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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 14:21:32 GMT
I'll start with two glaring choices made just this decade:
Kate Winslet dropping out of The Favourite due to scheduling conflicts with Wonder Wheel.
Mia Wasikowska dropping out of Carol in order to make Crimson Peak.
Ouch...
Name some more!
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 22, 2019 14:30:36 GMT
Y'all remember that Will Smith turned down The Matrix to appear in Wild Wild West? Will Smith does.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2019 14:41:11 GMT
In general I don't like this kind of stuff because it presupposes actors can just care about any project the same amount ......like Winslet is pretty great in Wonder Wheel and she may have walked through The Favourite.
Just sayin'....
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Post by stephen on Jul 22, 2019 14:48:13 GMT
In general I don't like this kind of stuff because it presupposes actors can just care about any project the same amount ......like Winslet is pretty great in Wonder Wheel and she may have walked through The Favourite. Just sayin'.... Yeah, it's always dodgy to think about these things in terms of regrets, because who's to say that The Favourite would've been as good a movie if Winslet had replaced Weisz? Or if Wasikowska had replaced Mara, would she have fixed the chemistry issue in Carol and actually made it work, or would the same issues have plagued it? With that said, Denzel Washington really biffed it by not doing Se7en.
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Post by LaraQ on Jul 22, 2019 14:59:37 GMT
In general I don't like this kind of stuff because it presupposes actors can just care about any project the same amount ......like Winslet is pretty great in Wonder Wheel and she may have walked through The Favourite. Just sayin'.... I thought Winslet was awful in Wonder Wheel.Her career has kinda been in the doldrums lately,making The Favourite would've given it a huge boost.I'm guessing she thought it would be a Blue Jasmine type role and probably another Oscar, but nope.
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Post by LaraQ on Jul 22, 2019 15:06:22 GMT
Emma Watson dropping out of La La Land to make Beauty and the Beast was a choice.I know it made a ton of money but it did almost nothing for her career.For the record, I don't think she would've been anywhere near as good as Emma Stone in the role so it worked out for the best.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 15:06:49 GMT
Really didn't expect the two examples I posited in my OP to elicit controversy - irregardless of performance quality (and I agree that Winslet is great in Wonder Wheel), what actor would prefer to be in a critical and financial failure over a universally-lauded success?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2019 15:18:04 GMT
Well gee, I dunno because I don't believe universally lauded successes are necessarily a good thing - I kind of hate that "culture of successes" thing we got going on - but ok, I'll play along a little - is it true Jackman turned Bond because - that's pretty stupid I guess. Warren Beatty turned down a lot back in the ancient days - Misery/Boogie Nights that would have helped and he could have aced too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 16:01:08 GMT
Well gee, I dunno because I don't believe universally lauded successes are necessarily a good thing - I kind of hate that "culture of successes" thing we got going on - but ok, I'll play along a little - is it true Jackman turned Bond because - that's pretty stupid I guess. Warren Beatty turned down a lot back in the ancient days - Misery/Boogie Nights that would have helped and he could have aced too. Winslet when she thinks about passing on The Favourite : Agreed on Beatty - he also passed on Kill Bill, right?
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 22, 2019 16:43:45 GMT
Y'all remember that Will Smith turned down The Matrix to appear in Wild Wild West? Will Smith does. Thank God!!!
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 22, 2019 16:46:19 GMT
Agreed on Beatty - he also passed on Kill Bill, right? Yes. Reportedly QT wanted Bill's character to be just like Beatty and offered him the role but he refused.
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Post by jakesully on Jul 22, 2019 18:30:51 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Jul 22, 2019 21:19:15 GMT
Crimson Peak is a better movie than Carol so Mia Wasikowska shouldn't be beating herself up about that.
Beatty seemed pretty content being semi-retired in the 90's and just periodically acting in his own projects. I doubt he ever thinks about Kill Bill or Boogie Nights.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 22:34:13 GMT
Crimson Peak is a better movie than Carol so Mia Wasikowska shouldn't be beating herself up about that.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 23, 2019 0:13:56 GMT
I know DiCaprio always regretted not being able to star in Boogie Nights, although he smartly understood how Titanic would propel his career and set up his future.
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Post by isabelaolive on Jul 23, 2019 1:33:49 GMT
Crimson Peak is a better movie than Carol so Mia Wasikowska shouldn't be beating herself up about that.
Beatty seemed pretty content being semi-retired in the 90's and just periodically acting in his own projects. I doubt he ever thinks about Kill Bill or Boogie Nights.
