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18 Actors Who Got The Boot Mid-Filming For Strange Or Upsetting Reasons
In <i>Back to the Future</i>, Claudia Wells was recast as Marty McFly's girlfriend because she was taller than Michael J. Fox. A pair of female executives allegedly "felt that it emasculated their lead character to have a taller girlfriend."
Martin Sheen was actually the director's original second choice for the role, after Steve McQueen, but he initially turned it down because he wasn't available. And Stan decided that the way to do the suit is to start with the tallest, biggest guy he could find, not someone who was the agile mover that Van Damme was." On The Movies That Made Us, James said that he regretted "screwing over so many people," namely Alien screenwriter Walter Hill, because of his struggles with addiction.
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