We have to assume that competition in the workplace is perfectly normal, especially in the cutthroat world of Hollywood, where sometimes the roles to play are so attractive and scarce that more than one famous person has been willing to do it. whatever to get it.
But the real problem with the competition comes when friendship is put to the test and celebrities who have known each other for years vie to play the character of their dreams. Here are some celebrities who had to fight with their BFF for a role.
1. Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams
Director Paul Thomas Anderson confessed that they considered Reese Witherspoon to play Peggy Dodd in the film The Master: Every Man Needs a Guide (2013). However, when Amy was chosen, Reese did not hesitate to support her. Due to her great performance, Amy was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
2. Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone
At an event in November 2017 attended by both actresses, Jennifer confessed that she wanted to play the role of Olive in Easy Ato which Emma replied jokingly:
Well guess what? You didn’t get it. You didn’t get it because you suck!
3. Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox
Tom confessed that he and Charlie ended up being friends due to frequently auditioning for the same roles.
We always saw each other at the same auditions and became very good friends as a result. So we’d walk out of auditions and say, Do you want to go get something to eat? Let’s go get a burger.
Charlie was once considered for the role of Loki, but ended up joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Matt Murdock in Daredevil.
4. Chris Evans and John Krasinski
Many of us might think that the choice of Chris Evans to play Captain America was obvious, but what we did not know is that his friend John Krasinski also auditioned for the role of Steve Rogers.
I just saw Chris a couple of weeks ago and we were still laughing about it. I told him, ‘I love that you retired with my role.’
5. Selma Blair and Katie Holmes
Selma has been very candid about how much she wanted to play Joey Potter in Dawson’s Creek, but revealed that it didn’t feel too bad when Katie Holmes won it. However, Selma was not the only one of her, because Sarah Michelle Gellar, another friend of the actress, also auditioned for that role, although she did not get it either.
6. Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar
The two ’90s screen icons squared off to play Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But the role was given to Sarah Michelle.
7. Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey
Did you know that Matthew McConaughey could have played Jack Dawson in titanica? These two handsome actors have clashed on more than one occasion for roles over the years and although Matthew beat Leonardo to win the Oscar for Best Actor in 2014, the latter won the leading role in titanica. In fact, Kate Winslet shared in an interview in 2017 that she had done a screen test with the actor from How to lose a man in 10 days.
8. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg
When they co-starred in the movie A rebels’ Diary (1995) did not get along at all. However, they ended up being good friends and when Leonardo turned down the role of Eddie Adams, in Boogie Nights: Pleasure Games, he recommended Mark to play it for him.
9. Jon Hamm and Ben Affleck
Initially it was a given that Jon would play Nick Dunne in Loss (2014), but his contract with the series Mad Men he was not allowed to participate in the film. As a result of this, the paper ended up being for his friend Ben Affleck.
10. Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins
Gibson and Hopkins have been friends since 1984, when they worked together on The Mutiny on the Bounty. Who would have thought that they would end up being rivals to play Odin, the Norse god of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
11. Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence
In 2012, Jennifer played Tiffany Maxwell in The good side of things, what you probably didn’t know is that director David O. Russell had initially considered Anne Hathaway for the role, but she ended up quitting due to creative differences that arose with the project.
12. Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet
According to Lucas, he and Timothée competed on more than one occasion for the same roles. In fact, both disputed the role of Tom in interstellar. However, their same interests led them to become good friends and they even worked together on Ladybird in 2017.
13. Gwyneth Paltrow and Laura Dern
Both Gwyneth and Laura auditioned for the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park (1993). But the great lucky one, as we know, was nothing more and nothing less than Laura Dern.
14. James Garner and Paul Newman
James Garner and Paul Newman shared one of the longest friendships in Hollywood, even sharing screens countless times over the past few decades. Even so, their friendship was not exempt from job competition, because although both auditioned to play the older Noah in Diary of a passion, the role went to Garner. Additionally, George Clooney was considered to play the younger Noah before Ryan Gosling took on the character.
15. Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson
Daniel Day-Lewis has withdrawn from the film Lincoln (2012) not feeling connected to the role of President Abraham Lincoln, so Liam Neeson was the candidate to replace him. However, when the time came to start filming, Liam was not at his best, since his wife Natasha Richardson had passed away just two months ago. Finally, Daniel Day-Lewis decided to play former President Lincoln, which earned him the Oscar for Best Actor in 2013.
16. Gwen Stefani and Angelina Jolie
Maybe you knew that Gwen Stefani and Angelina Jolie are very good friends, but you probably didn’t know that they both competed for the leading role in the film. Mr and Mrs smith.
It was something between Angelina Jolie and me. Oh great. I have a chance here.
17. Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig
Both were considered to bring James Bond to life. However, Hugh was so committed to his role as Wolverine in X Men that he gave up the idea, leaving the way clear to Craig. Although the Australian is still interested in playing the spy. Let’s see what Henry Cavill thinks about it.
18. Arnold Chun and Brian Tee
Arnold Chun and Brian Tee look so much alike that they were even confused when auditioning for the same roles. In fact, both competed to give life to the Prime Minister in Immortal Wolverinebut Brian won, which turned out to be a bummer for Arnold, who was already up for the role.
He is a fabulous actor, talented and much more experienced than me. It was kind of hard, because he was literally like, ‘I lost to that guy, again!’ And then I saw him at the gym and now we’re friends. We talked about it and it was like, ‘Man, seriously, get off my radar because you’re taking all my jobs.
19. Kerry Washington and Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson also auditioned for the role of Olivia Pope in Scandal. But the big winner ended up being her friend Kerry Washington.
When I showed up to read for Shonda Rhimes, in my mind I was like, ‘This is Kerry Washington. What am I doing here? It was hers’. That job was hers and she did it very well.
20. Tiffany Thiessen and Jennie Garth
Tiffani Thiesen and Jennie Garth were friends when they both auditioned for the role of Kelly Kapowski on the television series Saved by the Bell, although the paper was kept by Tiffani. Well they say that things happen for a reason, because Jennie ended up playing the famous Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210.
