“I’m only interested in serious films”: the iconic role Paul Newman called “shit” and turned down
That was a no, then.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 03/2026
“He called her an old whore”: the director Anthony Hopkins accused of murdering an actor
Indirectly, for legal posterity’s sake.
The greatest Chuck Norris fact of all time, according to Chuck Norris: “My favourite”
He was in on the joke.
“He is completely infantile”: when Ingmar Bergman called Alfred Hitchcock a creep
He wasn’t the first.
“It was fucking awful”: the iconic TV show Ryan Reynolds refused to star in
He became a star eventually.
“That’s it, there is no sequel”: the one movie Ron Howard would never make again
Somebody else did, though.
“He was traumatised”: the single biggest humiliation of Quentin Tarantino’s career
Kicked when he was down.