Five scenes that lost actors an Oscar
These scenes snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 05/2025
The audition that turned Matt Damon into a honeytrap: “They just wanted him for a price”
Damon knew he was being used, but went along with it anyway
The objectifying role Angelina Jolie turned down: “The idea has absolutely no appeal”
Jolie took the high road on this one.
The only time Gene Hackman played two roles in the same movie: “An odd, late choice”
Hackman pulled double duty on this film, much to his surprise.
The movie that sent James Cagney into Hollywood exile: “The experience disturbed him”
After this torturous shoot ended, Cagney was done.
“I’m stoked”: Benjamin Charles Watson on his excitement at being part of JJ Abrams’ TV comeback in ‘Duster’
“I think I love action now.”
When Sigourney Weaver fell in love with a werewolf: “We walked around holding hands”
Who’d have thought Weaver would love lycanthropy so much?
How Julia Roberts sabotaged herself out of an Oscar-winning role: “It was a disaster”
This wasn’t Roberts’ finest hour.
Why Clint Eastwood refused to reunite with Sergio Leone: “I like to know the joke”
Why did the spaghetti western pioneers never reunite?
The scene Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to delete from history: “It was done so cheap”
Everybody has to start somewhere.
Alfred Hitchcock’s baffling opinion on actors getting married: “Many are stupid children”
Actors are apparently “stupid children”.
Johnny Depp’s bizarre reason for abandoning his passion project: “What the fuck does that mean?”
Depp ghosted an old friend with little more than a very odd explanation