Het is algemeend bekend dat Will Smith aka de Frisse Prins nee heeft gezegd tegen de rol van Neo in The Matrix. Minder bekend is dat Mel Gibson bijna de Terminator speelde en Sylvester Stallone Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. Daarom heeft de website guyism.com nu deze lijst met negen acteurs gemaakt die nee zeiden tegen films die nu legendarisch zijn. Onze pick of the list is geworden:

3 Sean Connery

The Movie(s)/Role(s): Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings + Morpheus in The Matrix
That's right, Sean Connery turned down both the role of Gandalf and the part of Morpheus. His reason for turning down the role of Gandalf was reportedly because he didn't want to commit to the grueling eighteen month filming schedule, which is probably for the best because in interviews, Connery referred to Hobbits as Bobbits. He wouldn't have known what in the hell was going on. He would have shown up on set every day, looked around and saw midgets with pointy ears and beards and thought, "WTF?" Eighteen months of that probably would have driven the poor old dude insane. As for the role of Morpheus, Connery reportedly turned it down because after reading the script he had no clue what the damn movie was about. Are you sensing a theme here? Who knows what either of these movies would have been like with Connery? I'm guessing things would have gone south on the set of The Lord of the Rings after he turned to Peter Jackson and said "What in the hell is a Frodo?" And as for Morpheus... can you even imagine Sean Connery trying to play that part? Laurence Fishburne is Morpheus.