Actors Fired Because They Weren’t Right For The Part

Director Cameron Crowe had always wanted Orlando Bloom, though, who wasn’t available at first. Kutcher said he “wasn’t disciplined enough as an actor” in rehearsals, and as soon as Bloom became available, Kutcher and Crowe came to a “mutual agreement” that Kutcher would no longer play the part.

Steele was replaced in the Disney film after “key changes” were made to Raya’s character, meaning Steele no longer fit. “It’s just one of those creative change moments,” producer Osnat Shurer explained. Steele was replaced with Kelly Marie Tran.

Kudrow was replaced by Peri Gilpin days into filming the pilot, later saying, “I wasn’t right for the part [or] for the chemistry of the group.” She even felt director James Burrows didn’t like her, and worried he would fire her from Friends as well when she started working on that show, which he directed episodes of.

Fischer was fired after test audiences couldn’t divorce her or costar Matt LeBlanc from their famous sitcom characters, saying they didn’t believe Pam and Joey would ever mesh well together. She was replaced by Liza Snyder.

“I think she didn’t like what I was doing,” Moore said of writer and original director Nicole Holofcener. “I think that her idea of where the character was, was different than where my idea of where the character was, and so she fired me.” She was replaced by Melissa McCarthy.

Firth was originally supposed to voice the beloved children’s character, but director Paul King later decided it was a bad fit. “As the actual visual of the character emerged, you suddenly go, ‘This is just a young, fluffy creature.’ Somehow, it just didn’t have his voice,” King said. “Paddington does not have the voice of a very handsome older man.” Ben Whishaw later took over the role.

Portman was fired for being too young for the role — she was 13 at the time, the age of Juliet in Shakespeare’s play, but seemed much too young alongside the 21-year-old Leonardo…