10 Actors Who Didn't Know They'd Been Cut

Voice roles may not be as time or effort-consuming as live-action ones for the most part, but that doesn't mean voice actors shouldn't still be treated with basic respect.

Peter Serafinowicz, who voiced Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, was asked to reprise the role for the most recent Solo: A Star Wars Story.

And though Serafinowicz agreed, it was decided in post-production that his voice didn't match up with the one used in the various Star Wars animated series.

As a result, Serafinowicz was replaced with Sam Witwer, who had voiced Maul across the animated series, and said of Serafinowicz's performance:

"I don't want to say that what Serafinowicz was doing was bad. It just didn't sound recognisable as the character from The Phantom Menace nor the character from Clone Wars. It was a totally different thing. They needed people to recognise the voice, so there it is."

The decision is fair enough, except that nobody bothered to tell Serafinowicz, who wasn't invited to the film's premiere and only found out a few days later when he received a production e-mail informing him of the decision. Yikes.

It's especially awful given that the actor was planning to bring his family to the premiere, only to get shut out entirely.