hugh Jackman
That sounds like Will Smith, needing to be the center of the universe in all his role. After his Academy Awards antics, we'll see how that's going to work out.
Right
Will who?
The real reason why Cruise turned down Shawshank? No sprinting scene 😂
I was going to say that but ya beat me to it!
I'm sure he would've found a way to add one. Busts out of solitary to try and save tommy
He didn't get to credit scientology 😂
He probably could have done it through the sewage scene
Tom Cruise also turned down the lead role in Brazil because he refused to do a videotaped audition (which Terry Gilliam required because of the film's highly visual nature) because he was worried the footage would be used to humiliate him later on...
But I guess that isn't so much a stupid reason as it is a paranoid one.
Considering he's still in scientology... yeah, he have explainable reason
Glad Will Smith never played Django. Jamie Fox was perfect. As much as i like Tom Cruise, Shawshank would have been forgettable with Tom as the lead. Tim Robbins owned that role.
6:00 "And though the Bond icon is said to be worth north of $100 million regardless..." Are you not aware that Sean Connery died in 2020.
No they aren’t. Half the videos they make have so many out of date things it makes me think they have thousands of videos made but didn’t have a good time to release them till now
@@Carpediem357 It's likely that most of their videos are adapted from written articles on their website, which accounts for the outdated references.
Well, in defence of Will Smith…he had already conquered the western genre with his work as the lead in that instant classic Wild Wild West…
And imagine how terrible Shawshank would’ve been had Tom Cruise starred as Andy Dufresne…
It would be hard to sit thru Tom being Andy
It would have been horrible with Tom Cruise. He is always Tom Cruise, never seems to get lost in a character.
Olivia Munn's case is hilarious. At the end Vanessa was a better character. And at the end she was more eye candy than Morena
Hey, Morena Baccarin is gorgeous.
Wasn't the X-Men film also heavily altered by meddling Fox executives?
@@Brotherofthe4thCompany totally. I mean she wasn't the one wearing a slutty outfit during the entire movie
@@yolman25 well, it make sense for her to wear something like that, she agile fighter and leotards are intended for ease of movement, that why gymnasts wearing em))
Besides, it's not much more revealing than what many teenage girls wearing this days (damn, i said that as some old man 😅)
@@Brotherofthe4thCompany totally
If Tarantino or Nolan call you for a part in their movies, just say yes. You don’t even need to see the script, the answer should always be yes
Josh hartnet learned that the hard way lol
@@woodworkingandepoxy643 Oh really? I’m not familiar with this story. Could you enlighten me please?
I would also add the Coen brothers and I imagine the same with the late Kubrick.
Oh hell yeh, Tarantino is a fave
Exactly
I mean another big difference betwen Shawshank and Mummy is that Frank retained creative control. Cruise took the reigns in the Mummy and complete rewrote everything. He turned himself into the star when his character was originally just supposed to help build up the Mummy itself for the Dark Universe
I can understand what Crowe was trying to say, and it's not really stupid at all. Both characters have a similar edge of wildness and savagery about them, and good actors hate to repeat character types too quickly. Anyway it all ended up for the best.
Also, Crowe is from Australia, and they don't have wolverines.
Not just that but it sounds like he didn’t know who he was or Marvel so you can’t even blame him for thinking that
It's pretty easy to do research on a role. Especially one like wolverine. Most decent actors do just that all the time.
@@woodworkingandepoxy643 considering they were filming Xmen just a few months before he finished Gladiator it wouldn't have worked as much as we'd think
@@Carpediem357 oh I don't think it would have worked at all lol huge Jackman was and is the best choice. I just think it's dumb to turn down a part that he didn't even bother researching
Most of these examples seem like there was some sort of divine intervention behind the actors turning down the roles they were given. Almost like some deity was like "while we're not going to give you world peace, solve world hunger, cure all diseases indefinitely, and get rid of all forms of sexual exploitation, we are going to make sure Tom Cruise and Will Smith don't get these specific iconic roles. You're all very welcome" 😂
More like Scientology's divine intervention .. 😏
I don’t think Tom Cruise would have pull off Andy the way Tim Robbins did.
I absolutely cannot imagine anyone but Tim Robbins as Andy.
