Get the latest gossip
Corey Feldman Claims Johnny Depp Got Him Fired From ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’: ‘He Said I Was a Junkie and He Didn’t Work With Junkies’
Corey Feldman says Johnny Depp fired him off "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," claiming Feldman was a junkie.
Corey Feldman recently appeared on Billy Corgan’s “Magnificent Others” podcast(via Entertainment Weekly) and claimed that Johnny Depp got him fired off “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” Lasse Hallström’s 1993 drama about a grocery store clerk and his dysfunctional family. Feldman said he got cast in the role of Arnie, the disabled younger brother of Depp’s Gilbert. DiCaprio earned critical acclaim for his performance in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and his first Oscar nomination, to which Feldman said: “There was a bitter tea there.
Or read this on Variety
