Actors and the Roles They Passed Up

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There are some movie roles where you can't imagine anyone else playing the part. There are other roles where you think, anyone but that actor should've played the part. Then there are those roles where the actor is still kicking themselves for not taking it...

Charlie's Angels-Thandie Newton turned down the role played by Lucy Liu because she wanted to work with her husband Oliver Parker on a low-budget British film instead.

Little Miss Sunshine -Bill Murray turned down Steve... More

Published 6/22/07 by

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very interesting article.

375 bliss 6/23/07 Message Add to Friends Reply

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I liked this article - and was suprised how many times Molly Ringwald was mentioned.

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I didn't know Bill Murray was asked to be in little miss sunshine. I'm sort of glad he wasn't...

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I liked this article - I didn't know about these roles and the people who didn't take them.

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I liked Shakespeare in Love a lot.

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I agree with the Little Miss Sunshine comment

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