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Today I am doing a Part 3 video to a topic that you guys clearly liked.
I don’t know what it is about these ones, do you like celebrating people’s bad choices
and failures or?
Today we are once again talking about the Top 10 Actors Who Were Fired On Set.
In all seriousness though, people get fired all the time from their jobs, shit happens,
it’s life.
So we might as well just laugh it off and move on.
On that note, let’s jump in!
10.
Starting off the list is Bruce Willis who happened to get fired from the movie: The
Expendables 3.
We all found out about this through twitter back in 2013 when the cast was being announced
for the movie.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Willis had been offered 3 million dollars for 4 days
of shooting.
Problems began when he started demanding a pay raise to 4 million dollars for the 4 days,
so basically 1 million dollars per day.
That’s when Sylvestor Stallone, the co-founder of The Expendables, let the actor go immediately.
Not only did he fire him, but he also took it to Twitter, tweeting out: Greedy and lazy,
a sure formula for career failure.
Within 72 hours of Bruce being let go from the movie, he was replaced by the one and
only Harrison Ford.
Fans found out, once again, through Sylvestor’s twitter.
He tweeted out: Willis out, Harrison Ford in!
Great news!
Been waiting years for this!
People were shocked that he would be let go and replaced so quickly, but can you really
blame them?
I don’t think anyone in this world deserves to be paid 1 million dollars a day.
That’s absurd.
9.
At number 9 is Lisa Kudrow who was fired from the hit TV show Frasier.
That’s right, before the actress found fame as Pheobe Buffay on Friends; she appeared
in the pilot for Frasier.
She was originally cast to play Frasier’s producer named Roz, but she was fired after
just one episode and replaced with Peri Gilpin.
In 2017, the casting director Jeff Greenberg has opened up about the recasting and admitted
that it was horrible for him to make the switch.
He said: Kelsey Grammer came in and read with 5 or 6 of them, and our 2 favourites were
Lisa Kudrow and Peri Gilpin.
We tested them at NBC, and they chose Lisa.
She was great.
However, when they showed the pilot to a test audience, things started to turn away from
Lisa’s favour.
The casting director said they believed Lisa’s version of the character wasn’t well received;
which is why they fired and replaced her.
But at the end of the day, it worked out the best for Lisa who ended up becoming VERY successful
not too long after.
8.
Sliding into the number 8 spot is Lindsay Lohan who was let go from the movie: The Other
Side back in 2010.
Before that, her last appearance on the big screen was in her 2007 flick called I know
Who Killed Me.
She was trying to make her comeback and she was thrilled to be involved in The Other Side,
however, sources say she was let go because she wasn’t bankable.
The actress was making headlines and it wasn’t the good kind of publicity.
At the time, the writer/director David Michaels told TMZ: our team simply chose to move on
from Lindsay and we’ll be announcing a replacement.
Fans were shocked but Lindsay wasn’t all that surprised.
In the past she has spoken openly about her issues in Hollywood and admitted that it’s
hard for people to give her a chance.
She said: there’s not much I can do about the fact that I’ve become a kind of tabloid
obsession.
I can’t change that.
And yes, the web sites, the gossip pages, and all of that stuff HAVE hurt my career
– they’re like the Burn Books of Hollywood.
Good news is, MTV has recently given her a chance and the actress launched her own MTV
show this year called Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, which had a successful first season.
7.
Taking our number 7 spot is Christian Bale who was fired from American Psycho.
I know, you’re probably confused, so give me a chance to explain; it was a weird twist
of events.
Here’s what happened: Bale was originally offered the role of Patrick Bateman, but the
studio later decided to hire Leonardo DiCaprio instead.
Lionsgate announced DiCaprio’s casting at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1998.
Bale was completely thrown off by the news because he was hired for the role, and not
properly fired.
But their new hire ended up screwing them over because DiCaprio wasn’t pleased with
the movie and had issues with the script and plot.
Over some time, he decided to bail on the film and signed onto a different project.
Luckily, Bale was forgiving and the role landed back in his lap.
He was once again cast for the role after being fired, but then re-hired.
So basically I’m not sure what list he should be on because he was basically fired through
twitter, replaced, re-hired, and replaced Leo with himself, who was the original one
to be hired.
Moving on.
6.
In at number 6 is Janet Hubert who was fired from the hit TV show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
The on-going feud between the actress and her co-star Will Smith has made headlines
on many occasions.
The two of them worked on the show together for years; Janet played his Aunt Viv in the
first 3 seasons.
By the end of the 3rd season she was fired and replaced with Daphne Maxwell Reid who
took on the role in the 4th, 5th, and 6th season.
The show portrayed a very loving and close family bond, but apparently the off-screen
feud between the 2 of them became a big problem.
Smith openly talks about the feud and told Jet Magazine, I quote: I can say straight
up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be called The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air Show.
No matter what, to her I’m just the AntiChrist.
He went on to explain that she was constantly demanding things that were unreasonable.
Janet responded to his comments in the interview and stated: He has gotten me fired from the
show and now he is trying to snatch my career away from me.
To this day, the two stars have never resolved their issues.
She didn’t show up for the reunion but no one was really surprised by it.
Some of the cast members shared pictures on Instagram and you can’t help but wonder
if she misses being a part of the hilarious family we all came to love.
