June 11, 2024 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Samhi, thanks
for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're talking about huge
stars who turned down or got turned down for iconic roles.
For example, when you think Indiana Jones, who else could
play Indiana Jones apart from Harrison Ford? No, I agree?
Do you know who almost played Let's guess that's.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A great game and we have to say whether they
could have.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Been good or yeah, okay, it will be one of
the James Bonds.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Sean Connery seeking a more recent one than that.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Remember, way better.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To be someone else, someone A big star in the
eighties was almost Indiana Jones and a huge star in
the eighties, big bushy mustache. He was down to the
last part and he's like, actually, I can't commit to
this because I'm working on mcnimp I. The dates don't
quite line up.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I can see how that would have worked.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Say so, George Lucas actually turned to his mate on
Star Wars, Harrison Ford did, Actually, I've got this thing
coming up. Do you want to do this? That's how
that happened. Crazy a all right, legally blonde. We know
Reese with a Spoon is legally blonde, right, and.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She is so good and in such great nick. She's
about to do legally Blonde too.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Christ Yeah, that's right, Christina Applegate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes? Al Woods was almost Christina Applegate, but again, she
was doing Married with Children. I can't really do that
right now, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I don't think she would have been right. I think
Reese is better Chris.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
She's good, though.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Christina's shard it down because she was worried the character
would be too blonde and ditzy, like her character on
Married with Children.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I feel like she would have taken it to too
much of a humorous town.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah maybe, Okay, yep, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You had to have a certain level of believability that
that's what she actually thought.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, okay, okay's say the movie Speed. You know, Keanu
Reeves Sandra Bullock on the Bus.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I would love to watch that again.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a great movie. A Okay, Sandra Bullock's role almost
didn't go to Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Who do you think is only once? She is so unique,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She's brilliant. So nineteen ninety four big star at the time,
almost took the role.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm going to go with Hugh Grant's messus, Liz Hurley.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Catherine C. Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, neither to those. Halle Berry.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, that it would have been a flop.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Sorry, because Helle's had quite a few flops. You tell
me one role that she's been amazing, And I know
she got an oscarter, but everyone said it was a
terrible so or something.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Halle Berry read the script, she goes, this looks stupid.
There's a bomb on a bus. No, I'm not doing that.
She turned it down.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Thankful for that, So I want anything she did.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Just write that film though, where she was like sleeping
with the young handsome guy. It was like half her age.
Remember she was the script writer.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She was a scriptwriter in a.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Film as effectively, she was like twice the age.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Of the Love.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Interesting. Everyone wants to write their own scripts, don't they?
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you remember Silence of the Lambs? Of course, brilliant
acting from both Hannibal Lictor and Clarice Starling.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right, tell me Anthony Hopkins wasn't going to get.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hopkins was always going to be.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But who was going to be Race Jodi Foster.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, Jodi Foster was, but who was going to be
before her? And this woman turned it down, which I
think jo didn Jodi Foster win the least the best
actress Oscar.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Jody Foster has a unique set of skills for horror movies.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, I can't picture this, but Michelle Pfeiffer almost had
that role.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Michelle Feiffer also has a unique set of skills for
thriller slash horrors. Remember she started what Lies Beneath she was,
She's seen in a lot of the bunny boiler type ones.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's interesting because a lot of these, a lot of
these near misses for people in terms of casting, would
have still worked, Like the one that's still ringing in
my brain. It's Tom Selleck for Indiana Jones. I was like,
no one can do what Harrison Ford did. But then
you're like, Tom Selleck would have worked.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, Okay, maybe, okay, well this have worked. Then Boogie Knights,
Mark Wohlberg and Boogie booge Knights, right, yeah, So now
the guy who almost got that was Leon added DiCaprio.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Ah, yeah that would have worked.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, and one more and this this
is shocking to me. The notebook my favorite movie of
all time, The Notebook. You've got Ryan Gosling and Rachel.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
McAdams and that's one of my favorite movies of all
time too. So whoever you're going to say is not
going to stack up.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're going to be shocked of us.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Who do you think was almost Rachel McAdams, Nestlie Portman,
Christina Applegame.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, neither of those two Britney Spears.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Oh wait, sorry, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That would have been the most terrible decision. It would
have been a flop.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
She was reading She's down to the flight last two
to play Ellie. Someone's reading it to a stop. But
she only turned it down because she was working on
her album at the time. So because of that album,
Rachel McAdams got Ellie.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I wonder if she had taken that role, because we're
only we're only judging this on Britney Spears now and
she's got her own issues and problems. But had she
taken that role, would it have taken in a different
direction than Maybe maybe she would have stopped the singing.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And but just what we seeing from her on social
it's like she she lacks in a few areas, doesn't
she you know.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
She mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't think she's got good people around her.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I think it's more than that. What's more than that,
I think there's an intelligence issue as well as that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
To me, anyway, we're glad Wins, right, Tomcat, And let's
just say that, and let's put me in this yere
before the lets get involved.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street,
jayce Reeves, and Sam Wallace
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Samhi, thanks
for listening.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're talking about huge
stars who turned down or got turned down for iconic roles.
