So, it’s always kind of interesting to see which actors passed on which roles — presumably because we’re all evil people, and we like being able to say, “Ha-ha! Bet you wish you took that Oscar winning role instead of starring in some piece of shit action movie that nobody even knew existed unless they were awake at three in the morning, flipping between various infomercials.”
Well, over at Cha Cha, there’s one such list for your malicious pleasure. And if I may just freak the hell out over one — Kevin Costner was originally offered the role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption?!?!
Good Christ. I never thought I’d actually be grateful to Waterworld for ANYTHING.
Thank you, Waterworld. Thank you so, SO much.
Some of them are probably glad. Take Will Smith – he probably figures he dodged a bullet not being in those Matrix movies.