5 Hollywood stars who turned down the role because of their own principles

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

"The choice of roles is a matter of principle" - this is how our today's heroes can say. After all, these are only novice actors who are forced to grab any opportunity to light up on the blue screen. But eminent masters can afford to twist their nose and choose the most delicious, in their opinion, roles. Of course, some are driven by the desire to get a “fat” offer in terms of money, others are not satisfied with the neighborhood in the same studio with more popular actors, and still others have simply already promised their stellar body to another project. One way or another, let's figure out in which cases the principles work, and in which - completely different, more mundane reasons.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Now the famous Hollywood beauty can boast of her own "Oscar", which she received in 1999, as well as numerous nominations and positive reviews from critics. And she could have earned this award earlier if she had accepted the offer to star in the drama film Boogie Nights (1997) written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. However, as the actress admitted, she refused this role for reasons of principle - she had to play a very sexually liberated woman, who, moreover, later becomes a drug addict.

Gwyneth Paltrow was embarrassed by the way her father, the famous filmmaker and Jewish public figure Bruce Paltrow, would look at it. The actress at the time of the canceled filming was not much, a lot already twenty-five years old, and, nevertheless, she was afraid that her dad would "kill" her for this role. However, the years passed, and, probably, the views of the actress herself have changed. She went into business and created her own brand "Goop", within which she is now promoting her own collections of clothing, accessories and perfumes. One of the novelties of this year was candles called “This smells like my vagina candle”. It should be noted that candles with the scent of Gwyneth's intimate place were in great demand, despite the cost of $ 75, and the actress promised to make a new batch soon.

It should be noted that by this time the actress's father had already died, so apparently there is no need to be afraid of dad's anger.

Kim Cattrall

Many women fell in love with the four ironic and self-sufficient American women from the comedy-drama series Sex and the City. Fans were looking forward to each new series, and then the release of full-length films. Critics fully appreciated him, and prestigious awards poured from a cornucopia: 7 Emmy Awards, 8 Golden Globe Awards and 11 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

However, despite the obvious success and recognition around the world, one of the actresses flatly refused to star in the third film. Kim Cattrall stated that the reason for this is her feud with the other main character, Sarah Jessica Parker. Although Parker herself assures that she was completely unaware of Kim's hostile attitude towards her. Be that as it may, it was the difficult relationship, according to the actress, that became the principal reason for refusing further filming.

But independent sources see a completely different reason for the refusal. Kim Cattrall has repeatedly stated that she is unhappy with the unreasonably high fees of Sarah Jessica Parker. In addition, Parker, as an executive producer, could influence the filming process and make her own adjustments to the vision of a particular plot. So the real reason for the breakup may be the purely feminine "uncommand here!" and the usual everyday money question.

Charlie Hunnam

"Fifty Shades of Gray" is an erotic novel by the English writer E. L. James, which has sold over thirty million copies in 37 countries around the world. It was sold so quickly that it even surpassed the speed of implementation even of the Harry Potter novels and the famous vampire saga "Twilight". Such large film companies as Sony Pictures, Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros and others fought for the right to film it.

The budget allocated 40 million dollars for expenses. Of course, the casting for the main roles was more than tough. Charlie Hunnam managed to break out into the top three along with Robert Pattinson and Dakota Johnson. As Hunnam stated then, after meeting the heads of the studio, he felt incredibly intrigued and excited. And after reading the book, his excitement only intensified. However, already on October 12, 2013, literally a month and a half before the start of big filming, the studio announced that Hunnam had left the film. Moreover, some of the scenes have already been filmed.

As the actor later assured, he refused to participate in the project because of his strong employment in the project "Sons of Anarchy". Also, once in an early interview, the actor admitted that he wants to selectively approach the choice of roles: "the choice that I make over the next five years will determine the course of my career." So let evil tongues talk that Hunnam was scared of bed scenes - indeed, the fundamental decision not to act in such a promoted, but at the same time disastrous in terms of artistic film adaptation of the film (five anti-awards "Golden Raspberry") could cost the guy a career.

Ann Hataway

Often, artists, in order to masterfully get used to a new role, need to learn on themselves all the vicissitudes of the main character. However, this is sometimes simply impossible to do for moral reasons. When Anne Hathaway was offered the role of Allison Scott in the comedy A Little Pregnant in 2007, she was forced to decline. Well, she did not plan to learn all the delights of motherhood in the near future! And upbringing did not allow taking responsibility for the image of a good mother.

The same upbringing did not allow the demonstration of intimate parts of the body on camera. And the producer, director and screenwriter of this film, Judd Apatow, wrote in an interview that the reason for the refusal was creative differences. "Hathaway refused to film because she could not allow us to use real footage of women in labor to create the illusion of her childbirth." So it happens sometimes in Hollywood.

Will Smith

Perhaps the film "Django Unchained" would have turned out with a completely different meaning if the main role was played not by Franco Nero, but by Will Smith. However, here again fundamental contradictions collided. Quentin wanted to make a spaghetti western movie, but Will Smith "wanted to make the greatest love story African Americans have ever seen." According to the director, in the final scene, the murder of the “white white” should have taken place, which would just emphasize the meaning of the changes in the era of the Civil War in the United States.

As a result, the actor refused to play the role, although he later expressed his admiration for the resulting film. This is how sometimes the inability to accept someone else's point of view leads to "empty hands" - Quentin Tarantino received many awards for this work, but Will Smith was left out of work.