Casting Replacements That Took a Serious Toll on These Actors’ Careers

Ryan Gosling in The Lovely Bones

Before Mark Wahlberg fulfilled the role, Ryan Gosling was supposed to play the father of Susie Salmon, the murdered girl in The Lovely Bones, until director Peter Jackson fired him from the project. Why? Well, it might have had a little something to do with his 60-pound weight gain.

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