10 Actors Whose Movie Character Requests Got Rejected

10. David Harbour Wanted To Speak Only In Russian - Black Widow

David Harbour gave a thoroughly entertaining performance in Black Widow as Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) and Yelena's (Florence Pugh) father figure Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian.

Harbour sports a Russian accent for the role of the Russian super-soldier, though during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live the actor confessed that he asked Marvel's higher-ups if he could play the part entirely in Russian.

This being a big-budget blockbuster that they wanted to sell around the world, though, they flatly shot down his request. Harbour said:

"It makes no sense... So he's Russian. In Russia. He'd be speaking Russian. So the entire movie should be me speaking Russian with subtitles...[But] it's not the best look for a Marvel movie, like a PG-13 movie, you just reading subtitles the entire movie... Yeah, [the idea] was not well-received by the producers when I brought that up."

As neat as this would've been, the popcorn-munching masses aren't exactly known for their love of subtitles, so you can appreciate why Marvel played it safe and didn't go this route.