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20 Incredible Movie Role Recasts You Never Thought Of

Posted on 20 April 2016

Casting an actor in a leading role can make or break a movie, and sometimes the actor doesn’t pull off the director’s idea of how the character should be portrayed, more commonly known in the industry as ‘creative differences’.

Some of your favourite movies could have been very different to how they ended up. Did you know that Sean Connery was the original actor approached to play the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings or that Leonardo DiCaprio was the preferred leading actor in American Psycho? 

MyOffers has created an infographic showing which actors missed out on big parts. Just take a look at how some of your favourite films and how they could have been very, very different.