> As for Yaphet, he also turned down another classic film role. “You know, I was offered to do the part of Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back one afternoon in the luncheonette by Irvin Kershner, who had just finished directing me in Raid on Entebbe. He was directing Empire. I was having lunch with Veronica Cartwright, and he came over and asked me if I wanted to do the part, and I said no. He asked why, and I said, ‘Because they’ll kill me off. I’ll have trouble finding work after that.’ I said, ‘I’ve got something I want to do called Brubaker in Ohio. That’s where I’m going after the movie is over.’ I knew I had to get back down to Earth.”
During the making of Alien, Yaphet rejected the role of Lando in ESB. Was this the worst decision an actor or actress has ever made?
He turned it down cause he wasn't impressed with the bonus situation.
Gabriel Morgan
Kurt Russell rejected the role of Han Solo
Will Smith rejected The Matrix
Justin Sanders
Well they're both still rich and have enough memorable roles .
Christian Young
>Peter Jackson offered the original James Bond character the part of Gandalf. But apparently, Connery declined because he “didn’t understand the script.” After LOTR’s runaway success, Connery had decided to accept the lead role in the next movie script he didn’t completely understand: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Eli Ross
How dumb can you be? Wasn't Star wars 1977 one of the biggest movies ever at the time?
Christopher Hill
ftbp
Gavin Martin
>“didn’t understand the script.”
>Okay Mr.COnnery, youll play Gandalf. >Whos Gandalf? >Hes a wise wizard.....and has to escort the hobbits through an unsafe land.... >I DONT UNDERSTAND.
Parker Williams
this made me chuckle
Hudson Johnson
>Kurt Russell rejected the role of Han Solo Not true. Kurt did a reading but pretty sure they decided to cast Harrison instead.
>drops his position as Clegane on Game of Thrones to play as the big bad orc in the new Hobbit movies >does all his scenes >gets replaced by a retarded CGI orc at the last minute
Nolan Thomas
I think that most actors have a story like that in their history. The role they turned down that went on to become someone else's career-defining turn.
William Torres
I'm drunk, but believe Will Smith has blown quite a few socially meaningful movies.
Can't recall which ones as moment, but the majority of movies he skipped on, pretty sure were better off.
Will Smith as Neo, personally hard to imagine the depiction of that role by Will Smith.
Isaac Brown
>Matt LeBlanc was offered a banquet of hot meals after the success of Friends. He decided to pursue bowls of gazpacho instead.
Liam Jones
I wonder if he had taken Matrix, if Morpheus would have been cast differently? Unusually to cast two black guys as the two leading roles in a sci fi, I mean I guess it's possible. Maybe we would have had a white Morpheus.
Jack Brown
Connery is famous for his shit choices. Every film he made from about 1976 onwards is the worst possible piece of shit he could have agreed to at that time.
Ryan Robinson
Wasn't just the hobbit. He left to play the big Germanic barbarian in Spartacus. The one that had 10 minutes of screentime and then got his face cut off.
Noah Smith
>1976 onwards
Nah man, there were still decent movies past 76 with Connery. Red October, Indiana Jones, Untouchables, Highlander, etc.
Shit started to go downhill after 1990. The Rock and Entrapment being the few saving graces.
Carter Richardson
To be fair it like 4 years until clegane showed up on camera again after that scene
Nolan Thompson
I can see why, it's not like Clegane had many lines and his future was to be a masked zombie.
Ryan Williams
In a strange juxtaposition, Hugo Weaving would be cast as Morpheus, and Laurence Fishburne would be Agent Smith.
Aaron Nelson
City Slickers
Jack Evans
> Ridley recalled Yaphet’s energy and riotous demeanor on the set: “Yaphet was always great as the troublemaker on board the ship, and the day that Yaphet had to die, he said, ‘I’m not going to die.’ He said, ‘This thing can’t kill me!’ So I had to have this long discussion, persuading him to die that day,” (similarly, in a 1994 interview with Conan O’Brien, Yaphet joked[?] that his character in Live and Let Die was “too cool” to be killed – “I was not a villain, James Bond didn’t understand my point of view!”)
> Miniature model make Jon Sorensen also recalls: “The Alien, as you all know, was played by an actor of Masai stock, Bolaji Badejo. The Masai are very slender but can be incredibly strong. Anyway, it seemed to us that Yaphet took something of a dislike to Bolaji. Now, whether this was part of a method-style pumping up exercise to keep “Parker” in a ‘fighting’ mode towards the Alien, no one was ever quite sure. But he certainly poured it on and everyone noticed, notably Bolaji. Well the day came for Parker to fight the Alien and Yaphet comes out with it. ‘No f****** Alien is going to beat me. No f****** Alien is going to hold me down!’ Well, Bolaji/Alien pinned Kotto/Parker to the ground, sitting on him. Could Yaphet shift him? No. Not with all his considerable strength could he get the Alien off. He was ABSOLUTELY furious. Bolaji, the quiet man, won the day.”
Ethan Richardson
They're okay by comparison to what surrounded them, but if you compare the critically acclaimed and/or gritty shit he was doing prior to that, the directors he was working with, those movies aren't too good either. Alimony may explain it, I don't know.
Chase White
>a C Everett Koop joke kek, and of course the audience has no idea who that is
Anthony Cox
Charles Everett Koop was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as the 13th Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. According to the Associated Press, "Koop was the only surgeon general to become a household name." Koop was known for his work to prevent tobacco use, AIDS, and abortion, and for his support of the rights of disabled children.
Everyone knows that user
Robert Martin
Didn't Will Smith also turn down Django Unchained?
Hunter Wood
Yes, but as an actor in the industry, it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that a sequel will be a forgettable re-hash instead of turning out to be the single best film in the media franchise and one of the ten best films ever made.
Blake Hughes
It's been literal years you embarrassing faggot, it's not catching on. Let it go.
Jaxon Martinez
IIRC if you watch very very closely it's called "Weylan" on some computer screen. "The company" as being WY wasn't a firmly established idea in the vintage of the original film. they just needed an evil company to be the real, true antagonist.
The company's "character" is of course far more thorougly developed in the second film. Now we get a nice modern logo, the whole corporate structure and board room shit, other investments and colonies, the whole bit. Now, for the first time (especially in the special edition) "The company" is a real, antagonistic entity, which goes well with hollywood's penchant for telling anti-capitalist sob stories. Everything we hear about "weyland yutani" from this point forward really references the development given in the second film.
As recent events have re-confirmed, directors are free to retcon and redirect ideas at will, in order to make their own variation on the theme. And this because the franchise never really was a singular vision, but a collaboration all the way through, best of all in its original 1978 production.
The cheesy/awful AvP movies do (do) a sorta-canon development of the Weyland patriarch. And the worst film anywhere in these media properties, AvP:R does contain an important bit of fictional history: this is the one time I'm aware of in any of the flicks where Yutani (herself!) is portrayed in a cute coda, as simply receiving a Predator gun, and becoming aware of the baddies in the universe...
Charles Perry
yaphet kotto is a cool fukken dude
Landon Rivera
Clegane was in season 2, and could have arguably been a minor antagonist for two seasons if they had a consistent actor.
Ian Morales
>black getting blacked pottery
Connor Davis
t. employee who lands on derelict planets without any guarantee of a bonus
