9个谢绝了重大影片角色的明星-2。英语读头条（第71期）

9 stars who turned down great film roles -2

9个明星谢绝了重大的影片角色

John Travolta - Forrest Gump

John Travolta- 阿甘正传

Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get.

生活就像一盒巧克力 - 你永远不知道下一块是什么味道。

What few people know though, is that we could have gotten John Travolta as Forrest Gump instead of the Oscar-winning Tom Hanks.

但没几个人知道的是，来演阿甘的演员差一点就是John Travolta （Face Off，Saturday Night Fever）而不是奥斯卡影帝Tom Hanks。

Travolta was offered the title role in Robert Zemeckis's film, but he turned it down and ended up making Pulp Fiction instead.

Travolta被邀出演这个Robert Zemeckis 电影的领衔角色，但他谢绝了，结果他去拍了低俗小说。

Gump and Pulp would eventually go up against each other at the 1995 Oscars, where Forrest won six awards compared to Fiction's one.

这两个电影最终在1995年的奥斯卡的评选中相遇，与“低俗小说”赢了一个奖项相比，阿甘获得了6个奖项。

Warren Beatty - Kill Bill

Warren Beatty- 杀死比尔

Quentin Tarantino may have secured Travolta's services for Pulp Fiction, but he was less successful at persuading Warren Beatty to take the title role in Kill Bill.

Quentin Tarantino （导演）虽然成功的得到了Travolta在“低俗小说”里的撑场，但他却不能说服Warren Beatty出演杀死比尔的领衔角色。

Beatty had reservations about the amount of time Tarantino would be shooting in China and withdrew from the project, enabling David Carradine to take on the part.

Beatty对Tarantino要在中国拍摄的时间较长有些顾虑，从这个项目中退出，这样能让David Carradine 拿到这个角色。

"I didn't want to leave my kids," is how Beatty explained his departure from QT's two-part opus on MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast last year.

“我不想离开我的孩子（那么长时间），” Beatty在MTV的喜怒欢乐一头雾博客节目里这样解释他为什么离开Quentin Tarantino的两集作品。

"Warren was a good choice and would have been wonderful in the movie," said Tarantino in 2004, insisting that "there was no animosity" over how the situation played out.

“Warren是个很好的选择，他在这个电影里本来可以是很棒的，” Tarantino在2004年说，他坚称这件事的前前后后并没有给他俩”留下任何不愉快“。

Will Smith - The Matrix

Will Smith- 骇客帝国

Another actor Quentin Tarantino got a big fat no from was Will Smith, who was up for the title role in Django Unchained before Jamie Foxx.

另一个无情拒绝了Quentin Tarantino的演员是Will Smith （Independent Day， Man In Black), 他，在Jamie Foxx之前被选领衔出演被解救的姜戈。

The one that really got away, though, was the role of Neo in The Matrix - a project Smith later claimed he would not have been right for anyway.

但真正从手里跑掉的是骇客帝国里的Neo角色 - 后来Smith称这个项目对他来说本来就不合适。

"The Matrix is a difficult concept to pitch," Smith told Wired in 2004. "In the pitch, I just didn't see it.

“骇客帝国讲的一个不同的概念，“ Smith在2004年告诉Wired（杂志）。”在这个提案中，我就是看不出个头绪来“。

"I watched Keanu's performance - and very rarely do I say this - but I would have messed it up. At that point I wasn't smart enough as an actor to let the movie be.”

”我看了Keanu演的 - 我很少这么说-但如果是我演的话，我会演砸了的。那个时候，我作为演员还没有领悟到不给电影画蛇添足。

Will's wife Jada would go on to work with Reeves in the second and third films in the Matrix trilogy, while Keanu would work with their son Jaden in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Will 的妻子Jada在那以后和Reeves在骇客帝国三部曲的第二和第三部电影中合作。而后来Keanu 还和Will和Jada的儿子Jaden在地球停转之日中合作。

Julia Roberts - Shakespeare in Love

Julia Roberts- 莎翁情史

Some years before it became an Oscar-winning film, Shakespeare in Love was all set to be a glossy vehicle for the star of Pretty Woman.

在这个电影成为奥斯卡奖得主的几年前，莎翁情史本来会成为风月俏佳人的明星充分展示其才华的绚丽作品。

Yet Roberts wanted Daniel Day-Lewis to be her Shakespeare, and when he turned down the project so did she.

但Roberts要Daniel Day-Lewis （There Will Be Blood）一起出演。当他谢绝了这个项目时，她也退出了。

"Daniel wasn't interested, so Julia withdrew and the whole thing fell through just six weeks before filming was due to begin," revealed cast member Simon Callow in 2014.

“Daniel不太感兴趣，所以Julia也撤了，整个项目在开拍前六个星期就散了架了，” Simon Callow-选角成员在2014年披露。

Gwyneth Paltrow would eventually win an Academy Award - and famously cry giving her acceptance speech - for playing the role Roberts turned down.

最终Gwyneth Paltrow （Coldplay 主唱 Chris Martin的前妻）以此角色赢得了奥斯卡影后 - 她在发表获奖感言的时候，令人记忆深刻的哭了- 原因是因为能够出演这个当时Roberts谢绝了的角色。

重点单词汇总

turn down : 拒绝

turn out : 结果是

end up: （以…）结束;最终成为[变得];最后处于

withdraw : 退出

get away : 离开，脱身;逃掉;抽身;

acceptance speech : 获奖感言

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