10 Planned Movie Scenes Actors Refused To Film

Jonathan Levine's terrific dramedy 50/50 centers around 27-year-old Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who is diagnosed with cancer and faces a 50/50 chance at surviving.

One of the film's major subplots involves Adam falling for Katherine (Anna Kendrick), a trainee therapist working at the hospital where he's being treated.

And at movie's end, after Adam has had the tumour successfully removed, he gets ready for a date with Katherine. When the two meet up, she asks him, "Now what?," before Adam smiles and we cut to black. The End.

But distributor Summit Entertainment lobbied hard for a revised version of the ending where Adam and Katherine seal their budding romance with a kiss.

The film's writer Will Reiser - who based the script on his own experiences battling cancer - was extremely hesitant about this as he felt it would send the wrong message and make the film be about the romance rather than Adam's cancer.

And ultimately it fell to Joseph Gordon-Levitt to stand up and tell the studio no. In Anna Kendrick's words:

"The studio wanted to see us kiss at the end, actually. We were thinking about just trying it as an option... Joe very wisely stood up and said, 'If we give it to them as an option, they will use it.' So we just decided not to do it, because it really just didn't feel right."