The film would not be regarded in the same way, and I probably would have never seen it
Will Smith was tripping yo. Django was the lead , the most important character, the film title and made it out alive at the end. Shultz was the best part of that movie though.
The way its come out that all that nice guy stuff is just an image he puts out is really surprising, even though I know it shouldn't be. But his reasoning for turning down Django, or should I say reasons, just proves to me that he doesn't really care about doing something great, even though he is capable of some really good acting. To not want to be in an ensemble cast, which is only going to accentuate your own performance, is just mind-boggling. The ego he has that he HAS to be the main attraction and can't share the spotlight with anyone else (unless it's family or someone he knows isn't a threat to his star power, which should really make Martin Lawrence reconsider any future projects with the man). Honestly, I'm glad he let the mask slip and hit Chris Rock with that slap. He shouldn't have been given the Oscar later that night, but I hope that he falls so far down the ladder when it comes to offers that he'll HAVE to do ensemble movies to regain any type of star power again.
SpaghettiYOLOKingTTV Will Smith shared the lead with Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones in the "Men In Black" franchise.
"When you hear Will Smith's reason for turning down Neo in "The Matrix", it makes total sense."
Proceeds not to tell Audience that reason.
Will Smith turned down the role because he didn't understand the vision of the Wachovskys, specifically the special effects, and he didn't believe they could pull it off . A lot of actors rejected the role, Keanu was the forth or fifth option
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@@SilentJay8 i knew i wasn't writing it right, but damn, i butchered their name!
@@anonimonn9775 Tom Cruise was also considered for Neo.
Personally for a couple of these I want to know what the casting people were thinking to even offer the role. The main one, Sean Connery. Whoever thought he would have been good for those roles didn't understand the script either.
Got to say most if not all of these reasons sound perfectly reasonable to me. Nothing stupid about them.
I heard a different reason for Will Smith not being in Django Unchained. Smith wanted to change the whole script, he wanted to turn it into the greatest love story between two black people ever told. He didn’t want to be in a revenge movie.
Of course nobody should ever try to mess with a Tarantino script!
Exactly everybody knows Tarantino don't play that
@@byronrush9802look no further as to why he went uncredited for “Natural Born Killers”
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I think Tom Cruise's career did well inspite of not doing shawshank.
Snape thing is not true I think. If I remember correctly, Rickman was handpicked by Rowling
I can tell you for sure the X-Men movies wouldn't have taken off without Hugh Jackman. Anybody else, would have Flopped, like the Fantastic 4 movie in 1994.
I understand that Glenn Danzig was in the running for Wolverine. Since he’s 5’3,” he would’ve been Wolverine’s comic accurate height.
I am so glad tom cruise wasnt in shawshank. He would've ruined the whole movie
Psylocke is my favourite Marvel character, and I'm really glad Olivia Munn chose to play the role instead of playing Vanessa in Deadpool. Munn was actually excited to play Psylocke, and she wanted to play her even before auditioning. She took the role seriously, trained extensively, and was passionate about it. Despite how little her role was in the film, she did Psylocke justice and was heavily rumoured to return for the X-Force film before Disney bought Fox and it got scrapped.
Plus wasn't most of Munn's stuff cut from the final version of that movie as well?
@@eddmario I don't know about "most", but a lot of it was cut, yes. Including a lot of the fight scene with Beast.
Like a lot of entries, this decision only comes off as "stupid" in hindsight. At the time, when both films were in preproduction, there was no way for Munn to know which one would be the bigger hit or how many scenes with either character would make it to the final edit or end up on the cutting room floor.
At the time her choices were "Girlfriend/Damsel in Distress" or "Badass Ninja Lady" which sounds like an easy choice given her stated goals and desires.
Imagine a Scottish Gandalf
imagine a scottish Spanish person
@@jsmith3946I'm imagining it but what's the genre of the movie
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-Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez
-Highlander
@@jsmith3946I thought he was Egyptian.
An honorable mention should go out to George Raft. He turned down the Sam Spade role in "The Maltese Falcon" because he didn't want to work with first time director John Huston. It went to Humphrey Bogart. Later, he was offered the role of Rick in "Casablanca" but he turned that one down because Rick didn't get the girl in the end. It went to... Humphrey Bogart.