For example, when you think Indiana Jones, who else could
play Indiana Jones apart from Harrison Ford? No, I agree?
Do you know who almost played Let's guess that's.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A great game and we have to say whether they
could have.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Been good or yeah, okay, it will be one of
the James Bonds.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Sean Connery seeking a more recent one than that.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Remember, way better.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To be someone else, someone A big star in the
eighties was almost Indiana Jones and a huge star in
the eighties, big bushy mustache. He was down to the
last part and he's like, actually, I can't commit to
this because I'm working on mcnimp I. The dates don't
quite line up.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I can see how that would have worked.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Say so, George Lucas actually turned to his mate on
Star Wars, Harrison Ford did, Actually, I've got this thing
coming up. Do you want to do this? That's how
that happened. Crazy a all right, legally blonde. We know
Reese with a Spoon is legally blonde, right, and.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She is so good and in such great nick. She's
about to do legally Blonde too.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Christ Yeah, that's right, Christina Applegate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes? Al Woods was almost Christina Applegate, but again, she
was doing Married with Children. I can't really do that
right now, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I don't think she would have been right. I think
Reese is better Chris.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
She's good, though.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Christina's shard it down because she was worried the character
would be too blonde and ditzy, like her character on
Married with Children.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I feel like she would have taken it to too
much of a humorous town.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah maybe, Okay, yep, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You had to have a certain level of believability that
that's what she actually thought.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, okay, okay's say the movie Speed. You know, Keanu
Reeves Sandra Bullock on the Bus.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I would love to watch that again.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a great movie. A Okay, Sandra Bullock's role almost
didn't go to Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Who do you think is only once? She is so unique,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She's brilliant. So nineteen ninety four big star at the time,
almost took the role.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm going to go with Hugh Grant's messus, Liz Hurley.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Catherine C. Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, neither to those. Halle Berry.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh, that it would have been a flop.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Sorry, because Helle's had quite a few flops. You tell
me one role that she's been amazing, And I know
she got an oscarter, but everyone said it was a
terrible so or something.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Halle Berry read the script, she goes, this looks stupid.
There's a bomb on a bus. No, I'm not doing that.
She turned it down.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Thankful for that, So I want anything she did.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Just write that film though, where she was like sleeping
with the young handsome guy. It was like half her age.
Remember she was the script writer.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She was a scriptwriter in a.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Film as effectively, she was like twice the age.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Of the Love.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Interesting. Everyone wants to write their own scripts, don't they?
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you remember Silence of the Lambs? Of course, brilliant
acting from both Hannibal Lictor and Clarice Starling.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right, tell me Anthony Hopkins wasn't going to get.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hopkins was always going to be.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But who was going to be Race Jodi Foster.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, Jodi Foster was, but who was going to be
before her? And this woman turned it down, which I
think jo didn Jodi Foster win the least the best
actress Oscar.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Jody Foster has a unique set of skills for horror movies.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, I can't picture this, but Michelle Pfeiffer almost had
that role.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Michelle Feiffer also has a unique set of skills for
thriller slash horrors. Remember she started what Lies Beneath she was,
She's seen in a lot of the bunny boiler type ones.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's interesting because a lot of these, a lot of
these near misses for people in terms of casting, would
have still worked, Like the one that's still ringing in
my brain. It's Tom Selleck for Indiana Jones. I was like,
no one can do what Harrison Ford did. But then
you're like, Tom Selleck would have worked.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, Okay, maybe, okay, well this have worked. Then Boogie Knights,
Mark Wohlberg and Boogie booge Knights, right, yeah, So now
the guy who almost got that was Leon added DiCaprio.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Ah, yeah that would have worked.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, and one more and this this
is shocking to me. The notebook my favorite movie of
all time, The Notebook. You've got Ryan Gosling and Rachel.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
McAdams and that's one of my favorite movies of all
time too. So whoever you're going to say is not
going to stack up.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're going to be shocked of us.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Who do you think was almost Rachel McAdams, Nestlie Portman,
Christina Applegame.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, neither of those two Britney Spears.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Oh wait, sorry, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That would have been the most terrible decision. It would
have been a flop.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
She was reading She's down to the flight last two
to play Ellie. Someone's reading it to a stop. But
she only turned it down because she was working on
her album at the time. So because of that album,
Rachel McAdams got Ellie.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I wonder if she had taken that role, because we're
only we're only judging this on Britney Spears now and
she's got her own issues and problems. But had she
taken that role, would it have taken in a different
direction than Maybe maybe she would have stopped the singing.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And but just what we seeing from her on social
it's like she she lacks in a few areas, doesn't
she you know.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
She mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't think she's got good people around her.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I think it's more than that. What's more than that,
I think there's an intelligence issue as well as that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
To me, anyway, we're glad Wins, right, Tomcat, And let's
just say that, and let's put me in this yere
before the lets get involved.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street,
jayce Reeves, and Sam Wallace
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