The worst audition of Ben Affleck’s career: “It was humiliating”
He’s come a long way since then.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 04/2025
The movies George Clooney is proudest of: “A high point for me, career-wise”
Important career milestones.
The rejection that shaped Greta Gerwig’s career: “I really thought highly of myself”
A bitter pill to swallow.
The history-making movie Spike Lee hated: “I felt like putting a rock through the screen”
It wasn’t his kind of movie.
The filmmaker banned from looking at Tom Hardy: “They made me hide behind a tree”
He didn’t take too kindly to Hardy’s behaviour.
The Julia Roberts role Meg Ryan rejected: “I don’t know if it’s good form to talk about this”
An alternate course of history.
How Tom Cruise starring in Ben Stiller’s home movie led to an iconic role: “It blew my mind”
Yes, you read that correctly.
The co-star who received a public shaming from John Wayne: “I am sure his intentions were not as bad as his taste”
The Duke didn’t take kindly to this at all.
The one movie Francis Ford Coppola wishes he never made: “It cost me everything”
“I wouldn’t have lost my son.”