7 Unlucky Actors Who Turned Down Great Roles
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 19 August 2011, 19:50 IST   |    6 Comments
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5. Mickey Rourke
7 unlucky actors who turned down great roles
Mickey was a hunk in the silver screen during his young days, the time before his boxing madness and plastic surgeries that went wrong. But he never had a character or a role that will be remembered for ever. Then, Quentin Tarantino offered him the role of Butch Coolidge in his 1994 movie Pulp Fiction, and Mickey turned it down to concentrate more on his boxing career. The role went to Bruce Willis, and the movie became a huge success and a cult classic. And concentrating on his boxing career, Mickey got nowhere and ended up looking more like a monkey than a human. Of course he came back with a bang with his 2008 movie The Wrestler; nonetheless, to let go Butch was a big bad move Mickey.