I saw the title of an article yesterday somewhere, where a famous actress turned down a role in "Lord Of The Rings". She called it the biggest mistake of her career. Can't remember who it was though....
Uma Thurman was the actress. She turned down a role for Eowyn the White Lady of Rohan, in Lord Of The Rings. Ouch.
The original novel that Rambo was based on actually was much more violent. Rambo went on a killing rampage. But it was actually Stallone's idea that Rambo not actually kill anyone in First Blood, and he played more the role of a victim.
Stoltz was also fantastic in the movie, "Mask." Movie description from IMDB: A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
According to Dan Aykroyd, John Candy wanted his character, Louis Tully, to speak with a German accent and own several large dogs.
I liked James Belushi (John's brother) and at the time I thought he would have made a great Peter Venkman.
Jake Gyllenhaal beat me out for the leads in October Sky (originally named Rocket Boys) and The Day After Tomorrow, the two closest times I had a shot at a lead role in a feature film.
I thought he was great in Salvador. Course it wasn't mostly him acting like a jerk and yelling a lot. That's pretty much his reputation.