I had to look up who he was. One of those, "Oh, yeah, him" guys that I've seen but wouldn't be able to name. Whereas Bogart really is an icon.
I certainly hope Bogart thanked George Raft for his wonderful career when Bogey won an Oscar for The African Queen in 1951.
Oh man, that would have made the maltese falcon and casablanca more bearable
John Travolta is umm too New Jersey to play an Alabamian from the 50s.
Russell Crowe really should have done more research instead of harping on one word of the character
Yeah, but Hugh Jackman did a great job,
Your criticism of Sean Connery refusing The Lord Of The Rings seems to be based entirely on the large amount of money he missed out on. Since he already had more money than he could ever spend, I feel this says more about you than it says about him. Perhaps he just didn't want to leave his home and family for three years?
I don't have a lot of love for actors, but most of these actually seem pretty reasonable. . .
Tim Roth would slay as Sinestro
I'm actually glad Sean Connery turned down both of those roles. I'm not sure Scottish Gandalf would've worked - and Scottish Morpheus would've been worse...
Didn't you guys do this exact video before already?
They did they're famous for doing the same s*** over and over again sometimes changing the title slightly
Will Smith is a straight up narcissist. Thats a really stupid reason to turn down a movie especially one as amazing as that. I couldn't see Ralph macchio as marty mcfly. That would have been nuts
There’s some other timeline where Jackman didn’t end up being Wolverine, and RUclipsrs make videos about how the skinny singer from Le Mis and Greatest Showman was somehow in the consideration for the part 😂
Good thing we _don’t_ _actually_ live in the darkest timeline! 😅
Olivia Munn didn’t get on the silver screen for her superior acting abilities. She’s lucky to get an eye candy role. Tim Roth didn’t want to be on a lunch box? He played abomination in Hulk lol tf is he talking about
Well, Harry Potter came out a few years before the Incredible Hulk. As he said, he wasn't ready then
I agree with most of these being stupid but the one for Sean Connery I disagree with, if he didn't understand the project I feel like That's a good reason not to accept it.
I think, if you look at it from the point of view of the time, some of these choices make sense.
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Michael K. Williams has Django would've been something else.
I think Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made. It's not my favorite movie. I do love it.
I do wonder how Cruise would have done as Andy. Cruise is a very dynamic actor.
A Few Good Men comes to mind.
Tell me you never heard of Ralph Machio by mispronouncing his name.
sorry but the Sean one was dumb it's not always about the money
Not a single one of these would have been a better movie if they had their first choice actor.
I never liked Tom Cruise, I don't think anyone would have been as good as Tim Robbins, his character was very mild and meek, and he seemed to have great chemistry with Morgan Freeman. About the only thing I liked about Back to the Future was Christopher Lloyd, he's so funny.
I agree with Will Smith. Jamie Foxx was not the main character in Django. Jamie wasn’t even nominated for an Academy award, but Christoph waltz was.
Kristen Dunst kissing way older Brad Pitt when she was just a child in Interview with the Vampire. So either she hates Kevin Spacey or that kiss with Brad Pitt give her PTSD. I'm just going to guess that its bc Kevin is creepy lol
“Will Smith is notoriously choosy when it comes to his roles…”
Wild Wild West
After Earth
Hitch
Gemini Man
Suicide Squad
Ok Will…
Morena Baccarin is a far better actress then Olivia Munn anyways.
Olivia Munn turned down Deadpool because she didn't want to be useless eye candy? Walking away from three good paydays. Yet she accepted the role in X-Men Apocalypse, in which she was..... useless eye candy? Olivia Munn is gorgeous but definitely lacking brain cells
In Olivia Munn's defense, the Psylocke role on paper would have been more of an action star based on the comics. In the end she did not have a lot of action, and the costume, while eye candy, is accurate to the comics.
Yeh it was
Too bad she only like 5 lines in the actual movie
@@rorylynch7775 right
Olivia Munn complains that her good looks gets her only "eye candy" roles. Yet I remember watching her on G4 tech because she was the "eye candy", in contrast to the geeks on the channel. So her reason is one hundred percent stoopid. She gets gig because of her looks not her brains yo
@@rorylynch7775Exactly 💯 percent correct. She read the five lines, saw the skimpy outfits and definitely realized that she was offered the role for eye candy. Stay in your lane girl
Haha After Earth. Cracks me up every time.
