There are many actors who reject roles that end up becoming successful, but few who recognize the mistake and regret it; as the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger who revealed the reason why he said no to The rock and why today he regrets his decision.
“I remember Jerry Bruckheimer came with the script for The rock, but it was 80 pages with notes all over the place like, ‘This is bullshit,’ ‘Let’s not do this,’ or ‘Let’s rewrite this.’ “I saw all this while I was shooting another movie and I didn’t know how to take it, but I knew I couldn’t commit to it,” he said.
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He added: “I really regret not doing it. I love the movie and they did well. They did a fantastic job.”
Regarding the role he was going to play, it was the one that later fell into the hands of Nicolas Cage who, unlike his colleague, did see potential in the story and trusted the script despite having seen it before it was finished writing.
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“I waited for them to fix the problems and come back with a good script, but when they did they hired Nicolas Cage. And I love the result, it’s fantastic. Besides, Nicolas Cage “He did an extraordinary job and I don’t know if I would have been able to do it as well as him, but I ended up very angry that I had turned down the role, because it was great,” he said. Schwarzenegger.
The rock, starring Cage, Sean Connery y Ed Harris, follows Francis Hummel, who seeks compensation for the families of soldiers killed in secret missions. “After stealing 16 missiles equipped with poison gas, he takes Alcatraz and threatens to launch them on San Francisco. To resolve the situation, the FBI sends a biological weapons specialist and the only escapee from the famous prison to the island,” the synopsis adds. official.
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2023-12-06 20:04:48
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