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Bagging a role in a Hollywood film is often a hit-or-miss situation, you either get it or you don’t. And then there are times when actors end up passing a role to someone else only for it to become an astronomical hit. Irrespective of that though, there always tends to be a treasure of missed opportunities for celebrities in the film industry, and that’s exactly what happened with Scarlett Johansson too.
Even after having a fortune of $165 million, two Academy Award nominations, and an arsenal of other accolades that she’s won, theBlack Widow star was still rejected for a number of roles, including Joe Johnston’sJumanjiwhich ultimately ended up going to Kirsten Dunst.
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Scarlett Johansson LostJumanji(1995) to Kirsten Dunst
Starring Robin Williams, Bradley Pierce, and Kirsten Dunst,Jumanjiwas a classic adventure/fantasy film and a commercial success after it grossed $263 million worldwide on a budget of $65 million.
Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world byTime,Scarlett Johanssonhad auditioned to play Judy Shepherd in the film, the role which was later signed off to Dunst. Though she lost the project to theSpider-Manactress, Johansson claimed that she didn’t wallow about it all too much given how she was just a kid at the time. Even so, theLucystar didn’t miss the movie and went to watch it in the cinema when it was released.
“That is true, yeah. I wasn’t bitter enough then,”Johansson said during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show.“Now, I’m bitter.”
Sure, the MCU actress missed out on her fair share of major films, but the one that she’d wanted to be a part of the most was David Fincher’s thriller,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Back then though, she was simply considered to be“too beautiful”to star as the traumatized and antisocial Lisbeth Salander in the film. But as per the 38-year-old actress, the reality behind the situation had been quite different.
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Based on a novel of the same name by Swedish author Stieg Larsson,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoowas a neo-noir psychological thriller starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig which opened up to glowing critical reviews and a gigantic profit of about $240 million at the global box office.
Fincher is a renowned film director and has helmed some of the most popular Hollywood projects including 1999’sFight Club, 2007’s mystery/thriller titledZodiac, and Ben Affleck-ledGone Girl,to name a few. And Johansson met up with the 60-year-old director herself at the time ofThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, only for her to get rejected.
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“That’s not exactly how it went,”theLost in Translationstar said in reference to the rumor which claimed that she didn’t get the role for being“too beautiful.”Johansson explained how Fincher said she’d have to be“totally uncaring”of herself to portray Lisbeth in the 2011 movie and though she was ready to, the latter didn’t believe she could.“I said, ‘I will. I can be that person’ and he was like, ‘No you can’t.'”
“I really, really wanted that film because I felt I had something to contribute to it,”Johansson said.“And I think Fincher just had a different vision for that character and Rooney Mara is, honestly, so perfect in it.”
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoocan be streamed on Netflix.
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Khushi Shah
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With a prolific knowledge of everything pop culture and a strong penchant for writing, Khushi has penned over 700 articles during her time as an author at FandomWire.An abnormal psychology student and an fervent reader of dark fiction, her most trusted soldiers are coffee and a good book.
