8 Actors Who SAVED Their Careers By Turning Down TV Roles

When discussing the sudden cancellation of Game of Thrones spin-off series Bloodmoon the star was once attached to earlier this year, Jamie Campbell Bower was quick to note how "everything happens for a reason..."

And the same could be said of the actor's last dance with the world of dragons and white walkers, with the eventual Strangers Things big bad once being in line to rock up in the first-ever scene of the original Game of Thrones pilot.

Despite initially appearing in said prologue for GOT as Ser Waymar Royce, however, Campbell Bower would ultimately have to turn down the call to reshoot said sequence later down the road due to his commitments to the incoming Camelot show; one where he'd be playing none other than King Arthur.

And while said Camelot project wouldn't exactly immediately catapult him to superstar status, it did prove that the star was capable of holding his own in a meatier role after his smaller appearances in the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises.

If he'd turned down that leading role in exchange for a quick white walker death, maybe Campbell Bower's TV career wouldn't have led to his game-changing recent work as the nightmarish Vecna. It's worth noting that his Royce replacement, Rob Ostlere, while effective in the fleeting part, didn't go on to shake up the Upside Down or make much of splash anywhere else post-chilly opening scene death.