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The how and the why of those who got the boot!

23 Wild Stories of Actors Getting Fired From Their Movie or TV Show

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Stories of normal people getting the boot are already pretty entertaining, so it’s safe to say that these high-profile firings got us all kinds of excited. Rounding up these epic tales really was a ton of fun, and we’re thrilled to open our windows and let the sweet, sweet gossip fly.

We might not even need coffee this morning! We’ll still have some, cus you know, addiction, but you know what we mean.

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Tim Curry

CRACKED.COM Tim curry would have made a sick Joker. Mark Hamill's Joker is one of the best things about Batman: The Animated. Series. But Hamill was b

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Tim Dunigan

23 Wild Stories of Actors Getting Fired From Their Movie or TV Show

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Eric Stoltz

CRACKED.COM Marty MCFLY just wasn't funny. Back to the Future started production with Eric Stoltz as Marty. But Stoltz' comedic energy was just not th

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Jay Pharoah

Jay Pharoah CRACKED.COM Hired together, fired together. Jay Pharoah lasted the same number of seasons as Tarran Kil- lam before they were let go. In an interview, he said, You go where you're appreciated. They put people into boxes and what- ever they want you to do, they expect you to do. And I'm fiery. More like firedy. Sorry. — Source

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Andrew Garfield

CRACKED THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANDREW GARFIELD Andrew Garfield was let go from the Spider-Man movies after he turned down a Sony exec's invite to be a guest at a fancy event in Rio de Janeiro. Apparently you really, really don't want to bruise the wrong ego, even if you're a megastar. — IB Times / Billboard

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Shia LaBeouf

Hollywood feuds ALEC BALDWIN VS SHIA LABEOUF While working together on the Broadway play Orphans, Labeouf attacked Baldwin for not memorizing his lines. Baldwin asked the production to let him quit, but they fired LaBeouf instead. CRACKED — Vahan Stepanyan/Shutterstock,
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Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz CRACKED.COM But who's gonna break character with Jimmy?! When budget cuts hit SNL in 2006, some of the show's most established cast members (like Horatio Sanz) were abruptly asked to leave. Lorne Michaels said, Things like this are never pleasant. I made the decision to stick with the 20 episodes and cut everything back. — Variety

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Chris Parnell

Chris Parnell CRACKED.COM You're hired. You're fired. You're hired. You're fired. Another 2006 budget-cut victim was Chris Parnell, but this was actually his second time being fired, as his first dismissal came in 2001. In a 2014 interview with Marc Maron, he said, I was very surprised. I was pretty devastated. I've never been fired from any job. But after the 2006 firing, he said, I was ready to go off. I had done my time. — WTF Pod

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Dick Richards

Steven Spielberg did Jaws because the original director flunked basic sea biology. Director Dick Richards was fired because he kept calling the shark a whale during planning meetings. Let this be a lesson, kids: Don't sleep through class, and you may one day change movies forever. — More: 4 Behind the Scenes Stories That Deserve Their Own Movie

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Rip Torn

Rip Torn was fired for de-escalating a knife fight. EASY RIDER CRACKED COM Torn was out to dinner with Dennis Hopper, who starred in and directed the film, when a fight broke out. Hopper pulled a knife, and was enraged when Torn de-knifed him. Hopper later claimed that it was Torn — Source: Washington Post

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Chadwick Boseman

A soap opera gave Chadwick Boseman the boot. ALL MY CHILDREN When Boseman mentioned that his character - a fatherless gang member perhaps -- was a lazy and hollow stereotype, they fired him (and replaced him with Michael B. Jordan). — Source: Insider

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Robert Lindsay

An actor (Robert Lindsay) was originally cast in Shakespeare in Love but claims Harvey Weinstein fired him as payback for confronting him about his be

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David Herman

David Herman got fired from MADtv to appear in the movie. CRACKED.COM Не wasn't technically allowed to take the role while he was still a cast member, but he felt it was the right move for his career. So he loudly yelled all his lines at MADtv table reads until they fired him.

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Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers was fired from Three's Company for asking for equal pay. Her co-star John Ritter, was getting $150,000 an episode, so she asked to get that (and not the $30,000 she'd been getting). Instead, they fired her, saying that Ritter is the star. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thomas Gibson

Hollywood feuds CRIMINAL MINDS VS THOMAS GIBSON Gibson had numerous verbal and physical on-set altercations. In 2010 he reportedly shoved an assistant director, and he was fired in 2016 for kicking a writer in the shin because of creative differences. CRACKED — Source

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Robert Irvine

Careers built on a lie Robert Irvine: Fired from Food Network for fibbing. Irvine, the star of Dinner: Impossible, got fired for lying on his resume. The Food Network did not renew his contract despite airing the remaining episodes of the season. CRACKED — Food Network
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Laurie Metcalf

Laurie Metcalf CRACKED.COM Now that she's won multiple Emmys and Tonys, we can talk about her five-day stint as an SNL cast mem- ber. A single segment on one epi- sode in 1981 is all she got before the Writers Guild strike forced the sea- son to end early. She was not asked back the following year. Come on, there's no way her segment was that bad! — Vulture

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John Randolph

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LARRY DAVID ORIGINALLY DIDN'T CHOOSE JERRY STILLER TO PLAY FRANK COSTANZA. They first hired another actor, John Randolph, but it wasn't working out and Randolph got fired after one episode. — Source

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Janet Hubert

Will Smith and Janet Hubert had such a rocky relationship behind the scenes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that she blamed him for her getting fired from the show. VS After she got fired, Smith allegedly made some comments insinuating that Hubert wanted the show to be centered around her and would be bitter towards him regardless of his actions. Over 15 years later, Hubert - who wasn't done feuding -- said she'd never have a reunion with an asshole like Will Smith. CRACKED COM — Source: 34 Celebs You Had No Idea Were In Bitter Feuds

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Sarah Silverman

In 2019, Sarah Silverman got fired over a blackface sketch from 2007. I recently was going to do a movie, a sweet part, then at 11 pm the night before they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface from that episode, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Steve Whitmire

Steve Whitmire refused to lie to Miss Piggy. THE MUPPETS CRACKED COM Whitmire became the spiritual (and literal) successor to Jim Henson, and as such,

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Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson was libeled. TROLLS CRACKED COM Australian publisher Bauer Media printed several articles accusing her of lying about some details of her — Source: Guardian

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Megan Fox

CRACKED COM Megan Fox was fired from Transformers: Dark of the Moon for a Hitler remark. In an interview in 2009, Fox said of director Michael Bay, H

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