When Elle Fanning was just 16 years honest-to-god , she lost out on a movie role for not being sexy enough . " It ’s so wicked . There are so many narrative like this that I ’ve heard and talked to people about , " she said .
1.Elle Fanningopened up about losing a role when she was 16 years old because someone involved with the movie said she was"unfuckable."
2.Elle was also was passed over for"something big"because she didn’t have enough Instagram followers.
3.Sheryl Lee Ralphwas fired from a TV pilot because a producerclaimedshe wasn’t “Black enough.”
4.Reese Witherspoonwas once told that she was"too smart"to play a “young female character.”
5.Maggie Gyllenhaalwas once told that she was"too old"to play a love interest opposite an actor 18 years older than she was at the time.
6.Zoë Kravitz wasn’t allowed to even audition forThe Dark Knight Risesbecause she was seen as"too urban."
7.Priyanka Chopra lost out on a movie role because of her skin color — someone from the studio said she had"the wrong physicality."
8.Regé-Jean Page was reportedly asked to audition for the role of Seg-El inKrypton,but then was denied the role because DC Films co-founder Geoff Johns allegedlysaidthat “Superman could not have a Black grandfather."
9.Catherine Zeta-Jones was told she was"too old"and “too pretty” to play a 20-year-old character when she was only 19 years old.
10.Mindy Kaling went in for an audition to play herself, but she didn’t get the role because she wasn’t “consideredattractive or funny enough to play [herself].”
11.Michelle Pfeiffer was in the running for the role of Vicki Vale in the 1989Batman, but Michael Keaton, her IRL ex-boyfriend and would-be onscreen love interest,preventedher from getting the job because at the time, he was trying to get back together with his ex-wife.
12.Henry Cavill was told he wasn’t"lean"enough to play James Bond when he was only 21 years old. The director of the movie urged him to lose weight before his next audition.
13.Meryl Streep was told she wasn’t “beautiful enough” to play Dwan inKing Kong. During heraudition, she overheard producer Dino De Laurentiis start speaking Italian and ask his son (who’d suggested her for the role), “Why do you bring me this ugly thing?” He didn’t realize that Meryl could also understand the language.
14.Olivia Wildelostout on the role of Naomi Lapaglia inThe Wolf of Wall Streetand was initially told that she was “too sophisticated” to play the part. Later on, she found out “they actually said ‘old.'”
15.Tiffany Haddish lost out on arolebecause she wasn’t “as urban as [they] thought she’d be.”
16.Gina Rodriguez was onceaskedto come back wearing a “black dress” after an audition because they “[needed] to know if [she was] pretty enough to be on the cover of a magazine.”
