The co-star Jim Carrey fought tooth and nail to hire: “Whatever you’re hearing is bullshit”
“He’s the only leading man who ever did that for me.”
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 04/2025
The failure that launched Florence Pugh’s career: “Maybe I’ve got the wrong industry”
Sometimes it’s what people don’t see that can spark a career
The years of her career Reese Witherspoon would love to delete from history: “I was a little bit lost”
Witherspoon struggled to find herself in this career wilderness
The two terrible Ben Affleck movies Matt Damon wisely refused to star in: “I chickened out”
He should have taken the hint.
Every co-star John Wayne almost came to blows with: “If he could intimidate you, he’d stay on you forever”
Don’t mess with ‘The Duke’.
The Steven Spielberg classic rejected in favour of a John Carpenter flop: “Goes to show how wrong you can be”
Columbia Pictures wound up kicking itself over this one
The accidental scene regarded as one of Gary Oldman’s greatest: “I was having a laugh”
This was meant as a gag, but it became iconic.
The movie that made Ron Howard apologise to his actors: “I did see the life draining out of these guys”
Too kind for his own good.