Hollywood is not easy at all and the great celebrities have already said it on more than one occasion. However, the difficulty does not only come from the tedious auditions that actors and actresses have to do to get a role, but many stars have to deal with disrespect from directors, producers or studios, who use as a “plot” the physique of celebrities and use their “power” to be rude and cruel.
On this occasion we want to share a list of the actresses who were rejected for their physique and how the directors did it.
1.Gwyneth Paltrow
The studio told the actress that she was “not beautiful enough” to star. golden gate at 20 years old. The curious thing about the case is that the director of the film was very interested in her for the role, but if the study says no, then it is no. Finally, in her place, Teri Polo played the character.
2. Zoë Kravitz
when they filmed the movie Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, the actress was added for a role in the film, but was told that “she was too urban.” So far, the actress does not know if that terrible comment came from an assistant director or from Christopher Nolan himself. Fortunately, years later, Zoë was able to land a role in batmanalthough with another director, but with the character of Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman.
3. René Russo
Already entered the subject of the Man Bat, another of the actresses who was rejected for the leading role in batman forever It was Rene Russo because the one who gave life to Batman was Val Kilmer and, according to the production, Rene was “too older” than him. They were only five years apart, but for the filmmakers it was a lot, so they decided to cast Nicole Kidman, who is eight years Kilmer’s junior.
4. Nia Long
This actress was passed over to play Alex in the movie Charlie’s Angels because he looked “too old” next to Drew Barrymore. Despite the fact that he was only four years older than her and two years older than Cameron Diaz, they gave him the “no” and hired Lucy Liu.
5.Reese Witherspoon
Something similar happened to this actress as to her Elle character in legally blonde, but in another production, because they told her that she was “too smart” to play the role of a young woman. Although the actress has never clarified which movie she was turned down from, she did mention that at age 20 she cried in the shower over all the roles she had been denied.
Also, Reese was rejected in The trap, since the directors associated her a lot with the character of Tracy Flick and even her representative recommended that she dress sexy and pretend that she was not smart in her next auditions. Speaking of legally blonde, almost lost the role because “they thought I was a harpy.” WTF?
6. Olivia Wilde
According to the little gossip, maybe Leonardo DiCaprio has also had his issues with young women at work, because Olivia was given the “NO” when she wanted to play Naomi in The wolf of Wall Street being 29 years old, for which they denied him the character, hiring Margot Robbie, who was 22 years old and younger than the actor, who was 37 at the time.
7. Priyanka Chopra
This actress was rejected for her race in a film in 2017. As she narrated, they were already filming the tape when someone called her agent and told her that “she was inadequate because of her physique” and although she wondered if it was because of her weight or physical condition, the real reason is that they wanted someone who was not “mulatto”.
8. Catherine Zeta-Jones
At 19, she was told that “she was too old and too pretty” for the leading role in the theater show Aspects of Loveby Andrew Lloyd Webber, even though the character was supposed to be 20 years old.
9. Mindy Kaling
Another overkill some filmmakers took was with Mindy telling her that she was “not attractive enough to play herself on a sketch show and not funny enough.” Years later, she became a screenwriter and actress for The officeone of the most successful series of all time.
10.Winona Ryder
In the middle of an audition, the casting director interrupted her to tell her that she “shouldn’t be an actress because she wasn’t pretty enough.” In addition, she recommended that she return to her country and study because she “had no wood.”
11.Emma Thompson
The talented Emma was turned down for “not being that pretty” and because her physiognomy doesn’t fit the look of someone male filmmakers want to see naked. In addition to this, she was also considered too old to be Hugh Grant’s partner on the tape. Sense and Sensibility despite only being a year apart.
12. Scarlett Johanson
The filmmakers’ refusal comes not only from “not being pretty enough”, but from exaggerating in being so. Who understand them? The downside of this is that in Scarlett’s case, she was sexualized at the audition for the movie. The girl with the dragon tattoo, since, despite having done great, they did not give her the role because when they saw her, “they were just wanting her to take off her clothes.” How awful!
13.Meryl Streep
Despite her talent and beauty, producer Dino De Laurentiis considered Meryl Streep “ugly” for the film’s lead kingkong. In fact, at the audition, the director commented “Che brutta”, that is, “how ugly” in Italian, to which the actress responded in the same language, because, to his surprise, she was fluent in the language. Finally, the role of the blonde girl Kong falls in love with was played by Jessica Lange.
14.Geena Davis
This actress was told she was “too old” to play the love interest of a character 20 years her senior!
15. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie is another actress who didn’t get a role because she was “older”, because for the filmmakers, being 37 years old is being “too old” to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man. Everything is good at home?
Source: Okchicas
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