Missy if these make sense. Heck BTTF had a really stupid script for a while, I can see reading an early draft and turning it down.
I have an issue with V from 'V for Vendetta' being referred to as a terrorist!
I agree
@@karawardlaw4090 thank you. I was beginning to think I was on my own lol. In all honesty I don't believe that Guy Fawkes was a terrorist either but that's a different conversation
If you are too young that you've never heard a name out loud, say... Ralph Macchio, don't be afraid to ask how to say it.
OJ Simpson was offered the Terminator role but studio executives didn't think he would be convincing enough as a cold blooded killer ⚡
LoL 😆
Why does everyone get the reason Will Smith turned down Django wrong? It wasn't because he wanted the role to be bigger. He was upset that he wasn't the one that killed Leonardo DiCaprio's character. Quentin Tarantino specifically went to his doorstep to offer him the role, and he said it's great, but I don't kill the bad guy?? Tarantino said you realize you murder like, every white guy in the movie? He said but I don't kill the main bad guy. No.
I feel like Django is a overrated movie now that they keep talking about it and Will Smith who cares he already played a Western film Wild Wild West and look what happened😅.
Sean Connery as Morpheus 🤣🤣🤣
Ralph Macchio is way too ethnic to play an Irish American kid named McFly.
Very good point
Another example of an actor turning down an iconic role for a stupid reason is Klaus Kinski turning down the role of Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. You’d think with someone authentically German and a real-life psychopath would’ve excelled at playing a Gestapo agent, but he turned it down because he thought the script was “moronically sh*tty”.
Given that it was a recreation of a Saturday serial, the "baddies" were always going to stereotypical nonsense, so I think Kinski was correct. Although there is now a bit of me that would love to see him do it!
TBF Spacey thought Dunst was to old to
so not understanding the role/script is a stupid reason? no, including Connery on your list for that IS stupid. countless actors have turned down roles because they couldn't understand the character or connect with it. which means they are likely to not have done good service to the part. there's probably no _better_ reason to turn down a role other than not understanding it.
Thank goodness Connery turned down both roles! Neither needed a Scotsman.
Everything needs a Scotsman. ; )
Nice tom cruise n will Smith never take chances y their got them midas touches
Except for after Earth and every other failure Will Smith has had including that movie he played a gay man in with Matt Damon,
Will Smith deserves that punishment since he literally could've been a bigger star and earned him awards. Also he wouldn't do a great duo but he would do a duo with his son which was a terrible duo. Sure he's a good father for that but his ego got in the way and took away what could've been. And his acting career hasn't gotten any better either
Ralph Makieo 🤣 🤣 🤣 ma-chi-o
She's actually saying it closer to the way you would say it in Italy as in the place the name is from the way Ralph says it is the Americanized way so it's easier for people to say
@@yoshifrazzled7628 I'm dating an Italian woman and she laughed harder than I did, you could of just said it's her uk accent there is no shame
Actually her pronunciation is closer to authentic Italian than the Americanized version that Ralph uses.
Okay, when I read the Harry Potter books, the ONLY actor I saw as Snape was Alan Rickman. I would have been extremely disappointed if Rickman had not played him in the movies.
Also....Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption was perfection. Tom Cruise would have ruined it.
Being pretty is the only reason Olivia Munn is famous the idea of not wanting to be “eye candy” is silly it’s akin to Zach Efron or Paul Walker saying that.
It's Hollywood almost every actor /actress is eye candy,
Just pretty? I see...
Stand in front of your mirror & try to recite some of her lines from The Newsroom without flubbing or giggling!
She's got some flat delivery in the newsroom. I'm pretty sure she reads lines and doesn't understand then. Never forget McHammer
Not really. Being wanted to be seen as something more than eye candy is so much different for a man and a woman. There's different expectations of the different genders and not wanting to be typecast as just something to look at is completely fair
@@DavidPruitt Every time I see BimbOlivia Dumm, I remember "McHammer". Her entire job was reading a teleprompter and she couldn't even do that correctly.
