“My worst audition was for Tim Burton for Batman,” Lithgow recalled during at 2017 interview. “I tried to persuade him I was not right for the part, and I succeeded.”
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Actors Who Turned Down Roles That Could Have Changed Their Careers
The More You Know
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- The first roller coaster was invented to stop sinful behavior.
- A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
- Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.