Buzzfeed put together a list of actors who turned down major roles for various reasons.
- Liam Neeson . . . Turned down the role of James Bond because his wife said she wouldn’t marry him if he took it.
- Drew Barrymore . . . Turned down the role of Sidney Prescott in “Scream” because she was sick of the “final girl” horror movie cliché.
- Claire Danes . . . Turned down the role of Rose in “Titanic” because she “didn’t have it in her” to do another romance with Leonardo DiCaprio after “Romeo + Juliet”.
- Sandra Bullock . . . She also turned down the role of Neo in “The Matrix”. The team was going to change the role to a female for her . . . but she wasn’t interested.
- Zendaya . . . Turned down playing Aaliyah in her Lifetime channel biopic because she said the production value wasn’t there.
- Zac Efron . . . Turned down the role of Ren in “Footloose” because he wanted to do something new since he just did “High School Musical”.
Netflix is working on a LIVE-ACTION “Pokémon” series.
If you check out THOMAS RHETT’s Instagram you’ll see shots of him fishing and hunting. Y’know, the manly stuff. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find him posing with the creepy-crawlies. Somebody asked about his fears and phobias. He said, “I have a few . . . I don’t know if they’re strange fears, but they’re intense fears. I really, really do not like spiders at all. I can handle a small one, but anything a bit bigger than that I can’t really deal with it. I don’t like roaches either.” So I guess if one of his three daughters needs a hero to remove a spider, they call their mom. And if they have a scary nightmare, same thing. “I really don’t like to be in the dark by myself. I usually sleep with the TV on when I’m sleeping by myself.”
BLAKE SHELTON performed at the Force 50 Foundation Benefit for Oklahoma Veterans last Friday . . . and clips from his show have made their way online. There’s one of him doing an acoustic version of “Over You”. In another, he shares the stage with GWEN STEFANI for their song “Happy Anywhere”.
KELSEA BALLERINI says “Miss Me More” was a key moment in her growth as a songwriter. “[It] was the first one where I was talking about the mature side of a relationship. It [was] not the fun, happy side, but the ‘This was difficult to get through’ side, where I had to fight to find myself after the relationship.”
JOE JONAS and SOPHIE TURNER spent lockdown building Legos.
LEVAR BURTON honored ALEX TREBEK at the start of his week guest-hosting “Jeopardy!” And after the episode aired, fans started calling for him to be named the PERMANENT host.
HEATHER LOCKLEAR is making her comeback in a Lifetime movie
JASON SUDEIKIS says the dance he did on “SNL’s” “What’s Up with That” segments was something he invented when he was 15, to entertain his basketball teammates.
We’re officially down to the wire with Katie Thurston’s season of The Bachelorette. Her final four contestants are: Blake, Greg,and Justin, and Michael. And Michael almost certainly could have made it in the top three, but sadly, he just quit the show before Katie could give him her final rose. Michael is a single dad after his wife Laura passed away several years ago, and he parents their 4-year-old son James on his own.
Cheyenne Kimball is 31.
Alex Rodriguez is 46.
Maya Rudolph is 49.
Bill Engvall is 64.
Peggy Fleming is 73. Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater.
Betty Thomas is 74. “Hill Street Blues” actress turned
Bobbie Gentryis 77or 79. Singer of “Ode to Billie Joe”.
Norman Lear is 99. TV producer. He gave us the classics “All in the Family”, “The Jeffersons”, “One Day at a Time”, “Good Times” and “Maude”.
