{"id":312,"date":"2006-10-02T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/03\/the-roles-some-actors-never-got\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T03:48:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T03:48:33","slug":"the-roles-some-actors-never-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/10\/02\/the-roles-some-actors-never-got\/","title":{"rendered":"The roles some actors never got"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/\">Guardian Film<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,,1885753,00.html\">list of actors<\/a> who were considered for roles they didn&#8217;t get:<\/p>\n<p>There is a famous example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Selleck<\/strong> (Indiana Jones): Selleck declined because of his commitments to Magnum PI. The part went to Harrison Ford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A more recent one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ben Affleck<\/strong> (Brokeback Mountain): One of the actors whom director Ang Lee talked to about starring in the love story between two ranch-hands. The part went to Heath Ledger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And two that get the head spinning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kevin Costner <\/strong>(The Matrix): Costner was apparently considered for the role of Neo (seriously). The part went to Keanu Reeves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Chevy Chase<\/strong> (American Beauty):Turned down the lead role of Lester. Jeff Daniels was also considered for it. The part went to Kevin Spacey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notstarring.com\">website<\/a> that has many, many more examples. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecitynews.com\/\">Movie City News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,,1885753,00.html\">Guardian article<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notstarring.com\/favorites.html\">The Top 25 Rejected Movie Roles at NotStarring.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Film has a list of actors who were considered for roles they didn&#8217;t get: There is a famous example: Tom Selleck (Indiana Jones): Selleck declined because of his commitments to Magnum PI. The part went to Harrison Ford. A more recent one: Ben Affleck (Brokeback Mountain): One of the actors whom director Ang Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}