Actors Who Turned Down Roles That Could Have Changed Their Careers

Tom Cruise, Footloose

After the producers of Footloose caught wind of Tom Cruise’s pantless dance sequence in Risky Business, they wanted to pin him down for the part of Ren McCormack. However, Cruise passed on the role in favor of All the Right Moves, which made less than a quarter of what Footloose earned at the box office.

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