15 Actors Who Thought They Were Too Good for a Franchise
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and that's even more true in Hollywood. Actors will step on whoever they can in order to get ahead.
Published 2 years ago in Facepalm
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and that's even more true in Hollywood. Actors will step on whoever they can in order to get ahead.
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It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and that's even more true in Hollywood. Actors will step on whoever they can in order to get ahead.
However, some actors feel as though they're just too good for certain roles or specific movies. Some have gone as far as to leave entire franchises behind, only for those franchises to have massive success in the future.
Thanks to AskReddit, we've collected 15 of the most insane actors who decided to leave their respective franchises. Just be glad you aren't these people.3
Not exactly the same as your question but Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf for $30M +15% of profits which would have got him about $450M. He said he didn't understand the script. So next time he was offered a script he didn't understand (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) he took it, ended up so disappointed in the product that he retired from acting. -peon2
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Marcus Chong was "Tank" in The Matrix. Main character in a HUGE franchise. He had all of these big ideas about how the movie should be done and how his character should progress. That's fine, but he wouldn't stop pushing them on the directors and producers. When it came time to make Matrix 2 he was not invited back.
Dude could have literally just shut up, been cool and thankful, and made huge bank and a bigger career. -RedditWhileImWorking16
Late to the party but Stuart Townsend was the original casting for Aragorn in the LOTR movies, but during preproduction and rehearsals he refused to practice things like swordplay, horse riding, action choreography etc, always responding "You'll get it on the day." Peter Jackson decided he couldn't work with him, Viggo is brought in literally on the first day of shooting and the rest is history. -kodman7
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