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Casting can be a long, arduous process, but the casting director’s choices can make or break a film. Sometimes, however, the filmmakers backpedal those decisions mid-production.
Here are 18 actors who got fired in the middle of filming a movie (and why):
1.Mariska Hargitay was supposed to play Queen Dulcea inMighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Moviein 1995. Filming was in Australia, but they kept her on hold for so long that, on December 21, she went home to the US for Christmas. After the holidays, she reached out to production, who told her she’d been fired.
You can see a picture of Mariska in the role at the three-minute mark in the interview below.
She was replaced by Gabrielle Fitzpatrick.
Ahead of the proclamation , some mould and crew member allegedly felt that something was " off " on set .
Cinematographer DeanCundey said , " There were sign , specially the last calendar week or so . When we would set up a shot and we would shoot Chris Lloyd ’s angle , but we would n’t do the reversion on Marty . I ’d say , ' Do n’t we demand the angle ? ' and Bob would say , ' No , no , no , lease ’s not concern about that . ' It did n’t take long for me to see that we were saving our energy for what would come next . "
He was replaced by, of course, Michael J. Fox.
Claudia Wells took over the role.
4.InThe Lords of Flatbush, Richard Gere was the original actorcastas Chico. However, he “never hit it off” with his costar Sylvester Stallone. On a particularly difficult day, an argument over mustard led to a physical altercation, and the director decided to fire Richard and keep Sylvester.
Perry King took over the role.
5.InThe Truman Show, Christof was originally played by Dennis Hopper, but he wasreportedlyreplaced because he couldn’t remember his lines.
Dennis told theSabotage Times , " I was on the circle for , like , two days , and got fired … Scott Rudin , the producer , had made an correspondence with the director [ Peter Weir ] that … he did n’t need me to do the part , and if he did n’t like what I did after the first 24-hour interval ’s dailies , then he would fuel me . And they give the axe me . "
Ed Harris took over the role.
6.Initially, Ryan Gosling was set to play Jack Salmon inThe Lovely Bones. He decided to gain 60 founds to fit his personal vision for the character, but the director and producers didn’t see eye to eye with him. So, he was let go only a few days before filming started.
He was replaced by Mark Wahlberg.
7.The day before he was scheduled to shoot his scenes forBand of Brothers, Connor Ratliff wasfiredfrom a minor role by executive producer/director Tom Hanks, who felt he had “dead eyes.”
Twenty year later , Connor set up out to investigate why Tom really fired him with his podcastDead Eyes .
Appearing onDead Eyesin 2022 , Tom aver , " permit me first take full responsibility for doing this to you . This was without a question the act of the director , and that was me … [ It was ] one of those very , very subtle sorting of decisions that aim the story in the counsel you want it to go . "
8.Sean Young wasreportedlyfired from her role as Tess Trueheart inDick Tracybecause she didn’t come off as “maternal enough” in the dailies.
However , Sean afterward alleged that she was fire from the role because she scorn lead actor Warren Beatty ’s advances . He abnegate this and held that firing her was a creative determination .
She was replaced by Glenne Headly.
9.InHer, Samantha Morton was the original voice of Samantha. However, when the movie got to the editing stage, writer/director Spike Jonze “realized that what the character/movie needed was different from what Samantha and [he] had created together.”
He toldVulture , " I think , unluckily , it ’s pretty normal in condition of my not - quite - painless - for - everyone - involve ' summons ' of discovering what the movie is . Samantha was with us on specify and was amazing … I love Samantha . I ’ve been Quaker with her forever , and I trust we make mountain of things together in the future . "
Scarlett Johansson replaced her.
10.InValley of the Dolls, Judy Garland was originally set to play Helen Lawson. However, due to her contentious working relationship with director Mark Robson and complications from her struggles with alcohol abuse, she wasfired.
At the 2009 eventMarc Huestis Presents SPARKLE , PATTY , SPARKLE , her ex - costar Patty Dukesaid , " [ Judy ] was wizard and rummy — oh , very funny — but she was suffer a job with alcoholic beverage , and I do n’t know about other things . So the managing director , who was the meanest son of a bitch I ever run across in my life … he maintain [ Judy ] waiting and waiting . She had to amount in at 6:30 in the forenoon , and he would n’t even be after to get to her until four in the good afternoon . She was very down to earth , so she did n’t take care waiting . What I minded was that there were gentlemen around her who supply her with wine and other thing , so when she finally did get called to the set , she could n’t work very well … and she tumble . "
After being fired , Judyallegedlytook all of her costumes from the set . She reportedly afterwards have on one for a execution at the Palace Theater .
She was replaced by Susan Hayward.
11.Initially, Harvey Keitel was supposed to play US Army Captain Benjamin Willard inApocalypse Now, but director Francis Ford Coppola famously replaced him a week into filming. Denying the director’s claims inCoppola’s Monster Film: The Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’,that he was fired because he “didn’t want to stay in the jungle,” Harvey toldInsider, “Well, Harvey Keitel spent three years in the United States Marines Corps in the jungle.”