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Post by isabelaolive on Jul 23, 2019 1:37:52 GMT
This question is difficult to answer because I am sure that EVERY actor, no matter how good his career is, must regret at least one movie he has made or given up on. Especially in those cases of actors whose career was destroyed after a particular movie. One case I wonder is if Emily Blunt regrets not being able to play Black Widow on Iron Man because of Gulliver's Travels. I wonder if her career would have taken a completely different course and if it would be better or worse than it is today.
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Post by cherry68 on Jul 23, 2019 10:28:25 GMT
Michelle Pfeiffer turned down : The silence of the lambs Thelma and Louise. Basic instinct. Pretty woman. Chronicles of Narnia. Still Alice. Evita. Casino. Lorenzo 's oil. Sleepless in Seattle.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 23, 2019 18:47:43 GMT
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Post by avnermoriarti on Jul 23, 2019 23:05:09 GMT
I don’t think Wasikowska felt she made a false move. In the end she ended up playing a period character, a heroine really, where she saves the guy, and throughout the entire movie she speaks with another woman, just like Carol, and she did something different, she was channeling Ingrid Bergman while in Carol, I can envision her doing it because she’s been in that tone before.
And for Winslet, from the very beginning she said it was one of the best working relationships she ever had in Wonder Wheel.
Will Smith was the one that came to mind, Julianne Moore said to feel bad for not doing Can You Ever Forgive Me, but overall is too much of playing fortune teller.
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Post by countjohn on Jul 24, 2019 2:07:16 GMT
Michelle Pfeiffer turned down : The silence of the lambs Thelma and Louise. Basic instinct. Pretty woman. Chronicles of Narnia. Still Alice. Evita. Casino. Lorenzo 's oil. Sleepless in Seattle. The only one of those that seems like it might really bug her is Silence of the Lambs, considering she's never won an Oscar and it was an opportunity to be in something iconic that people will probably still be watching 50+ years down the line. I could see someone (like Molly Ringwald, who also turned it down) regretting turning down Pretty Woman if they didn't end up making it as an a-list star, but Pfeiffer didn't need it. I don’t think Wasikowska felt she made a false move. In the end she ended up playing a period character, a heroine really, where she saves the guy, and throughout the entire movie she speaks with another woman, just like Carol, and she did something different, she was channeling Ingrid Bergman while in Carol, I can envision her doing it because she’s been in that tone before. A lot of people talk about picking movies by director so her thought process may have been that Del Toro will go down as a more significant director than Haynes in the grand scheme of film history (not personally a big Del Toro fan at all) so she preferred to work with him. IDK if she regrets it or not but I don't think she needs to. Her dropping out of Carol also opened up Brooklyn for Saoirse Ronan since Rooney Mara was cast initially. I think the casting musical chairs ended up with all three of them in parts that were better suited for them.
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Post by cherry68 on Jul 24, 2019 4:17:09 GMT
countjohn Well, consider that all the roles Michelle Pfeiffer rejected gained Oscar or golden globe nominations or even wins... And think she is a better actress than a bunch of those ladies too. Maybe she would have the same Oscar wins as Streep nowadays...
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Post by getclutch on Jul 24, 2019 4:17:37 GMT
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Clueless & Gangs of New York Sarah Polley, Almost Famous & The Bourne Identity Tom Selleck, Raiders of the Lost Ark Eddie Murphy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit Mark Wahlberg, Ocean's Eleven Anne Hathaway, Knocked Up Angela Basset, Monster's Ball
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Post by flasuss on Jul 24, 2019 22:00:15 GMT
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Clueless & Gangs of New YorkSarah Polley, Almost Famous & The Bourne IdentityTom Selleck, Raiders of the Lost ArkEddie Murphy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Mark Wahlberg, Ocean's ElevenAnne Hathaway, Knocked Up
Angela Basset, Monster's BallSelleck didn't turned down Indy, though, he just couldn't do it because of Magnum (which was what made Spielberg interested in him in the first place). I never heard about SMG on Gangs. Sarah Polley already said she doesn't regret turning down Almost Famous because she wasn't right for the role.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jul 28, 2019 12:50:55 GMT
Shelley Long, Cheers - wrong move for Long, right move for Cheers. There were only so many ways to tell the Sam and Diane storyline, and they had exhausted almost all of them. The show hit its nadir with Chambers vs. Malone. Kirstie Alley brought a different comedic sensibility to the show - her first season on the show was perhaps the best of her run - but none of her seasons were as good as any of Long's.
Ray Liotta, The Sopranos - I can understand riding Goodfellas for a decade, but it was time to make a play. I'm sure he didn't want to return to television, seeing it as a demotion. The landscape shifted on him - television became relevant. And I'm sure he missed out on a nice payday. As for other options to James Gandolfini, I would have called on Tom Sizemore.
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