Actors Who Turned Down Roles That Could Have Changed Their Careers

Jim Carrey, Elf

When Jim Carrey first read the script for family-friendly holiday classic Elf, he was supposedly on board to play Buddy the Elf. However, it wasn’t until over a decade later that the film actually went into production—by that time, the actor had already starred as the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

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