In the book , the director enounce , " I could see [ Harvey ] was very uncomfortable about conditions in the jungle . And I thought , Not only do I think he ’s ill-timed cast , but what ’s it going to be like for six months in these difficult conditions in the jungle for a urban center guy who ’s afraid of it ? I just decided to make this hard determination . "
Martin Sheen was in reality the director ’s original second choice for the part , after Steve McQueen , but he initially turn it down because he was n’t available .
He was replaced by Martin Sheen.
12.A few days in filmingDemolition Man, Lori Petty was fired from her role as Lenina Huxley. Producer Joel Silverblamedthe decision on “creative differences,” but Lori attributed it to her personality clash with lead actor Sylvester Stallone, tellingEntertainment Weekly, “Sly and I were like oil and water.”
She later on told theDaily Beast , " It was the most uncool twenty-four hours in Hollywood for me . I just address multitude the way of life I need to be treated , so I ’d rather not gossip about [ Joel ’s ] unkindness . "
She was replaced by Sandra Bullock.
13.Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the titular role inPredator. However, he told theHollywood Reporterthat producer Joel Silver fired him because it was impossible for him to safely move around the way the filmmakers wanted him to in the uncomfortably hot and cumbersome rubber costume on stilts.
He say , " My head was in the neck . My hands were in the forearms , and there were cablegram [ attached to my fingers to move the creature ’s head and jaws ] . My feet were in his calfskin , so I was on [ stilts ] . It was a disgusting kit … When Joel asked me to jump , I knew it was gon na be a high-risk one . I say , ' This is impossible , Joel . I think we ’re gon na have a problem . ' "
However , some gang penis deny this adaptation of effect . First AD Beau Marks said , " We shoot some [ footage with the original suit ] , send it back to the studio , and the decision came back that we were to flash everything we could without the creature in the suit of clothes , and we were to go back and redesign [ the creature ] . And when we went back to redesign it , we went to Stan Winston . And Stan decided that the way to do the courting is to start with the tallest , biggest guy he could find , not someone who was the spry mover that Van Damme was . "
He was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall.
14.Initially, Lee Coleman was cast as Sean Robertson inFriday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. However, hereportedlyspent one week on set and filmed a single scene before he was replaced because his performance simply didn’t line up with the filmmakers' vision. You can see a photo of him in the rolehere.
However , an hurt he sustained outside of motion-picture photography was potential another kick in agent . While out for a nighttime jog , hereportedlytripped , scratching up his face .
He was replaced by Scott Reeves.
15.Initially, James Remar was going to play Dwayne Hicks inAliens. However, he waslet goa month into filming because he was arrested for drug possession after police raided his apartment in London.
OnThe Movies That Made Us , James said that he regretted " screwing over so many people , " namelyAlienscreenwriter Walter Hill , because of his struggle with dependency .
However , there was another likely contributing constituent to his liberation . On theAliensset , Jamesreportedlyfound a prop ordnance and fired it into theThe Little Shop of Horrorsset next room access . There were no injuries , but he left a muddle in the wall of the other stage set .
He was replaced by Michael Biehn.
16.Kel O’Neill denied longstanding rumors that he was fired from the role of Eli Sunday inThere Will Be Bloodbecause he was intimidated by lead actor Daniel Day-Lewis’s method acting tactics. However, he attributed it to his working relationship with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson not being as good as the other actors' and to his fading interest in being an actor.
Kel toldVulture , " Some directors I ’ve worked with — who very few people would say are better film director than Paul — just had a way of making me feel easy . For some cause , even though every other actor I know had a human relationship with Paul that was super positive and where they did their beneficial employment , that just did n’t happen with me . I would impute that mainly to a failure on my side : An histrion should , with every ounce of their humanity , be undertake to give the director what he or she wants . And I come back going in and out on whether I could really do that . "
He went on to be a director .
He was replaced by Paul Dano, who also played Paul Sunday, the role he was initially cast in.
17.Due toThe Good Dinosaurneeding"a different perspective to get the idea out," director Bob Peterson was removed, leaving his co-director Peter Sohn to head the “Pixar Brain Trust.” Most of the animated movie’s star-studded voice cast was replaced as well, including John Lithgow, who wassupposedto re-record all his lines as Poppa before being ultimately replaced by Jeffrey Wright.
Additionally , Lucas Neff wasreplacedby Raymond Ochoa as Arlo . Neil Patrick Harris , Judy Greer , and Bill Hader ’s roles as Arlo ’s siblings were reduced to one use , which conk to Marcus Scribner . However , another sibling role later go to Maleah Padilla .
The only original voice actor who remained was Frances McDormand as Momma Ida.
18.And finally, inChicken Little, the titular character was originally a little girl voiced by Holly Hunter. However, after her lines were recorded, Disney’s then-CEOreportedlysaid, “I don’t want it to be a girl, I want it to be a boy.” The movie ended up getting a full overhaul.
Director Mark Dindal toldCollider , " I remember being told , ' Girls will go see a movie with a boy agonist , but boy wo n’t see a movie with a fille protagonist . ' That was the wisdom at the time , untilFrozencomes out and makes $ 1 billion . "
Holly was replaced by Zach Braff.
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