They say that "You don't know what you have until you see it lost", and the actress Christina Applegate experienced it firsthand after the great success of the film Legally Blonde in 2001, a role that made Reese Witherspoon famous and that the protagonist from Samantha What? she refused when it was proposed (she was the first candidate for the role of the pretty lawyer).
Christina Applegate admitted that turning down this role has been one of her worst decisions: "It was a stupid move, right?" She said yesterday -14 years after the boom of the tape- during an interview with ETOnline. At the time, the pretty actress was still remembered for the role of Kelly Bundy Ditzy, the bumbling blonde she played for 10 years on the comedy series Married With Children, and since she found the role of Elle Woods similar, she He flatly rejected it because he didn't want to pigeonhole himself into a single genre.
“The script came to me right after I finished 'Married With Children.' She was a blonde who was awkward, but she ended up going to Yale or Harvard. I was afraid of repeating myself," admitted the actress, who despite acknowledging that it would have been a great opportunity also accepted that Witherspoon did a great job: "Reese deserved it. She did a much better job than I could have done, and this is life".
Christina's case has been repeated over the years in different actors. Will Smith himself felt the frustration of having rejected the role of Neo in the Matrix tape, in 1999, since when reading the script he argued that it was very difficult to understand and thought that it would be difficult for people to accept it. In the end, it was Keanu Reeves who got the credit and "the King of Rap" admitted that he did pretty well.
Julia Roberts had mixed emotions in 2010, when she saw Sandra Bullock, who received her first Oscar thanks to her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy, who she played in the film A Possible Dream, go up on stage at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. rejection.
Tom Hanks must have been very grateful to John Travolta when he refused to become Forrest Gump, which Hanks starred in in 1994. Travolta has repeatedly expressed how sorry he is for not taking the role.
