15 Times Celebrities Lost Out On Roles For Wild Reasons That Show Just How Backwards Hollywood Can Be Sometimes

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In a 2015 interview, Zoë Kravitz revealed that she for a part in Christopher Nolan’s , but was told she was “too urban” for the role.

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that she was told by a Hollywood producer she was simply “too old” to play the love interest opposite a 55-year-old man, despite being 37 at the time.

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Scarlett Johansson was she was essentially “too sexy” for the lead role in David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Tiffany Haddish how she used to “secretly” record auditions by leaving her purse behind so she could hear why she was rejected for certain roles, some of which claimed, “She’s so ghetto.”

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Regé-Jean Page how he was denied the role of Superman’s grandfather in the Syfy series Krypton due to his skin color.

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Mindy Kaling an audition where she was rejected for not being “attractive enough” to play herself on a sketch show.

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Elle Fanning the truly “disgusting” reason she lost out on a role at age 16, and, she was rejected for “not having enough Instagram followers.”

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Nia Long she was passed over for a lead role in the 2000 Charlie’s Angels film for being “too old” and “too sophisticated.”

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Priyanka Chopra that she lost out on a movie role for being “too ethnic.”

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Winona Ryder was she lost out on a role because she was “too Jewish,” and was that she “wasn’t attractive enough” to be a star in the ’80s by a casting director.

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Meryl Streep she was rejected from a big role in the 1976 King Kong remake because she was “too ugly.”

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Catherine Zeta-Jones that she lost out on the main role in the theatrical play, Aspects of Love, for being “too old” at the age of 19.

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Similarly, Olivia Wilde was she was “too old” to play opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, despite being only 29.

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James McAvoy that he’s lost many roles due to his 5’7″ height making him “too short” for certain parts.

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Lastly, Reese Witherspoon she’s lost various roles due to the fact that she’s “too smart” for certain parts, among other ridiculous reasons.