People turn down roles all the time, just because the film goes on to be a success it doesn’t make it a bad decision.
Think of your two favourite actors and your favourite films of both of those actors. Now imagine switching them and they do each others roles in those films? Would it be as good doing each others parts, would it be as iconic? Maybe but maybe not.
So hindsight doesn’t work here. Plus there’s other factors, they pass on one role and that gives them the time to do 2 others. Those 2 other movies might be even bigger successes than the 1 they passed on.
There’s more to it than just looking back and saying ‘that actor didn’t take that one specific role and was wrong because that specific film was a success’.
Teacher: what's the difference between a wolf and a Wolverine?
Russell Crowe: yes
Ralph Macchio...lol lol lol lol He was terrible in The Karate Kid, he just cannot act. Thank god he turned down Back to the Future and instead drifted into obscurity where terrible actors should all go
If it's true that Tom Cruise turned down " The Shawshank Redemption", I am SO HAPPY ‼️I love the movie as it is...and I can't stand Tom Cruise ‼️
I think it was a better choice for Will not to be in Django because I don't think he would've fit as well as Jamie Foxx did. Will Smith fits better in blockbuster action flicks rather than in more serious roles.
On the rise Tom Cruise?
Risky Business
Top Gun
Cocktail
Born On The 4th Of July
A Few Good Men
Days Of Thunder
Uhh, what?
I wish people would leave Will Smith alone sometimes it's best to have things be in the past.Unless you do something that would make folks resurfaced you thinking.SLAP😅😅
Michael J Fox was the first choice for Marty McFly in "Back To The Future", not Ralph Macchio.
In fact, the part was written with MJF in mind.
Lost me when they she made it seem like Tom Cruise is doing so bad this days because he drop Shawshank Redemption. And by the way. Tom Hanks was also offered the part.
V for Vendetta whole mask thing was annoying. If they showed either actors face more, it would have been much better than a footnote cult film.
I am so glad TC turned down Shawshank. I am not nor have I ever been a fan of him. Tim embodied the character in a way Cruise never could have come close to.
i know of 2 actor who turned down roles, dennis quade turned downed playing bud on urban cowboy and b acter legened don stroud, playing wes hightower, and sean penn turn down playing 2 bit in the out siders
I think Tom Cruise is an amazing actor, but I don't think he could have pulled off Andy Dufrane.
Ralph MA CHI O…I’m just saying. It physically hurts a Gen X not to get the Karate Kid’s name right 😂
yeah i disagree with the Sean Connery one being on this list...its good when the actors understand their characters and their part in the movie...if he didn't get it it would have been a bad job on screen
I think you can make a whole video about Will Smith turning sown roles for stupid reasons.
Michael k williams (omar from the wire) would have been perfect for Django.
So fax Connery would have destroyed that role Connery as gandalf spuniffs ez
Meh. Not so much really. Connery was a great and compelling movie star but he didn't have all that wide of a range as an actor.
Russel Crowe is a phenomenal actor, but he would not have been well cast as Wolverine.
No offence, but Reese witherspoon is a much more likeable and relatable actress.
I doubt Sean Connery is kicking himself, on account of being so dead and all.
None of the movies would be the same... The cast was just pefect.
Thank you to Russell Crowe for turning down Wolverine
i dont think not understanding the script is a stupid reason. you either feel the role or not
Ralph macchio woulda been GAS in Back 2 the Future
Can anyone think of an example where an actor ultimately didn’t play the part, but you feel like “that actor would have been better than the one who was in the movie”.
I can only think of one example: Sofia Coppola was not very good in The Godfather III. First Julia Roberts was cast but had to drop out, then Winona Ryder got the role and had already started filming, but also had to drop out. Other actresses considered for the part were Madonna, Rebecca Schaeffer, Annabella Sciorra, and Laura San Giacomo. All would probably have been better than Sofia Coppola.
Peter Sellers was nearly cast as Franz Liebkind in The Producers. Hard to argue he wouldn't have been perfect for that part, plus the idea of seeing him and Gene Wilder together, it's a shame it never happened. Kenneth Mars did great though.