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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The More You Know

  • Worldwide ticket sales for the Saw franchise put it at just shy of a billion dollars, making it the highest earning horror franchise globally.
  • Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.
  • The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie.
  • During the filming of the movie Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital.
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