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Sam Rockwell reveals he gets residual checks for Lean on Me 'even though I'm not in it'

Sam Rockwell was set to play a small role in 1989's 'Lean on Me,' but was let go and replaced by Michael Imperioli.

On a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Oscar winner told host Josh Horowitz that he auditioned for Lean on Me alongside Michael Imperioli and Kevin Corrigan. In the movie, Imperioli plays one of the high school students expelled in a big assembly by principal Joe Clark ( Morgan Freeman). In another sliding doors moment, Imperioli was initially supposed to be in Woody Allen's 1998 film Celebrity, but had to drop out to star in a show called — you may have heard of it — The Sopranos.

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