who was an actor/actress that was known for rejecting a role that they shouldve regreted?

Question

is there a site where they hav a history of rumors that actors who denied a big role that become a success for the replacement?

Answer 1

john travolta turned down american gigolo, an officer & a gentleman and chicago. richard gere took the parts to great success.

Answer 2

Angela Bassett rejected Halle Berry's role in Monster Ball

Answer 3

Sean Connery turned down a role in Lord of the Rings.
David Schwimmer passed on Men in Black.
Will Smith passed on The Matrix.
Stallone passed on Beverly Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy took his spot after some major re-writting.

.... and the list goes on.

Answer 4

Marlon Brando rejected The Godfather for along time before he finally accepted the role

Answer 5

Steve McQueen turned down the role of The Sundance Kid because he hated Paul Newman and Newman would recieve top billing over McQueen

Answer 6

Tom Selleck was offered the role of Indiana Jones, and turned it down because he had already committed to do MAgnum PI

Answer 7

Gweneth Powtrow-turn down the part of Rose on "Titanic" and Reba McEntire turn down the parrt of Molly Brown.

Answer 8

According to her official biography, Teresa was born Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira to Portuguese parents in Mozambique, which was a colony of Portugal at the time. Her father was Dr. José Simões-Ferreira, and her mother was Irene Thierstein (of partial German descent).

Teresa grew up in Mozambique's capital, Lourenço Marques. Her father was a medical doctor, and Teresa led a relatively privileged life. Her father, however, often brought her along on his calls into the African bush, where she witnessed how those of lesser means lived.

Teresa Simões-Ferreira earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Romance Languages and literature from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She graduated from the Interpreters School of the University of Geneva before moving to the United States to work at the United Nations as a translator.

She is fluent in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, and her native Portuguese. She married billionaire and future Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz III of the Heinz family famous for their food products on February 5, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A few years after the marriage, in 1971, Teresa Heinz became a naturalized citizen of the United States. According to her official bio, Teresa Heinz first met John F. Kerry in 1990 at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time that she and John Kerry met before the death of Senator Heinz. After Senator Heinz died in an airplane crash on April 4, 1991 in Pennsylvania, Teresa Heinz inherited his vast fortune.
The next time she met John Kerry was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 during the Earth Summit, which Ms. Heinz attended as a member of a State Department delegation appointed by President George H. W. Bush. Their courtship began in 1993, and they were married on May 26, 1995 on Nantucket, Massachusetts. She chose to keep her name as Teresa Heinz, and also remained a registered REPUBLICAN, until John Kerry's presidential bid.

Answer 9

Bette Midler was offered Sister Act, but turned it down and Whoppi Goldberg got it instead; that's when everyone found out she could sing.

Answer 10

Jodie Foster... The 'Silence Of The Lambs' sequels...