10 Actors Who Lost Roles For Insane Reasons
9. Kathy Bates "Wasn't Believable As Romantic" - Frankie & Johnny
When Garry Marshall was casting the female lead for his 1991 romantic dramedy Frankie and Johnny, he rejected Kathy Bates, who was fresh off the best reviews of her movie career in Misery.
As Bates revealed in a recent Vanity Fair interview, Marshall turned down Bates because he couldn't picture her playing a romantic lead. Bates said:
"He couldn't make the leap that people would see me onscreen kissing someone... Me actually kissing a man onscreen - that would not be romantic."
It's an especially odd bout of logic given that Bates actually originated the role of Frankie in the original off-Broadway play, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, just four years prior.
Bates received rave reviews for her performance on-stage, and so, the prospect of her being unbelievable in the movie adaptation doesn't really make much sense.
But Hollywood being Hollywood, they of course cast one of the most conventionally actresses of the era, Michelle Pfeiffer, in the role opposite Al Pacino's Johnny, for which she received a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.