Julianne Moore On Being Fired From A Movie
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Julianne openly talked about getting fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me?
she and writer Nicole Holofcener had different creative ideas
Melissa McCarthy replaced her and got nominated for an Oscar
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Julianne openly talked about getting fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me?
she and writer Nicole Holofcener had different creative ideas
Melissa McCarthy replaced her and got nominated for an Oscar
OP it wasn't Marielle Heller who fired her, it was the original director Nicole Holofcener!
Also I did not know this! I'm glad to get the deets, I remember when it was announced she left due to "creative differences" that people were speculating her husband had an affair and she left the movie to try to work on her marriage. Shows how much we know!
it's funny how people jump to those conclusions toward women in Hollywood. How dare there be creative differences! My boyfriend works in publicity and the amount of BS that gets put in the media is funny. There's so much shit in Hollywood that goes down but there are so many NDAs. nnn, random but he's been emailing Meryl Streep back and forth for some publicity stuff.
i couldnt imagine marielle heller firing anyone let alone julianne moore. i was also confused how julianne kinda just threw her under the bus like that, but then read your comment and realized she wasnt talking about marielle ooop..
lmao why is this always the default thought when women eave a project in Hollywood?
Not only that but this was fresh off her Oscar win. I really want to hear Holofcener's perspective...
TBH I think it all worked out cause McCarthy was a better fit and Holofcener still became an Oscar nominee through her script AND made an entirely different movie that also came out in 2018 so her career is better than ever.
I haven't seen Can You Ever Forgive Me, but I'm curious as to how Julianne's concept of the character differed from that of Nicole's if, as appears to be the case, Melissa's portrayal was in line with what Nicole wanted from the character.
Like withwith Eric Stolz and Back to the Future or Lisa Kudrow and Frasier, it's got to be so much worse to start shooting something and get fired because they just don't like you. It's a more thorough rejection than if you just had a bad audition on an off day. At least if there is lateness or erratic behaviour like a Lindsay it's less personal.
Maybe I'm too sensitif but to have told people I got the part, created a character and be well into the rehearsal process that would be enough to have me step back for at least a few months even if I was Julliane Moore.
How are you supposed to get your hopes up for the next role knowing that the same could happen again?
I think it was Kerry Washington who said that the only two pilots she filmed before Scandal both went to series and she got fired off of both of them. Major ouch!
Also the worst, worst, WORST story I ever heard about an actor getting screwed was on The Thin Red Line. So I watched that movie and Adrian Brody has a tiny, tiny part in it like basically a glorified extra but his acting is so weird. I distinctly remember thinking "Why is he dramatically acting like the lead when he's barely in this?" So I'm a huge movie nerd and after I watch movies I like to look up trivia and it turns out that Brody WAS the lead of the movie. He was the lead in the initial script, he was the lead while they were filming, he got a Vanity Fair cover and it was supposed to be his big break out film and then he went to watch it and Terrence Malick had completely recut it so it was about Jim Cavaziel's character and he was barely in it at all. I can't even imagine how shitty that would feel.
But Malick is now notorious for doing that. Christopher Plummer also said that while he shot The New World with Terrence Malick he had this big dramatic monologue and in the actual movie it's faint background noise while the screen is showing some trees or something.
actors can get fired at any stage- I've seen them get fired after table reads, during filming, AFTER filming (pilots), cut from films entirely... it is BRUTAL.
And the cut entirely reminds me of when Alison Lohman shaved her head for Dragonfly and then her part was cut.
Edited at 2019-03-08 05:43 pm (UTC)
Melissa did a great job and I’m glad she and Richard were recognized for it.
I loved Melissa in the movie though
I'm glad Melissa was the replacement because a) I wouldn't have seen it otherwise b) she did a wonderful job
I'm happy she got Oscar nommed- hope she wins one before Steven Carell!