10 Times Actors Were Edited Out Of Movies
2. Sarah Jessica Parker - Lovelace
Lovelace stars Amanda Seyfried as Linda Boreman, an adult film actress who starred in the 1972 film Deep Throat, a porn film with an actual plot and some character development. Yes, unbelievably.
Shortly after production began, Demi Moore was forced to drop out of the film due to health issues, which led to the filmmakers recruiting Sarah Jessica Parker as her replacement. As it turns out, they needn't have bothered going through all that trouble, because the actress is nowhere to be seen in the end product.
Moore and Parker were cast as feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a huge supporter of the anti-pornography movement. The script for Lovelace originally ended in 1984, at which time Boreman had crossed paths with Steinem, and came to support her anti-porn beliefs. However, during editing, directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman found that it was better to end the story in 1980, before Boreman became involved with Steinem. Thus, Parker's scenes weren't needed.
So basically, she was initially hired to save the movie when Moore dropped out, but in the end, was tossed aside like an unfinished bag of chips. How dare they!