Actors Who Turned Down Roles That Could Have Changed Their Careers

Jennifer Hudson, Precious

In Jennifer Hudson’s 2012 autobiography I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, she revealed that she had been offered an audition for Precious, but chose to turn it down. Why? Because the actress “wanted to try a role that had nothing to do whatsoever with [her] weight.”

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