10 Actors Whose Roles Were Eliminated Totally From Final Films

Producing a film is no simple task. Every feature film requires hours and hours of work, specialized teams and, obviously, actors who face the mission of playing the roles well. And although the world of cinema transmits an aura of magic, it is not free from unforeseen events that can force directors to completely change the original plans. Sometimes the film is too long, or a certain scene is confusing for the viewers, which makes the director prefer to leave certain parts out. As a result, some actors end up completely cut from the production.

Curious as it is, the awesome.club prepared a list of 10 celebrities who filmed scenes for certain productions, but their shots were eliminated from the final version.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is regarded as one of the classic films of the 21st century. In it, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet bring characters as lovable as they are mysterious to life. But can you imagine Ellen Pompeo in the plot? the actress of Grey’s Anatomy shot some scenes for the feature, playing Naomi, Joel’s (Jim Carrey) ex-girlfriend. However, the director decided to eliminate the takes, leaving Ellen out. This is because, otherwise, viewers would have a completely different perception of the relationship between the protagonists.

You would certainly have a hard time imagining Back to the future without Michael Fox. However, in the original script, the protagonist was Eric Stoltz. Before being dropped from the project, Stoltz recorded for five weeks, but took the character too seriously, failing to give that touch of comedy required by the story. This was the main reason that led to the dismissal of the actor. A curiosity: even with the cameras off, Eric insisted on being called Marty. According to the actor, this made his interpretation work easier.

“It was a short, fun sequel, but it was left out,” Quentin Tarantino said of Tim Roth’s cameo in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood. The director and actor are friends, having previously worked together on several films. Despite not appearing on the scene, Tim has his name displayed in the credits. And the best thing is that fans will be able to see it in the extended version of the movie, which will debut soon on Netflix.

after starring 13 Reasons Why🇧🇷 Katherine Langford was summoned by the directors of Avengers: Endgame to record a secret paper. However, if you’ve seen the superhero movie, you might have noticed that the actress doesn’t appear. What happened was that Langford shot some scenes giving life to Tony Stark’s daughter as an adult, but in test screenings of the film for a small audience, the shots were considered too confusing. Consequently, the directors preferred to cut the sequences.

“I went to the screening and nobody told me that I had been cut”, confessed the protagonist of Twilight talking about his participation in the movie Vanity Fair. In the film, Pattinson played the son of Reese Witherspoon, but the filmmakers saw fit to eliminate the scenes. The casting director felt so guilty that she gave the actor the opportunity to win a role in the saga. Harry Potter. The rest, you must know, is history.

As with Katherine Langford, the scenes filmed by Maya Rudolph for the production The Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, did not work very well when shown as a form of test to an audience. For this reason, the directors decided to eliminate them. However, there is a kind of sequel to the film, in which it is possible to see several of the scenes removed from the final version of the film.

Lara was 16 when she shot some scenes for the movie. Enjoying Life Adoidado🇧🇷 However, all were eliminated from the final version of the comedy. And although the actress was not happy to learn that she would not appear in the production, the work was useful for her to strengthen her interest in acting.

In Terminator 2: The Last Judgment, Michael Biehn made a small appearance when he appeared in one of Sarah Connor’s dreams, playing Kyle Reese, a character with an important role in the first feature of the saga. However, the directors decided to remove the scene as a matter of time. In addition, they considered the possibility that viewers who did not see Terminator don’t understand the connection.

The rapper is a big fan of the Iron Man saga. So much so that he named one of his albums ironman, going so far as to say, in one of the songs, that he is called “Tony Stark”. It even seemed that the artist’s dream had come true when he was invited to make a small appearance in Jon Favreau’s film. At the time, the musician played a mogul from Dubai, but the scenes were eliminated from the final version. However, Ghostface charged the fee for the participation.

In the first stages of filming fitzcarraldo, Mick Jagger was called upon to play the role of Wilbur. But production took longer than expected, and Jagger was forced to give up work to go on tour with his band, The Rolling Stones. Director Werner Herzog said the loss of Mick Jagger was the biggest of his career.

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