Christina Applegate regrets having rejected 'Legally Blonde', the tape that catapulted Reese Witherspoon
It is well said that "You don't know what you have until you see it lost", and the actress Christina Applegate lived it firsthand after the great success of the 2001 film Legally Blonde, a role that made Reese Witherspoon famous and that the protagonist from Samantha What? she turned it down when it was proposed to her (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 film boom- during an interview with ET Online. At that time, the beautiful actress was still remembered for the role of Kelly Bundy Ditzy, the clumsy blonde she played for 10 years on the comedy series Married With Children, and since the role of Elle Woods seemed similar to her, she decided on it. He flatly rejected it because he did not want to be pigeonholed into a single genre.
“The script came to me right after finishing 'Married with Children.' She was a blonde who was awkward, but she ended up going to Yale or Harvard. I was afraid to repeat 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 took the credits and "the King of Rap" admitted that he did pretty well.
Julia Roberts had mixed emotions in 2010, when she saw Sandra Bullock take the stage at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, who received her first Oscar for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy, which she played in the film A Possible Dream and which she 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 expressed on several occasions how sorry he is that he did not take the part.
