6 Pissed-Off Actors Whose Demands Radically Changed Movies

But Han Solo didn't die in Jedi. (That was another spoiler, sorry, sorry.) This annoyed Ford, who by this point clearly had mixed feelings about how much people associated him with that character. Check out this interview Ford has with David Letterman. He is nominally there promoting Blade Runner, and after Letterman asks him a question about Return Of The Jedi you can see how close he comes to boiling over.

It was awkward, and moments later, he'd storm out of the interview.

Decades later, you could tell he was still kind of carrying this chip around on his shoulder. When promoting The Force Awakens on Jimmy Kimmel's show, Kimmel asked Ford if he was grateful that his character endured for so many years. Ford clearly had to think about this a bit before answering.

But in that same interview, he again talks openly about his desire to see the character killed off. He does it again on the same show a few months later (although for some reason, this time he isn't dressed as a hot dog). And then there was that Jimmy Fallon interview wherein, upon being asked if he got emotional when he put Han's costume back on, the cantankerous professional handsome man answered, "No, I got paid."

J.J. Abrams reportedly discussed Solo's death extensively with Ford. And although we don't have evidence that Ford's side of this conversation involved seizing Abrams by the lapels and screaming "Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes," boy, we wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly how it happened.

Following this, Worthington began getting offered lots of big hero roles, which was how he found himself cast as Perseus in Clash Of Titans, a remake of a classic 1980s B-movie. During the production of Clash, everyone knew it would need to be "refreshed" a bit from its goofy source material, and Worthington took a particular interest in this editing process. Notably, he (an actor, let's keep in mind) insisted that a key character from the original movie, the creepy mechanical owl Bubo, get written out.

This was more than a gentle suggestion. He would scream at and threaten violence against the owl, and accuse it (and the director) of sabotaging his career. In the end, the poor benighted creature's role was reduced to a small cameo, in which Worthington's character finds it and is told, "It's nothing, just leave it."

There's more. Worthington wasn't a big fan of togas, so out they went. (Again, this is a film about Greek people.) Also, there were other issues in the script which he felt needed work. Like his opinion that Perseus, a half man, half God, should be more half man ... half man. And even though Greek mythology is almost entirely about heroes bound by inescapable fates, he didn't like that either. So out goes fate.

So yeah, pretty fundamental changes to the canon of Greek mythology. And the reason behind all this madness? He was trying to impress his nine-year-old nephew. (Who'd probably have liked to see the robot owl in the first place.)

So that's the end of that, right? Wrong!

Except also right.

The problem is that the movie made quite a bit of money for Universal, which has left the studio anxious to make a sequel. A problem only slightly slowed down by the fact that the first film killed its biggest star and didn't in any way leave itself open for a sequel. But you know, writers are cheap. They can fix that kind of thing. Even with her character dead, the studio has been trying to get Jolie back on board the project for years.

But she's not biting. So you have to ask yourself: How many times does someone have to express mild disinterest, and then strong disinterest, and then shoot themselves in the head, before you get the message? Move on, Universal. She's just not that into you.

The gang members did an amazing job, though, in that they didn't shoot anyone. Which wasn't the case a few days later, when a cop approached the set, got in argument with a security guard, and was shot.

So star Jamie Foxx walked off the set. No more filming outside the U.S. for him. And in his defense, that's about one more police shooting than anyone should ever feel comfortable facilitating. But in his ... offense? ... by this point, Foxx had acquired a bit of a reputation as a diva around the production. He'd just won an Academy Award, and was reportedly getting a little fussy around the set. Demanding private jets. Refusing to work around boats and planes. Stuff like that.

Boats and planes being famously unimportant parts of the Miami Vice universe.

Faced with an unfinished movie and half his main cast missing, the director Michael Mann was forced to bring the shoot to Foxx. A finale planned to be shot in Paraguay was scrapped, and the whole production was relocated to Miami. Mann ultimately felt that the new ending was the better one, but he'd kind of say that, wouldn't he? Who knows what Paraguayan glory we missed out on.

Now, some of the more observant Charlie's Angels scholars among you might recall that Glover didn't actually have any lines in the movie. And that's because of the solution he came up with for the problem, which was to simply refuse to say any of his lines. Glover suggested that his character remain mute for the entire film, and was granted his wish.

But Scorsese did more than make the part bigger; he let Nicholson help define nearly every aspect of the character. For example, because Nicholson's a famous Yankees fan, the Boston-based Irish gangster he was playing couldn't wear a Red Sox hat.

Another example: Because Nicholson wanted the role to have a lot more fucking, they added a lot more fucking. He was convinced that his character should have a sex scene to showcase his immorality. Or something.

Which is how a 70-year-old man ended up in a sex scene with two prostitutes and fistfuls of (probably) simulated cocaine. All but a few seconds of this scene were cut from the final film, but at least that must have been a fun day on the set for Nicholson. And isn't that what it's all about?

Oh, it's not? It's about the movie? Huh.

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