How being “not fuckable” almost cost Kevin Bacon his big break: “You’re not a leading man”
A close call.
Film Archives: 11/2025
The role Henry Fonda wished he’d never played: “I didn’t fit and belong in this one”
It made him uncomfortable.
“It was a role I fought not to get”: the movie Morgan Freeman never wanted to make
He got it, and he did it anyway.
The co-star Kirk Douglas hated at first sight: “Are you as big a bastard as they say you are?”
Things were very tense.
The only star who gave Stanley Kubrick exactly what he was looking for: “An unactable quality”
“Everybody pretty much acknowledges he’s the man.”
The Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges role Paul Newman turned down: “Who would believe it?”
Even though it was written for him.
The only time Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg have ever worked together
Making forgotten history.