5.
Half way through at number 5 is Lori Petty who was tossed from the movie Demolition Man
and then quickly replaced.
Back in the early 90’s Lori Petty was ready for a breakout in her career.
She was part of some of the era’s most memorable movies, like: a league of their own, free
willy, point break, and tank girl.
So, she was pretty stoked when she was cast in the 1997 action film Demolition Man, starring
alongside Sylvester Stallone.
But that excitement didn’t last long as Lori wasn’t a fan of her character and got
into arguments with the producer, Joel Silver, over the writing of the script.
Eventually the arguments were too much and she was fired from the role.
Not too long after, Sandra Bullock was brought in for the role.
4.
Alright guys, at number 4 is James Remar who was fired from Aliens.
The actor really shouldn’t need an introduction since he’s such a legend in the acting industry
but I’ll give him one anyways.
He’s been acting for over 30 years, building an impressive resume to say the least; taking
on roles in Transformers: Dark of the moon, pineapple express, jango unchained, and many
more.
Which is why it was super confusing when he was suddenly let go from Aliens.
It’s not a subject that gets brought up much in documentaries about the film, and
the cast and crew rarely mention it in interviews.
Ree-mar’s first claim when it happened was that he had “urgent matters at home” that
tore from away from the shoot.
It wasn’t until 2014 that he opened up and told the real story.
Turns out he was fired because he was charged with drug possession.
The actor said: I had a terrible drug problem.
I want initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple of weeks of filming
because I got busted for possession of drugs.
Not long after he left, Michael BEAN replaced him for the part.
Ree-mar has no problem talking about it now and says that he got through it horrible drug
habit.
3.
Here we are at number 3 with Sylvestor Stallone who was axed from Beverly Hills Cop back in
1984.
Not long after his third Rocky and his first Rambo movies, he was set out to play Axel
Foley in Beverly Hills Cop.
It was in development with Paramount and the actor was offered the role to which he accepted;
the role was a Detroit police detective which ended up being played by Eddie Murphy instead.
Why?
Because apparently Stallone wasn’t a huge fan of the script.
During interviews, the actor was first to admit that he didn’t think he wanted to
do the film after all because he thought the script would affect his tough-guy image.
So, the actor insisted on re-writing the role to the way he wanted it even though he was
told not to.
He said: Ron told me, don’t change it.
But I took the script and re-wrote it as kind of a compromise, where the guy was action-oriented,
but he also had a wry sense of humour.
The producers were not pleased and immediately rejected his new script.
That’s when he told them that he wouldn’t do the movie with the original script so they
pulled the plug and let the actor go.
Thanks to him, Eddie Murphy had a breakthrough in his acting career for taking on the role
(with the original script).
2.
At number 2 is Roseanne Barr who was fired from her own show: Roseanne.
How does that even happen?
You have to do something serious to be fired from your own show, and well, she did.
Her show was the most popular new TV show in America and it got cancelled in just a
matter of hours, all because if a few derogatory tweets.
Roseanne went on some sort of Twitter rant where she tweeted out racist and derogatory
towards.
Some of them were aimed directly at Barack Obama’s aide, Valerie Jarett: comparing
her to Planet of the Apes and the Islamic Brotherhood.
Fans were outraged and so was everyone involved in her show.
When ABC saw her overnight tweets the next day, the key executives were having conference
calls with the president of the Disney/ABC group, the CEO of Disney, and her boss, Ben
Sherwood.
Roseanne ended up tweeted out an apology and said she would be leaving twitter, however,
she never actually left.
Not long after, ABC confirmed the cancellation of the show.
Realistically, the show couldn’t go on without her and they said there was no way of coming
back from this.
The ABC executive announced that more than 200 people involved in the show also lost
their jobs due to the cancellation.
Barr tweeted out a response apology and said: Don’t feel sorry for me guys!
I just want to apologize to the hundreds of people, and wonderful writers and talented
actors who lost their jobs on my show due to my stupid tweet.
Well, at least she apologized?
1.
Taking our number 1 spot is Adam Sandler who was fired from SNL back in 1995.
The actor has always said that he has no idea why he was fired from the show, but he wasn’t
the only one.
When it first happened, he called his friend Chris Farley, who also starred on SNL with
him, and he told Adam that he had been fired too.
The reasoning has always been a mystery but now it’s something the actor can poke fun
at.
Just a few weeks ago, after 24 years, he made his way back on SNL and sang a comedic song
about how he was fired from the show.
He started out with a monologue about how happy he was to be back on the show and how
he is thrilled to bring his wife and children with him.
He said: my daughter asked me, if this was the greatest dad, then why did you leave?
Well, honey, there’s a reason.
That’s when he breaks into a song: fired by NBC.
One of his final lines of the song is: I was fired, yeah I was fired.
NBC said that I was done.
But then I made more than 4 billion dollars at the box office, so I guess you could say
I won.
He continues laughing at his own jokes and the audience laughed along with him.
But like, I actually want to know why he was fired?
Well, there you have it guys there is part 3 of our list.
At least our last one has a happy ending.
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He left the comedy scene and he’s on the show lethal weapon now.
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No joke if people would give him a chance I bet he would blow us away - -yeah, It could
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I wouldn’t mind seeing him in something other than comedy.
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